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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

12703: Explaining the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction

Paul Redmond and Seamus McGuinness

12702: You’re the One That I Want! Public Employment and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Pedro Gomes and Zoe Kuehn

12701: Foundations of the Rank-Dependent Probability Weighting Function

Matthew Rablen

12700: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants: New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country

Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Stefanie Schurer

12699: Taxing Billionaires: Estate Taxes and the Geographical Location of the Ultra-Wealthy

Enrico Moretti and Daniel Wilson

12698: Does a Day Lost Equal Dollars Saved? The Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on School District Expenditures

Paul N. Thompson

12697: Excess Churn in Integrated Labor Markets

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

12696: Passports for Sale: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation in a Meta-Club

Kai Konrad and Ray Rees

12695: Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction

Nick Drydakis

12694: Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data

Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Marco Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen and William Siebert

12693: Stay or Flee? Probability versus Severity of Punishment in Hit-And-Run Accidents

Stefano Castriota and Mirco Tonin

12692: Culture or Context? Revisiting the Role of Culture in Shaping Economic Outcomes

Wifag Adnan

12691: The Pathways to College

Lisha Agarwal, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

12690: Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Martin Weissenberger

12689: The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Jongkwan Lee, Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov

12688: Scientifico! like Dad: On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education in Italy

Diana Chise, Margherita Fort and Chiara Monfardini

12687: Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

Matthew Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida and Marcella Veronesi

12686: Disability and Multi-Dimensional Quality of Life: A Capability Approach to Health Status Assessment

Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Anthony Culyer and Ronald Smith

12685: What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal and Infant Health

Jiyoon Kim, Ajin Lee and Maya Rossin-Slater

12684: Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?

Patrick Puhani and Philip Yang

12683: Ecosystems and Human Health: The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia

Teevrat Garg

12682: Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012: A Panel Multinomial Analysis

Ying-Min Kuo and Mehtabul Azam

12681: Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India

Mehtabul Azam and Luyi Han

12680: Untimely Destruction: Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Evgenij Komarov

12679: Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara (née David) and Christina Vonnahme

12678: Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

12677: Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico

Osea Giuntella, Matthias Rieger and Lorenzo Rotunno

12676: Returns to Teaching Repetition - The Effect of Short-Term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes

Harold E. Cuffe, Jan Feld and O’Grady, Trevor

12675: Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James and Jonathan Spiteri

12674: Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-SES Mothers

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James, Martina Vecchi and Nicolai Vitt

12673: A Fresh Look at the Health-Wealth Correlation: A Case Study of European Countries

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman and Tzahi Neuman

12672: The Value of Information in Technology Adoption

Asad Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou and Xin Zhang

12671: Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has It Fallen over Time?

Sandip Datta and Geeta Kingdon

12670: Works Councils and Performance Appraisals

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka and Krystina Titz

12669: Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs

Asbjørn Goul Andersen, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

12668: Why Variable-Population Social Orderings Cannot Escape the Repugnant Conclusion: Proofs and Implications

Dean Spears and Mark Budolfson

12667: Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sebastian Butschek, Roberto González Amor, Patrick Kampkötter and Dirk Sliwka

12666: What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu and Kanika Mahajan

12665: Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?

Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John Giles and Harold Alderman

12663: Job Insecurity, Debt Burdens and Individual Health

Maite Blázquez Cuesta, Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Ana Moro-Egido

12662: The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy

Francesco Pastore

12661: Changing Returns to Occupational Skill and Women's Wages

Felix Schran

12660: Locational Choice and Spatial Wage Inequality

Felix Schran