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14423: When Need Meets Merit: The Effect of Increasing Merit Requirements in Need-Based Student Aid

Tommaso Agasisti, Massimiliano Bratti and Veronica Minaya

14422: Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?

Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein and Yuhao Yang

14421: The Creativity Premium

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

14420: Effectives of Monetary Policy under the High and Low Economic Uncertainty States: Evidence from the Major Asian Economies

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir, Gurcan Aygun and Mark Wohar

14419: The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results

David Jaeger, Jaime Arellano-Bover, Krzysztof Karbownik, Marta Martínez Matute, John M. Nunley, R. Alan Seals , Miguel Almunia, Mackenzie Alston, Sascha Becker, Pilar Beneito, René Böheim, José Boscá, Jessica H. Brown, Simon Chang, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Shooshan Danagoulian, Sandra Donnally, Marissa Eckrote-Nordland, Lidia Farre, Javier Ferri, Margherita Fort, Jane Cooley Fruewirth, Rebecca Gelding, Allen C. Goodman, Melanie Guldi, Simone Häckl, Janet Hankin, Scott Imberman, Joanna Lahey, Joan Llull, Hani Mansour, Isaac McFarlin, Jaakko Meriläinen, Tove Mortlund, Martin Nybom, Stephen O'Connell, Rupert Sausgruber, Amy Schwartz, Jan Stuhler, Petra Thiemann, Roel van Veldhuizen, Marianne H. Wanamaker and Maria Zhu

14418: A Simple Nudge Increases Socioeconomic Diversity in Undergraduate Economics

Todd Pugatch and Elizabeth Schroeder

14417: Are We Richer Than Our Parents Were? Absolute Income Mobility in Australia

Tomas Kennedy and Peter Siminski

14416: Parental Disability and Teenagers' Time Allocation

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

14415: One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China

Jun Han and Zhong Zhao

14414: Explaining Trends in Adult Height in China: 1950 to 1990

Minhee Chae, Timothy Hatton and Xin Meng

14413: International Trade and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

Raymond Robertson, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena, Deeksha Kokas and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

14412: Tracking the Herd with a Shotgun — Why Do Peers Influence College Major Selection?

Michael Insler, Ahmed Rahman and Katherine Smith

14411: Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante and Lisa Windsteiger

14410: World War II, the Baby Boom and Employment: County Level Evidence

Abel Brodeur and Lamis Kattan

14409: Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force

Britta Gehrke, Ernst Maug, Stefan Obernberger and Christoph Schneider

14408: Mothers' Caregiving during COVID: The Impact of Divorce Laws and Homeownership on Women's Labor Force Status

Cynthia Bansak, Shoshana Grossbard and Wong, Crystal (Ho Po)

14407: Barriers to Growth-Enhancing Structural Transformation: The Role of Subnational Differences in Intersectoral Productivity Gaps

Saumik Paul and Dhushyanth Raju

14406: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions against Direct Evidence on Sharing

Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix and Luca Tiberti

14405: Reconciling Reports: Modelling Employment Earnings and Measurement Errors Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Stephen Jenkins and Fernando Rios-Avila

14404: Finite Mixture Models for Linked Survey and Administrative Data: Estimation and Post-estimation

Stephen Jenkins and Fernando Rios-Avila

14403: Black Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, and Financial Constraints

Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, J. David Brown and John Earle

14402: Education, Information, and COVID-19 Excess Mortality

Piera Bello and Lorenzo Rocco

14401: Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later: Linking Experimental and Field Data

Silvia Angerer, Jana Bolvashenkova, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer and Matthias Sutter

14400: Economic Geography of Contagion: A Study on COVID-19 Outbreak in India

Tanika Chakraborty and Anirban Mukherjee

14399: When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution

Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, Nicholas Sanders and Gregor Singer

14398: Five Decades of Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps at Unionstats.com

David Macpherson and Barry Hirsch

14397: SISTA: Learning Optimal Transport Costs under Sparsity Constraints

Guillaume Carlier, Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon and Yifei Sun

14396: Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications

Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

14395: Employers' Willingness to Invest in the Training of Temporary Workers: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Davey Poulissen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Annemarie Künn-Nelen

14394: Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

14393: The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India

Manuela Angelucci and Daniel Bennett

14392: Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon and Yanos Zylberberg

14391: Sectoral Wage Gaps and Gender in Rural India

Joshua D. Merfeld

14390: Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants

Francesco Amodio and Nicolás de Roux

14389: Population Aging and Migration

Panu Poutvaara

14388: COVID-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities

Eugenio Proto and Anwen Zhang

14387: Gender Differences in Student Evaluations of Teaching: Identification and Consequences

Edmund Cannon and Giam Pietro Cipriani

14386: Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann

14385: Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

14384: More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Christina Felfe, Martin Kocher, Helmut Rainer, Judith Saurer and Thomas Siedler

14383: Signals from On High and the Power of Growth Mindset: A Natural Field Experiment in Attracting Minorities to High-Profile Positions

Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Christina Rott and Olga Stoddard

14382: Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands

Christian Zimpelmann, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys and Bettina M. Siflinger

14381: The Heterogeneous Impact of Short-Time Work: From Saved Jobs to Windfall Effects

Pierre Cahuc, Francis Kramarz and Sandra Nevoux

14380: California's Paid Family Leave Law and the Employment of 45-64 Year Old Adults

Ann P. Bartel, Soohyun Kim, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

14379: With a Little Help from My Mother. The Matrilineal Advantage in European Grand Parenting

Giorgio Brunello and Eiji Yamamura

14378: The Inflation Expectations of U.S. Firms: Evidence from a New Survey

Bernardo Candia, Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

14377: Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients

Dario Sansone and Anna Zhu

14376: Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School

Hannah Klauber, Felix Holub, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel, Nolan Ritter and Alexander Rohlf

14375: Neither Backlash nor Convergence: Dynamics of Intracouple Childcare Division after the First COVID-19 Lockdown and Subsequent Reopening in Germany

Christina Boll, Dana Müller and Simone Schüller

14374: Do International Study Programmes Pay off for Local Students?

