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13103: Political Networks across the Globe

Simon Commander and Stavros Poupakis

13102: Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Pronzato and Giuseppe Sorrenti

13101: Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention

Erich Battistin, Carlos Lamarche and Enrico Rettore

13100: Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Anna Werbeck, Ansgar Wübker and Nicolas Ziebarth

13099: Using Machine Learning to Predict Nosocomial Infections and Medical Accidents in a NICU

Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson and Guy Lacroix

13098: Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch

Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel Grossman and David Slusky

13097: Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities

Marislei Nishijima and Sarmistha Pal

13096: Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Christian Belzil, Arnaud Maurel and Modibo Sidibé

13095: Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia

Raymond Robertson

13094: Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany

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

13093: Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer and Alexander Willén

13092: Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

Guglielmo Briscese, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Mirco Tonin

13091: Macroeconomic Conditions and Health in Britain: Aggregation, Dynamics and Local Area Heterogeneity

Katharina Janke, Kevin Lee, Carol Propper, Kalvinder Shields and Michael Shields

13090: Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Europe

Giovanni Peri, Daniel I. Rees and Brock Smith

13089: Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Laura Ansala, Olof Aslund and Matti Sarvimäki

13088: Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare

Charles Courtemanche, David Frisvold, David Jimenez-Gomez, Mariétou H. Ouayogodé and Michael Price

13087: The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success

Giuseppe Sorrenti, Ulf Zölitz, Denis Ribeaud and Manuel Eisner

13086: Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay

Andri Chassamboulli and Pedro Gomes

13085: Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Joseph Vecci and Tomas Zelinsky

13084: Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time Preferences

Michel Beine, Gary Charness, Arnaud Dupuy and Majlinda Joxhe

13083: Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Lucas Guichard

13082: Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the US

Baris Kaymak, David Leung and Markus Poschke

13081: Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

Plamen Nikolov and Matthew Bonci

13080: Isolating the 'Tech' from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China

Robert Fairlie, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle and Yue Ma

13079: Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?

Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G Salvanes and Emma Tominey

13078: Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence

Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport and Riccardo Turati

13077: How People React to Pension Risk

Nicolas Salamanca, Andries de Grip and Olaf Sleijpen

13076: Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data

Andres Drenik, Simon Jäger, Pascuel Plotkin and Benjamin Schoefer

13075: The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies

Teevrat Garg and Ajay Shenoy

13074: Provincial Trade, Financial Friction and Misallocation in China

Ohyun Kwon, Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

13073: Economic Incentives and the Quality of Return Migrant Scholars: The Impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program

Ning Jia and Belton Fleisher

13072: Induced Innovation: Evidence from China's Secondary Industry

Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

13071: Key Players in Economic Development

Ashani Amarasinghe, Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky and Yves Zenou

13070: Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016

Gabriel Burdín, Mauricio De Rosa, Andrea Vigorito and Joan Vilá

13069: The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kerstin Unfried and Krisztina Kis-Katos

13068: Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Causal Evidence from Austria

Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

13067: Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training

Giorgio Brunello, Áron Gereben, Christoph Weiss and Patricia Wruuck

13066: Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment: A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox

M Asadullah, Liyanage Devangi Perera and Saizi Xiao

13065: Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications

Simon Chang, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nicolas Salamanca

13064: Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health

Jorge Luis Garcia and James Heckman

13063: Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events

Fabrice Etilé, Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

13062: Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan

David Neumark and Maysen Yen

13061: Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment

Scott M. Delhommer and Daniel Hamermesh

13060: Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism

Zachary Breig, Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader

13059: Is Compassion a Good Career Move?: Nonprofit Earnings Differentials from Job Changes

Andrew Johnston and Carla Johnston

13058: Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Hai-Anh Dang, Kseniya Abanokova and Michael Lokshin

13057: Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Stephen Jenkins

13056: Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns

Sonia Bhalotra, Adeline Delavande, Paulino Font Gilabert and Joanna Maselko

13055: The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers

Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

13054: Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis

Michael Jetter, Leandro Magnusson and Sebastian Roth

13053: Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work

Vanessa Burbano, Nicolas Padilla and Stephan Meier

13052: Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences

Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk

13051: Double Machine Learning Based Program Evaluation under Unconfoundedness

Michael Knaus

13050: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies: An Empirical Approach

