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13556: Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany

Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Spiess, Nico A. Siegel and Gert Wagner

13555: Task Specialization and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from PIAAC and IALS

Marta Martínez Matute and Ernesto Villanueva

13554: Last and Furious: Relative Position and School Violence

Simona Comi, Federica Origo, Laura Pagani and Marco Tonello

13553: Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains

Matthew Gibson and Jamie Mullins

13552: Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?

Delia Furtado and Francesc Ortega

13551: H. Gregg Lewis: Perhaps the Father of Modern Labor Economics

Daniel Hamermesh

13550: Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco Ferreira, Yajing Jiang and Yan Sun

13549: Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

13548: Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Egidio Farina, Colin Green and Duncan McVicar

13547: Against All Odds: Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups

Darius Schlangenotto, Wendelin Schnedler and Radovan Vadovic

13546: Vaccination Take-up and Health: Evidence from a Flu Vaccination Program for the Elderly

Ylenia Brilli, Claudio Lucifora, Antonio Russo and Marco Tonello

13545: Intrahousehold Commitment and Intertemporal Labor Supply

Pierre-André Chiappori, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Alexandros Theloudis and Jorge Velilla

13544: Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs

Elisabeth Leduc and Ilan Tojerow

13543: Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians

Mary-Alice Doyle, Stefanie Schurer and Sven Silburn

13542: Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry

Effrosyni Adamopoulou and Ernesto Villanueva

13541: Optimal Tax-Transfer Rules under Equilibrium and New Labour Demand Scenarios

Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

13540: Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly: Evidence from Two Russian Crises

Margarita Khvan, Elizaveta Smorodenkova and Evgeny Yakovlev

13539: Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?

Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller

13538: Divergence in Labour Force Growth: Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?

Thomas Beissinger, Joel Hellier and Martyna Marczak

13537: The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement: Active vs. Passive Decisions

Rafael Lalive, Arvind Magesan and Stefan Staubli

13536: The Labour Market for Native and International PhD Students: Similarities, Differences, and the Role of (University) Employers

Max Tani

13535: Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency: Policy and Technical Considerations

Sarah Allen, Srdjan Capkun, Ittay Eyal, Giulia Fanti, Bryan Ford, James Grimmelmann, Ari Juels, Kari Kostiainen, Sarah Meiklejohn, Andrew Miller, Eswar Prasad, Karl Wüst and Fan Zhang

13534: Labor Market Returns to a Prison GED

Rajeev Darolia, Peter Mueser and Jacob Cronin

13533: The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence from Immigrant Mothers-In-Law

Julia Bredtmann, Lisa Sofie Höckel and Sebastian Otten

13532: The New Hazardous Jobs and Worker Reallocation

Gaetano Basso, Tito Boeri, Alessandro Caiumi and Marco Paccagnella

13531: Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

Lukas Laffers and Bernhard Schmidpeter

13530: Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave

Stefan Pichler, Katherine Wen and Nicolas Ziebarth

13529: Labour Markets in the Time of Coronavirus: Measuring Excess

Jonathan Wadsworth

13528: Labour Productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture

Robert Hart

13527: Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

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

13526: Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa and Miguel Portela

13525: Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations

John Jerrim, Nikki Shure and Gill Wyness

13524: Implementing the Panel Event Study

Damian Clarke and Kathya Tapia Schythe

13523: Is Labour Market Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities Better Explained by Taste or Statistics? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence

Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert, Abel Ghekiere, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe and Eva Derous

13522: Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women: Evidence from India

Gaurav Datt, Pushkar Maitra, Nidhiya Menon, Ranjan Ray, Sagnik Dey and Sourangsu Chowdhury

13521: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19: Evidence from Six Large Cities

Joseph Benitez, Charles Courtemanche and Aaron Yelowitz

13520: Investigation of Employers' Preferences for the Design of Staffing Agency Incentives to Hire Ex-Felons

Priscillia Hunt and Rosanna Smart

13519: Fathers Matter: Intra-Household Responsibilities and Children's Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy

Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli and Luca Pieroni

13518: A Structural Analysis of Mental Health and Labor Market Trajectories

Grégory Jolivet and Fabien Postel-Vinay

13517: Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations

Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter and Sascha Satlukal

13516: Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde and Giannis Tzimas

13515: Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

13514: As If It Weren't Hard Enough Already: Breaking down Hiring Discrimination Following Burnout

Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Claudia Rooman and Eva Derous

