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10852: Are Immigrant and Minority Homeownership Rates Gaining Ground in the US?

Durba Chakrabarty, Michael J. Osei, John Winters and Danyang Zhao

10851: Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment

Agnieszka Postepska

10850: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo

10849: Do Refugees Impact Voting Behavior in the Host Country? Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows in Turkey

Onur Altindag and Neeraj Kaushal

10848: English Proficiency and Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US

Ainoa Aparicio

10847: What Happens When Econometrics and Psychometrics Collide? An Example Using the PISA Data

John Jerrim, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo, Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez and Nikki Shure

10846: The Role of Demand in Fostering Product vs Process Innovation: A Model and an Empirical Test

Herbert Dawid, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

10845: Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships

Angus Holford

10844: Does Random Selection of Commissioners Improve the Quality of Selected Candidates? An Investigation in the Italian Academia

Daniele Checchi, Silvia De Poli and Enrico Rettore

10843: Education, Governance, Trade and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap

Maurice Schiff

10842: The Difficult School-To-Work Transition of High School Dropouts: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Andreea Minea

10841: The Assimilation of Young Workers into the Labour Market in France: A Stochastic Earnings Frontier Approach

Stephen Bazen and Khalid Maman Waziri

10840: Pension Rules and Labour Market Mobility

Marloes Lammers, Hans Bloemen and Stefan Hochguertel

10839: Long-Term Effects of Extended Unemployment Benefits for Older Workers

Tomi Kyyrä and Hanna Onerva Pesola

10838: Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe: Preference versus Salience

Timothy Hatton

10837: International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Alexander Patt, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold and Miguel Flores

10836: Can Gifted and Talented Education Raise the Academic Achievement of All High-Achieving Students?

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan and Erik Plug

10835: Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training

Mitchell Hoffman and Stephen Burks

10834: Disease and Fertility: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden

Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Maryna Ivets, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson

10833: Nonmarital and Teen Fertility

Jason Fletcher and Jessica Polos

10832: What Women Want (Their Men to Do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households

Gigi Foster and Leslie Stratton

10831: Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households

Gigi Foster and Leslie Stratton

10830: Women Make Houses, Women Make Homes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

10829: Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Nicole M. Fortin, Brian Bell and Michael Johannes Böhm

10828: An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science

Patrick Gaulé and Mario Piacentini

10827: Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Melvyn Coles and Marco Francesconi

10826: The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Astrid Kunze

10825: I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams

Leonie Gerhards and Michael Kosfeld

10824: Revealing the Economic Consequences of Group Cohesion

Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer and Fabio Tufano

10823: The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence

Jeremy Clark and David Dickinson

10822: The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market

Nicholas Papageorge, Victor Ronda and Yu Zheng

10821: Unordered Monotonicity

James Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto

10820: Social Comparisons in Oligopsony

Laszlo Goerke and Michael Neugart

10819: Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini and Michele Di Maio

10818: Roots of Autocracy

Oded Galor and Marc Klemp

10817: Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs

Sarah J. Fossett and Phanindra Wunnava

10816: Industrial Espionage and Productivity

Albrecht Glitz and Erik Meyersson

10815: Racing against Time in Research: A Study of the 1995 U.S. Patent Law Amendment

Jinyoung Kim

10814: Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap

Shelly Lundberg

10813: Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children

Christina Gathmann and Björn Sass

10812: Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes

Natalia Danzer, Martin Halla, Nicole Schneeweis and Martina Zweimüller

10811: Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis Garcia, James Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf and María José Prados

10810: Economic Conditions at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood: Evidence from New Cohorts

Rob Alessie, Viola Angelini, Gerard van den Berg, Jochen Mierau and Laura Viluma

10809: Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data

Gerard van den Berg, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Stephanie von Hinke, Maarten Lindeboom, Johannes Lissdaniels, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist

10808: Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID

Chenggang Wang, Huixia Wang and Timothy Halliday

10807: War during Childhood: The Long Run Effects of Warfare on Health

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

10806: The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results

Michael Clemens and Jennifer Hunt

10805: Less Welfare or Fewer Foreigners? Immigrant Inflows and Public Opinion towards Redistribution and Migration Policy

