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11718: Has the Growth in 'Fast Casual' Mexican Restaurants Impacted Weight Gain?

Osea Giuntella

11717: Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

Michael Geruso and Dean Spears

11716: Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality

Sonia Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani and Selma Walther

11715: New Evidence on the Impacts of Early Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Old-Age Mortality: A Research Note

Jason Fletcher

11714: Tax Morale and the Role of Social Norms and Reciprocity: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl

11713: Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry: A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Katharina Dyballa and Kornelius Kraft

11712: More than the Money: Payoff-Irrelevant Terms in Relational Contracts

Erich Cromwell, Sebastian Goerg and Monika Leszczynska

11711: Money for Something: The Links between Research Funding and Innovation

Britta Glennon, Julia Lane and Ridhima Sodhi

11710: Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch

Christopher Bollinger, Barry Hirsch, Charles M. Hokayem and James Ziliak

11709: Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign

Aline Bütikofer and Kjell G Salvanes

11708: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method

Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Xiao Wang, Dan Li, Dan Wang, Shuyi He, Zihan Hong and Xi Chen

11707: Intra-Household Wealth and Welfare Inequality in the US: Estimations from a Collective Model of Labor Supply

José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Jorge Velilla

11706: The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach

Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja and Renata Narita

11705: Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers

Randall Akee, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

11704: How Demanding Are Activation Requirements for Jobseekers?

Herwig Immervoll and Carlo Knotz

11703: Light Pollution, Sleep Deprivation, and Infant Health at Birth

Laura M. Argys, Susan Averett and Muzhe Yang

11702: Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?

Joan Costa-Font and Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez

11701: Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?

Xavier Bartoll, Joan Gil and Raul Ramos

11700: Commuting Time and Sick-Day Absence of US Workers

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

11699: School-Age Bullying, Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction: Experiences of LGB People in Britain

Nick Drydakis

11698: How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?

Tony Fang, Carl Lin and Xueli Tang

11697: The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms

Dany Bahar

11696: Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Annika Campaner, John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn

11695: Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families: Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?

Juan Campaña, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

11694: Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms

Núria Rodriguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

11693: Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Ariel Binder and David Lam

11692: Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner

Anne Brenøe

11691: Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

Eliane El Badaoui and Lucia Mangiavacchi

11690: Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Apsara Karki Nepal, Martin Halla and Steven Stillman

11689: One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy

Isabella Giorgetti and Matteo Picchio

11688: Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute and Uta Schönberg

11687: The Effects of Universal Public Childcare Provision on Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse

Malte Sandner and Stephan Thomsen

11686: Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey

Pinar Gunes and Beyza Ural Marchand

11685: Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement

Kelvin Seah

11684: The Golden Middle Class Neighborhood: Trends in Residential Segregation and Consequences for Offspring Outcomes

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

11683: Testing

Annika B. Bergbauer, Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

11682: Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement: Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City

Rocco d'Este and Elias Einiö

11681: Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development

Raphael Franck and Oded Galor

11680: Occupational Barriers and the Labor Market Penalty from Lack of Legal Status

Francesc Ortega and Amy Hsin

11679: Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants

Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic and Murat Kırdar

11678: Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Simon Burgess and Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

11677: Exploitation and the Decision to Migrate: The Role of Abuse and Unfavorable Working Conditions in Filipina Domestic Workers' Desire to Return Abroad

George Naufal and Froilan T. Malit

11676: The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country

Almukhtar Al-Abri, Ismail Genc and George Naufal

11675: Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Takao Kato and Nina Smith

11674: Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs

Daniel Jones, Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

11673: When Short-Time Work Works

Pierre Cahuc, Francis Kramarz and Sandra Nevoux

11672: Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector

Alan Krueger and Orley Ashenfelter

11671: Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from Publicly-Traded Firms in Japan

Takao Kato, Hideaki Miyajima and Hideo Owan

11670: Drivers of Student Performance: Evidence from Higher Secondary Public Schools in Delhi

Deepti Goel and Bidisha Barooah

11669: Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment

Kalena E. Cortes, Hans Fricke, Susanna Loeb and David S. Song

11668: Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives

Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi and Aminur Rahman

11667: Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design

Philippe Ruh and Stefan Staubli

11666: Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

11665: Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk and Jean Tirole

11664: Working Beyond 65 in Ireland

Anne Nolan and Alan Barrett

11663: The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce

Anne Nolan and Alan Barrett

11662: High-Growth Entrepreneurship

J. David Brown, John Earle, Mee Jung Kim and Kyung Min Lee

11661: The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform

Pedro Carneiro, Kai Liu and Kjell G Salvanes

11660: Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India

Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen

11659: Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias

Michela Carlana

11658: Field of Study and Family Outcomes

Elisabeth Artmann, Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

11657: Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys

Jared Ashworth and Tyler Ransom

11656: Inter-Spousal Communication in Consanguineous Marriages: Evidence from Egypt

Aastha Rajan and George Naufal

11655: Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Janet Currie, Michael Mueller-Smith and Maya Rossin-Slater

11654: My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

11653: Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing

Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix and Luca Tiberti

11652: The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Iga Magda, Aneta Kiełczewska and Nicola Brandt

11651: Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Diana-Cristina Iancu

11650: Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Karsten Kohn and Solvejg A. Wewel

11649: Innovating for the Better? The Role of Advocacy Group Work Experience for Employee Pay

Christoph Grimpe, Ulrich Kaiser and Wolfgang Sofka

11648: Was Higher Education a Major Channel through which the US Became an Economic Superpower in the 20th Century?

Adam Cook and Isaac Ehrlich

11647: What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Isaac Ehrlich, Adam Cook and Yong Yin

11646: Strategies to Productively Reincorporate the Formerly-Incarcerated into Communities: A Review of the Literature

Jennifer Doleac

11645: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken and Magne Mogstad

11644: Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment

Robert Dur and Ben Vollaard

11643: Estimating Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on a Broad Set of Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence

Jason Fletcher

11642: Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia and Jana Willrodt

11641: Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters

Conny Wunsch and Renate Strobl

11640: The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernandez Sierra

11639: How (Not) to Make Women Work?

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Karolina Goraus-Tańska

11638: Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Mahdi Majbouri

11637: Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions

Damien de Walque and Christine Valente

11636: Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?

Michael J. Osei and John Winters

11635: Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings

Terhi Maczulskij, Petri Böckerman and Tuomas Kosonen

11634: The Role of Hours Changes for the Increase in German Earnings Inequality

Martin Biewen and Daniela Plötze

11633: The Evolution of Catholic-Protestant Labour Market Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014

Neil Rowland, Duncan McVicar and Ian Shuttleworth

11632: Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland

Seamus McGuinness and Paul Redmond

11631: The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data

Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler and Nicolas Ziebarth

11630: Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic

Miriam Gensowski, Torben Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

11629: Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health

Elira Kuka

11628: Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline

Stefan Bauernschuster, Anastasia Driva and Erik Hornung

11627: Impacts of Shifting Responsibility for High-Cost Individuals on Health Insurance Exchange Plan Premiums and Cost-Sharing Provisions

Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Jeanne Wendel and Miaomiao Zou

11626: Identification of Causal Mechanisms Based on Between-Subject Double Randomization Designs

Conny Wunsch and Renate Strobl

11625: Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Experimental Evidence from Italy

Davide Azzolini, Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Barbara Romano, Antonio Schizzerotto and Loris Vergolini

11624: Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance

Sofoklis Goulas and Rigissa Megalokonomou

11623: Stand Against Bullying: An Experimental School Intervention

Italo Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina and Hugo Ñopo

11622: The State of the Economy at Graduation, Wages, and Catch-up Paths: Evidence from Switzerland

Elena Shvartsman

11621: Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems

Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski and Marcin Bielecki

11620: Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses

Maarten Lindeboom and Raymond Montizaan

11619: Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Chiara Canta and Helmuth Cremer