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13757: Measuring Geographical Disparities in England at the Time of COVID-19: Results Using a Composite Indicator of Population Vulnerability

Catia Nicodemo, Samira Barzin, Daniel S. Lasserson, Francesco Moscone, Stuart Redding, Mujaheed Shaikh and Nicolò Cavalli

13756: Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help

Sébastien Fontenay and Ilan Tojerow

13755: An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries

Anthony Edo, Lionel Ragot, Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Andreas Steinmayr and Arthur Sweetman

13754: Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap

Barbara Biasi and Heather Sarsons

13753: Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People

Pietro Biroli, Steven Bosworth, Marina Della Giusta, Amalia Di Girolamo, Sylvia Jaworska and Jeremy Vollen

13752: Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being across Countries

Kerstin F. Hansen and Alois Stutzer

13751: Long-Term Effects of School-Starting-Age Rules

Hessel Oosterbeek, Simon ter Meulen and Bas van der Klaauw

13750: Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands

Paul Bisschop, Bas ter Weel and Jelle Zwetsloot

13749: Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin and David E. Bloom

13748: U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo

13747: Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

13746: Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks

Sebastian Fehrler and Volker Hahn

13745: Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States

Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc and Charlotte Williams

13744: Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes

Vincenzo Atella, Edoardo Di Porto, Joanna Kopinska and Maarten Lindeboom

13743: Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees

Dany Bahar, Ana Ibáñez and Sandra Rozo

13742: Lives Saved during Economic Downturns: Evidence from Australia

Kadir Atalay, Rebecca Edwards, Stefanie Schurer and David Ubilava

13741: Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics

Olga Stoddard, Christopher F. Karpowitz and Jessica Preece

13740: The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration

Julian Emmler and Bernd Fitzenberger

13739: Happier with Vocational Education?

Giorgio Brunello

13738: Financial Distress and the Role of Management in Micro and Small-Sized Firms

Fernando Alexandre, Sara Cruz and Miguel Portela

13737: Working from Home in Developing Countries

Charles Gottlieb, Jan Grobovsek, Markus Poschke and Fernando Saltiel

13736: Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Ömer Özak

13735: Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Nick Obradovich, Ömer Özak, Ignacio Martín, Edmond Awad, Manuel Cebrián, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Iyad Rahwan and Ángel Cuevas

13734: STEM Occupations and the Gender Gap: What Can We Learn from Job Tasks?

Jamin D. Speer

13733: Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment

Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip and Harald Pfeifer

13732: Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education

Todd Pugatch and Nicholas Wilson

13731: Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1 Percent

Arun Advani, Felix Koenig, Lorenzo Pessina and Andy Summers

13730: International Student Enrollments and Selectivity: Evidence from the Optional Practical Training Program

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Kevin Y. Shih and Huanan Xu

13729: The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education

Laura Ehrmantraut, Pia Pinger and Renske Stans

13728: English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants

Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang, Zhou Jiang, Lucy Taksa and Max Tani

13727: Happy Pills? Mental Health Effects of the Dramatic Increase of Antidepressant Use

Giuliano Masiero and Sandro Steinbach

13726: Returns to Education in the Russian Federation: Some New Estimates

Ekaterina Melianova, Suhas Parandekar, Harry Patrinos and Artëm Volgin

13725: Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision Making

Fabrizio Mazzonna and Franco Peracchi

13724: The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany

Luciana Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher Parmeter and Christopher Parsons

13723: How People Know Their Risk Preference

Ruben C. Arslan, Martin Brümmer, Thomas Dohmen, Johanna Drewelies, Ralph Hertwig and Gert Wagner

13722: India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle: Insights From the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases

Gautam Hazarika and Sourabh Paul

13721: First in Their Families at University: Can Non-cognitive Skills Compensate for Social Origin?

Rebecca Edwards, Rachael Gibson, Colm Harmon and Stefanie Schurer

13720: Who is Resilient in a Time of Crisis? The Importance of Financial and Non-Financial Resources

David Johnston, Claryn S. J. Kung and Michael Shields

13719: Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter

Christine Valente, Hans Sievertsen and Mahesh C. Puri

13718: Promises and Limitations of Nudging in Education

Philip Oreopoulos

13717: Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdín and Fabio Landini

13716: How Is the COVID-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality among Palestinians in Israel?