13513: Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa

Marianne Bertrand and Bruno Crépon

13512: The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets

Stijn Baert

13511: Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion

Michael Jetter, Rafat Mahmood, Christopher Parmeter and Andrés Ramírez Hassan

13510: Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

13509: Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey

Christian vom Lehn, Cache Ellsworth and Zachary Kroff

13508: Long-Run Returns to Field of Study in Secondary School

Gordon Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth and Anders Stenberg

13507: Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Gordon Dahl, Christina Felfe, Paul Frijters and Helmut Rainer

13506: Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring

Ian Burn, Patrick Button, Luis Munguia Corella and David Neumark

13505: The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece

Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa, Chrysa Leventi and Panos Tsakloglou

13504: Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company

Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

13503: COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK

Eugenio Proto and Climent Quintana-Domeque

13502: Shoring up Economic Refugees: Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market

Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira and Eliana Carranza

13501: The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador

Sergio Olivieri, Francesc Ortega, Ana Rivadeneira and Eliana Carranza

13500: The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work under Lockdown

Alison Andrew, Sarah Cattan, Monica Costa Dias, Christine Farquharson, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Angus Phimister and Almudena Sevilla

13499: How the Minimum Wage Affects Training among Apprentices

Kerry Papps

13498: Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Oke Onemu and Joeri Sol

13497: License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs

Daniel Keum and Stephan Meier

13496: Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment

Julia Schmieder

13495: Convergence Over Time or Not? U.S. Wages by Sexual Orientation, 2001-2018

Christopher Jepsen and Lisa Jepsen

13494: A Brief Introduction to Human Capital Measures

Gang Liu and Barbara M. Fraumeni

13493: Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission

Paul Anand, Heidi Allen, Robert Ferrer, Natalie Gold, Rolando Gonzales Martínez, Evan Kontopantelis, Melanie Krause and Francis Vergunst

13492: Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italy

Caterina Alacevich, Nicolò Cavalli, Osea Giuntella, Raffaele Lagravinese, Francesco Moscone and Catia Nicodemo

13491: Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess

Steffen Künn, Christian Seel and Dainis Zegners

13490: Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort

Matthias Dorner and Katja Görlitz

13489: Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges

Todd Pugatch and Elizabeth Schroeder

13488: A Signal of (Train)Ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances

Stijn Baert and Matteo Picchio

13487: Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?

David Slusky and Donna Ginther

13486: Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster and Kevin Hope

13485: Missing a Nurse Visit

Jonas Cuzulan Hirani, Hans Sievertsen and Miriam Wüst

13484: Universal Credit and Crime

Rocco d'Este and Alex Harvey

13483: Welfare Improving Tax Evasion

Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari

13482: Robots and the Gender Pay Gap in Europe

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Berkay Özcan and Julia Philipp

13481: Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy: The Case of Poland

Marek Antosiewicz, Rodrigo Fuentes, Piotr Lewandowski and Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

13480: Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences

Hai-Anh Dang and Trong-Anh Trinh

13479: Air Pollution Quotas and the Dynamics of Internal Skilled Migration in Chinese Cities

Bo Yu, Wang-Sheng Lee and Shuddhasattwa Rafiq

13478: Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati and Yiming Xia

13477: Women in Economics: A UK Perspective

Danula Gamage, Almudena Sevilla and Sarah Smith

13476: Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial India

Guilhem Cassan, Lakshmi Iyer and Rinchan Ali Mirza

13475: Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Danijela Vuletić Čugalj

13474: Selection and Incentives under Time Pressure: The Importance of Framing

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Valeria Pupo

13473: Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?

Bart Golsteyn and Cécile A. J. Magnée

13472: Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation

Shigeru Fujita, Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

13471: Dream Jobs

Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Gianmarco Ottaviano

13470: Gender Stereotyping in Sports

Miriam Marcén, Marina Morales and Almudena Sevilla

13469: Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza

David Slusky and Richard Zeckhauser

13468: Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size

Seung Jin Cho, Jun Yeong Lee and John Winters

13467: COVID-19, Race, and Redlining

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

13466: Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020

Stephen Jones, Fabian Lange, W. Craig Riddell and Casey Warman

13465: Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants

Claus Schnabel

13464: School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation

Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora and Antonio Miralles

13463: Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants

Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

13462: Stuck at a Crossroads? The Duration of the Italian School-To-Work Transition

Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano and Antonella Rocca

13461: The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

13460: Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States

Xi Chen, Binjian Yan and Thomas M. Gill

13459: Exploratory Data Analysis on Large Data Sets: The Example of Salary Variation in Spanish Social Security Data

Catia Nicodemo and Albert Satorra

13458: Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities, and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Carlo Barone, Denis Fougere and Karine Martel

13457: Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?

Lukas Buchheim, Carla Krolage and Sebastian Link