Ömer Doruk, Francesco Pastore and Hasan Bilgehan Yavuz

13049: The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria

Giovanni Peri, Derek Rury and Justin Wiltshire

13048: Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence

Alexander Danzer and Lennard Zyska

13047: Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development

Juan Chaparro, Aaron Sojourner and Matthew Wiswall

13046: Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model

Marc Beltempo, Georges Bresson, Jean-Michel Etienne and Guy Lacroix

13045: Article Length and Citation Outcomes

Syed Hasan and Robert Breunig

13044: Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

13043: The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang and Michael Lokshin

13042: Public-Sector Compensation over the Life Cycle

Pedro Gomes and Felix Wellschmied

13041: Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh

Raymond Robertson, Deeksha Kokas, Diego Cardozo Medeiros and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

13040: Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

János Köllő, István Boza and László Balázsi

13039: Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model

Hartmut Lehmann, Aleksey Oshchepkov and Maria Giulia Silvagni

13038: Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs

Vincenzo Carrieri, Leonardo Madio and Francesco Principe

13037: Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Regina Riphahn

13036: The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon

Pierre Mouganie, Ruba Ajeeb and Mark Hoekstra

13035: Early Release and Recidivism

Armando Meier, Jonathan Levav and Stephan Meier

13034: The Productivity Impact of Business Visits across Industries

Mariacristina Piva, Max Tani and Marco Vivarelli

13033: Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?

Daniel Fackler, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel and Antje Weyh

13032: The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha Becker, Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann

13031: What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?

Hannah Van Borm, Marlot Dhoop, Allien Van Acker and Stijn Baert

13030: Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants: The Impact of Host Language Proficiency

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Carlos Martínez de Ibarreta

13029: Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textuThe al Information for Startup Performance Prediction

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan Moritz Kuhn

13028: The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy: Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms

Francesca Calamunci and Francesco Drago

13027: Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines

Michael Jetter and Teresa Molina

13026: Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

13025: The Second Convict Age: Explaining the Return of Mass Imprisonment in Australia

Andrew Leigh

13024: Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Andrew Leigh

13023: Financial Expectations and Household Consumption: Does Middle Inflation Matter?

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris, Christopher Spencer and Karl Taylor

13022: Bowling with Trump: Economic Anxiety, Racial Identification, and Well-Being in the 2016 Presidential Election

Mark Fabian, Robert Breunig and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

13021: Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?

Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel and Aydogan Ulker

13020: Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data

Ding Liu and Daniel Millimet

13019: Short- and Long-Run Effects of a Sizable Child Subsidy: Evidence from Russia

Ilia Sorvachev and Evgeny Yakovlev

13018: Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

13017: Technical Progress and Induced Innovation in China: A Variable Profit Function Approach

Ka Wong, Belton Fleisher, Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao and William H. McGuire

13016: Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Franco Peracchi, Aico van Vuuren and Francis Vella

13015: Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

13014: The Effect of Immigration on Business Dynamics and Employment

Pia Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny and Alexander Abraham

13013: How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?

Pia Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny and Stephanie Gullo

13012: Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sher Afghan Asad, Ritwik Banerjee and Joydeep Bhattacharya

13011: Household Behavioral Preferences and the Child Labor-Education Trade-off: Framed Field Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Arnab Basu and Ralitza Dimova

13010: The Effect of Outside Temperature on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions

Sally Evans and Peter Siminski

13009: The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis

Eleanor Choi, Jaewoo Choi and Hyelim Son

13008: Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality

Andrea Albanese and Giovanni Gallo

13007: Education for All? A Nationwide Audit Study of School Choice

Peter Bergman and Isaac McFarlin

13006: Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment

Peter Bergman, Eric Chan and Adam Kapor

13005: Behavioral Aspects of Communication in Organizations

Fortuna Casoria, Arno Riedl and Peter Werner

13004: The Heterogeneous Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Belgium

Céline Piton and Francois Rycx