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11667: Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design

Philippe Ruh and Stefan Staubli

11666: Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

11665: Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning

Roland Benabou, Armin Falk and Jean Tirole

11664: Working Beyond 65 in Ireland

Anne Nolan and Alan Barrett

11663: The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce

Anne Nolan and Alan Barrett

11662: High-Growth Entrepreneurship

J. David Brown, John Earle, Mee Jung Kim and Kyung Min Lee

11661: The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform

Pedro Carneiro, Kai Liu and Kjell G Salvanes

11660: Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India

Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen

11659: Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias

Michela Carlana

11658: Field of Study and Family Outcomes

Elisabeth Artmann, Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

11657: Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys

Jared Ashworth and Tyler Ransom

11656: Inter-Spousal Communication in Consanguineous Marriages: Evidence from Egypt

Aastha Rajan and George Naufal

11655: Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes

Janet Currie, Michael Mueller-Smith and Maya Rossin-Slater

11654: My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

11653: Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing

Olivier Bargain, Guy Lacroix and Luca Tiberti

11652: The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Iga Magda, Aneta Kiełczewska and Nicola Brandt

11651: Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Diana-Cristina Iancu

11650: Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Karsten Kohn and Solvejg A. Wewel

11649: Innovating for the Better? The Role of Advocacy Group Work Experience for Employee Pay

Christoph Grimpe, Ulrich Kaiser and Wolfgang Sofka

11648: Was Higher Education a Major Channel through which the US Became an Economic Superpower in the 20th Century?

Adam Cook and Isaac Ehrlich

11647: What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Isaac Ehrlich, Adam Cook and Yong Yin

11646: Strategies to Productively Reincorporate the Formerly-Incarcerated into Communities: A Review of the Literature

Jennifer Doleac

11645: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken and Magne Mogstad

11644: Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment

Robert Dur and Ben Vollaard

11643: Estimating Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on a Broad Set of Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence

Jason Fletcher

11642: Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia and Jana Willrodt

11641: Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters

Conny Wunsch and Renate Strobl

11640: The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernandez Sierra

11639: How (Not) to Make Women Work?

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Karolina Goraus-Tańska

11638: Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Mahdi Majbouri

11637: Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions

Damien de Walque and Christine Valente

11636: Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?

Michael J. Osei and John Winters

11635: Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings

Terhi Maczulskij, Petri Böckerman and Tuomas Kosonen

11634: The Role of Hours Changes for the Increase in German Earnings Inequality

Martin Biewen and Daniela Plötze

11633: The Evolution of Catholic-Protestant Labour Market Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014

Neil Rowland, Duncan McVicar and Ian Shuttleworth

11632: Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland

Seamus McGuinness and Paul Redmond

11631: The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data

Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler and Nicolas Ziebarth

11630: Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic

Miriam Gensowski, Torben Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

11629: Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health

Elira Kuka

11628: Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline

Stefan Bauernschuster, Anastasia Driva and Erik Hornung

11627: Impacts of Shifting Responsibility for High-Cost Individuals on Health Insurance Exchange Plan Premiums and Cost-Sharing Provisions

Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Jeanne Wendel and Miaomiao Zou

11626: Identification of Causal Mechanisms Based on Between-Subject Double Randomization Designs

Conny Wunsch and Renate Strobl

11625: Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Experimental Evidence from Italy

Davide Azzolini, Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore, Barbara Romano, Antonio Schizzerotto and Loris Vergolini

11624: Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance

Sofoklis Goulas and Rigissa Megalokonomou

11623: Stand Against Bullying: An Experimental School Intervention

Italo Gutierrez, Oswaldo Molina and Hugo Ñopo

11622: The State of the Economy at Graduation, Wages, and Catch-up Paths: Evidence from Switzerland

Elena Shvartsman

11621: Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems

Joanna Tyrowicz, Krzysztof Makarski and Marcin Bielecki

11620: Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses

Maarten Lindeboom and Raymond Montizaan

11619: Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Chiara Canta and Helmuth Cremer

11618: Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid and Michael Peters

11617: Where Does Profit Sharing Work Best? A Meta-Analysis on the Role of Unions, Culture, and Values

Chris Doucouliagos, Patrice Laroche, Douglas Kruse and T. Stanley

11616: Do German Works Councils Counter or Foster the Implementation of Digital Technologies?

