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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

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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

11852: Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Andreas Kettemann, Andreas Mueller and Josef Zweimüller

11851: Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan Staubli, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

11850: The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach

Lucía Gorjón, Sara de la Rica and Antonio Villar

11849: Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Impact on Employment and Skills

Marco Vivarelli

11848: Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Mayula Chaikumbung, Chris Doucouliagos and Helen Scarborough

11847: Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile

Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez and Diego Vergara Sepúlveda

11846: The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea

Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee and Timothy Halliday

11845: Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi and Ye Yuan

11844: Job Mismatches and Career Mobility

Le Wen and Sholeh Maani

11843: The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan and Silvia Mendolia

11842: The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and Its Consequences

V. Joseph Hotz, Emily Wiemers, Joshua Rasmussen and Kate Maxwell Koegel

11841: Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings

William E. Even and Austin Smith

11840: Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Hoang Khieu and Klaus Wälde

11839: A Fresh Look at Fiscal Redistribution and Inequality in the US across Electoral Cycles

Hector Sala

11838: Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Charlotte Bartels

11837: What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us about Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?

David J. Bjerk and Eric Helland

11836: Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S

Adriana Hernández Catañeda and Todd Sorensen

11835: Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya

Annie Laurie Hines and Nicole Simpson

11834: Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks

Tilman Brück, Kai M. Dunker, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Aline Meysonnat and Eleonora Nillesen

11833: The Impact of Migration on Productivity and Native-Born Workers' Training

Francesco Campo, Giuseppe Forte and Jonathan Portes

11832: Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being: A Panel Analysis for Germany

Joachim Merz

11831: The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design

Han Ye

11830: Pension Strategies of Workers in a Country Getting Old before Getting Rich

Sonia Buchholtz, Jan Gaska and Marek Góra