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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

13456: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe

Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keun Bok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman and Outi Sirniö

13455: Immigration Policy and Immigrants' Sleep: Evidence from DACA

Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky, Luca Stella and Fabrizio Mazzonna

13454: An Efficiency-Wage Model with Habit Concerns about Wages

Laszlo Goerke

13453: Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Eric Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann

13452: Intergenerational Residence Patterns and COVID-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US

Ainoa Aparicio and Shoshana Grossbard

13451: Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter and Klaus Zimmermann

13450: Should School-Level Results of National Assessments Be Made Public?

Atsuyoshi Morozumi and Ryuichi Tanaka

13449: The Spillover of Anti-Immigration Politics to the Schoolyard

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin Green and Vincenzo Scoppa

13448: Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey

Peng Nie, Lu Wang and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

13447: Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality

Ghazala Azmat, Lena Hensvik and Olof Rosenqvist

13446: Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation

Giulio Zanella

13445: Subjective Expectations for Health Service Use and Consequences for Health Insurance Behavior

Nathan Kettlewell

13444: Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of COVID-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Nidhiya Menon

13443: Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

13442: Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees and James Reeves

13441: Family Disadvantage, Gender and the Returns to Genetic Human Capital

Victor Ronda, Esben Agerbo, Dorthe Bleses, Preben Bo Mortensen, Anders Børglum, David M. Hougaard, Ole Mors, Merete Nordentoft, Thomas Werge and Michael Rosholm

13440: Urban Density and COVID-19

Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano and Sefi Roth

13439: The Lockdown Impact on Unemployment for Heterogeneous Workers

Malak Kandoussi and Francois Langot

13438: Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics

Malak Kandoussi and Francois Langot

13437: Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move On?

Franz Buscha, Emma Gorman and Patrick Sturgis

13436: Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

13435: Changes in the Forsaken Schooling and Migration Relationship in Tajikistan

Ilhom Abdulloev

13434: How the COVID-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain

Lidia Farre, Yarine Fawaz, Libertad Gonzalez and Jennifer Graves

13433: Refugees and the Educational Attainment of Natives

Colin Green and Jon Vaag Iversen

13432: Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for COVID-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Masato Oikawa, Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho and Haruko Noguchi

13431: A Theory of Social Impact Bonds

Daniel Tortorice, David E. Bloom, Paige Kirby and John Regan

13430: Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported

Denni Tommasi and Lina Zhang

13429: Labor Supply and Automation Innovation

Alexander Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum and Fabian Gaessler

13428: Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations

David Adler and Edson Severnini

13427: Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Michael Ganslmeier and Panu Poutvaara

13426: Climate Change and Diet

Neha Bose, Thomas Hills and Daniel Sgroi

13425: Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession

Gregory Verdugo and Guillaume Allègre

13424: Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

Barry Chiswick and RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

13423: Wealth, Portfolios, and Unemployment Duration

Francois Fontaine, Janne Nyborg Jensen and Rune Vejlin

13422: Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations

Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan and Michel Serafinelli

13421: Inequality of Opportunity in Bodyweight among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese: A Distributional Approach

Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding and Andrew Jones

13420: Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Devashish Mitra

13419: A Firm Scientific Community: Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion

Stefano Baruffaldi and Felix Poege

13418: Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Ingo Isphording and Nico Pestel

13417: Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes

N. Meltem Daysal, Michael Lovenheim, Nikolaj Siersbæk and David Wasser

13416: Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?

Jens Ruhose, Stephan Thomsen and Insa Weilage

13415: The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share

Saumik Paul and Liam Thomas

13414: The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah

Ege Can and Frank Fossen

13413: Social Capital, Networks, and Economic Wellbeing

Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark

13412: The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland

Maciej Albinowski and Piotr Lewandowski

13411: A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19

Abel Brodeur, David Gray, Anik Islam and Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan

13410: The Effects of EU-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers

Balazs Murakozy and Almos Telegdy

13409: Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, before and during COVID-19

Daniela Del Boca, Noemi Oggero, Paola Profeta and Mariacristina Rossi

13408: Working at Home in Greece: Unexplored Potential at Times of Social Distancing?

Konstantinos Pouliakas

13407: Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea

Christopher Hoy, Luke McKenzie and Mathias Sinning

13406: Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers

Stephen Cheung, Agnieszka Tymula and Xueting Wang

13405: Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work

Christophe Nordman, Smriti Sharma and Naveen Sunder

13404: Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena and Diego Cardozo Medeiros

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