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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

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