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12257: On the Road (Again): Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany

Oliver Krebs and Michael P. Pflüger

12256: Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries: The Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

12255: An Empirical and Qualitative Assessment of Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada since 2001: Shifting Away from the Fundamental Principle and Towards Cognitive Biases

Michael Nesbitt, Robert Oxoby and Meagan Potier

12254: To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans

Artjoms Ivlevs and Roswitha M. King

12253: Advanced Counter-Biasing

Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Kevin Benscheidt

12252: Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry Papps and Alex Bryson

12251: Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States

Varun Gauri, Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar and Owen Ozier

12250: The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-In

Luigino Bruni, Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso Reggiani and Matteo Rizzolli

12249: Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

12248: Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China

Xiahai Wei, Tony Fang, Yang Jiao and Jiahui Li

12247: Economics and Politics of the Public-Private Wage Gap (The Case of Russia)

Vladimir Gimpelson, Anna Lukiyanova and Anna Sharunina

12246: Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality

Ying Ge, Tony Fang and Yeheng Jiang

12245: Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms: Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Mariya Aleksynska, Anastasia Bastrakova and Natalia Nikolaevna Kharchenko

12244: Endogenous Demographic Change, Retirement and Social Security

Giam Pietro Cipriani and Tamara Fioroni

12243: Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers

Michael Johannes Böhm and Christian Siegel

12242: New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data

Frank Fossen and Alina Sorgner

12241: The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes

Emma Gorman, Colm Harmon, Silvia Mendolia, Anita Staneva and Ian Walker

12240: Violence and Human Capital Investments

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Livia Menezes

12239: Maxed Out? The Effect of Larger Student Loan Limits on Borrowing and Education Outcomes

Jeffrey Denning and Todd Jones

12238: Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey

Harry Patrinos, George Psacharopoulos and Aysıt Tansel

12237: Education and Risk Compensation in Wages: A Quantile Regression Approach

José Vieira, Carolina Constância and Joao Teixeira

12236: Does More Math in High School Increase the Share of Female STEM Workers? Evidence from a Curriculum Reform

Martin Biewen and Jakob Schwerter

12235: Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools

Semih Tumen

12234: Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany

Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Struewing

12233: Credit Where It's Due: Investigating Pathways from EITC Expansion to Maternal Mental Health

Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Fredric Blavin, Jason Gates and Breno Braga

12232: The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and Its Waning, 1910-1930

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel I. Rees and Tianyi Wang

12231: Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking

Armando Meier, Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

12230: Baby Bonuses and Early-Life Health Outcomes: Using Regression Discontinuity to Evaluate the Causal Impact of an Unconditional Cash Transfer

John Lynch, Aurélie Meunier, Rhiannon Pilkington and Stefanie Schurer

12229: Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany

Horst Entorf and Martin Lange

12228: The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration

Bryan Stuart and Evan J. Taylor

12227: Managing the Impact of Climate on Migration: Evidence from Mexico

Isabelle Chort and Maëlys De La Rupelle

12226: Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani and Lorenzo Rocco

12225: Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

12224: Human Capital and the Economic Convergence Mechanism: Evidence from China

Xiaobei Zhang, Haizheng Li, Xiaojun Wang and Belton Fleisher

12223: Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth

Benjamin Davies and David Maré

12222: Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development

Michal Myck and Mateusz Najsztub

12221: NDC: The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme

Marek Góra and Edward Palmer

12220: Policy in the Pipeline: Identifying Regional Public Investment Priorities Using a Natural Experiment

Michal Myck and Mateusz Najsztub

12219: A Decline in Labor's Share with Capital Accumulation and Complementary Factor Inputs: An Application of the Morishima Elasticity of Substitution

Saumik Paul

12218: The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Wim Naudé

12217: Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Elisabeth Grewenig, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann and Philipp Lergetporer

12216: Trust and Workplace Performance

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

12215: Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations

Charles Bellemare and Alexander Sebald

12214: Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe

Iga Magda, Jan Gromadzki and Simone Moriconi

12213: Innovative Events

Max Nathan and Anna Rosso

12212: Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification

Quentin Lippmann, Alexandre Georgieff and Claudia Senik

12211: Gender Equality and Positive Action: Evidence from UK Universities

Danula Gamage and Almudena Sevilla

12210: Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability

Dan Anderberg, Jesper Bagger, V. Bhaskar and Tanya Wilson

12209: The Effect of Parental Job Loss on Child School Dropout: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Michele Di Maio and Roberto Nisticò

