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12903: Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany

Felix Stips and Krisztina Kis-Katos

12902: Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination

Ghazala Azmat, Vicente Cuñat and Emeric Henry

12901: It's the Way People Move! Labour Migration as an Adjustment Device in Russia

Francesco Pastore and Elena Semerikova

12900: The Cost of Being Too Patient

Paola Giuliano and Paola Sapienza

12899: Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart

12898: Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Seyit Cilasun and Belgi Turan

12897: Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China

Bin Huang, Xiaoyan He, Lei Xu and Yu Zhu

12896: Not Much Bounce in the Springboard: On the Mobility of Low Pay Workers

Gail Pacheco, Alexander T. Plum and Peter Sloane

12895: How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Manudeep Bhuller, Andreas Kostøl and Trond Christian Vigtel

12894: Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak and Assaf Sarid

12893: Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Melisa Bubonya and Deborah Cobb-Clark

12892: Analysing Tax-Benefit Reforms in the Netherlands: Using Structural Models and Natural Experiments

Henk-Wim de Boer and Egbert L. W. Jongen

12891: Working Life and Human Capital Investment: Causal Evidence from Pension Reform

Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Elisabeth Kurz and Felix Weinhardt

12890: Tony Atkinson's New Book, Measuring Poverty around the World: Some Further Reflections

Andrea Brandolini and John Micklewright

12889: The Importance of Hiring Frictions in Business Cycles

Renato Faccini and Eran Yashiv

12888: Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus

Karine Torosyan and Norberto Pignatti

12887: Influence in Economics and Aging

Pavel Jelnov and Yoram Weiss

12886: The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case

Francesca Modena, Enrico Rettore and Giulia Tanzi

12885: Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions

Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Løken and Alexander Willén

12884: Minimum Wage Non-Compliance: Evidence from Ireland

Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond and Judith Delaney

12883: All on Board? New Evidence on Board Gender Diversity from a Large Panel of Firms

Joanna Tyrowicz, Siri Terjesen and Jakub Mazurek

12882: Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited

James Heckman

12881: Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: A Look Ahead

Harry Holzer

12880: Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz and Torun Österberg

12879: Does the Marginal Hospitalization Save Lives? The Case of Respiratory Admissions for the Elderly

Janet Currie and David Slusky

12878: Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francesco Amodio and Markus Poschke

12877: Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China

Xin Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Xi Chen and Xun Zhang

12876: Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Chunbei Wang

12875: Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium

Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner and Joost Bollens

12874: The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China

Hongjian Wang, Plamen Nikolov and Kevin Acker

12873: Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances

Binjian Yan, Xi Chen and Thomas M. Gill

12872: The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua and Roberto Nisticò

12871: Public Employment Redux

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Gomes and Thepthida Sopraseuth

12870: Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?

Anne Brenøe, Serena Canaan, Nikolaj Harmon and Heather Royer

12869: Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Thomas Garcia, Sébastien Massoni and Marie Claire Villeval

12868: Can Sanctuary Polices Reduce Domestic Violence?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Monica Deza

12867: Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions

Francesco Fallucchi, Daniele Nosenzo and Ernesto Reuben

12866: Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?

Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel Hamermesh and Wesley Wilson

12865: Does Loneliness Lurk in Temp Work? Exploring the Associations between Temporary Employment, Loneliness at Work and Job Satisfaction

Eline Moens, Stijn Baert, Elsy Verhofstadt and Luc Van Ootegem

12864: The Jobs That Youth Want and the Support They Need to Get Them: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Kenya

Angela Elzir Assy, Tiago Ribeiro, David A. Robalino, Furio Rosati, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta and Michael Weber

12863: Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

Stefan Bauernschuster and Ramona Rekers

12862: Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: First Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Simon Amez, Sunčica Vujić, Lieven De Marez and Stijn Baert

12861: The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents

Andreas Kuhn and Stefan Wolter

12860: Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements

Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham and Pierre-Louis Vézina

12859: Selection into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap across the Distribution and over Time

Patricia Gallego Granados and Katharina Wrohlich

12858: Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon

Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos and Jackline Wahba

12857: International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses

Pål Schøne and Marte Strøm

12856: Labour Market Outcomes for Cancer Survivors: A Review of the Reviews

Adelina Sharipova and Stijn Baert

12855: Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure

Richard Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell and Jeff Larrimore

12854: Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey

Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini and Roberto Zotti

12853: Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans

Megan Stevenson and Jennifer Doleac

12852: Labor Income Share at the Firm Level: Global Trends

Saumik Paul and Hironobu Isaka

12851: Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs

Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth and Duncan Roth

12850: Why Are There More Accidents on Mondays? Economic Incentives, Ergonomics or Externalities

Michelle Poland, Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

12849: What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?

