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12099: Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform

Agata Maida and Andrea Weber

12098: Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada

David Green and W. Craig Riddell

12097: Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants

Delia Furtado, Kerry Papps and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

12096: Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs

Eric Gibbons, Allie Greenman, Peter Norlander and Todd Sorensen

12095: Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment

Michael Clemens

12094: The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants

Elie Murard

12093: Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion

Mikael Carlsson, Iida Häkkinen Skans and Oskar Skans

12092: Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation

Mattias Engdahl, Mathilde Godard and Oskar Skans

12091: Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy Algazi and Mauricio Tejada

12090: The Elasticity of Taxable Labour Income in the Netherlands

Egbert L. W. Jongen and Maaike Stoel

12089: Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation

Yue Qiu and Aaron Sojourner

12088: Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

12087: Estimating the Potential Effects of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census

J. David Brown, Misty Heggeness, Suzanne Dorinski, Lawrence Warren and Moises Yi

12086: The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Rémi Suchon and Marie Claire Villeval

12085: Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States

Daniel Millimet, Hao Li and Punarjit Roychowdhury

12084: Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime

Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen

12083: Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

12082: Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation

Anna Bindler and Nadine Ketel

12081: lassopack: Model Selection and Prediction with Regularized Regression in Stata

Achim Ahrens, Christian Hansen and Mark Schaffer

12080: Let the Data Speak? On the Importance of Theory-Based Instrumental Variable Estimations

Volker Grossmann and Aderonke Osikominu

12079: On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications

Kurt Schmidheiny and Sebastian Siegloch

12078: The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction

Olaf Hübler

12077: Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees

12076: To Pill or Not to Pill? Access to Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Behaviour

Ana Nuevo-Chiquero and Francisco Pino

12075: Emigration and Alcohol Consumption among Migrant Household Members Staying Behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Sara Paulone and Artjoms Ivlevs

12074: Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program

Francesco Pastore and Marco Pompili

12073: Ageing and Skills: The Case of Literacy Skills

Garry Barrett and W. Craig Riddell

12072: Preschoolers' Self-Regulation, Skill Differentials, and Early Educational Outcomes

Johanna Sophie Quis, Anika Bela and Guido Heineck

12071: Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Lili Kang, Fei Peng and Yu Zhu

12070: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

12069: Timing Is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisions

Richard Patterson, Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo

12068: Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector

Saibal Kar, Biswajit Mandal, Sugata Marjit and Vivekananda Mukherjee

12067: What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies

Stephan Klasen, Janneke Pieters, Manuel Santos Silva and Le Thi Ngoc Tu

12066: The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month

Martin Halla, Chia-Lun Liu and Jin-Tan Liu

12065: Changes in Open Defecation in Rural North India: 2014-2018

Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Devashish Desphande, Payal Hathi, Avani Kapur, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Dean Spears and Diane Coffey

12064: Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector

Krishna B. Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Shanthi Nataraj and Yoon Y. Cho

12063: Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe

Terry Gregory, Anna Salomons and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

12062: Coordination of Hours within the Firm

Claudio Labanca and Dario Pozzoli

12061: Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage

Dany Bahar, Samuel Rosenow, Ernesto Stein and Rodrigo Wagner

12060: Rent Sharing and Inclusive Growth

Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin

12059: Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Armin Falk and Johannes Hermle

12058: Motivated Memory in Dictator Games

Charlotte Saucet and Marie Claire Villeval

12057: Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy and Vincenzo Scoppa

12056: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception and Trust

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Núñez, Hugo Alatrista and Juandiego Morzan

12055: Under Pressure? Assessing the Roles of Skills and Other Personal Resources for Work-Life Strains

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch, David Ribar and Mark Western

12054: Education Spillovers within the Workplace

Kristian Hedeager Bentsen, Jakob Munch and Georg Schaur

12053: University Tuition Fees and High School Students' Educational Intentions

Michael Bahrs and Thomas Siedler

12052: What Stops Poor Girls from Going to College? Skill Development and Access to Higher Education in a Developing Country

Oswaldo Molina, Diego Santa María and Gustavo Yamada

12051: In-State College Enrollment and Later Life Location Decisions

John Winters

12050: The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market

Ege Aksu, Refik Erzan and Murat Kırdar

12049: Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driving Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Almudena Sevilla

