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12168: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants

Simone Bertoli and Steven Stillman

12167: Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

12166: Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality

Chris Doucouliagos, Jack Hennessy and Debdulal Mallick

12165: In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis

Peng Nie, Qing Li and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

12164: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations

Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

12163: Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis and Todd Pugatch

12162: Does Child Labor Lead to Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood? Evidence for Tanzania

Sara Burrone and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

12161: Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?

Mahmoud Arayssi, Ali Fakih and Nathir Haimoun

12160: English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

12159: Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri and Stefan Wolter

12158: When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research

Seth Gershenson, Morgan S. Polikoff and Rui Wang

12157: The Long-Term Effect of Age at School Entry on Competencies in Adulthood

Katja Görlitz, Merlin Penny and Marcus Tamm

12156: Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math

Gaia Dossi, David Figlio, Paola Giuliano and Paola Sapienza

12155: Have You Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm

Daniele Checchi, Alberto Ciolfi, Gianni De Fraja, Irene Mazzotta and Stefano Verzillo

12154: Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance

David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher O'Leary, Zhuan Pei and Simon Quach

12153: Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information about Beliefs

Charles Bellemare and Alexander Sebald

12152: Have Econometric Analyses of Happiness Data Been Futile? A Simple Truth about Happiness Scales

Le-Yu Chen, Ekaterina Oparina, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Sorawoot Srisuma

12151: An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination

Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

12150: Divorced in a Flash: The Effect of the Administrative Divorce Option on Marital Stability in the Netherlands

Jan Kabátek

12149: Overwork in Spouse's Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women

Terra McKinnish

12148: Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model

Hélène Turon

12147: Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Zhengyu Cai, Heather M. Stephens and John Winters

12146: Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply

Astrid Kunze and Xingfei Liu

12145: Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being: A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany

Joachim Merz and Normen Peters

12144: Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA

René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler and Mario Lackner

12143: Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?

Nils van Damme and Stijn Baert

12142: Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer

Olivier Verstraeten and Stijn Baert

12141: The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej and Martin Cameron

12140: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers

Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler

12139: Labor Market Frictions and Moving Costs of the Employed and Unemployed

Tyler Ransom

12138: Not Everyone Is Engaged: An Innovative Approach to Measure Engagement Levels on the Labor Market

Carole Chartouni, Robert Holzmann and Gustavo N. Paez

12137: The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

12136: Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program

Arezou Zaresani

12135: A Nutshell Model of Labor Demand with Permanent and Short-Term Contracts

Bruno Contini

12134: B for Brexit: A Survey of the Economics Academic Literature

Nauro Campos

12133: Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s

Mary Kate Batistich and Timothy Bond

12132: Outsourcing Recruitment as a Solution to Prevent Discrimination: A Correspondence Study

Clémence Berson, Morgane Laouenan and Emmanuel Valat

12131: Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Patrick Button and Brigham Walker

12130: Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard and Hillel Rapoport

12129: Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Using Shortage Indicators, with an Application to the Market for Anesthesiologists

Matthew Baird, Lindsay Daugherty and Krishna B. Kumar

12128: Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk

Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel

12127: Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer and Josef Zweimüller

12126: Dual Labour Markets Revisited

Samuel Bentolila, Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

12125: How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips

Michael Elsby and Gary Solon

12124: How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Evidence from Payroll Records in Washington State

Ekaterina Jardim, Gary Solon and Jacob Vigdor

12123: Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia

Suzana Laporšek, Peter Orazem, Matija Vodopivec and Milan Vodopivec

12122: Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?

Jenny Williams and Don Weatherburn

12121: What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj

12120: Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests

Julien Benistant and Marie Claire Villeval

12118: Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country

Luciana Méndez-Errico and Xavi Ramos

12117: Tropical Storms and Mortality under Climate Change

Todd Pugatch

12116: Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid and Julia Schmieder

12115: Something in the Pipe: Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth

Rui Wang, Xi Chen and Xun Li

12114: De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Jenny Williams, Rosalie Pacula and Rosanna Smart

12113: Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser and Stephen Smith

12112: The Long-Term Economic Effects of Polio: Evidence from the Introduction of the Polio Vaccine to Sweden in 1957