Hannah Van Borm, Ian Burn and Stijn Baert

12848: Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari

12847: Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence

Semih Tumen and Hakan Ulucan

12846: The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

12845: The Romano-Wolf Multiple Hypothesis Correction in Stata

Damian Clarke, Joseph P. Romano and Michael Wolf

12844: Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013

Insan Tunali, Murat Kırdar and Meltem Dayioglu

12843: Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China

Xi Chen, Lipeng Hu and Jody L. Sindelar

12842: Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed

Thomas C. Buchmueller, Helen Levy and Robert Valletta

12841: Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?

Michael Leith Cowling and Mark Wooden

12840: Inputs, Incentives, and Self-Selection at the Workplace

Francesco Amodio and Miguel Martinez-Carrasco

12839: Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of a Training Program with Multiple Alternatives

Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kai Liu

12838: The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India

Geoffrey Barrows, Teevrat Garg and Akshaya Jha

12837: Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use

Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell, Hannes Schwandt, Sam Trejo and Lindsey Uniat

12836: Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry

Kyle Herkenhoff and Gajendran Raveendranathan

12835: Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker

Gerard van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller and Bettina M. Siflinger

12834: Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data

Paul McNamee, Silvia Mendolia and Oleg Yerokhin

12833: The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws

Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou and Joshua Lewis

12832: The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China

Haiyang Lu, Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

12831: Who Demands Labour (De)Regulation in the Developing World? Insider–Outsider Theory Revisited

Lucas Ronconi, Ravi Kanbur and Santiago López-Cariboni

12830: In Praise of Snapshots

Ravi Kanbur

12829: Effect of Immigration on Depression among Older Natives in Western Europe

José J. Escarce and Lorenzo Rocco

12828: Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship

Silvia Lübbecke and Wendelin Schnedler

12827: Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines

Michael Abrigo, Timothy Halliday and Teresa Molina

12826: Is 'First in Family' a Good Indicator for Widening University Participation?

Anna Adamecz-Völgyi, Morag Henderson and Nikki Shure

12825: New Evidence on Disability Benefit Claims in the UK: The Role of Health and the Local Labour Market

Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

12824: Connecting Disadvantaged Communities to Work and Higher Education Opportunities: Evidence from Public Transportation Penetration to Arab Towns in Israel

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot

12823: Income Volatility, Health and Well-Being

Amelie Adeline, Ismael Choinière Crèvecoeur, Raquel Fonseca and Pierre-Carl Michaud

12822: Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Hai-Anh Dang and Paolo Verme

12821: Firms' Wage Structures, Workers' Fairness Perceptions, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Jens Mohrenweiser and Christian Pfeifer

12820: Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior

Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella

12819: Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health

D. Mark Anderson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa and Joseph J. Sabia

12818: The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

Francesco Amodio, Giorgio Chiovelli and Sebastian Hohmann

12817: Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

Luca Corazzini, Christopher Cotton and Tommaso Reggiani

12816: Studying More to Vote Less: Education and Voter Turnout in Italy

Elona Harka and Lorenzo Rocco

12815: Social Security Expansion and Neighborhood Cohesion: Evidence from Community-Living Older Adults in China

Elizabeth Bradley, Xi Chen and Gaojie Tang

12814: Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang, Masako Hiraga and Cuong Nguyen

12813: Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

12812: The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality: Evidence from Canada

Guy Lacroix, Francois Laliberté-Auger, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Daniel Parent

12811: Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Stephen Jenkins

12810: Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being

Stephen Jenkins

12809: Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Thomas Breda, Alex Bryson and John Forth

12808: Lessons from Behavioral Economics to Improve Treatment Adherence in Parenting Programs: An Application to SMS

Nicolas Ajzenman and Florencia Lopez Boo

12807: Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students

Jonathan Schulz, Uwe Sunde, Petra Thiemann and Christian Thöni

12806: Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining

Marianna Belloc, Paolo Naticchioni and Claudia Vittori

12805: Individual and Market-Level Effects of UI Policies: Evidence from Missouri

Fatih Karahan, Kurt Mitman and Brendan Moore

12804: Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China

Yi Fan, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang