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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 Chavez, 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

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