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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

13657: Time of Day, Cognitive Tasks and Efficiency Gains

Alessio Gaggero and Denni Tommasi

13656: Video Resumes and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix and Steeve Marchand

13655: The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market

Edward Pinchbeck, Sefi Roth, Nikodem Szumilo and Enrico Vanino

13654: Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity: The State of the Art

Mehmet Ugur and Marco Vivarelli

13653: Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments

M Asadullah, Elisabetta De Cao, Fathema Zhura Khatoon and Zahra Siddique

13652: Low, High and Super Congestion of an Open-Access Natural Resource: The Autarky Case

Maurice Schiff

13651: The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang and Trong-Anh Trinh

13650: Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?

Francine Blau, Josefine Koebe and Pamela Meyerhofer

13649: Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

Wim Naudé and Martin Cameron

13648: Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty

Amairisa Kouki and Robert Sauer

13647: Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Shuo Chen and Bin Xie

13646: Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior

Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

13645: Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries

Alberto Urtasun and Marta Martínez Matute

13644: Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

13643: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality

Guido Matias Cortes and Eliza Forsythe

13642: Delineating Functional Labour Market Areas with Estimable Classification Stabilities

Benjamin Davies and David Maré

13641: Lost Wages: The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures

George Psacharopoulos, Victoria Collis, Harry Patrinos and Emiliana Vegas

13640: Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach

Kailing Shen and Bledi Taska

13639: Optimal Model Selection in RDD and Related Settings Using Placebo Zones

Nathan Kettlewell and Peter Siminski

13638: The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador

Teresa Molina and Ivan Rivadeneyra

13637: Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi and Lorenzo Rocco

13636: Influenza Vaccination Behavior and Media Reporting of Adverse Events

Ylenia Brilli, Claudio Lucifora, Alessia Russo and Marco Tonello

13635: Pay Transparency Initiative and Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Research-Intensive Universities in the UK

Danula Gamage, Georgios Kavetsos, Sushanta Mallick and Almudena Sevilla

13634: Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

Moussa Blimpo and Todd Pugatch

13633: When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

13632: The Forgotten Numbers: A Closer Look at COVID-19 Non-Fatal Valuations

Thomas Kniesner and Ryan Sullivan

13631: Striking a Balance: Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality

Gilbert Mbara, Joanna Tyrowicz and Ryszard Kokoszczyński

13630: Educational Gender Gaps

Shelly Lundberg

13629: The Economic Effects of COVID-19 and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Italian Firms' Expectations and Plans

Pierluigi Balduzzi, Emanuele Brancati, Marco Brianti and Fabio Schiantarelli

13628: Psychological Pressure and the Right to Determine the Moves in Dynamic Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Mark Kassis, Sascha Schmidt, Dominik Schreyer and Matthias Sutter