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14727: The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings: A Cross-Country Study

Aysıt Tansel, Ceyhan Öztürk and Erkan Erdil

14726: Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention

Sule Alan, Gozde Corekcioglu and Matthias Sutter

14725: One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China

John Giles, Xiaoyan Lei, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang and Yaohui Zhao

14724: The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement

Hannah Illing, Johannes Schmieder and Simon Trenkle

14723: The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees

Noemi Mantovan, Robert Sauer and John Wilson

14722: Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations

Lucía Macchia and Andrew Oswald

14721: Television, Health, and Happiness: A Natural Experiment in West Germany

Adrian Chadi and Manuel Hoffmann

14720: Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Viviane Sanfelice

14719: The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States

Elona Harka, Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco

14718: Air Pollution Affects Decision-Making: Evidence from the Ballot Box

Luna Bellani, Stefano Ceolotto, Benjamin Elsner and Nico Pestel

14717: Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab

Catia Batista and David McKenzie

14716: School Integration of Refugee Children: Evidence from the Largest Refugee Group in Any Country

Murat Kırdar, Ismet Koc and Meltem Dayioglu

14715: When Face Masks Signal Social Identity: Explaining the Deep Face-Mask Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes Riyanto, Erwin Wong, Jonathan Yeo and Qi Yu Chan

14714: Ingroup Bias with Multiple Identities: The Case of Religion and Attitudes Towards Government Size

Daniel Sgroi, Jonathan Yeo and Shi Zhuo

14713: Gender Inequality and Caste: Field Experimental Evidence from India

Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Soubhagya Sahoo, Liang Wang and Yves Zenou

14712: Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction

Vladimir Otrachshenko, Milena Nikolova and Olga Popova

14711: COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap

Taiyo Fukai, Masato Ikeda, Daiji Kawaguchi and Shintaro Yamaguchi

14710: Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?

Xun Li, Weizheng Lai, Qianqian Wan and Xi Chen

14709: Specialization in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples

Thomas Hofmarcher and Erik Plug

14708: On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

14707: Water Scarcity and Social Conflict

Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Tilman Poser

14706: Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew Clark and Colin Green

14705: Project Aid and Firm Performance

Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi and Saumik Paul

14704: Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019

Nick Drydakis

14703: Should Farmers Farm More? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households

Peter Brummund and Joshua D. Merfeld

14702: The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey

Nathan Kettlewell and Agnieszka Tymula

14701: Between-Group Inequality May Decline despite a Rising Skill Premium

Imran Aziz and Guido Matias Cortes

14700: Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece

Nick Drydakis

14699: The Early Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK

Greta Morando

14698: Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter and Simon Wiederhold

14697: The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials

John Forth, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos and Alex Bryson

14696: Wage Differences According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Working More Upstream in GVCs

Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy and Francois Rycx

14695: The Implications of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height for Measurement Error in BMI

Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones

14694: Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems: International Evidence

Gabriel Burdín and Takao Kato

14693: Child Health and Parental Responses to an Unconditional Cash Transfer at Birth

Alexandra de Gendre, John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington and Stefanie Schurer

14692: The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana

Simone Schotte, Michael Danquah, Robert Osei and Kunal Sen

14691: (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support

Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Martin Fiszbein and Carlos Molina

14690: Order Effects and Employment Decisions: Experimental Evidence from a Nationwide Program

Nicolas Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Anne Sofie Olsen

14689: The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests

Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe and Daniel Gerszon Mahler

14688: Stable Marriage, Household Consumption and Unobserved Match Quality

Martin Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

14687: Feed the Children

Laurens Cherchye, Pierre-André Chiappori, Bram De Rock, Charlotte Ringdal and Frederic Vermeulen

14686: From Subsidies to Loans: The Effects of a National Student Finance Reform on the Choices of Secondary School Students

Alexandra de Gendre and Jan Kabátek

14685: The Right to Health and the Health Effects of Denials

Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernandez Sierra

14684: Minimum Quality Regulations and the Demand for Child Care Labor

Umair Ali, Chris M. Herbst and Christos Makridis

14683: Who Benefits from Tax Incentives? The Heterogeneous Wage Incidence of a Tax Credit

Clément Carbonnier, Clément Malgouyres, Loriane Py and Camille Urvoy

14682: COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?

Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes and Michael R. Springborn

14681: Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee and John Earle

14680: Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies

Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar

14679: The Formation of Risk Preferences through Small-Scale Events

Silvia Angerer, E. Dutcher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer and Matthias Sutter

14678: Early-Years Multi-Grade Classes and Pupil Attainment

Daniel Borbely, Markus Gehrsitz, Stuart McIntyre, Gennaro Rossi and Graeme Roy

14677: Migrant Networks and Destination Choice: Evidence from Moves across Turkish Provinces

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Erkan Duman

14676: Bye Bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the Leaky STEM Pipeline

Jamin D. Speer

14675: Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination

Samuel Lüthi and Stefan Wolter

14674: Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China

Huifu Nong, Qing Zhang, Hongjia Zhu and Rong Zhu

14673: Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples: Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment

Hans Bloemen

14672: The Effect of Tertiary Education Expansion on Fertility: A Note on Identification

Tushar Bharati, Simon Chang and Qing Li

14671: Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market against Gay Men

Nick Drydakis

14670: Head Start Funding Expansions and Program Inputs

Chris M. Herbst and Esra Kose

14669: COVID-19 Spread in Germany from a Regional Perspective

Olaf Hübler

14668: Academics' Attitudes toward Engaging in Public Discussions - Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Engagement Conditions

Vitus Püttmann, Jens Ruhose and Stephan Thomsen

14667: Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions

Teresa Molina and Joaquim Vidiella-Martin

14666: Gender Role Models and Early Career Decisions

Monique Löwe, Ulf Rinne and Hendrik Sonnabend

14665: Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing

Silvia Mendolia, Agne Suziedelyte and Anna Zhu

14664: North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of Battery Recycling

Shinsuke Tanaka, Kensuke Teshima and Eric Verhoogen

14663: Parental Responses to Children's Achievement Test Results

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Tiffany Ho and Nicolas Salamanca

14662: Consumption Response to Seoul's COVID-19 Shopping Coupons: Evidence from Consumer Data

Seokjin Woo, Sangmin Aum, Dohyung Kim, Heyjin Moon and Soohyung Lee

14661: The Impact of Short-Term Employment for Low-Income Youth: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

Emily Beam and Stella Luz Quimbo

14660: Greek Myth or Fact? The Role of Greek Houses in Alcohol and Drug Violations on American Campuses

Manu Raghav and Timothy Diette

14659: The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History

Damian Clarke, Manuel Llorca-Jaña and Daniel Pailañir

14658: Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls

Marco Mello and Giuseppe Moscelli

14657: The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

S.M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Nidhiya Menon and Agnes Quisumbing

14656: Income and Views on Minimum Living Standards

David Johnston and Nidhiya Menon

14655: Does Education Enhance Entrepreneurship?

Kunwon Ahn and John Winters

14654: Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work

Terhi Maczulskij, Mika Haapanen, Antti Kauhanen and Krista Riukula

14653: Child Education-Induced Migration and Its Impact on the Economic Behaviors of Migrated Households in China

Weibo Yan and Peng Nie

14652: College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking

Ishtiaque Fazlul, Todd Jones and Jonathan Smith

14651: Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications

Silvia Granato, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Sylke Schnepf

14650: Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China

Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang and Hartmut Lehmann

14649: Digging into the Digital Divide: Workers' Exposure to Digitalization and Its Consequences for Individual Employment

Sabrina Genz and Claus Schnabel

14648: Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform

Rong Zhu

14647: The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime

Murat Kırdar, Ivan Lopez Cruz and Betül Türküm

14646: De Facto Immigration Enforcement, ICE Raid Awareness, and Worker Engagement

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Francisca Antman

14645: Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?

Richard Easterlin

14644: Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run

Andrew Friedson, Moyan Li, Katherine Meckel, Daniel I. Rees and Daniel W. Sacks

14643: Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?

Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel Hamermesh and Wesley Wilson

14642: What If Working from Home Will Stick? Distributional and Climate Impacts for Germany

Marion Bachelet, Matthias Kalkuhl and Nicolas Koch

14641: Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

Christoph Albert, Albrecht Glitz and Joan Llull

14640: Selective Schooling Has Not Promoted Social Mobility in England

Franz Buscha, Emma Gorman and Patrick Sturgis

14639: Dropping Out, Being Pushed Out or Can’t Get in? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women

Ashwini Deshpande and Jitendra Singh

14638: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data

Julia Schmidtke, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid and Mario Lawes

14637: Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach

Ingrid Huitfeld, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Jan Sebastian Nimczik and Andrea Weber

14636: The Labor Market Earnings of Veterans: Is Military Experience More or Less Valuable than Civilian Experience?

Christos Makridis and Barry Hirsch

14635: Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being

Apostolos Davillas, Andrew Burlinson and Hui-Hsuan Liu

14634: Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers

Patrick Kline, Evan K. Rose and Christopher Walters

14633: Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance

Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font and Sonja de New

14632: The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test

Jeffrey Bloem and Andrew Oswald

14631: Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

14630: Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander Kritikos and Roy Thurik

14629: The Effects of Reforming a Federal Employment Agency on Labor Demand

Kornelius Kraft and Alexander Lammers

14628: The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32

Andrew Seltzer and Jonathan Wadsworth