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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

12621: Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity

Harald Dale-Olsen and Henning Finseraas

12620: The Role of Culture on Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Turkey

Pelin Akyol and Cagla Okten

12619: Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era

John Winters, Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire and Shruti Sengupta

12618: Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring

Ali Fakih and Pascal Ghazalian

12617: The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workplace Absenteeism of Overweight and Obese Workers

Ethan Grumstrup, Md. Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Olga Shapoval

12616: Parents' Marital Status, Psychological Counseling and Dishonest Kindergarten Children: An Experimental Study

Yossef Tobol and Gideon Yaniv

12615: Incentives to Identify: A Comment

Francisca Antman and Brian Duncan

12614: Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust

Luyi Han and John Winters

12613: The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Secondary School Absences

Jing Liu, Monica Lee and Seth Gershenson

12612: Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues

Laura Barbieri, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

12611: Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?

Martin Abel

12610: The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors

Enrico Moretti

12609: Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Vidhya Soundararajan

12608: Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium

Joni Hersch

12607: Entrepreneurial Persistence beyond Survival: Measurement and Determinants

Marco Caliendo, Maximilian Göthner and Martin Weißenberger

12606: Minimum Wages and the Health and Access to Care of Immigrants' Children

Susan L. Averett, Julie Smith and Yang Wang

12605: Residential Noise Exposure and Health: Evidence from Aviation Noise and Birth Outcomes

Laura M. Argys, Susan L. Averett and Muzhe Yang

12604: Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations

Emanuele Ciani, Adeline Delavande, Ben Etheridge and Marco Francesconi

12603: Temperature and Mental Health: Evidence from the Spectrum of Mental Health Outcomes

Jamie Mullins and Corey White

12602: The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?

Wim Naudé

12601: Delayed Graduation and University Dropout: A Review of Theoretical Approaches

Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone and Francesco Pastore

12600: Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru

Cristina Bellés Obrero and Maria Lombardi

12599: Locus of Control and Marital Satisfaction: Couple Perspectives Using Australian Data

Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish

12598: Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Helen Gray and Lucy Stokes

12597: Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health

Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

12596: The Consequences of Short-Time Compensation: Evidence from Japan

Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama

12595: The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Is There a Role for Work Culture?

Gabriela Galassi, David Koll and Lukas Mayr

12594: Does Integration Policy Integrate? The Employment Effects of Sweden's 2010 Reform of the Introduction Program

Haodong Qi, Nahikari Irastorza, Henrik Emilsson and Pieter Bevelander

12593: Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism

Pablo Agnese and Jana Hromcová

12592: Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets

Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves and Richard Murphy

12591: External Monitors and Score Manipulation in Italian Schools: Symptomatic Treatment or Cure?

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Marco Alberto De Benedetto and Maria De Paola

12590: Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Teresa Molina Millan, Karen Macours, John Maluccio and Luis Tejerina

12589: Does It Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment

Lajos Kossuth, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Donna Harris and Nick Chater

12588: 'First in Family' University Graduates in England

Morag Henderson, Nikki Shure and Anna Adamecz-Völgyi

12587: Why Join a Team?

David Cooper, Krista Saral and Marie Claire Villeval

12586: Performance Pay and Productivity in Health Care: Evidence from Community Health Centers

Brian Cadena and Austin Smith

12585: Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers

Andrés Hojman and Florencia Lopez Boo

12584: Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Fabrizio Colella, Rafael Lalive, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli and Mathias Thoenig

12583: Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?

Oded Stark and Łukasz Byra

12582: Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation

Anne Brenøe and Ulf Zölitz

12581: Job Vacancies, the Beveridge Curve, and Supply Shocks: The Frequency and Content of Help-Wanted Ads in Pre- and Post-Mariel Miami

Jason Anastasopoulos, George Borjas, Gavin G. Cook and Michael Lachanski

12580: What Does Leadership Look like in Schools and Does It Matter for School Performance?

Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson and David Wilkinson

12579: Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector

Idriss Fontaine, Ismael Galvez-Iniesta, Pedro Gomes and Diego Vila-Martin

12578: Working from Home and Commuting: Heterogeneity over Time, Space, and Occupations

Duco de Vos, Maarten van Ham and Evert J. Meijers

12576: Accounting for Skewed or One-Sided Measurement Error in the Dependent Variable

Daniel Millimet and Christopher Parmeter

12575: Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015 -2018 NBER CPS Extracts

Joni Hersch, Fernando Mendoza Lopez and Jennifer Bennett Shinall

12574: Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages

Gregor Jarosch, Jan Sebastian Nimczik and Isaac Sorkin

12573: Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tho Pham and Oleksandr Talavera

12572: Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle and Simon Quinn

12571: The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses

Janice Compton and Robert Pollak

12570: Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare

John Chiwuzulum Odozi and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

12569: Gender Differences in Political Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Elections

Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen O'Connell and James Reeves

12568: Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection

Elisabetta De Cao, Barry McCormick and Catia Nicodemo

12567: Interest Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in Domestic Investment: Evidence for the Euro Area

Ansgar Belke, Coletta Frenzel Baudisch and Matthias Göcke

12566: Interest Rate Hysteresis in Macroeconomic Investment under Uncertainty

Ansgar Belke and Matthias Göcke

12565: The Yen Exchange Rate and the Hollowing Out of the Japanese Industry

Ansgar Belke and Ulrich Volz

12564: Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation

Ansgar Belke and Clemens Domnick

12563: Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment

Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

12562: The Diversity of Household Assets Holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: Measurement and Determinants

Eva Sierminska and Jacques Silber

12561: Institutional Responses to Aging Populations and Economic Growth: A Panel Data Approach

Patrick M. Emerson, Shawn D. Knabb and Anca-Ioana Sirbu

12560: Better Late Than Never? How Late Completion Affects the Early Careers of Dropouts

Karsten Albæk, Rita Asplund, Erling Barth, Lena Lindahl, Marte Strøm and Pekka Vanhala

12559: Consequences of Parental Job Loss on the Family Environment and on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Plant Closures

Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

12558: Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey

Betul Akar, Pelin Akyol and Cagla Okten

12557: Raising the Overtime Premium and Reducing the Standard Workweek: Short-Run Impacts on U.S. Manufacturing

Galiya Sagyndykova and Ronald Oaxaca

12556: Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL: Short-Run and Career Consequences

Quinn Keefer and Thomas Kniesner

12555: September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants

Chunbei Wang and Magnus Lofstrom