12208: Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Adolescent Social Behaviors

Dhaval Dave, Hope Corman, Ariel Kalil, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher and Nancy E. Reichman

12207: Do Parents Work More When Children Start School? Evidence from the Netherlands

Lisette Swart, Wiljan van den Berge and Karen van der Wiel

12206: The Impact of Bullying Victimisation on Mental Wellbeing

Georgios Chrysanthou and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

12205: Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag Pathak

12204: Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on Student Achievement: Evidence from Oregon

Paul N. Thompson

12203: Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support: Evidence from Pathways to Education

Adam Lavecchia, Philip Oreopoulos and Robert S. Brown

12202: Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices

Arnaud Chevalier, Ingo Isphording and Elena Lisauskaite

12201: The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching

Alberto Jacinto and Seth Gershenson

12200: Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools

Michela Braga, Daniele Checchi, Christelle Garrouste and Francesco Scervini

12199: Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions

Beyza Ural Marchand

12198: Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

12197: Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas: A Review of the Literature

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

12196: Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen Smith and Lucia Ferrone

12195: Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality

Janjala Chirakijja, Seema Jayachandran and Pinchuan Ong

12194: Impact of Comprehensive Smoking Bans on the Health of Infants and Children: Evidence from the U.S

Kerry Anne McGeary, Dhaval Dave, Brandy Lipton and Timothy Roeper

12193: Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost: Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy

Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini and Silvana Robone

12192: The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age

Neil Davies, Matt Dickson, George Davey Smith, Frank Windmeijer and Gerard van den Berg

12191: Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan Moritz Kuhn

12190: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

J. David Brown, John Earle, Mee Jung Kim and Kyung Min Lee

12189: Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer: Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?

Andrew Henley

12188: The Determinants of Retirement Planning within Couples in Ireland

Karina Doorley and Anne Nolan

12187: Financial Literacy and Preparation for Retirement

Anne Nolan and Karina Doorley

12186: Socialized Healthcare and Women's Fertility Decisions

Resul Cesur, Pinar Gunes, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

12185: The Economics of Hypergamy

Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen Moen and Knut Røed

12184: Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media: A Natural Field Experiment

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer and Matthias Sutter

12183: Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation: A Field Experiment

Stijn Baert, Brecht Neyt, Thomas Siedler, Ilse Tobback and Dieter Verhaest

12182: Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show

Alison Booth and Jungmin Lee

12181: Absenteeism on Bridging Days

René Böheim and Thomas Leoni

12180: To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz and Yossef Tobol

12179: Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation

Andres Gonzalez-Lira and Ahmed Mobarak

12178: The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh and Edson Severnini

12177: What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

12176: It's Not Just for Boys! Understanding Gender Differences in STEM

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

12175: The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann

12174: Attribution Bias in Major Decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy

Kareem Haggag, Richard Patterson, Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo

12173: Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Satish Chand and Michael Clemens

12172: Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania

Jacobus Cilliers, Isaac Mbiti and Andrew Zeitlin

12171: Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?

Andrea Albanese, Corinna Ghirelli and Matteo Picchio

12170: Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector

Shuaizhang Feng and Naijia Guo

12169: Rent Sharing in China: Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers

Wenjing Duan and Pedro Martins

12168: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants

Simone Bertoli and Steven Stillman

12167: Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

12166: Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality

Chris Doucouliagos, Jack Hennessy and Debdulal Mallick

12165: In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis

Peng Nie, Qing Li and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

12164: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations

Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

12163: Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch

12162: Does Child Labor Lead to Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood? Evidence for Tanzania

Sara Burrone and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

12161: Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?

Mahmoud Arayssi, Ali Fakih and Nathir Haimoun

12160: English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

12159: Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri and Stefan Wolter

12158: When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research

Seth Gershenson, Morgan S. Polikoff and Rui Wang