Luis Serratos-Sotelo, Tommy Bengtsson and Anton Nilsson

12111: Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil

Sonia Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

12110: Measuring the Quality of the Home Environment of Young Children in Uruguay: Socioeconomic Gradients in the Home Inventory

Florencia Lopez Boo, Mayaris Cubides Mateus, Rita Sorio, Giorgina Garibotto and Christian Berón

12109: Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras

Florencia Lopez Boo and John Creamer

12108: The Economics of Parenting

Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti

12107: Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries

Norbert Schady, Jere Behrman, M. Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez Boo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina Paxson and Renos Vakis

12106: Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean

Susan P. Walker, Christine Powell, Susan M. Chang, Helen Baker-Henningham, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Marcos Vera-Hernandez and Florencia Lopez Boo

12105: Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers

Osea Giuntella, Giulia La Mattina and Climent Quintana-Domeque

12104: Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development

Stuart Campbell, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Gurleen Popli and Anita Ratcliffe

12103: Actors in the Child Development Process

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, Ewout Verriest and Matthew Wiswall

12102: The Consequences of Extending Equitable Property Division Divorce Laws to Cohabitants

Abraham Chigavazira, Hayley Fisher, Tim Robinson and Anna Zhu

12101: Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy

Muhammad Asali and Rusudan Gurashvili

12100: Does Society Influence the Gender Gap in Risk Attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany

Cornelia Chadi and Uwe Jirjahn

12099: Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform

Agata Maida and Andrea Weber

12098: Is There a Tradeoff between Ethnic Diversity and Redistribution? The Case of Income Assistance in Canada

David Green and W. Craig Riddell

12097: Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants

Delia Furtado, Kerry Papps and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

12096: Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs

Eric Gibbons, Allie Greenman, Peter Norlander and Todd Sorensen

12095: Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment

Michael Clemens

12094: The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants

Elie Murard

12093: Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion

Mikael Carlsson, Iida Häkkinen Skans and Oskar Skans

12092: Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation

Mattias Engdahl, Mathilde Godard and Oskar Skans

12091: Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation

Matteo Bobba, Luca Flabbi, Santiago Levy Algazi and Mauricio Tejada

12090: The Elasticity of Taxable Labour Income in the Netherlands

Egbert L. W. Jongen and Maaike Stoel

12089: Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation

Yue Qiu and Aaron Sojourner

12088: Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

12087: Estimating the Potential Effects of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census

J. David Brown, Misty Heggeness, Suzanne Dorinski, Lawrence Warren and Moises Yi

12086: The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Rémi Suchon and Marie Claire Villeval

12085: Partial Identification of Economic Mobility: With an Application to the United States

Daniel Millimet, Hao Li and Punarjit Roychowdhury

12084: Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime

Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen

12083: Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

12082: Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation

Anna Bindler and Nadine Ketel

12081: lassopack: Model Selection and Prediction with Regularized Regression in Stata

Achim Ahrens, Christian Hansen and Mark Schaffer

12080: Let the Data Speak? On the Importance of Theory-Based Instrumental Variable Estimations

Volker Grossmann and Aderonke Osikominu

12079: On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications

Kurt Schmidheiny and Sebastian Siegloch

12078: The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction

Olaf Hübler

12077: Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees

12076: To Pill or Not to Pill? Access to Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Behaviour

Ana Nuevo-Chiquero and Francisco Pino

12075: Emigration and Alcohol Consumption among Migrant Household Members Staying Behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Sara Paulone and Artjoms Ivlevs

12074: Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program

Francesco Pastore and Marco Pompili

12073: Ageing and Skills: The Case of Literacy Skills

Garry Barrett and W. Craig Riddell

12072: Preschoolers' Self-Regulation, Skill Differentials, and Early Educational Outcomes

Johanna Sophie Quis, Anika Bela and Guido Heineck

12071: Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Lili Kang, Fei Peng and Yu Zhu

12070: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

12069: Timing Is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisions

Richard Patterson, Nolan Pope and Aaron Feudo

12068: Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector

Saibal Kar, Biswajit Mandal, Sugata Marjit and Vivekananda Mukherjee