Zhiling Wang, Francesco Pastore, Bas Karreman and Frank Oort

14373: Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors

Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph and Basit Zafar

14372: Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work

Tanika Chakraborty and Nafisa Lohawala

14371: From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration

Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini

14370: Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Francisco Ferreira, Olivier Sterck, Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Benoît Decerf

14369: The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

Ines Helm and Jan Stuhler

14368: A Generation of Italian Economists

Enrico Nano, Ugo Panizza and Martina Viarengo

14367: Are Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? A Meta-Analytical Review of the Literature

Mattia Filomena and Matteo Picchio

14366: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress of Rural Teachers

Haizheng Li, Qinyi Liu and Mingyu Ma

14365: The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences

Claudia Engel, Jonathan Rodden and Marco Tabellini

14364: Intercept Estimation in Nonlinear Selection Models

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi and Daniel Gutknecht

14363: Tax Progressivity and Self-Employment Dynamics

Wiji Arulampalam and Andrea Papini

14362: Direct, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies

Sebastian Siegloch, Nils Wehrhöfer and Tobias Etzel

14361: Mismatch Unemployment in Austria: The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills

René Böheim and Michael Christl

14360: The Gender Gap in Income and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Karina Doorley, Cathal O'Donoghue and Denisa Sologon

14359: Parents under Stress: Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany

Simone Schüller and Hannah S. Steinberg

14358: Literacy and Information

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons and Anu Rammohan

14357: Why a Labour Market Boom Does Not Necessarily Bring Down Inequality: Putting Together Germany's Inequality Puzzle

Martin Biewen and Miriam Sturm

14356: Zooming to Class?: Experimental Evidence on College Students' Online Learning during COVID-19

Michael Kofoed, Lucas Gebhart, Dallas Gilmore and Ryan Moschitto

14355: Time is of the Essence: Climate Adaptation Induced by Existing Institutions

Antonio Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee and Edson Severnini

14354: The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini

14353: Air Pollution and Adult Cognition: Evidence from Brain Training

Andrea La Nauze and Edson Severnini

14352: Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes

Patrick Puhani and Margret K. Sterrenberg

14351: Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process

Ghazala Azmat and Katja Kaufmann

14350: Assessing Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings in Africa: The Case of Eswatini

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Susumu Imai, Thierry Kangoye and Nadege Desiree Yameogo

14349: When Should We (Not) Interpret Linear IV Estimands as LATE?

Tymon Słoczyński

14348: Maternal Labor Supply: Perceived Returns, Constraints, and Social Norms

Teodora Boneva, Katja Kaufmann and Christopher Rauh

14347: Estimating Social Preferences Using Stated Satisfaction: Novel Support for Inequity Aversion

Lina Diaz, Daniel Houser, John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee

14346: Friday Morning Fever. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Sick Leave Monitoring in the Public Sector

Tito Boeri, Edoardo Di Porto, Paolo Naticchioni and Vincenzo Scrutinio

14345: "Too Shocked to Search": The COVID-19 Shutdowns' Impact on the Search for Apprenticeships

Daniel Goller and Stefan Wolter

14344: The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market

Ceren Ozgen

14343: Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness: Adjusting to Loss

Daniel Hamermesh, Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska

14342: Effects of Scaling up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students

David Figlio, Cassandra M. D. Hart and Krzysztof Karbownik

14341: The Race of Man and Machine: Implications of Technology When Abilities and Demand Constraints Matter

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

14340: The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform

Ewa Gałecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen and Jochen Kluve

14339: Stratification of Returns to Higher Education in Peru: The Role of Education Quality and Major Choices

Alan Sanchez, Marta Favara and Catherine Porter

14338: Decreasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States

Jeffrey Denning, Eric R. Eide, Kevin Mumford and Daniel Sabey

14337: How Has COVID-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in the Gambia

Tijan L. Bah, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert and David McKenzie

14336: Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals

Michael Gibbs, Friederike Mengel and Christoph Siemroth

14335: The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko and Matthew Comey

14334: Is Large-Scale Rapid Cov-2 Testing a Substitute For Lockdowns? The Case of Tuebingen

Marc Diederichs, Peter G. Kremsner, Timo Mitze, Gernot Müller, Dominik Papies, Felix Schulz and Klaus Wälde

14333: The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann and Joseph-Simon Goerlach

14332: What Drives Social Returns to Education? A Meta-Analysis

Ying Cui and Pedro Martins

14331: Permanent and Transitory Responses to Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from a Lifetime Exemption in Canada

Adam Lavecchia and Alisa Tazhitdinova

14330: The Influence of Value-Chain Governance on Innovation Performance: A Study of Italian Suppliers

Emanuele Brancati, Carlo Pietrobelli and Caio Torres Mazzi

14329: Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings

Thomas Dengler and Britta Gehrke

14328: How to Improve Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market

Yoon Y. Cho and Soohyung Lee

14327: Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution

Kerstin F. Hansen and Alois Stutzer

14326: Encouragement and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers

Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mobarak, Melanie Morten and Joeri Smits

14325: The Return to Hours Worked within and across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap

Jeffrey Denning, Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren and Christian vom Lehn

14324: Death on the Job: The Great Recession and Work-Related Traffic Fatalities

Michael French and Gulcin Gumus