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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

12659: Are Political and Economic Integration Intertwined?

Bernt Bratsberg, Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini and Anna Rosso

12658: Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being

Alicia Adsera, Francesca Dalla Pozza, Sergei Guriev, Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp and Elena Nikolova

12657: Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap

Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, John Forth and Alex Bryson

12656: Making Use of Home Equity: The Potential of Housing Wealth to Enhance Retirement Security

Jorge Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso and Robert Holzmann

12655: Life Cycle Saving and Dissaving Revisited across Three-Tiered Income Groups: Starting Hypotheses, Refinement through Literature Review, and Ideas for Empirical Testing

Robert Holzmann, Mercedes Ayuso, Estefanía Alaminos and Jorge Bravo

12654: Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China

Yan Liu, Xi Chen and Zhijun Yan

12653: When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Andreea Minea and Marie-Anne Valfort

12652: The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47

Patricio Dominguez-Rivera, Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

12651: The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain

David Bell and Robert Hart

12650: Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?

Eik Swee, Haikun Zhan and Nattavudh Powdthavee

12649: Extreme Weather and Long-term Health: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites

Wang-Sheng Lee and Ben Li

12648: Parental Employment Effects of Switching from Half‐Day to Full‐Day Kindergarten: Evidence from Ontario's French Schools

Elizabeth Dhuey, Jean Eid and Christine Neill

12647: Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality

Michael Johannes Böhm, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker and Felix Schran

12646: Maternal Stress and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from an Unexpected Earthquake Swarm

Andrea Menclova and Steven Stillman

12645: Behind the Veil: The Effect of Banning the Islamic Veil in Schools

Eric Maurin and Nicolas Navarrete H.

12644: Creativity over Time and Space

Michel Serafinelli and Guido Tabellini

12643: Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy

Dominik Buttler and Eva Sierminska

12642: Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants

Effrosyni Adamopoulou and Ezgi Kaya

12641: Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra and Noelia Rivera Garrido

12640: Climate Change, Migration and Voice: An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox

Michel Beine, Ilan Noy and Christopher Parsons

12639: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration

Michel Beine and Lionel Jeusette

12638: Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Gary Pisano and Pian Shu

12637: Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski and Marcin Jakubek

12636: The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-being

Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

12635: Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Abel Brodeur and Taylor Wright

12634: Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ransom

12633: Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ransom

12632: Indoor Air Quality and Cognitive Performance

Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios and Nico Pestel

12631: Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

12630: Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants

Tobias Heidland and Philipp Wichardt

12629: A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life: Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children

Zichen Deng and Maarten Lindeboom

12628: Does Class Size Matter in Postgraduate Education?

Alessio Gaggero and Getinet Haile

12627: Hunger and Performance in the Classroom

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan

12626: Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania

Plamen Nikolov

12625: Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Raymond Montizaan

12624: Self-Employment and Migration

Samuele Giambra and David McKenzie

12623: Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration

Michał Burzyński, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier and Jaime de Melo

12622: Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective

Alois Stutzer