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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

11431: The Transmission of Mental Health within Households: Does One Partner's Mental Health Influence the Other Partner's Life Satisfaction?

Silvia Mendolia, Paul McNamee and Oleg Yerokhin

11430: Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us about Economic Inequality among Households

Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Cecilia Lanata Briones, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

11429: The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965

Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes and Andrew Newell

11428: How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession

Mi Dai, Wei Huang and Yifan Zhang

11427: Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2016

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

11426: On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting

Pierre Nguimkeu, Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis

11425: The Sensitivity of Structural Labor Supply Estimations to Modeling Assumptions

Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

11424: Skating on Thin Evidence: Implications for Public Policy

Chris Doucouliagos, Martin Paldam and T. Stanley

11423: A Tale of Two Academic Tracks

Muhammad Asali

11422: Reflections on the US College Loans System: Lessons from Australia and England

Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski

11421: The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation: A Survey

Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone and Francesco Pastore

11420: Minimum Age Requirements and the Impact of School Choice

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

11419: The Returns to Schooling Unveiled

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal and Hugo Reis

11418: The Occupational Status of Jews in the United States on the Eve of the US Civil War

Barry Chiswick

11417: Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Marie-Anne Valfort

11416: Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects

Ana Petrović, David Manley and Maarten van Ham

11415: Cultural Change and the Migration Choice

Mauro Lanati and Alessandra Venturini

11414: Is Personality Endogenous? Evidence from Ireland

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright

11413: Social Interactions and Stigmatized Behavior: "Donating" Blood Plasma in Rural China

Xi Chen, David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang

11412: Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis

11411: Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

11410: Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts

Silvia Garcia Mandico, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne Gielen and Owen O'Donnell

11409: Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow

Tomi Kyyrä and Tuuli Paukkeri

11408: The Human Capital Cost of Radiation: Long-Run Evidence from Exposure Outside the Womb

Benjamin Elsner and Florian Wozny

11407: What Matters for Environmental Quality in the Next-11 Countries: Economic Growth or Income Inequality?

Hemachandra Padhan, Ilham Haouas, Bhagaban Sahoo and Almas Heshmati

11406: Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975

Arnaud Lefranc

11405: Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity

Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

11404: The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion

Martin Leites and Xavi Ramos

11403: Further Training and Affective Commitment

Christian Grund and Krystina Titz

11402: Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Paul Bingley and Lorenzo Cappellari

11401: Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar and Christoph Weiss

11400: The Determinants of Young Firms Growth in Tunisia

Hassan Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef, Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli

11399: The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

John Forth and Alex Bryson

11398: A Detailed Analysis of Childhood Victimization Using National Registers: Forms and Sequencing of Violence and Domestic Abuse

Cédric Gorinas

11397: The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence

Tom Kleinepier and Maarten van Ham

11396: Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care and Education

Elizabeth Davis, Won Fy Lee and Aaron Sojourner

11395: Parental Occupation and Children's School Outcomes in Math

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Chiara Rapallini

11394: The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla and Nicole Schneeweis

11393: Police Patrols and Crime

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

11392: The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?

Diego Zambiasi and Steven Stillman

11391: A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide

Mark Borgschulte, Adriana Corredor-Waldron and Guillermo Marshall

11390: Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area

Alexander Muravyev and Oleksandr Talavera

11389: Do Developing Countries Enjoy Faster Poverty Reduction as Their Initial Poverty Incidences Decline over Time? A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Abebe and Erik Thorbecke

11388: Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Abebe and Erik Thorbecke

11387: Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Bohdan Kukharskyy and Michael P. Pflüger

11386: The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare

Eliav Danziger and Leif Danziger

11385: Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation

Ragui Assaad, Rana Hendy, Moundir Lassassi and Shaimaa Yassin

11384: Family Structure and the Turnout Gender Gap: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Bellettini, Carlotta Berti Ceroni, Enrico Cantoni and Chiara Monfardini

11383: Duration of Parental Leave and Women's Employment

Jungho Kim

11382: Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women

Marianne Bertrand, Patricia Cortes, Claudia Olivetti and Jessica Pan

11381: The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data

Sarah Bana, Kelly Bedard and Maya Rossin-Slater

11380: Job Satisfaction among Young Workers in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis

Andy McKay, Andrew Newell and Cinzia Rienzo

11379: Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data

José Azar, Ioana Marinescu, Marshall Steinbaum and Bledi Taska

11378: Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau and Lutz Bellmann

11377: The Cyclicality of the Stepping-Stone Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Elke Jahn and Michael Rosholm

11376: The Puzzles and Contradictions of the Indian Labour Market: What Will the Future of Work Look Like?

Sher Verick

11375: Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini and Sarah Grace See

11374: Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?

Samuel Lüthi and Stefan Wolter

11373: Do Private Schools Manage Better?

Alex Bryson and Francis Green

11372: Assessing the Variance in Pupil Attainment: How Important Is the School Attended?

David Wilkinson, Alex Bryson and Lucy Stokes

11371: Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia

11370: Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants

Max Tani

11369: Reforms That Keep You at Home: The Effects of Economic Transition on Migration

Martin Guzi and Štěpán Mikula

11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?

Yu Aoki and Lualhati Santiago

11367: Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Ioana Marinescu, Nadav Klein, Andrew Chamberlain and Morgan Smart