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12803: The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek and Krzysztof Szczygielski

12802: Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Felix Wellschmied and Emircan Yurdagul

12801: Wild Bootstrap for Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs: Obtaining Robust Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals

Yang He and Otavio Bartalotti

12800: Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Panu Poutvaara

12799: Labor in the Boardroom

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer and Jörg Heining

12798: The Effect of E-Verify Laws on Crime

Brandyn Churchill, Andrew Dickinson, Taylor Mackay and Joseph J. Sabia

12797: Hospital Closures and Short-Run Change in Ambulance Call Times

Sookti Chaudhary, Alison Davis, Kenneth Troske and SuZanne Troske

12796: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Neonatal Outcomes

Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella and Ning Zhang

12795: Productivity, Wages and Profits: Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx, Guillaume Vermeylen and Mélanie Volral

12794: Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Better Work Jordan

Raymond Robertson

12793: Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships

Bruno Crépon and Patrick Premand

12792: Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development

Lindsey Macmillan and Emma Tominey

12791: The Mental Health Effects of Retirement

Matteo Picchio and Jan C. van Ours

12790: Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms

Olga Malkova

12789: Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Marco Bertoni and Roberto Nisticò

12788: Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers

Kristiina Huttunen and Krista Riukula

12787: Climbing the Ladders of Job Satisfaction and Employees' Organizational Commitment: A Semi-Nonparametric Approach

José Vieira

12786: Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys

Abhir Kulkarni and Barry Hirsch

12785: Gender Gaps in Pay and Inter-Firm Mobility

Christian Bredemeier

12784: Greater US Gun Ownership, Lethality and Murder Rates: Analysis and Policy Proposals

Maurice Schiff

12783: Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Daniel I. Rees and Tianyi Wang

12782: Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions

David Masclet and David Dickinson

12781: Shaking Criminal Incentives

Yu Aoki and Theodore Koutmeridis

12780: Parental Labour Supply Responses to the Abolition of Day Care Fees

Mathias Huebener, Astrid Pape and Katharina Spiess

12779: The Impact of Medicaid on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population: Evidence from COFA Migrants

Timothy Halliday, Randall K. Q. Akee, Tetine Sentell, Megan Inada and Jill Miyamura

12778: The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes

Brecht Neyt, Dieter Verhaest and Stijn Baert

12777: Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye and Mona Said

12776: Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction

Erica Groshen and Harry Holzer

12775: Decomposing Employment Trends of Disabled Workers

Pierre Koning and Heike Vethaak

12774: Birth Order, Parental Health Investment, and Health in Childhood

Gerald Pruckner, Nicole Schneeweis, Thomas Schober and Martina Zweimüller

12773: Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform

Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

12772: Why Don't We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment among College Students

Mallory Avery, Osea Giuntella and Peiran Jiao

12771: Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility

Nezih Guner, Ezgi Kaya and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

12770: Skills, Tasks, and Complexity

Hans Gersbach and Samuel Schmassmann

12769: The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers

Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John van Reenen

12768: Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

12767: Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments

Arnd Kölling and Claus Schnabel

12766: A New Strategy to Identify Causal Relationships: Estimating a Binding Average Treatment Effect

Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon Polachek

12765: Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Jordy Meekes and Wolter Hassink

12764: Early Life Environments and Frailty in Old Age among Chinese Older Adults

Yaxi Li, Qian-Li Xue, Michelle C. Odden, Xi Chen and Chenkai Wu

12763: Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity

Giorgio Brunello, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

12762: Money for Something: Braided Funding and the Structure and Output of Research Groups

Russell J. Funk, Britta Glennon, Julia Lane, Raviv Murciano-Goroff and Matthew Ross

12761: Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova and Olga Popova

12760: The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Karen Kopecky

12759: Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel, Johannes Hermle and Christopher Roth

12758: Immigrant Examination Behavior

Gil Epstein and Shahar Sansani

12757: Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)

James Elwell, Kevin Corinth and Richard Burkhauser

12756: Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors

Oded Stark

12755: Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo and Stefan Tübbicke

12754: Does the Implementation of the Schengen Agreement Boost Cross-Border Commuting? Evidence from Switzerland

Angela Parenti and Cristina Tealdi

12753: Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

James Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka and Tim Kautz

12752: Social Norms in Networks

Philip Ushchev and Yves Zenou

12751: Assimilation Patterns in Cities

Yasuhiro Sato and Yves Zenou

12750: Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ransom

12749: Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann and Stefan Wolter

12748: Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD

Chiara Ardito, Fabio Berton and Lia Pacelli

12747: The Effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction Program on Schooling

Marco Bertoni, Quynh Huynh and Lorenzo Rocco

12746: Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment

Brecht Neyt, Stijn Baert and Jana Vynckier

12745: Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Jennifer Heissel, Claudia Persico and David Simon

12744: The Effect of Increasing the Early Retirement Age on Savings Behavior Before Retirement

Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer-Weckemann and Han Ye

12743: Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission

Thomas Hintermaier and Winfried Koeniger

12742: What Makes an Employer?

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

12741: Settlement Location Shapes Refugee Integration: Evidence from Post-War Germany

Sebastian Braun and Nadja Dwenger

12740: The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States: A Latent Variables Analysis

Timothy Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder and Ashley Wong

12739: Advisor Value-Added and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomly Assigned College Advisors

Serena Canaan, Antoine Deeb and Pierre Mouganie

12738: Who Said or What Said? Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists

Mohsen Javdani and Ha-Joon Chang

12737: Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms

Mohsen Javdani and Brian Krauth

12736: Visible Minorities and Job Mobility: Evidence from a Workplace Panel Survey

Mohsen Javdani

12735: Information Provision and Postgraduate Studies

Jan Berkes, Frauke Peter, Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt

12734: Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland: New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Michał Brzeziński, Michal Myck and Mateusz Najsztub

12733: School Tracking and Mental Health

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen and Alexandra Roulet

12732: Workplace Positive Actions, Trans People's Self-Esteem and Human Resources' Evaluations

Vasiliki Bozani, Nick Drydakis, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Benjamin Harvey and Anna Paraskevopoulou

12731: How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Kurt Lavetti, Thomas DeLeire and Nicolas Ziebarth

12730: The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences

Giulio Zanella and Marina M. Bellani

12729: Proportional Representation, Political Responsiveness and Child Mortality

Christina Gathmann

12728: The Economics of Mass Shootings

Abel Brodeur and Hasin Yousaf

12727: Baumol versus Engel: Accounting for 100 years (1885-1985) of Structural Transformation in Japan

Kyoji Fukao and Saumik Paul

12726: Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking

Ulf Rinne and Hendrik Sonnabend

12725: The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958

Heather Joshi, Alex Bryson, David Wilkinson and Kelly Ward

12724: Gender Gaps in Education

Graziella Bertocchi and Monica Bozzano

12723: Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Literature Review

Simon Amez and Stijn Baert

12722: The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Involvement with the Criminal Justice System: The Case of California's Proposition 47

Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin and Steven Raphael

12721: Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo

12720: A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Paul Frijters, Andrew Clark, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard

12719: Relative Deprivation in Tanzania

Jean-Marc Bédhat Atsebi and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

12718: Having It All, for All: Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

12717: Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?

Jamie Mullins and Corey White

12716: People versus Machines in the UK: Minimum Wages, Labor Reallocation and Automatable Jobs

Grace Lordan

12715: New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility

Italo Colantone, Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

12714: The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages

Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni and Francesco Vona

12713: The Economic Benefits of Volunteering and Social Class

Robert Sauer, John Wilson and Noemi Mantovan

12712: Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation: New Results from Mixed Methods

Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti and Andrea Ricci

12711: Attainment and Gender Equality in Higher Education: Evidence from a Large Scale Expansion

Asena Caner, Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu and Cagla Okten

12710: Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences

Anne Brenøe and Thomas Epper

12709: Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration

Bryan Stuart and Evan J. Taylor

12708: 'O Youth and Beauty:' Children's Looks and Children's Cognitive Development

Daniel Hamermesh, Rachel A. Gordon and Robert Crosnoe

12707: Gender Differences in the Effect of Employee-Manager Friendships on Salary Dynamics in CPA Firms

Yossef Tobol, Ronen Bar-El, Yuval Arbel and Ofer Azar

12706: Wage Discrimination Based on the Country of Birth: Do Tenure and Product Market Competition Matter?

Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

12705: The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education

Valentine Jacobs, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

12704: New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan, Jeffrey Grogger, Ana Sofia Leon and Stephen Trejo