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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

11366: Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information: A Field Experiment on Motivation

Alessandra Casarico and Mirco Tonin

11365: The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance

Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch and Sebastian Schaube

11364: Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?

Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe, Thierry Madies and Marie Claire Villeval

11363: Does Marital Status Affect How Firms Interpret Job Applicants' Un/Employment Histories?

Margaret Maurer-Fazio and Sili Wang

11362: Madrasah for Girls and Private School for Boys? The Determinants of School Type Choice in Rural and Urban Indonesia

M Asadullah and Maliki Maliki

11361: Early Gender Gaps among University Graduates

Marco Francesconi and Matthias Parey

11360: Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty: Experimental Evidence from India

Arjun Bedi, Tanmoy Majilla and Matthias Rieger

11359: Drivers of Participation Elasticities across Europe: Gender or Earner Role within the Household?

Charlotte Bartels and Cortnie Shupe

11358: Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital

Patrick M. Emerson and Shawn D. Knabb

11357: Stock Market Returns and Consumption

Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Kaveh Majlesi

11356: The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund

Damon Jones and Ioana Marinescu

11355: Inequality among European Working Households, 1890-1960

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

11354: City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies

Michael P. Pflüger

11353: The Causal Effect of Education on Chronic Health Conditions

Katharina Janke, David Johnston, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

11352: Health Workers' Behavior, Patient Reporting and Reputational Concerns: Lab-in-the-Field Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Isaac Mbiti and Danila Serra

11351: Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?

Nadine Ketel, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

11350: Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia

Michael Coelli, Gigi Foster and Andrew Leigh

11349: Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation

Chantal Oggenfuss and Stefan Wolter

11348: Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?

Alex Bryson, Lucy Stokes and David Wilkinson

11347: Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China

William Siebert, Xiangdong Wei, Ho Lun Wong and Xiang Zhou

11346: International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico

Kaveh Majlesi and Gaia Narciso

11345: The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor

Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber

11344: A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?

Andrew Clarke, Ana Ferrer and Mikal Skuterud

11343: The Labor Market Integration of Refugees to the United States: Do Entrepreneurs in the Network Help?

Olivier Dagnelie, Anna Maria Mayda and Jean-François Maystadt

11342: Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences

Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska

11341: The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany

Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Marek Góra, Irena E. Kotowska, Iga Magda, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska and Paweł Strzelecki

11340: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Øystein Hernæs

11339: Employment Protection, Temporary Contracts and Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Italy

Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

11338: Economic Conditions, Parental Employment and Health of Newborns

Gerard van den Berg, Alexander Paul and Steffen Reinhold

11337: Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter and Klaus Zimmermann

11336: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments

Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja and Christopher Rauh

11335: Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings

David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Lina Hedman

11334: Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Gordon Dahl and Anne Gielen

11333: (The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe

Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini and Luigi Minale

11332: Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe and Wim Naudé

11331: The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration: Empirical Evidence from France

Alexia Lochmann, Hillel Rapoport and Biagio Speciale

11330: Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances

Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Miaomiao Zou

11329: Migration in China: To Work or to Wed?

Arnaud Dupuy

11328: Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016

Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John Martin and Patrick Puhani

11327: Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Mira Fischer and Dirk Sliwka

11326: Cognitive Skills and the Development of Strategic Sophistication

Eduardo Fe and David Gill

11325: Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data

Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera and Francesco Pastore

11324: Upward Income Mobility and Legislator Support for Education Policies

Luna Bellani and Vigile Marie Fabella

11323: Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams

Gordon Dahl, Andreas Kotsadam and Dan-Olof Rooth