Sami Miaari, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi and Amit Loewenthal

13715: Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health during COVID–19: A Longitudinal Study from Singapore

SangNam Ahn, Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

13714: A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation

Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler and Ronni Pavan

13713: Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures

Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler and Ronni Pavan

13712: Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu and Kanika Mahajan

13711: The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Swati Sharma

13710: Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India

Justin Cook and Manisha Shah

13709: Tuition Fees and Educational Attainment

Jan Bietenbeck, Jan Marcus and Felix Weinhardt

13708: Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye and Thierry Yogo

13707: The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Robert Fairlie

13706: Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms

Nauro Campos, Vera Eichenauer and Jan-Egbert Sturm

13705: What Do Employers' Associations Do?

Pedro Martins

13704: Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies

James Albrecht, Bruno Decreuse and Susan Vroman

13703: Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

Ruth Vargas Hill, Eduardo Maruyama, Markus Olapade and Markus Frölich

13702: The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore

Terence Cheng, Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

13701: Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post 9/11 GI Bill

Matthew Baird, Michael Kofoed, Trey Miller and Jennie Wenger

13700: Flexible Jobs Make Parents Happier: Evidence from Australia

Shuye Yu and Agnieszka Postepska

13699: Schools' Attitudes Towards Single Parents: Experimental Evidence

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Sabine Flamand

13698: Immigration Policy and Hispanics' Willingness to Run for Office

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jose Bucheli

13697: Aspirations, Poverty and Education: Evidence from India

Pieter Serneels and Stefan Dercon

13696: Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin

13695: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Neeraj Kaushal and Ashley N. Muchow

13694: Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets

Jagori Chatterjee and Joshua D. Merfeld

13693: A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy

Keith A. Bailey and James Spletzer

13692: The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously

Arthur Grimes, Stephen Jenkins and Florencia Tranquilli

13691: Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs: Evidence from Job Vacancy Data

Abi Adams-Prassl, Maria Balgova and Matthias Qian

13690: Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence From Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns

Christian Krekel, Sarah Swanke, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Daisy Fancourt

13689: The Effect of Observing Multiple Private Information Outcomes on the Inclination to Cheat

Sandro Casal and Antonio Filippin

13688: Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity

Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Karla Henning and Markus Frölich

13687: The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Joan Costa-Font and Mario Gyori

13686: Further from the Truth: The Impact of In-Person, Online, and mTurk on Dishonest Behavior

David Dickinson and David McEvoy

13685: Is There a Link between BMI and Adolescents' Educational Choices and Expectations?

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Alexandrina P. Stoyanova

13684: The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt

Nicolas Hérault, Ha Vu and Roger Wilkins

13683: Are COVID Fatalities in the US Higher Than in the EU, and If So, Why?

Ainoa Aparicio and Shoshana Grossbard

13682: Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India

Joshua D. Merfeld

13681: Employment Reallocation over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Danish Data

Antoine Bertheau, Henning Bunzel and Rune Vejlin

13680: Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression

Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou

13679: Trade and Economic Growth: Theories and Evidence from the Southern African Development Community

Matias Jaime Farahane and Almas Heshmati

13678: Recruiting Intensity and Hiring Practices: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence

Benjamin Lochner, Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber and Nicole Gürtzgen

13677: Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety: A Field Study in Urban India

Gianmarco Daniele, Sulagna Mookerjee and Denni Tommasi

13676: Immigration and Redistribution

Benjamin Elsner and Jeff Concannon

13675: Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World

Charlotte Bartels and Dirk Neumann

13674: Political Instability and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the 1981 Military Coup in Spain

Ainoa Aparicio and Libertad Gonzalez

13673: The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown

Wolter Hassink, Guyonne Kalb and Jordy Meekes

13672: Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health

Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella and Tianyi Wang

13671: Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI along the Life-Cycle: Evidence from Several US Cohorts

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya and Angie Upegui

13670: The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19

Dhaval Dave, Andrew Friedson, Drew McNichols and Joseph J. Sabia

13669: Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy

Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Corsini and Irene Martelli

13668: The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union

Randolph Bruno, Nauro Campos and Saul Estrin

13667: Digital Entrepreneurship Research: A Concise Introduction

Wim Naudé and Werner Liebregts

13666: Long Live the Vacancy

Christian Haefke and Michael Reiter

13665: Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger and Natalie Obergruber

13664: Exponential Growth Bias in the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Economic Expectation

Ritwik Banerjee and Priyama Majumdar

13663: Immigration, Working Conditions, and Compensating Differentials

Chad Sparber and Madeline Zavodny

13662: An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program

Oded Stark

13661: Anger and Strategic Behavior: A Level-k Analysis

Alessandro Castagnetti and Eugenio Proto

13660: Do Europeans Care about Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings

Adam Nowakowski and Andrew Oswald

13659: The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest

Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni and Guglielmo Weber

13658: Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal

Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan