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11999: The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

David Neumark

11998: Decomposing the Exporter Wage Gap: Selection or Differential Returns?

Jonas Ehn Bødker, Jonas Maibom and Rune Vejlin

11997: Taking Time Use Seriously: Income, Wages and Price Discrimination

Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle

11996: Wages and the Value of Nonemployment

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young and Josef Zweimüller

11995: Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms

Gilles Saint-Paul

11994: Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries

Caspar Kaiser and Maarten Vendrik

11993: Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers

Younghwan Song and Jia Gao

11992: The Impact of Household Shocks on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Tanzania

Olukorede Abiona and Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

11991: The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval

Alison Booth, Xin Meng, Elliott Fan and Dandan Zhang

11990: Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence

Luca Fumarco and Stijn Baert

11989: Rationalizing Rational Expectations? Tests and Deviations

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac and Arnaud Maurel

11988: The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market

Shan Huang and Martin Salm

11987: The Returns to Parental Health: Evidence from Indonesia

Dara Lee Luca and David E. Bloom

11986: Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China

Carl Lin and Yana Rodgers

11985: Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality

James Gordon, Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

11984: Violence during Early Childhood and Child Development

Matias Berthelon, Dante Contreras, Diana Kruger and María Isidora Palma

11983: The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?

Luca Pellerano, Eleonora Porreca and Furio Rosati

11982: Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak and Assaf Sarid

11981: Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti

11980: Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul and Thomas Siedler

11979: The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti and Anzelika Zaiceva

11978: International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes

Guido Friebel, Miriam Manchin, Mariapia Mendola and Giovanni Prarolo

11977: Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?

Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaulé

11976: Early Career Research Production in Economics: Does Mentoring Matter?

Andres Garcia-Suaza, Jesus Otero and Rainer Winkelmann

11975: Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors

Jan Feld, Nicolas Salamanca and Ulf Zölitz

11974: Women in Economics: Stalled Progress

Shelly Lundberg and Jenna Stearns

11973: Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification

Michela Bia, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Andrea Mercatanti

11972: Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents' Social Network

Luca Fumarco and Stijn Baert

11971: Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities

Stijn Baert and Dieter Verhaest

11970: Effects of Timing and Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Mira Fischer and Valentin Wagner

11969: Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson

11968: Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education

Steven W. Hemelt, Kevin Stange, Fernando Furquim, Andrew Simon and John E. Sawyer

11967: A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets

YingHua He and Thierry Magnac

11966: Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Meta-Analysis

Anna Sokolova and Todd Sorensen

11965: HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

Michael White and Alex Bryson

11964: Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

David Card, Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell

11963: Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerard van den Berg, Christine Dauth, Pia Homrighausen and Gesine Stephan

11962: The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015

Louise Grogan

11961: Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension

Louise Grogan and Fraser Summerfield

11960: Migration with Pension Reform Expectations

Marek Góra and Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska

11959: International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas

Omoniyi Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

11958: The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Carina Neisser

11957: Institutions, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the Gold Rush

Abel Brodeur and Joanne Haddad

11956: Embezzlement and Guilt Aversion

Giuseppe Attanasi, Claire Rimbaud and Marie Claire Villeval

11955: Civicness Drain

Marco Casari, Andrea Ichino, Moti Michaeli, Maria De Paola, Ginevra Marandola and Vincenzo Scoppa

11954: A Theory of Conservative Revivals

Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin and Avner Seror

11953: Housing Expenditures and Income Inequality

Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Markus Zimmermann

11952: Homeownership, Labour Market Transitions and Earnings

Thierry Kamionka and Guy Lacroix

11951: Walled Cities and Urban Density in China

Rui Du and Junfu Zhang

11950: Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission

Winfried Koeniger and Marc-Antoine Ramelet

11949: Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences

Lena Detlefsen, Andreas Friedl, Katharina Lima de Miranda, Ulrich Schmidt and Matthias Sutter

11948: The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes

CarlyWill Sloan, George Naufal and Heather Caspers

11947: Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results

Matthias Sutter, Claudia Zoller and Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