Sabrina Genz, Lutz Bellmann and Britta Matthes

11615: State Substitution for the Trade Union Good: The Case of Paid Holiday Entitlements

John Forth and Alex Bryson

11614: Torn Apart? The Impact of Manufacturing Employment Decline on Black and White Americans

Eric Gould

11613: Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Elie Murard and Seyhun Orcan Sakalli

11612: Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cynthia Bansak and Susan Pozo

11611: Immigration, Housing Rents, and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Binnur Balkan, Elif Ozcan Tok, Huzeyfe Torun and Semih Tumen

11610: The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?

Michał Burzyński, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

11609: The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees: Tracking the Progress of the East African Asians

Jake Anders, Simon Burgess and Jonathan Portes

11608: Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Alexander Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum, Marc Piopiunik and Ludger Woessmann

11607: Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China

Jessica Leight and Elaine Liu

11606: Use of Extra-School Time and Child Behaviours: Evidence from the UK

Elena Meroni, Daniela Piazzalunga and Chiara Pronzato

11605: Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age

Gianmaria Niccodemi and Govert Bijwaard

11604: The Effect of Grade Retention on Secondary School Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Bart Golsteyn and Sergio Parra-Cely

11603: Testing at Length If It Is Cognitive or Non-Cognitive

Giorgio Brunello, Angela Crema and Lorenzo Rocco

11602: The Risks and Benefits of School Integration for Participating Students: Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program

Peter Bergman

11601: Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Paul Hufe, Ravi Kanbur and Andreas Peichl

11600: Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection

Sanjay Chugh, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl

11599: Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?

Christian Gillitzer and Mathias Sinning

11598: Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data

Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné and Jonathan Paré

11597: Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Ahmed Elsayed

11596: Women Legislators and Economic Performance

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min and Yogesh Uppal

11595: Voting as a War of Attrition

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros and Michael Vlassopoulos

11594: Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs and Timothy Hinks

11593: Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure

John Bennett and Matthew Rablen

11592: Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study

David Dickinson and David Masclet

11591: The Impact of Mental Problems on Mortality and How It Is Moderated by Education

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä and Per Tynelius

11590: Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation

Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Joseph Gomes and Atheendar Venkataramani

11589: Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Charles Courtemanche, Art Carden, Xilin Zhou and Murugi Ndirangu

11588: Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

11587: A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors

Badi Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton and Alain Pirotte

11586: Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Miriam Rinawi and Matthias Krapf

11585: Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland

Duncan McVicar, Andrew Park and Seamus McGuinness

11584: Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Luis C. Carvajal-Osorio

11583: Faces of Joblessness in Ireland: A People-Centred Perspective on Employment Barriers and Policies

James Browne, Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Dirk Neumann, Daniele Pacifico and Céline Thévenot

11582: The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries

Céline Piton and Francois Rycx

11581: Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank

Kathrin Manthei and Dirk Sliwka

11580: The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses: Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity

Luke Boosey and Sebastian Goerg

11579: Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Vidhya Soundararajan

11578: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Anne Hilger, Christophe Nordman and Leopold Sarr

11577: The Signal of Applying for a Job under a Vacancy Referral Scheme

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Valentina Di Stasio and Stijn Baert

11576: Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue

Martin Andresen and Tarjei Havnes

11575: An Advisor like Me: Does Gender Matter?

Takao Kato and Yang Song

11574: Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK

Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Matt L. Huffman

11573: Education Expansion, Assortative Marriage, and Income Inequality in China

Haifeng Nie and Chunbing Xing

11572: Marital Patterns and Income Inequality

Arnaud Dupuy and Simon Weber

11571: Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples

Francisco Ferreira, Emanuela Galasso and Mario Negre

11570: Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data

Ronald Bachmann, Merve Cim and Colin Green

11569: Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China

Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Yaqin Su and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

11568: Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-Level Collective Agreements: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data

Andrea Garnero, Francois Rycx and Isabelle Terraz