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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

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