Elie Murard

10804: The Long-Awaited Rise of the Middle Class in Latin America Is Finally Happening

Maurizio Bussolo, Maryla Maliszewska and Elie Murard

10803: The Effect of Social Networks on the Economic Outcomes of a Disadvantaged Group: Evidence from Tribal Affiliations

Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

10802: Macroeconomic Determinants of International Migration to the UK

Giuseppe Forte and Jonathan Portes

10801: Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable

Laurent Davezies and Thomas Le Barbanchon

10800: Eliciting Permanent and Transitory Undeclared Work from Matched Administrative and Survey Data

Péter Elek and János Köllő

10799: Estimating the Effects of Potential Benefit Duration without Variation in the Maximum Duration of Unemployment Benefits

Tomi Kyyrä and Hanna Onerva Pesola

10798: The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion in the Finnish Labor Market

Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Onerva Pesola and Jouko Verho

10797: Adults Behaving Badly: The Effects of Own and Peer Parents' Incarceration on Adolescent Criminal Activities

Jason Fletcher

10796: Optimizing Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Prison

Giovanni Mastrobuoni and David Rivers

10795: Behavioral Insights and Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Nicholas Biddle, Katja Fels and Mathias Sinning

10794: Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training

Mitchell Hoffman and Stephen Burks

10793: Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin

10792: Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes

Antonio Filippin and Francesca Gioia

10791: Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Eduardo Fraga, Gustavo Gonzaga and Rodrigo Soares

10790: Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice

Maria Humlum, Anne Brink Nandrup and Nina Smith

10789: The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting Out the Past 30 Years

Yana Gallen, Rune V. Lesner and Rune Vejlin

10788: Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama

10787: Sir! I'd Rather Go to School, Sir!

Mahdi Majbouri

10786: How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas and Paul Redmond

10785: The Dynamics of Study-Work Choice and Its Effect on Intended and Actual University Attainment

Xiaodong Gong

10784: Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

Nicholas Wilson and Todd Pugatch

10783: How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Erik Kimbrough, Andrew McGee and Hitoshi Shigeoka

10782: High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions

Philipp Vom Berge and Hanna Frings

10781: Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Florian Engl, Arno Riedl and Roberto Weber

10780: Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Santosh Kumar and Nishith Prakash

10779: Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians

Mark Borgschulte and Jacob Vogler

10778: Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye and Mutlu Yuksel

10777: The Hedonic Approach to Vineyard Site Selection: Adaptation to Climate Change and Grape Growing in Emerging Markets

Orley Ashenfelter

10776: Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors

Olena Nizalova and Edward Norton

10775: Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter

Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyay

10774: Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency

Milena Nikolova and Olga Popova

10773: Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?

Terhi Maczulskij and Petri Böckerman

10772: The Education Motive for Migrant Remittances: Theory and Evidence from India

Matthieu Delpierre, Arnaud Dupuy, Michel Tenikue and Bertrand Verheyden

10771: U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration

Khulan Altangerel and Jan van Ours

10770: Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Tomi Kyyrä, Jose Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano

10769: Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen Jones and W. Craig Riddell

10768: Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways: Bridge or Trap?

Duncan McVicar, Mark Wooden and King Fok

10767: Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy

Francesco Pastore

10766: The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships

Andrea Albanese, Lorenzo Cappellari and Marco Leonardi

10765: The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda

Mabel Andalón and John Gibson

10764: Displacement and Debt: The Role of Debt in Returning to Work in the Period Following the Great Recession

Robert W. Bednarzik, Andreas Kern and John Hisnanick

10763: Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Martin Biewen and Matthias Seckler

10762: Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015

Olle Hammar and Daniel Waldenström

10761: Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Paul Bingley and Lorenzo Cappellari

10760: Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Keigo Inukai, Keisuke Kawata and Masaru Sasaki

10759: Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis

Andrew Oswald and Ahmed Tohamy

10758: Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis Garcia, James Heckman and Anna Ziff

10757: Fertility Effects of Child Benefits

Regina Riphahn and Frederik Wiynck

10756: The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John van Reenen

10755: Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?

Michael Babington, Sebastian Goerg and Carl Kitchens

10754: Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang and Martin Sefton

10753: Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals

Nikos Askitas