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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

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