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14127: Educational, Labor-Market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health

Krzysztof Karbownik and Anthony Wray

14126: The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom

Panka Bencsik, Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder

14125: Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Richard Freeman, Wei Huang and Teng Li

14124: Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants

Orley Ashenfelter and Stepan Jurajda

14123: Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes

Matloob Piracha, Max Tani, Zhiming Cheng and Ben Zhe Wang

14122: Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education

Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan and Jin-Tan Liu

14121: Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions in a Globalised Era

Sumon Bhaumik, Richard Frensch and Stephan Huber

14120: Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Sascha Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand and Fabian Waldinger

14119: Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas and Ben Etheridge

14118: Personality and Public Sector Employment

Terhi Maczulskij and Jutta Viinikainen

14117: Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Levent Yilmaz

14116: COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths

Daniel Millimet and Christopher Parmeter

14115: Kinks as Goals: Accelerating Commissions and the Performance of Sales Teams

Peter J. Kuhn and Lizi Yu

14114: Fiscal Policy and Households' Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

14113: COVID-19 and College Academic Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

14112: Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Ioana Marinescu, Yue Qiu and Aaron Sojourner

14111: Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru

Nicolas Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Carolina Méndez Vargas

14110: The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK

Ray Bachan and Alex Bryson

14109: Should the Federal Government Fund Short-Term Postsecondary Certificate Programs?

Sandy Baum, Harry Holzer and Grace Luetmer

14108: The COVID-19 Pandemic's Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who's Been Hurt and What We Should Do

Brad Hershbein and Harry Holzer

14107: Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC

Lisa Leschnig, Guido Schwerdt and Katarina Zigova

14106: Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio and Eugenio Zucchelli

14105: Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data

Lester Lusher, Geoffrey Schnorr and Rebecca Taylor

14104: Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance

Alex Bryson, Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Farnell and Rob Simmons

14103: How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Miqdad Asaria, Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

14102: Are Unions Detrimental to Innovation? Theory and Evidence

Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera and Andrea Ricci

14101: COVID-19 and Employment in South Korea: Trends and Comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis

Minhyuk Nam and Soohyung Lee

14100: Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine

14099: Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection during a Pandemic

Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan and Nikita Sangwan

14098: Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses among U.S. Older Adults

Yuting Qian, Xi Chen, Diwen Tang, Amy S. Kelley and Jing Li

14097: Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects

Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold and Ludger Woessmann

14096: Identifying and Producing Effective Teachers

Seth Gershenson

14095: Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at Least) in the Short Run?

David Bardey, Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Alexis Gravel

14094: Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Michela Carlana and Eliana La Ferrara

14093: Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

John Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue and Guochang Zhao

14092: Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil

Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato and Mariapia Mendola

14091: Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller

14090: New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration

Michel Beine, Michel Bierlaire and Frédéric Docquier

14089: The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Parents' Labor Market Outcomes

Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

14088: Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis

Sholeh Maani and Le Wen

14087: Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions

Nicolas Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez-Rivera and Raimundo Undurraga

14086: Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation

Daiji Kawaguchi and Yuko Mori

14085: Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19

Kurt Mitman and Stanislav Rabinovich

14084: The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy

Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti and Mariapia Mendola

14083: Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs

Alexia Delfino

14082: The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud and John van Reenen

14081: The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?

Eiji Yamamura and Giorgio Brunello

14080: 'Placebo Tests' for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure

Bruna Guidetti, Paula Pereda and Edson Severnini

14079: What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaulé

14078: Targeting Intensive Job Assistance to Ex-Offenders by the Nature of Offense: Results from a Randomized Control Trial

Christopher Bollinger and Aaron Yelowitz

14077: Adolescence Development and the Math Gender Gap

Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou and Almudena Sevilla

14076: Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding

Nora Cheng, Elliott Fan and Tsong-Min Wu

14075: Minding the Gap: Academic Outcomes from Pre-college Programs

Phoebe Kotlikoff, Ahmed Rahman and Katherine Smith

14074: Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

14073: Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities

Anirban Mitra and Sarmistha Pal

14072: Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice

Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman

14071: How Does Occupational Licensing Affect Entry into the Medical Field? An Examination of EMTs

Aaron Yelowitz and Samuel J. Ingram

14070: The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task

David Dickinson and Caleb Garbuio

14069: Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank

Michael Jetter and Kieran Stockley

14068: Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment

Oded Stark

14067: Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection

Guglielmo Briscese, Nick Feltovich and Robert Slonim

14066: Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey

Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

14065: The Inefficiency of Employment and the Case for Workplace Democracy

Felix FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

14064: COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures

Claudio Deiana, Andrea Geraci, Gianluca Mazzarella and Fabio Sabatini

14063: Does the Rise of China Lead to the Fall of European Welfare States?

Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud and Karl Ove Moene

14062: Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia

Arnab Basu and Ralitza Dimova

14061: Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy

Xi Chen and Annie Fan

14060: Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir and Gabriel Ulyssea

14059: Intertemporal Altruism

Felix Chopra, Philipp Eisenhauer, Armin Falk and Thomas W Graeber

14058: Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera and Nam Vu

14057: The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK

Apostolos Davillas and Andrew Jones

14056: School Starting Age, Maternal Age at Birth, and Child Outcomes

Peter Fredriksson, Kristiina Huttunen and Björn Öckert

14055: Women's Employment and Natural Shocks

Eugenia Canessa and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

14054: Experimental Evidence from an Integrated Early Childhood Parenting Program in Sierra Leone

Anjali Chandra, Subha Mani, Heather Dolphin, Meredith Dyson and Yembeh Marah

14053: Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction: Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children's Educational Attainment across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel

Sami Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Vered Kraus and Yuval P. Yonay

14052: Heterogeneity in Migration Responses to Climate Shocks: Evidence from Madagascar

Francesca Marchetta, David Sahn, Luca Tiberti and Johany Dufour

14051: Temporary International Migration, Shocks and Informal Insurance: Analysis Using Panel Data

Tanika Chakraborty and Manish Pandey

14050: Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device

Oded Stark and Grzegorz Kosiorowski

14049: The Causal Impact of Depression on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Europe

Vahé Nafilyan, Mauricio Avendano Pabon and Augustin de Coulon

14048: Child Care over the Business Cycle

Jessica H. Brown and Chris M. Herbst

14047: Intra-Industry Trade, Involuntary Unemployment and Macroeconomic Stability

Antoine Le Riche, Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Leonor Modesto

14046: Teenage Mother's Health across Different Life Stages

Guyonne Kalb and Ha Vu

14045: The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis

Xintong Wang, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

14044: Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo Malásquez and Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa

14043: Distributional Effects of Competition: A Simulation Approach

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Abdelkrim Araar, Eduardo Malásquez, Sergio Olivieri and Tara Vishwanath

14042: Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare

Steven Bosworth and Dennis J. Snower

14041: Europe's Migration Experience and its Effects on Economic Inequality

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec and Magdalena Ulceluse

14040: Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions

Maria De Paola, Roberto Nisticò and Vincenzo Scoppa

14039: The Effect of Refugees on Native Adolescents' Test Scores: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pisa

Semih Tumen

14038: Unemployment Duration and the Take-up of Unemployment Insurance

Sylvie Blasco and Francois Fontaine

14037: Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy

Darrell J. Glaser and Ahmed Rahman

14036: Fear and Loathing in the Classroom: Why Does Teacher Quality Matter?

Michael Insler, Alexander F. McQuoid, Ahmed Rahman and Katherine Smith

14035: Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class

Volker Grossmann and Holger Strulik

14034: Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States

Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Sean Nossek and Eran Shor

14033: The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice: A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach

Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer and Kristina Strohmaier

14032: The Political Cost of Lockdown's Enforcement

Andrea Fazio, Tommaso Reggiani and Fabio Sabatini

14031: Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Nicole Gürtzgen, Benjamin Lochner, Laura Pohlan and Gerard J. van den Berg

14030: Parental Paternalism and Patience

Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Matthias Sutter

14029: Escaping Social Pressure: Fixed-Term Contracts in Multi-Establishment Firms

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Francois Fontaine and Antoine Rebérioux

14028: Eco-Innovation and Employment: A Task-Based Analysis

Robert Elliott, Wenjing Kuai, David Maddison and Ceren Ozgen