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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

13003: Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

Mario Bossler and Thorsten Schank

13002: Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?

Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe, Leda Inga and Bruno Van der Linden

13001: The Determinants of China's International Portfolio Equity Allocations

Isha Agarwal, Grace Gu and Eswar Prasad

13000: Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok and Eswar Prasad

12999: The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth

Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien and Mette Gørtz

12998: Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity

Katharina Lima de Miranda and Dennis J. Snower

12997: State Medicaid Expansion and the Self-Employed

Jun Yeong Lee and John Winters

12996: Class Size Effects in Higher Education: Differences across STEM and Non-STEM Fields

Elif Kara, Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

12995: Who Benefits from General Knowledge?

Cristina Bellés Obrero and Emma Duchini

12994: Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport

12993: Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Peter Eibich and Thomas Siedler

12992: Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction

Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter and Roberto Hernán González

12991: Fertility Decisions and Employment Protection: The Unintended Consequences of the Italian Jobs Act

Maria De Paola, Roberto Nisticò and Vincenzo Scoppa

12990: Between Firm Changes in Earnings Inequality: The Dominant Role of Industry Effects

John Haltiwanger and James Spletzer

12989: Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions

Alexander Paul, Dorthe Bleses and Michael Rosholm

12988: Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal

Catalina Herrera-Almanza and David Sahn

12987: The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior

Joan Costa-Font, Paola Giuliano and Berkay Özcan

12986: The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders

Ziting Wu, Xi Chen, Guoxing Li, Lin Tian, Zhan Wang, Xiuqin Xiong, Chuan Yang, Zijun Zhou and Xiaochuan Pan

12985: Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries

Lee Crawfurd and Todd Pugatch

12984: Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective

Artjoms Ivlevs

12983: Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College

Cher H Li and Basit Zafar

12982: Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

Andrés Dean, Sebastian Fleitas and Mariana Zerpa

12981: Employer Provided Training in Europe: Determinants and Obstacles

Giorgio Brunello and Patricia Wruuck

12980: Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use

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

12979: Forward Guidance and Household Expectations

Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

12978: Personal Belief Exemptions for School-Entry Vaccinations, Vaccination Rates, and Academic Achievement

Nicole L. Hair, Anja Gruber and Carly Urban

12977: Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Peter Siminski and Rhiannon Yetsenga

12976: Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States

Giovanni Peri and Zachariah Rutledge

12975: Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship

Kusum Mundra and Fernando Rios-Avila

12974: Output Costs of Education and Skill Mismatch

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Gomes and Thepthida Sopraseuth

12973: The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968

Price Fishback and Andrew Seltzer

12972: Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – a Pseudo-Panel Study

Søren Jensen and Peder Pedersen

12971: Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey and Ludger Woessmann

12970: Do Financial Constraints Affect the Composition of Workers in a Firm?

Robert Breunig, Diana Hourani, Sasan Bakhtiari and Elisabetta Magnani

12969: Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size

Jaime Arellano-Bover

12968: The Dependent Coverage Mandate Took a Bite Out of Crime

Zachary Fone, Andrew Friedson, Brandy Lipton and Joseph J. Sabia

12967: Robots and the Origin of Their Labour-Saving Impact

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli

12966: Consumer Debt and Default: A Macro Perspective

Florian Exler and Michele Tertilt

12965: Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Claudia Persico

12964: Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development: Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

David E. Bloom, Alexander Khoury, Vadim Kufenko and Klaus Prettner

12963: Going Beyond GDP with a Parsimonious Indicator: Inequality-Adjusted Healthy Lifetime Income

David E. Bloom, Victoria Y. Fan, Vadim Kufenko, Osondu Ogbuoji, Klaus Prettner and Gavin Yamey

12962: The Future of Work: Challenges for Job Creation Due to Global Demographic Change and Automation

Ana Lucia Abeliansky, Eda Algur, David E. Bloom and Klaus Prettner

12961: Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency

Pablo de Pedraza, Martin Guzi and Kea Tijdens

12960: The Demand for Interns

David Jaeger, John M. Nunley, Richard Seals and Eric J. Wilbrandt

12959: Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Rosetta Lombardo, Valeria Pupo and Vincenzo Scoppa

12958: Hope for the Family: The Effects of College Costs on Maternal Labor Supply

Breno Braga and Olga Malkova

12957: Efficiency Versus Equity in the Provision of In-Kind Benefits: Evidence from Cost Containment in the California WIC Program

Katherine Meckel, Maya Rossin-Slater and Lindsey Uniat