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12458: Practical Significance, Meta-Analysis and the Credibility of Economics

T. Stanley and Chris Doucouliagos

12457: From Citizen's Rights to Civic Responsibilities

Lucas Ronconi

12456: The Effects of Stepwise Minimum Legal Drinking Age Legislation on Mortality: Evidence from Germany

Raffael Kamalow and Thomas Siedler

12455: High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School

Pierre Mouganie and Yaojing Wang

12454: Does Stimulating Physical Activity Affect School Performance?

Bart Golsteyn, Maria W. J. Jansen, Dave H. H. Van Kann and Annelore Verhagen

12453: Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms

Iga Magda and Katarzyna Sałach-Dróżdż

12452: Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?

Vikesh Amin, Jere Behrman, Jason Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Hans-Peter Kohler

12451: Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

12450: Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel

12449: Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All?

Nicola Gagliardi, Benoît Mahy and Francois Rycx

12448: Developmental Origins of Health Inequality

Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason and Stavros Poupakis

12447: Training, Soft Skills and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria Prada, Graciana Rucci and Sergio Urzua

12446: Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka and Timo Vogelsang

12445: Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?

Giulio Bosio and Federica Origo

12444: Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance

Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer and Philipp K. Seegers

12443: Publication, Compensation, and the Public Affairs Discount: Does Gender Play a Role?

Lori Taylor, Kalena E. Cortes and Travis C. Hearn

12442: Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Ronald Lee

12441: Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment

Paolo Martellini, Guido Menzio and Ludo Visschers

12440: From Ultima Ratio to Mutual Consent: The Effects of Changing Employment Protection Doctrine

Cyprien Batut and Eric Maurin

12439: Widening the High School Curriculum to Include Soft Skill Training: Impacts on Health, Behaviour, Emotional Wellbeing and Occupational Aspirations

Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire

12438: Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau and Lutz Bellmann

12437: Rank Incentives and Social Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Loretti Dobrescu, Marco Faravelli, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Alberto Motta

12436: Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math

Thomas Breda, Elyès Jouini and Clotilde Napp

12435: Three Revolutions of the Modern Era

Richard Easterlin

12434: Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline

Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs and Guy Michaels

12433: Skill Complementarity in Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Andrey Stoyanov and Nick Zubanov

12432: Child Socio-Emotional Skills: The Role of Parental Inputs

Gloria Moroni, Cheti Nicoletti and Emma Tominey

12431: What Do Student Jobs on Graduate CVs Signal to Employers?

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Laure Cuypers, Marijke De Couck, Brecht Neyt, Hannah Van Borm and Stijn Baert

12430: The Causes and Consequences of Early-Adult Unemployment: Evidence from Cohort Data

Andrew Clark and Anthony Lepinteur

12429: Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes

Valerie Bostwick, Stefanie Fischer and Matthew Lang

12428: Digitalization and the Future of Work: Macroeconomic Consequences

Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

12427: The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating

Diane Alexander and Hannes Schwandt

12426: The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income

Bryan Stuart

12425: Is There a Business Cycle Effect on the Incidence of Dual Job Holding?

Chung Choe, Ronald Oaxaca and Francesco Renna

12424: Complementarities between Labour Market Institutions and Their Causal Impact on Youth Labour Market Outcomes

Shane Niall O'Higgins and Giovanni Pica

12423: On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion

Oded Stark

12422: Growing into Relative Income Poverty: Urban China 1988 to 2013

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

12421: The Impact of Family Co-Residence and Childcare on Children's Cognitive Skill

Lanfang Deng, Haizheng Li and Zhiqiang Liu

12420: Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being

Serena Canaan

12419: The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking

Serena Canaan

12418: Labor Income Share Dynamics with Variable Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

12417: The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Outcomes

Breno Braga, Fredric Blavin and Anuj Gangopadhyaya

12416: When Behavioral Barriers Are Too High or Low: How Timing Matters for Parenting Interventions

Kalena E. Cortes, Hans Fricke, Susanna Loeb, David S. Song and Ben York

12415: Female Science Advisors and the STEM Gender Gap

Serena Canaan and Pierre Mouganie

12414: Expertise and Independence on Governing Boards: Evidence from School Districts

Ying Shi and John Singleton

12413: Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness

Annie Laurie Hines and Giovanni Peri

12412: Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia

Dany Bahar, Cem Ozguzel, Andreas Hauptmann and Hillel Rapoport

12411: Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?