11946: Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others

John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee

11945: Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer

11944: Anti-Social Behavior in Groups

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Dagmara Celik Katreniak, Julie Chytilová, Lubomir Cingl and Tomas Zelinsky

11943: Health and the Wage Rate: Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question

Daniel Dench and Michael Grossman

11942: Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection: A Field Experiment in India

Jessica Goldberg, Mario Macis and Pradeep Chintagunta

11941: Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

11940: Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Rainer Kotschy, Klaus Prettner and Johannes Schünemann

11939: Health and Economic Growth

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

11938: Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?

Gigi Foster and Leslie Stratton

11937: Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Louise Grogan

11936: Biology and the Gender Gap in Educational Performance: The Role of Prenatal Testosterone in Test Scores

Anne Gielen and Esmee Zwiers

11935: How Important Are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence from a Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005

Susan Dynarski, Brian A. Jacob and Daniel Kreisman

11934: Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy

Tarun Jain, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Nishith Prakash and Raghav Rakesh

11933: Education Level and Mating Success: Undercover on Tinder

Brecht Neyt, Sarah Vandenbulcke and Stijn Baert

11932: Varying Youth Cohort Effects on Regional Labour Market Outcomes in Germany

Thomas Graaff, Ceren Ozgen and Duncan Roth

11931: Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment

Regina Riphahn and Rebecca Schrader

11930: Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households

Carl Lin, Yan Sun and Chunbing Xing

11929: Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm and Renate Hartwig

11928: Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty: Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania

Olukorede Abiona and Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

11927: Socially Useless Jobs

Robert Dur and Max van Lent

11926: Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-sectional Data Sets

Hannes Schwandt and Till von Wachter

11925: The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter and Jeffrey Wenger

11924: Public Sector Wage Gaps over the Long-Run: Evidence from Panel Administrative Data

Olivier Bargain, Audrey Etienne and Blaise Melly

11923: Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil

Francois Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Edson Severnini and David Card

11922: Is Envy Harmful to a Society's Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults

Redzo Mujcic and Andrew Oswald

11921: Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making

Xi Chen

11920: High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives

David Huffman and Michael Bognanno

11919: Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments

Frederik Graff, Christian Grund and Christine Harbring

11918: Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy

Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Ernst Fehr and Nick Netzer

11917: The Causal Effect of Trust

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David Huffman and Nick Netzer

11916: Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu and Christian Zimmermann

11915: Household Collective Models: Three Decades of Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Evidence

Olivier Donni and José Alberto Molina

11914: An Introduction to Nonparametric Regression for Labor Economists

Daniel Henderson and Anne-Charlotte Souto

11913: Academic Achievement and the Gender Composition of Preschool Staff

Mette Gørtz, Eva Rye Johansen and Marianne Simonsen

11912: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement

Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean and Long Tran

11911: Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function

Long Tran and Seth Gershenson

11910: Does the Girl Next Door Affect Your Academic Outcomes and Career Choices?

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Yi Zhang

11909: Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries

Jason Cook

11908: Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy

Tarun Jain, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Nishith Prakash and Raghav Rakesh

11907: Immigrants Move Where Their Skills Are Scarce: Evidence from English Proficiency

Ainoa Aparicio and Zoe Kuehn

11906: Does Migration Motive Matter for Migrants' Employment Outcomes? The Case of Belgium

Dries Lens, Ive Marx and Sunčica Vujić

11905: Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium

Dries Lens, Ive Marx and Sunčica Vujić

11904: Immigration and Social Mobility

Maria Hoen, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

11903: Labor Market and Institutional Drivers of Youth Irregular Migration: Evidence from the MENA Region

Ghassan Dibeh, Ali Fakih and Walid Marrouch

11902: The Dynamics and Determinants of Bullying Victimisation

Georgios Chrysanthou and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

11901: Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins

Nathan Kettlewell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Agnieszka Tymula, Helena Zavos and Nicholas Glozier

11900: The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker