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11599: Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?

Christian Gillitzer and Mathias Sinning

11598: Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data

Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné and Jonathan Paré

11597: Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Ahmed Elsayed

11596: Women Legislators and Economic Performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min and Yogesh Uppal

11595: Voting as a War of Attrition

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros and Michael Vlassopoulos

11594: Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs and Timothy Hinks

11593: Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure

John Bennett and Matthew Rablen

11592: Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study

David Dickinson and David Masclet

11591: The Impact of Mental Problems on Mortality and How It Is Moderated by Education

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä and Per Tynelius

11590: Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation

Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes and Atheendar Venkataramani

11589: Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou and Murugi Ndirangu

11588: Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

11587: A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors

Badi Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton and Alain Pirotte

11586: Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Miriam Rinawi and Matthias Krapf

11585: Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland

Duncan McVicar, Andrew Park and Seamus McGuinness

11584: Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio

11583: Faces of Joblessness in Ireland: A People-Centred Perspective on Employment Barriers and Policies

James Browne, Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Dirk Neumann, Daniele Pacifico and Céline Thévenot

11582: The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries

Céline Piton and Francois Rycx

11581: Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Kathrin Manthei and Dirk Sliwka

11580: The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses: Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity

Luke Boosey and Sebastian Goerg

11579: Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Vidhya Soundararajan

11578: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Anne Hilger, Christophe Nordman and Leopold Sarr

11577: The Signal of Applying for a Job under a Vacancy Referral Scheme

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Valentina Di Stasio and Stijn Baert

11576: Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue

Martin Andresen and Tarjei Havnes

11575: An Advisor like Me: Does Gender Matter?

Takao Kato and Yang Song

11574: Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK

Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Matt L. Huffman

11573: Education Expansion, Assortative Marriage, and Income Inequality in China

Haifeng Nie and Chunbing Xing

11572: Marital Patterns and Income Inequality

Arnaud Dupuy and Simon Weber

11571: Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples

Francisco Ferreira, Emanuela Galasso and Mario Negre

11570: Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data

Ronald Bachmann, Merve Cim and Colin Green

11569: Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Yaqin Su and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

11568: Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-Level Collective Agreements: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data

Andrea Garnero, Francois Rycx and Isabelle Terraz

11567: High on Crime? Exploring the Effects of Marijuana Dispensary Laws on Crime in California Counties

Priscillia Hunt, Rosalie Pacula and Gabriel Weinberger

11566: The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo Paloyo and Ian Walker

11565: Measuring Physicians' Response to Incentives: Evidence on Hours Worked and Multitasking

Bruce S. Shearer, Nibene Habib Somé and Bernard Fortin

11564: Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence

Si Chen and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

11563: Mind, Body, Bubble! Psychological and Biophysical Dimensions of Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets

David Butler and Stephen Cheung

11562: Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation

Rolf Aaberge and Ugo Colombino

11561: Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands

Bart Golsteyn and Stefa Hirsch

11560: Regression Discontinuity and Heteroskedasticity Robust Standard Errors: Evidence from a Fixed-Bandwidth Approximation

Otavio Bartalotti

11559: Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens

Pedro Portugal and António Rua

11558: Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo

11557: State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment

David Frisvold and Melinda Pitts

11556: Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?

Daniel Fackler, Michaela Fuchs, Lisa Hölscher and Claus Schnabel

11555: Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Nicole Gürtzgen, André Diegmann (geb. Nolte), Laura Pohlan and Gerard van den Berg

11554: The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Ömer Özak

11553: Diversity and Growth

Mark Gradstein and Moshe Justman

11552: Economic Resources, Financial Aid and Remittances

Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel, Lisa Pelling and Eskil Wadensjö

11551: Brain Drain-Induced Brain Gain and the Bhagwati Tax: Are Early and Recent Paradigms Compatible?

Maurice Schiff

11550: Early Life Determinants of Cognitive Ability: A Comparative Study on Madagascar and Senegal

Heidi Kaila, David Sahn and Naveen Sunder

11549: Vocational High School Graduate Wage Gap: The Role of Cognitive Skills and Firms

Joop Hartog, Pedro Raposo and Hugo Reis

11548: Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Delia Furtado and Huanan Xu

11547: A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills

Michael Knaus

11546: Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development

Jason Fletcher and Jin Ho Kim

11545: The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care

Rebecca McDonald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

11544: Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock

Jason Fletcher

11543: The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Elena Grinza and Francois Rycx

11542: Impact of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from South Korea

Soohyung Lee, Heesun Yoo and Minhyuk Nam

11541: Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility

Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh and Edson Severnini

11540: Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods

Gregory DeAngelo and Laura Gee

11539: Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy

Ohto Kanninen, Petri Böckerman and Ilpo Suoniemi

11538: Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices

Eric Cardella, Charlene Kalenkoski and Michael Parent

11537: Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices

Pia Pinger, Sebastian Schäfer and Heiner Schumacher

11536: Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics: Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador

Albrecht Bohne and Jan Sebastian Nimczik

11535: Tax Evasion on a Social Network

Gamannossi degl’Innocenti, Duccio and Matthew Rablen

11534: Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Olivier Bargain, Delphine Boutin and Hugues Champeaux

11533: Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements

Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Daniel Kühnle and Regina Riphahn

11532: Math, Girls and Socialism

Quentin Lippmann and Claudia Senik

11531: Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes

Soohyung Lee and Chiara Orsini

11530: Just like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

11529: Family Ceremonies as a Constraint on Informal Sector Investment: The Case of Sénégal

John Bennett and Stephanie Levy

11528: Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations

Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

11527: Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France

Gregory Verdugo and Sorana Toma

11526: Local Labour Market Conditions on Immigrants' Arrival and Children's School Performance

Marianne Roed, Pål Schøne and Janis Umblijs

11525: Comparing Wage Gains from Different Immigrant Legalization Programs

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

11524: Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

11523: Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter

Takao Kato and Antti Kauhanen

11522: From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony Atkinson and Sebastian Königs

11521: Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li and Swati Sharma

11520: L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity

Elena Grinza, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

11519: Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality

Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

11518: The One Constant: A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?

Tobias Brändle and Laszlo Goerke

11517: Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-Level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure

Jan Hagemeier, Jan Svejnar and Joanna Tyrowicz

11516: Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools

Daniel Gilligan, Naureen Karachiwalla, Ibrahim Kasirye, Adrienne Lucas and Derek Neal

11515: Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review

Horst Entorf and Jia Hou

11514: The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer and Sven Silburn

11513: The Last of the Lost Generations? Formal and Non-Formal Education in Ghana during Times of Economic Decline and Recovery

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Jeffrey Hammer

11512: Getting Life Expectancy Estimates Right for Pension Policy: Period versus Cohort Approach

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Bravo and Robert Holzmann

11511: Pension Policies in a Model with Endogenous Fertility

Giam Pietro Cipriani and Francesco Pascucci

11510: Live Longer, Work Longer: The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries

John Martin

11509: Moral Nimby-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

11508: Does the Framing of Patient Cost-Sharing Incentives Matter? The Effects of Deductibles vs. No-Claim Refunds

Arthur P. Hayen, Tobias Klein and Martin Salm

11507: Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children

Iga Magda and Roma Keister

11506: What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

11505: Sales Performance and Social Preferences

Andrea Essl, Frauke von Bieberstein, Michael Kosfeld and Markus Kröll

11504: Downward Real Wage Rigidity and Equal Treatment Wage Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Andy Snell, Heiko Stüber and Jonathan Thomas

11503: A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator

Magdalena Smyk, Joanna Tyrowicz and Lucas van der Velde

11502: Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Karina Doorley and Philippe Van Kerm

11501: Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch and Alexander Kritikos

11500: Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence

Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg and Yama Temouri