12048: Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Méango and Hillel Rapoport

12047: The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany

Kathleen Kürschner Rauck and Michael Kvasnicka

12046: The Race between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

James Heckman

12045: Wage Insurance, Part-Time Unemployment Insurance and Short-Time Work in the XXI Century

Pierre Cahuc

12044: Decomposing Real Wage Changes in the United States

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Aico van Vuuren and Francis Vella

12043: The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany: An Overview

Marco Caliendo, Carsten Schröder and Linda Wittbrodt

12042: Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics

Olga Demidova, Alena Kolyagina and Francesco Pastore

12041: Average Gaps and Oaxaca's Blinder Decompositions: A Cautionary Tale about Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Tymon Słoczyński

12040: Modified Causal Forests for Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects

Michael Lechner

12039: Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence

Michael Knaus, Michael Lechner and Anthony Strittmatter

12038: Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?

Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

12037: Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Tiziano Ropele

12036: Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?

Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini and Francesco Serti

12035: Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector

David Audretsch, Marian Hafenstein, Alexander Kritikos and Alexander Schiersch

12034: Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding Is More Skewed Than Consumption

Joshua Gans, Andrew Leigh, Martin Schmalz and Adam Triggs

12033: International Mobility of Students in Italy and the UK: Does It Pay off and for Whom?

Sylke Schnepf and Béatrice d'Hombres

12032: The Impact of Brexit on International Students' Return Intentions

Jane Falkingham, Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba and Chuhong Wang

12031: On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap

Christoph Eder and Martin Halla

12030: Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes

Herbert Brücker, Albrecht Glitz, Adrian Lerche and Agnese Romiti

12029: The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women

Chloe East and Andrea Velasquez

12028: Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1B Workers

Chad Sparber

12027: Teaching, Gender and Labour Market Incentives

David Carroll, Jaai Parasnis and Max Tani

12026: Do Female Managers Help to Lower Within-Firm Gender Pay Gaps? Public Institutions vs. Private Enterprises

Iga Magda and Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

12025: Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Roff and Hugette Sun

12024: Great Depression and the Rise of Female Employment: A New Hypothesis

Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia

12023: Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?

Lidia Farre and Libertad Gonzalez

12022: Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

Peter Kuhn, Kailing Shen and Shuo Zhang

12021: Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection

Daniele Checchi, Simona Cicognani and Nevena Kulic

12020: Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima

Daniel Martinez, Oscar Mitnik, Edgar Salgado, Lynn Scholl and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

12019: A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima

Lynn Scholl, Daniel Martinez, Oscar Mitnik, Daniel Oviedo and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

12018: Bright Investments: Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti

Oscar Mitnik, Raul Sanchez and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

12017: Learning from the

Olivier Bargain, H. Xavier Jara, Prudence Magejo and Miracle Benhura

12016: Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India

Indraneel Dasgupta and Sarmistha Pal

12015: Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis

Martin Guzi and Martin Kahanec

12014: Perspectives on Poverty in Europe

Stephen Jenkins

12013: Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014): An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipolito Simon

12012: Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Wayne A. Grove, Michael Jetter and Kerry Papps

12011: The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach

Brecht Neyt, Dieter Verhaest and Stijn Baert

12010: Labour Market Participation and Atypical Employment over the Life Cycle: A Cohort Analysis for Germany

Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder and Marcus Tamm

12009: Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil

Peter Brummund and Laura Connolly

12008: Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy

Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

12007: Real Estate Prices and Corporate Investment: Theory and Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects across Firms

Denis Fougere, Rémy Lecat and Simon Ray

12006: The Task Content of Occupations

Luca Bittarello, Francis Kramarz and Alexis Maitre

12005: Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity: Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

12004: Employment to Output Elasticities & Reforms towards Flexicurity: Evidence from OECD Countries

Holger Görg, Cecília Hornok, Catia Montagna and George Onwordi

12003: Labor Supply under Participation and Hours Constraints: An Extended Structural Model for Policy Evaluations

Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann and Katharina Wrohlich

12002: Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition: Evidence from Mexico

Raymond Robertson, Timothy Halliday and Sindhu Vasireddy

12001: What Hides behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics

Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung and Moritz Kuhn

12000: Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?

William E. Even and David Macpherson