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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

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