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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 Cahlikova, 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

11899: Domestic Violence and Child Mortality

Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique

11898: Child Access Prevention Laws and Juvenile Firearm-Related Homicides

D. Mark Anderson, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin

11897: Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Fabian Dvorak and Sebastian Fehrler

11896: A Regression Discontinuity Evaluation of Reducing Early Retirement Eligibility in Poland

Oliwia Komada, Paweł Strzelecki and Joanna Tyrowicz

11895: Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysıt Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin and Zeynel Ozdemir

11894: Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks

Harald Dale-Olsen

11893: Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China

Yanan Li, Ravi Kanbur and Carl Lin

11892: The Effect of Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from China

Huajing He and Patrick Nolen

11891: The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Daniel Christensen, Sarah E. Johnson and Stephen R. Zubrick

11890: Abortion Laws and Women's Health

Damian Clarke and Hanna Mühlrad

11889: Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective

Jacob Kjær Eskildsen, Anders Frederiksen and Ann-Kristina Løkke

11888: The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms' Offshoring Decisions

Simone Moriconi, Giovanni Peri and Dario Pozzoli

11887: Employment Adjustment over the Business Cycle: The Impact of Competition in the Labor Market

Douglas Webber

11886: Structural Transformation and Spillovers from Industrial Areas

David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman and Samreen Malik

11885: Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality

Mizuki Komura and Hikaru Ogawa

11884: A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality

Anthony Atkinson and Stephen Jenkins

11883: Inequality, Reordering and Divergent Growth: Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities

Tal Modai-Snir and Maarten van Ham

11882: Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers

Sarah Bana, Kelly Bedard, Maya Rossin-Slater and Jenna Stearns

11881: Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices

Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli and Chiara Rapallini

11880: Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin

Alexander Konon and Alexander Kritikos

11879: Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform

Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh

11878: The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment

Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

11877: Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married

Kusum Mundra and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

11876: More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity

Lucía Del Carpio and Maria Guadalupe

11875: The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices: Evidence from Brazil

Breno Braga

11874: Violence and Female Labor Supply

Zahra Siddique

11873: Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation

Marcus Tamm

11872: Cross Cohort Evidence on Gendered Sorting Patterns in the UK: The Importance of Societal Movements versus Childhood Variables

Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu and Grace Lordan

11871: Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction

Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler and Ute Leber

11870: Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari and Giulia Santangelo

11869: The Impact of Low-Skill Refugees on Youth Education

Semih Tumen

11868: Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five

James Heckman and Sidharth Moktan

11867: Some (Maybe) Unpleasant Arithmetic in Minimum Wage Evaluations: The Role of Power, Significance and Sample Size

Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Sandra Schaffner and Marcus Tamm

11866: A General Weighted Average Representation of the Ordinary and Two-Stage Least Squares Estimands

Tymon Słoczyński

11865: Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation: Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy

Marco Alberto De Benedetto and Maria De Paola

11864: Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance

German Blanco, Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

11863: Distributional Impact Analysis: Toolkit and Illustrations of Impacts beyond the Average Treatment Effect

Guadalupe Bedoya, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Davis and Nikolas Mittag

11862: Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies

Arun Advani, Toru Kitagawa and Tymon Słoczyński

11861: Teamwork, Leadership and Gender

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa

11860: The

Michael Barry, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Bruce E. Kaufman, Guenther Lomas and Adrian Wilkinson

11859: Performance Pay and Prior Learning: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka and Timo Vogelsang

11858: The German Labor Market during the Great Recession: Shocks and Institutions

Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl

11857: Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers: Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Philipp Lergetporer, Jens Ruhose and Lisa Simon

11856: Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights

11855: Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Reggiani and Fabio Sabatini

11854: The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital

Jens Ruhose, Stephan Thomsen and Insa Weilage

11853: On the Job Search and Business Cycles

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay