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13303: Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach

Tomáš Jagelka

13302: Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Almudena Sevilla and Sarah Smith

13301: A Human Capital Index for the Italian Provinces

Alessandra Pasquini and Furio Rosati

13300: The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Simon Woodcock

13299: How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

13298: Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages

Kashif Mansoor and Donal O'Neill

13297: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Olivier Bargain and Ulugbek Aminjonov

13296: Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital

Gabriella Conti, Mark Hanson, Hazel Inskip, Sarah Crozier, Cyrus Cooper and Keith Godfrey

13295: Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India

Arnab Basu, Tsenguunjav Byambasuren, Nancy Chau and Neha Khanna

13294: Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Robert Valletta

13293: Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Bertrand Verheyden

13292: Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers

Lanlin Ding, Andrew Jones and Peng Nie

13291: Conceptualizing Grade Inflation

Adam Tyner and Seth Gershenson

13290: A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

Antonio Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee and Edson Severnini

13289: A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain

Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska and David Wilkinson

13288: Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation

Nicolas Hérault and Guyonne Kalb

13287: Bias and Careers: Evidence from the Aid Effectiveness Literature

Chris Doucouliagos, Thomas Hinz and Katarina Zigova

13286: Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2018

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

13285: Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

13284: The Impact of Inflation Targeting on Inflation and Growth: How Robust Is the Evidence?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Chun Yee Wong

13283: Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights

Tymon Słoczyński

13282: COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data

Louis-Philippe Beland, Abel Brodeur and Taylor Wright

13281: EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Jiri Branka

13280: The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti and Breno Sampaio

13279: The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

13278: COVID-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries

Umut Oguzoglu

13277: The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

George Borjas and Hugh Cassidy

13276: Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work: Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey

Meltem Dayioglu and Murat Kırdar

13275: Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Gozde Corekcioglu, Marco Francesconi and Astrid Kunze

13274: Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir and Mark Wohar

13273: Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption

Marco Caliendo and Juliane Hennecke

13272: Was the Mid-2000s Drop in the British Job Change Rate Genuine or a Survey Design Effect?

Stephen Jenkins

13271: Cash-For-Care, or Caring for Cash? The Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children's Development

Matthias Collischon, Daniel Kühnle and Michael Oberfichtner

13270: Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence

Antonio Cabrales, Irma Clots-Figueras, Roberto Hernán-González and Praveen Kujal

13269: Market Competition and Discrimination

Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou

13268: The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini

13267: Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View

Ester Faia, Sébastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco Ottaviano

13266: The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19

Seung Jin Cho and John Winters

13265: An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies

Luiz Brotherhood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos and Michele Tertilt

13264: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Kenneth Couch, Robert Fairlie and Huanan Xu

13263: Social Security, Labor Supply and Health of Older Workers: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Reform

Itay Saporta-Eksten, Ity Shurtz and Sarit Weisburd

13262: Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

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

13261: The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-At-Home Orders

Umair Ali, Chris M. Herbst and Christos Makridis

13260: Telework and Time Use in the United States

Sabrina Pabilonia and Victoria Vernon

13259: Hit by the Silk Road: How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock

Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud and Karl Ove Moene

13258: Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor

Robert Palacios and David A. Robalino

13257: Exponential-Growth Prediction Bias and Compliance with Safety Measures in the Times of COVID-19

Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Priyama Majumdar

13256: Hospital Resources: Persistent Reallocation under Price Changes

Florian Wozny

13255: On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook and Taylor Wright

13254: The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada

Louis-Philippe Beland, Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola and Taylor Wright

13253: Firm-level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Lukas Buchheim, Jonas Dovern, Carla Krolage and Sebastian Link

13252: Cigarette Taxes and Smoking in the Long Run

Andrew Friedson and Daniel I. Rees

13251: Choosing Differently? College Application Behavior and the Persistence of Educational Advantage

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

13250: COVID-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners

Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková and Julie Chytilová

13249: Social Stability Challenged: Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses

Cristiano Perugini and Marko Vladisavljevic

13248: The Graduate Wage and Earnings Premia and the Role of Non-Cognitive Skills

Gerda Buchmueller and Ian Walker

13247: Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?

