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12956: Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia

Fatima Najeeb, Matias Morales and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

12955: The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia

Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Matias Morales

12954: Higher Education Expansion, the Hukou System, and Returns to Education in China

Bin Huang and Yu Zhu

12953: Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments

Gaurab Aryal, Manudeep Bhuller and Fabian Lange

12952: Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans

Francisca Antman, Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

12951: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power

Sabien Dobbelaere and Quint Wiersma

12950: Decomposing US Income Inequality à La Shapley: Race Matters, but Gender Too

Frédéric Chantreuil, Kévin Fourrey, Isabelle Lebon and Therese Rebiere

12949: Unintended Consequences: Can the Rise of the Educated Class Explain the Revival of Protectionism?

Paolo Giordani and Fabio Mariani

12948: Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo

Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari and Roberta Ziparo

12947: Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey

Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari and Bernard Fortin

12946: Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking from a Natural Experiment

René Böheim, Mario Lackner and Wilhelm Wagner

12945: Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City

Matteo Bobba and Veronica Frisancho

12944: Vulnerable Boys: Short-Term and Long-Term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage

Ziteng Lei and Shelly Lundberg

12943: Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran

12942: Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Sabrina T. Howell and J. David Brown

12941: Former Homeland Areas and Unemployment in South Africa: A Decomposition Approach

Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura and Gibson Mudiriza

12940: Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India

Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martínez and Hai-Anh Dang

12939: Vaccines at Work

Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera and Adrian Chadi

12938: Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence

Miloš Fišar, Tommaso Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini and Jiří Špalek

12937: The Effects of Home Visiting on Mother-Child Interactions: Evidence from a Randomised Trial Using Dynamic Micro-Level Data

Gabriella Conti, Stavros Poupakis, Malte Sandner and Sören Kliem

12936: Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review

Sasan Bakhtiari, Robert Breunig, Elisabetta Magnani and Yinjunjie (Jacquelyn Zhang

12935: Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers

Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich and Aline Zucco

12934: Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

12933: Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

12932: Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms

Gunes Gokmen, Tommaso Nannicini, Massimiliano Onorato and Chris Papageorgiou

12931: The Skill-Specific Impact of Past and Projected Occupational Decline

Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

12930: Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence

Ünal Seven and Semih Tumen

12929: Populism, Political Risk and the Economy: Lessons from Italy

Pierluigi Balduzzi, Emanuele Brancati, Marco Brianti and Fabio Schiantarelli

12928: Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada

Georges Bresson, Guy Lacroix and Mohammad Arshad Rahman

12927: The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover: Evidence from an Admission Reform

Krzysztof Karbownik

12926: Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye and Fiona Tregenna

12925: Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini and Andis Sofianos

12924: The Health Toll of Import Competition

Jerome Adda and Yarine Fawaz

12923: Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?

Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova and Arnau Valladares-Esteban

12922: Policy Evaluation Using Causal Inference Methods

Denis Fougere and Nicolas Jacquemet

12921: Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women

Yael Goldfarb and Shoshana Neuman

12920: VC - A Method For Estimating Time-Varying Coefficients in Linear Models

Ekkehart Schlicht

12919: The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

Suparee Boonmanunt and Stephan Meier

12918: Pension Reform and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off: Impacts of Removing an Early Retirement Subsidy

Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

12917: The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Temperature Extremes on Birth Outcomes

Xi Chen, Chih Ming Tan, Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang

12916: Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers: A Cross-Country Analysis

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

12915: Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults

Christopher S. Carpenter and Dario Sansone

12914: The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income

Paul Redmond, Karina Doorley and Seamus McGuinness

12913: The Macroeconomics of Automation: Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis

Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten, Henry Siu and Yaniv Yedid-Levi

12912: The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

Nickolas Gagnon, Kristof Bosmans and Arno Riedl

12911: Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States

Francisco Pino and Jordi Vidal-Robert

12910: On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate

Oded Stark, Łukasz Byra and Grzegorz Kosiorowski

12909: Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach

Bernard van Praag and J. Peter Hop

12908: Socioeconomic Decline and Death: Midlife Impacts of Graduating in a Recession

Hannes Schwandt and Till von Wachter

12907: When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Margaretha Buurman, Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur and Robin Zoutenbier

12906: Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test

Luca Piccoli and Silvia Tiezzi

12905: When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection

Tommaso Reggiani and Rainer Rilke

12904: Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

Samuel Berlinski, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Luca Flabbi and Juan David Martin

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