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13372: Evidence for a Two-Women Quota in University Departments across Disciplines

Lena Janys

13371: Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann

13370: Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors

Tyler Ransom

13369: Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers

Hyejin Ku

13368: The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19

Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer and Bernhard Wittek

13367: Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19

Matthew Cole, Ceren Ozgen and Eric Strobl

13366: Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries

Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Julian C. Jamison and Nicholas Papageorge

13365: On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus: A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets

Abir Abid and Christophe Rault

13364: Breadth of University Curriculum and Labor Market Outcomes

Kelvin Seah, Jessica Pan and Poh Lin Tan

13363: Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them

Aziz Atamanov, Sharad Tandon, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena

13362: Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence: Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce It?

Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu and Cagla Okten

13361: Stress Test: Examining the Evolution of Teachers' Mental Health Over Time

Stephen Holt, Rui Wang and Seth Gershenson

13360: Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

13359: What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins

13358: The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia

Mikhail Ananyev, Thomas Dohmen and Hartmut Lehmann

13357: Econometric Models of Fertility

Alfonso Miranda and Pravin Trivedi

13356: Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality with Changes in College Selectivity Using a Behavioral Model

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

13355: Does Policy Communication during COVID-19 Work?

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

13354: Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore

Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh and Xuan Zhang

13353: The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Moritz Kuhn and Michele Tertilt

13352: Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey

Hai-Anh Dang, Toan Huynh and Manh Hung Nguyen

13351: The Political Scar of Epidemics

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka

13350: The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Bernhardt and Phanindra V. Wunnava

13349: Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States

Maddalena Davoli and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

13348: Italian Families in the 21st Century: Gender Gaps in Time Use and Their Evolution

Francesca Barigozzi, Cesare Di Timoteo and Chiara Monfardini

13347: First Impressions: The Case of Teacher Racial Bias

Marcos A. Rangel and Ying Shi

13346: Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program

James Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu and Jin Zhou

13345: Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect

Matthias Stefan, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Sutter and Markus Walzl

13344: Reveal It or Conceal It: On the Value of Second Opinions in a Low-Entry-Barriers Credence Goods Market

Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer and Matthias Sutter

13343: Family Background and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores

Georg Graetz, Björn Öckert and Oskar Skans

13342: Are Personality Traits Really Fixed and Does It Matter?

Steven Stillman and Malathi Velamuri

13341: The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

David Card, Andrew Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas and Zhuan Pei

13340: Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon

13339: Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

Eirini Andriopoulou, Eleni Kanavitsa and Panos Tsakloglou

13338: The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk and Kirsten Winkel

13337: Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

13336: The Gender Dimension of Occupational Exposure to Contagion in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska and Iga Magda

13335: Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Epidemic in France

Simone Bertoli, Lucas Guichard and Francesca Marchetta

13334: COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers

Seung Jin Cho, Jun Yeong Lee and John Winters

13333: Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nicholas Papageorge, Matthew V. Zahn, Michèle Belot, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison and Egon Tripodi

13332: COVID-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power

Louis-Philippe Beland, Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad and Derek Mikola

13331: Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut

Andrew Johnston and Alexandre Mas

13330: The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market

Audrey Guo and Andrew Johnston

13329: In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples

Christina Gathmann, Kristiina Huttunen, Laura Jernström, Lauri Sääksvuori and Robin Stitzing

13328: Taxation in Matching Markets

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Kominers

13327: Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018

Guyonne Kalb and Jordy Meekes

13326: Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

13325: Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

Matthias Doepke and Ruben Gaetani

13324: Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Marios Michaelides, Peter Mueser and Jeffrey Smith

13323: Gender Gaps in Competition: New Experimental Evidence from UK Professionals

Sophie Clot, Marina Della Giusta and Giovanni Razzu

13322: The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans

Cecily Josten and Grace Lordan

13321: Optimal Incentives to Give

Marco Castillo and Ragan Petrie

13320: Negative Childhood Experiences and Risk Aversion: Evidence from Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Marco Castillo

13319: Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach

Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld, Johannes Rode and Klaus Wälde

13318: The Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from Northern Ireland?

Melanie K. Jones and Ezgi Kaya

13317: The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France

Antoine Bozio, Thomas Breda and Malka Guillot

13316: Timing is Everything when Fighting a Pandemic: COVID-19 Mortality in Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Noelia Rivera Garrido and Almudena Sevilla

13315: Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy

Hai-Anh Dang and Long T. Giang

13314: Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a COVID-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dhaval Dave, Andrew Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols and Joseph J. Sabia

13313: Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM

Sofoklis Goulas, Silvia Griselda and Rigissa Megalokonomou

13312: Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

13311: The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Robert Fairlie

13310: Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries

Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch, Michaela Slotwinski and Nils Wehrhöfer

13309: Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-Transfer Rules

Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

13308: Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte and Nicolas Ziebarth

13307: Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Ludo Visschers

13306: Should We Cheer Together? Gender Differences in Instantaneous Well-Being during Joint and Solo Activities

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

13305: Centralized Admission Systems and School Segregation: Evidence from a National Reform

Macarena Kutscher, Shanjukta Nath and Sergio Urzua

13304: Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans

Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin

13303: Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach

Tomáš Jagelka

13302: Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Almudena Sevilla and Sarah Smith

13301: A Human Capital Index for the Italian Provinces

Alessandra Pasquini and Furio Rosati

13300: The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Simon Woodcock

13299: How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

13298: Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages

Kashif Mansoor and Donal O'Neill

13297: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Olivier Bargain and Ulugbek Aminjonov

13296: Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital

Gabriella Conti, Mark Hanson, Hazel Inskip, Sarah Crozier, Cyrus Cooper and Keith Godfrey

13295: Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India

Arnab Basu, Tsenguunjav Byambasuren, Nancy Chau and Neha Khanna

13294: Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Robert Valletta

13293: Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Bertrand Verheyden

13292: Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers

Lanlin Ding, Andrew Jones and Peng Nie

13291: Conceptualizing Grade Inflation

Adam Tyner and Seth Gershenson

13290: A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

Antonio Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee and Edson Severnini

13289: A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain

Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska and David Wilkinson

13288: Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation

Nicolas Hérault and Guyonne Kalb

13287: Bias and Careers: Evidence from the Aid Effectiveness Literature

Chris Doucouliagos, Thomas Hinz and Katarina Zigova

13286: Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2018

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

13285: Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

13284: The Impact of Inflation Targeting on Inflation and Growth: How Robust Is the Evidence?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Chun Yee Wong

13283: Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights

Tymon Słoczyński

13282: COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data

Louis-Philippe Beland, Abel Brodeur and Taylor Wright

13281: EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Jiri Branka

13280: The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti and Breno Sampaio

13279: The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

13278: COVID-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries

Umut Oguzoglu

13277: The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment

George Borjas and Hugh Cassidy

13276: Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work: Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey

Meltem Dayioglu and Murat Kırdar

13275: Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Gozde Corekcioglu, Marco Francesconi and Astrid Kunze

13274: Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir and Mark Wohar

13273: Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption

Marco Caliendo and Juliane Hennecke