Teevrat Garg, Gordon McCord and Aleister Montfort

13246: Differences across Countries and Time in Household Expenditure Patterns: Implications for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Angela Daley, Thesia Garner, Shelley Phipps and Eva Sierminska

13245: Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap

Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card and Daniel Parent

13244: Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration

Ioana Marinescu, Ivan Ouss and Louis-Daniel Pape

13243: Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States

Paul Gaggl, Rowena Gray, Ioana Marinescu and Miguel Morin

13242: Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure

Marco Castillo and David Dickinson

13241: Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion

David Dickinson

13240: Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Hermann Gartner and Leo Kaas

13239: The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Michael S. Christian and Jon D. Samuels

13238: Towards Economic Democracy and Social Justice: Profit Sharing, Co-Determination, and Employee Ownership

Felix FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

13237: Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot

13236: Immigration and Work Schedules: Theory and Evidence

Timothy Bond, Osea Giuntella and Jakub Lonsky

13235: Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

Cathal O'Donoghue, Denisa Sologon, Iryna Kyzyma and John McHale

13234: Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust

Abel Brodeur, Idaliya Grigoryeva and Lamis Kattan

13233: The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics

Nick Huntington-Klein, Andreu Arenas, Emily Beam, Marco Bertoni, Jeffrey Bloem, Pralhad Burli, Naibin Chen, Paul Greico, Godwin Ekpe, Todd Pugatch, Martin Saavedra and Yaniv Stopnitzky

13232: A Methodological Rejoinder to 'Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors?'

Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

13231: Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?

Claudia Persico and Kathryn R. Johnson

13230: Six-Country Survey on COVID-19

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

13229: The COVID-19 Crisis and Telework: A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes

Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Johannes Weytjens and Philippe Sterkens

13228: 'More Than One Red Herring'? Heterogeneous Effects of Ageing on Healthcare Utilisation

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

13227: Occupational Exposure to Contagion and the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski

13226: Electoral Democracy at Work

Philippe Askenazy and Thomas Breda

13225: Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab

Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg, Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg

13224: The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

13223: Does Economics Make You Sexist?

Valentina Paredes, M. Daniele Paserman and Francisco Pino

13222: The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Nandini Krishnan

13221: Age, Death Risk, and the Design of an Exit Strategy: A Guide for Policymakers and for Citizens Who Want to Stay Alive

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

13220: The Regional Anatomy of School Dropouts in Spain: The Role of the Industry Structure of Local Labour Markets

Luis Diaz-Serrano and William Nilsson

13219: The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria

Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Xavier Pedros, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan and Hernan Winkler

13218: Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study

Nicola Grözinger, Bernd Irlenbusch, Katharina Laske and Marina Schröder

13217: More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy

Erich Battistin, Sascha Becker and Luca Nunziata

13216: Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings

Benedikt Gerst and Christian Grund

13215: Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

13214: Robust Dynamic Panel Data Models Using e-Contamination

Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi and Guy Lacroix

13213: Commuting Time and the Gender Gap in Labor Market Participation

Lidia Farre, Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Juan Torrecillas

13212: Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality

Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schwellnus, Erling Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Katarzyna Grabska, Ryo Kambayashi, Timo Leidecker, Oskar Skans, Capucine Riom, Duncan Roth, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward and Wouter Zwysen

13211: Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint: Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bruna Guidetti, Paula Pereda and Edson Severnini

13210: The Causal Effect of Education on Climate Literacy and Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment

Nattavudh Powdthavee

13209: Entrepreneurship among Low-, Mid- and High-Income Workers in South America: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Jorge Velilla, José Alberto Molina and Raquel Ortega

13208: Racial Discrimination and White First Name Adoption: Evidence from a Correspondence Study in the Australian Labour Market

Shyamal Chowdhury, Evarn Ooi and Robert Slonim

13207: Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models

Martin Abel and Willa Brown

13206: Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction

Perline A. Demange, Margherita Malanchini, Travis T. Mallard and Pietro Biroli

13205: Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19

Olivier Bargain and Ulugbek Aminjonov

13204: COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends

Abel Brodeur, Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche and Nattavudh Powdthavee