Jeffrey Denning, Eric R. Eide and Merrill Warnick

12410: Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?

Charles Brown and Daniel Hamermesh

12409: Trainspotting: 'Good Jobs', Training and Skilled Immigration

Andrew Mountford and Jonathan Wadsworth

12408: Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

Giovanni Dosi, Mariacristina Piva, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli

12407: The Impact of Horizontal Job-Education Mismatches on the Earnings of Recent University Graduates in Russia

Victor Rudakov, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro Teixeira and Sergey Roshchin

12406: DIY or Ask Someone Nice?

Steven Bosworth, Sophie Clot and Marina Della Giusta

12405: Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK

Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Sarah Jewell and Francesca Bettio

12404: Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time

Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga and Markus Grabka

12403: The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Chiara Monfardini

12402: Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration

William Cochrane and Jacques Poot

12401: Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Fredrik W. Andersson, Henrik Jordahl and Jens Josephson

12400: How Effective Are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data

Daniel Kühnle

12399: Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy

Alois Stutzer, Michael Baltensperger and Armando Meier

12398: Business Culture: The Role of Personal and Impersonal Business Relationships on Market Efficiency

Manuel Munoz-Herrera and Ernesto Reuben

12397: Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?

Karen Mumford and Cristina Sechel

12396: Neighbourhood and School Poverty Simultaneously Predicting Educational Achievement, Taking into Account Timing and Duration of Exposure

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tom Kleinepier and Maarten van Ham

12395: Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?

Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman and Marie Claire Villeval

12394: Risk-Adjusted Returns to Education

Judith Delaney

12393: Financial Crises and Liberalization: Progress or Reversals?

Orkun Saka, Nauro Campos, Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji and Angelo Martelli

12392: Questioning the Stereotype of the "Malingering Bureaucrat": Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany

Stephanie Prümer and Claus Schnabel

12391: Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

12390: The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

12389: Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Timothy Hatton

12388: Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2017

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

12387: Sufficient Statistics for Frictional Wage Dispersion and Growth

Rune Vejlin and Gregory Veramendi

12386: When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health

Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater

12385: Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development

Dong Frank Wu and Friedrich Schneider

12384: The Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment: Evidence from France

Pierre Cahuc, Franck Malherbet and Julien Prat

12383: Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care

Ayako Kondo

12382: Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport

12381: Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?

Mutlu Yuksel, Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Cahit Guven

12380: Trade and Worker Deskilling

Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin

12379: Labor Productivity during the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing

Robert Hart

12378: Testing the Reference-Dependent Model: A Laboratory Search Experiment

Takahiro Miura, Keigo Inukai and Masaru Sasaki

12377: Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

12376: An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions

Brian A. Bourquard and Steven Y. Wu

12375: Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

12374: Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China

Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

12373: Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules

Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré and Annalisa Luporini

12372: Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China

Teevrat Garg, Matthew Gibson and Fanglin Sun

12371: Culture, Gender, and Math: A Revisitation

Brindusa Anghel, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

12370: Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind

Jackline Wahba and Chuhong Wang

12369: What Do We Really Know about the Employment Effects of the UK's National Minimum Wage?

Mike Brewer, Thomas Crossley and Federico Zilio

12368: Who Is in Favor of Immigration

Gil Epstein and Shirit Katav-Herz

12367: Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

12366: A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otavio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet and Steven Dieterle

12365: Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries?

Kurt Mitman and Stanislav Rabinovich

12364: Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012: An Analysis by Gender

Barbara M. Fraumeni and Michael S. Christian

12363: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

James Heckman and Ganesh Karapakula

12362: The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference

James Heckman and Ganesh Karapakula

12361: Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski and Grzegorz Kosiorowski

12360: Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change

Raquel Fernández, Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo

12359: Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption

Dimitris Georgarakos and Konstantinos Tatsiramos