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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

11499: Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Martyna Marczak and Thomas Beissinger

11498: Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon Commander and Stavros Poupakis

11497: Do House Prices Sink or Ride the Wave of Immigration?

Matthew Larkin, Zohid Askarov, Chris Doucouliagos, Chris Dubelaar, Maria Klona, Joshua Newton, T. Stanley and Andrea Vocino

11496: Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach

Steven Dieterle, Otavio Bartalotti and Quentin Brummet

11495: Taxation, Work and Gender Equality in Ireland

Karina Doorley

11494: Monetary Policy and Inequality under Labor Market Frictions and Capital-Skill Complementarity

Juan Dolado, Gergő Motyovszki and Evi Pappa

11493: Smooth Income Tax Schedules: Derivation and Consequences

Diana Estévez Schwarz and Eric Sommer

11492: Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime

Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth and Lutz Sager

11491: News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Mastrorocco and Luigi Minale

11490: Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Robert Witt

11489: The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee

11488: Long-Term Relatedness between Countries and International Migrant Selection

Tim Krieger, Laura Renner and Jens Ruhose

11487: Diversity and Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Marc Klemp

11486: The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement

Chloe East, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour and Andrea Velasquez

11485: The Impact of Language on Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants

Aslan Zorlu and Joop Hartog

11484: How Valid Are Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics?

Nicolas Hérault and Stephen Jenkins

11483: Beneficial Brain Drain and Non-Migrants' Welfare

Maurice Schiff

11482: Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

11481: Status and Progress in Cross-Border Portability of Social Security Benefits

Robert Holzmann and Jacques Wels

11480: The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring

William Olney and Dario Pozzoli

11479: Organisational Accreditation and Worker Upskilling in Britain

Getinet Haile

11478: Autonomous Schools and Strategic Pupil Exclusion

Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi

11477: Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia?

David Carroll, Chris Heaton and Max Tani

11476: Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

11475: How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström

11474: Changing the Structure of Minimum Wages: Firm Adjustment and Wage Spillovers

Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin

11473: Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Yoon Y. Cho and Ummul Ruthbah

11472: Counteracting Unemployment in Crises: Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy

Britta Gehrke and Brigitte Hochmuth

11471: Graded Return-To-Work as a Stepping Stone to Full Work Resumption

Lieke Kools and Pierre Koning

11470: The Effects of Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Foster Care Admissions

Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella and Ning Zhang

11469: The Effects of DACA on Health Insurance, Access to Care, and Health Outcomes

Osea Giuntella and Jakub Lonsky

11468: Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz and Daniela Zapata

11467: Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility

Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini

11466: A New Estimator of Search Duration and Its Application to the Marriage Market

Pavel Jelnov

11465: When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

11464: Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India

S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon and Nishith Prakash

11463: Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

11462: Do Board Gender Quotas Matter? Selection, Performance and Stock Market Effects

Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Ferraro, Paola Profeta and Chiara Pronzato

11461: Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix and Steeve Marchand

11460: Help, Prejudice and Headscarves

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun Bedi and Matthias Rieger

11459: Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

Shane Niall O'Higgins, Clelia Mazzoni and Patrizia Sbriglia

11458: Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction

Carmine Ornaghi and Mirco Tonin

11457: Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation

Ernst Fehr and Tony Williams

11456: Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson

11455: Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?

Stijn Baert, Sunčica Vujić, Simon Amez, Matteo Claeskens, Thomas Daman, Arno Maeckelberghe, Eddy Omey and Lieven De Marez

11454: Nudging in Education

Mette Trier Damgaard and Helena Nielsen

11453: Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

11452: Maternal Stress during Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger and Rafael Sanchez

11451: Exploring the Role of Fathers in Non-Cognitive Skill Development over the Lifecourse

Rosemary Elkins and Stefanie Schurer

11450: Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Lifetime Economic Outcomes

Stefanie Schurer and Kristian Trajkovski

11449: Survey Item-Response Behavior as an Imperfect Proxy for Unobserved Ability: Theory and Application

Sonja de New and Stefanie Schurer

11448: A Unique Bond: Twin Bereavement and Lifespan Associations of Identical and Fraternal Twins

Gerard van den Berg and Bettina Drepper

11447: The Effects of Day Care on Health During Childhood: Evidence by Age

Gerard van den Berg and Bettina M. Siflinger

11446: A Community Based Program Promotes Sanitation

María Laura Alzúa, Habiba Djebbari and Amy J. Pickering

11445: An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

Chloe East and Andrew Friedson

11444: Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew Friedson and Daniel I. Rees

11443: Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times: A Cross-Country Analysis

Ronald Bachmann and Rahel Felder

11442: The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Andrey Launov and Jean-Marc Robin

11441: On Welfare Effects of Increasing Retirement Age

Krzysztof Makarski and Joanna Tyrowicz

11440: Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution

Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider and Eric Sommer

11439: Inequality in EU Crisis Countries: How Effective Were Automatic Stabilisers?

Tim Callan, Karina Doorley and Michael Savage

11438: Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria

James Bang, Aniruddha Mitra and Phanindra Wunnava

11437: Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova and Carol Graham

11436: Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco and Yves Zenou

11435: School or Work? The Role of Weather Shocks in Madagascar

Francesca Marchetta, David Sahn and Luca Tiberti

11434: Leadership Experiences, Labor Market Entry, and Early Career Trajectories

Martin Lundin, Oskar Skans and Pär Zetterberg

11433: Estimating a Model of Qualitative and Quantitative Education Choices in France

Christian Belzil and François Poinas

11432: Teacher Performance Pay in the United States: Incidence and Adult Outcomes

Timothy Bond and Kevin Mumford