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13203: Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles

W. Bentley Macleod and Miguel Urquiola

13202: Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Chi Trieu and Jana Willrodt

13201: Two Field Experiments on Self-Selection, Collaboration Intensity, and Team Performance

Mira Fischer, Rainer Rilke and Burcin Yurtoglu

13200: The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini and Xiao Wang

13199: What Determines the Capital Share over the Long Run of History?

Erik Bengtsson, Enrico Rubolino and Daniel Waldenström

13198: The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption

Markus Gehrsitz, Henry Saffer and Michael Grossman

13197: Who Can Work from Home?

Vasil Yasenov

13196: Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings

Stephen Jenkins and Fernando Rios-Avila

13195: Immigrant Franchise and Immigration Policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Costanza Biavaschi and Giovanni Facchini

13194: The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys

Plamen Nikolov and Nusrat Abedin Jimi

13193: Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871

Sascha Becker and Francesco Cinnirella

13192: The Role of Faith and Faith Schooling in Educational, Economic, and Faith Outcomes

Andrew McKendrick and Ian Walker

13191: Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth

13190: When Do Shelter-In-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity across States and Adoption Time

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

13189: Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany

Stefano DellaVigna, Jörg Heining, Johannes Schmieder and Simon Trenkle

13188: When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short

Asad Islam, Sungoh Kwon, Eema Masood, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Deepak Saraswat

13187: The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev and Olga Popova

13186: When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits

Richard Layard, Andrew Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Christian Krekel, Daisy Fancourt, Nancy Hey and Gus O'Donnell

13185: The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette and Eliana Viviano

13184: Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?

Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

13183: Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys

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

13182: Is Rising Household Debt Affecting Retirement Decisions?

Barbara A. Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva

13181: Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?

Rama Dasi Mariani, Alessandra Pasquini and Furio Rosati

13180: 2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study

Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson and Anna Dreber

13179: Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities

Robert Duval Hernández, Gary Fields and George H. Jakubson

13178: Financial Education Affects Financial Knowledge and Downstream Behaviors

Tim Kaiser, Annamaria Lusardi, Lukas Menkhoff and Carly Urban

13177: Beyond Cobb-Douglas: Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Fabian Lange and Theodore Papageorgiou

13176: Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions

Sergio Firpo, Antonio Galvao, Martyna Kobus, Thomas Parker and Pedro Rosa-Dias

13175: Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets

John H. Pencavel

13174: Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm

Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo

13173: Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs

Jeffrey Traczynski

13172: Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ransom

13171: Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China

Jinhu Li and Nidhiya Menon

13170: Improving Job Search Skills: A Field Experiment on Online Employment Assistance

Guglielmo Briscese, Giulio Zanella and Veronica Quinn

13169: On the Commitment Needs of Partially Naive Agents

Pan Liu, Torben M. Andersen and Joydeep Bhattacharya

13168: Misclassification-Errors-Adjusted Sahm Rule for Early Identification of Economic Recession

Shuaizhang Feng and Jiandong Sun

13167: Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England

Emma Gorman and Ian Walker

13166: Feeling Good or Feeling Better?

Alberto Prati and Claudia Senik

13165: Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Yun Qiu, Xi Chen and Wei Shi

13164: How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?

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

13163: Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools

Thomas Breda, Julien Grenet, Marion Monnet and Clementine van Effenterre

13162: Too Many Men, Too Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality

Simon Chang, Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang

13161: It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects

Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti

13160: Did California's Shelter-In-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects

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

13159: The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response

Louis-Philippe Beland, Abel Brodeur and Taylor Wright

13158: Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Bettina M. Siflinger and Christian Zimpelmann

13157: Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK

Sylke Schnepf, Elena Bastianelli and Zsuzsa Blaskó

13156: Why Are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?

Alexander Bick, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, David Lagakos and Hitoshi Tsujiyama

13155: Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing

Kyoji Fukao, Cristiano Perugini and Fabrizio Pompei

13154: Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment

Pierre Cahuc and Jeremy Hervelin

13153: Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S

Peter Eibich, Angelo Lorenti and Irene Mosca

13152: Germany's Capacities to Work from Home

Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck and Simone Schüller

13151: Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects

Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Constantin Weiser and Klaus Wälde

13150: The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India

Anne Hilger and Christophe Nordman

13149: Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes

Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini and Luigi Minale

13148: Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kiyomi Cadena and Laura Moreno Herrera

13147: The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis Lopez-Calva and Oscar Barriga Cabanillas

13146: Determinants of Teacher Value-Added in Public Primary Schools: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura, Haruko Noguchi and Koichi Ushijima

13145: Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Semih Tumen

13144: A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France

Andrew Clark and Anthony Lepinteur

13143: Gender Gaps and the Structure of Local Labor Markets

Barbara Petrongolo and Maddalena Ronchi

13142: Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future

Georg Graetz

13141: The Ability Gradient in Bunching

Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström

13140: Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction

Daniel Hamermesh

13139: Labor Markets during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

13138: Which Jobs Are Done from Home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot

13137: Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Leonardo Baccini and Abel Brodeur

13136: The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?

David A. Robalino

13135: Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness

Wendelin Schnedler and Nina Lucia Stephan

13134: Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile

Damian Clarke and Viviana Salinas

13133: The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Ludovica Gazze, Claudia Persico and Sandra Spirovska

13132: Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler and Nicolas Ziebarth

13131: Moving from a Poor Economy to a Rich One: The Contradictory Roles of Technology and Job Tasks

Eran Yashiv

13130: Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Sergei Guriev

13129: The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills

Jaime Arellano-Bover

13128: A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough

Alessandro Cigno

13127: Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Cynthia Bansak, Xuan Jiang and Guanyi Yang

13126: Gendered Language

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

13125: Female Political Representation and Substantive Effects on Policies: A Literature Review

Zohal Hessami and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca

13124: Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison

Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti and Giacomo Mason

13123: Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life

Maria Cotofan, Lea Cassar, Robert Dur and Stephan Meier

13122: Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries

Isaac Ehrlich and Yun Pei

13121: Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Andrew Johnston

13120: The Economic Outcomes of an Ethnic Minority: The Role of Barriers

Nitsa Kaliner Kasir and Eran Yashiv

13119: Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples

Christopher S. Carpenter, Gilbert Gonzales, Tara McKay and Dario Sansone

13118: Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity

Kai Hong, Peter Savelyev and Kegon Tan

13117: Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data

Andrew Johnston

13116: Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

Egidio Farina, Colin Green and Duncan McVicar

13115: Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods

George Borjas

13114: Intergenerational Ties and Case Fatality Rates: A Cross-Country Analysis

Christian Bayer and Moritz Kuhn

13113: The Case for Releasing the Young from Lockdown: A Briefing Paper for Policymakers

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

13112: What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It

Milena Nikolova and Femke Cnossen

13111: Does Domestic Violence Jeopardize the Learning Environment of Peers within the School? Peer Effects of Exposure to Domestic Violence in Urban Peru

Italo Gutierrez and Oswaldo Molina

13110: Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review

Wim Naudé

13109: The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness and Claire Keane

13108: The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible: Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design

Tobias Klein, Martin Salm and Suraj Upadhyay

13107: Income Taxation and Dual Job Labour Supply

Chung Choe, Ronald Oaxaca and Francesco Renna

13106: The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China

Hamid R. Oskorouchi, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and David E. Bloom

13105: Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment

Abel Brodeur, Marie Christelle Mabeu and Roland Pongou

13104: Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon

Ali Fakih, Paul Makdissi, Walid Marrouch, Rami Tabri and Myra Yazbeck