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13403: Retirement, Social Support and Mental Wellbeing: A Couple-level Analysis

Nathan Kettlewell and Jack Lam

13402: Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling

Ahmed Elsayed and Olivier Marie

13401: Legal Drinking, Injury and Harm: Evidence from the Introduction and Modifications of Age Limits in Denmark

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Anton Nilsson

13400: Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Michael Grimm and Nathalie Luck

13399: (In)Efficiency of Employment Offices: A Study on Welfare Benefits Determination – Is There a Trade-off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Decisions?

Katharina Dyballa and Kornelius Kraft

13398: Family Life in Lockdown

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

13397: Lockdown Accounting

Charles Gottlieb, Jan Grobovsek, Markus Poschke and Fernando Saltiel

13396: The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School

Ulf Zölitz and Jan Feld

13395: The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data

Alexander Ahammer and Martin Halla

13394: Conflict, Rockets, and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Israel's Operation Protective Edge

Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot, Neta Benshalom-Tirosh and Eyal Sheiner

13393: Recessions and Occupational Match Quality: The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

John Addison, Liwen Chen and Orgul Ozturk

13392: Bringing Connections Onboard: The Value of Political Influence

Colin Green and Swarnodeep HomRoy

13391: Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation

Werner Eichhorst, Anton Hemerijck and Gemma Scalise

13390: Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, Giuseppe Ippedico and Giovanni Peri

13389: Optimal Unemployment Benefits in the Pandemic

Kurt Mitman and Stanislav Rabinovich

13388: Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dhaval Dave, Andrew Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia and Samuel Safford

13387: Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse and Pia Pinger

13386: Trust in the Time of Corona

Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Patricia Justino and Wolfgang Stojetz

13385: From Pink-Collar to Lab Coat: Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler and Claudia Senik

13384: The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-Routine Work

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park and Simone Schotte

13383: Moral Transgressions by Groups: What Drives Individual Voting Behavior?

Eberhard Feess, Florian Kerzenmacher and Gerd Muehlheusser

13382: Marginal College Wage Premiums under Selection into Employment

Matthias Westphal, Daniel Kamhofer and Hendrik Schmitz

13381: Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration

Francesco Campo, Mariapia Mendola, Andrea Morrison and Gianmarco Ottaviano

13380: Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences

Andreas Kuhn and Stefan Wolter

13379: If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?

Olivier Marie and Judit Vall Castello

13378: Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle

Miriam Gensowski, Mette Gørtz and Stefanie Schurer

13377: Australia's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes in a Family Context: Evidence from Administrative Data

Cahit Guven, Lan Tong and Mutlu Yuksel

13376: Dynamics of Social Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada

Mutlu Yuksel, Yigit Aydede and Francisko Begolli

13375: Partial Lockdown and the Spread of COVID-19: Lessons from the Italian Case

Edoardo Di Porto, Paolo Naticchioni and Vincenzo Scrutinio

13374: Work That Can Be Done from Home: Evidence on Variation within and across Occupations and Industries

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin and Christopher Rauh

13373: Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

David A. Robalino, Jose Romero and Ian Walker

13372: Evidence for a Two-Women Quota in University Departments across Disciplines

Lena Janys

13371: Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann

13370: Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors

Tyler Ransom

13369: Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers

Hyejin Ku

13368: The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19

Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer and Bernhard Wittek

13367: Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19

Matthew Cole, Ceren Ozgen and Eric Strobl

13366: Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries

Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Julian C. Jamison and Nicholas Papageorge

13365: On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus: A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets

Abir Abid and Christophe Rault

13364: Breadth of University Curriculum and Labor Market Outcomes

Kelvin Seah, Jessica Pan and Poh Lin Tan

13363: Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them

Aziz Atamanov, Sharad Tandon, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena

13362: Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?

Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu and Cagla Okten

13361: Stress Test: Examining the Evolution of Teachers' Mental Health Over Time

Stephen Holt, Rui Wang and Seth Gershenson

13360: Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

13359: What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins

13358: The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen and Hartmut Lehmann

13357: Econometric Models of Fertility

Alfonso Miranda and Pravin Trivedi

13356: Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality with Changes in College Selectivity Using a Behavioral Model

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

13355: Does Policy Communication during COVID-19 Work?

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

13354: Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh and Xuan Zhang

13353: The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Moritz Kuhn and Michele Tertilt

13352: Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey

Hai-Anh Dang, Toan Huynh and Manh Hung Nguyen

13351: The Political Scar of Epidemics

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka

13350: The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt and Phanindra V. Wunnava

13349: Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States

Maddalena Davoli and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

13348: Italian Families in the 21st Century: Gender Gaps in Time Use and Their Evolution

Francesca Barigozzi, Cesare Di Timoteo and Chiara Monfardini

13347: First Impressions: The Case of Teacher Racial Bias

Marcos A. Rangel and Ying Shi

13346: Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program

James Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu and Jin Zhou

13345: Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect

Matthias Stefan, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Sutter and Markus Walzl

13344: Reveal It or Conceal It: On the Value of Second Opinions in a Low-Entry-Barriers Credence Goods Market

Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer and Matthias Sutter

13343: Family Background and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores

Georg Graetz, Björn Öckert and Oskar Skans

13342: Are Personality Traits Really Fixed and Does It Matter?

Steven Stillman and Malathi Velamuri

13341: The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

David Card, Andrew Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas and Zhuan Pei

13340: Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon

13339: Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa and Panos Tsakloglou

13338: The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk and Kirsten Winkel

13337: Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

13336: The Gender Dimension of Occupational Exposure to Contagion in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska and Iga Magda

13335: Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Epidemic in France

Simone Bertoli, Lucas Guichard and Francesca Marchetta

13334: COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers

Seung Jin Cho, Jun Yeong Lee and John Winters

13333: Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nicholas Papageorge, Matthew V. Zahn, Michèle Belot, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison and Egon Tripodi

13332: COVID-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power

Louis-Philippe Beland, Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad and Derek Mikola

13331: Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut

Andrew Johnston and Alexandre Mas

13330: The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market

Audrey Guo and Andrew Johnston

13329: In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples

Christina Gathmann, Kristiina Huttunen, Laura Jernström, Lauri Sääksvuori and Robin Stitzing

13328: Taxation in Matching Markets

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Kominers

13327: Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018

Guyonne Kalb and Jordy Meekes

13326: Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

13325: Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

Matthias Doepke and Ruben Gaetani

13324: Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Marios Michaelides, Peter Mueser and Jeffrey Smith

13323: Gender Gaps in Competition: New Experimental Evidence from UK Professionals

Sophie Clot, Marina Della Giusta and Giovanni Razzu

13322: The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans

Cecily Josten and Grace Lordan

13321: Optimal Incentives to Give

Marco Castillo and Ragan Petrie

13320: Negative Childhood Experiences and Risk Aversion: Evidence from Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Marco Castillo

13319: Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach

Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld, Johannes Rode and Klaus Wälde

13318: The Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from Northern Ireland?

Melanie K. Jones and Ezgi Kaya

13317: The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France

Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda and Malka Guillot

13316: Timing is Everything when Fighting a Pandemic: COVID-19 Mortality in Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Noelia Rivera Garrido and Almudena Sevilla

13315: Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy

Hai-Anh Dang and Long T. Giang

13314: Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a COVID-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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

13313: Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM

Sofoklis Goulas, Silvia Griselda and Rigissa Megalokonomou

13312: Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

13311: The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Robert Fairlie

13310: Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries

Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch, Michaela Slotwinski and Nils Wehrhöfer

13309: Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-Transfer Rules

Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

13308: Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte and Nicolas Ziebarth

13307: Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Ludo Visschers

13306: Should We Cheer Together? Gender Differences in Instantaneous Well-Being during Joint and Solo Activities

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

13305: Centralized Admission Systems and School Segregation: Evidence from a National Reform

Macarena Kutscher, Shanjukta Nath and Sergio Urzua

13304: Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans

Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin