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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

10752: Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes Riyanto and Jack Knetsch

10751: Consumer Loan Response to Permanent Labor Income Shocks: Evidence from a Major Minimum Wage Increase

Ibrahim Ethem Guney, Yavuz Selim Hacihasanoglu and Semih Tumen

10750: The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments

Christian Grund and Johannes Martin

10749: Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China

Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

10748: Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

10747: The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Daniel Henderson, Andrew Houtenville and Le Wang

10746: The Effects of Health Insurance Parity Laws for Substance Use Disorder Treatment on Traffic Fatalities: Evidence of Unintended Benefits

Ioana Popovici, Johanna Maclean and Michael French

10745: The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

Johanna Maclean and Brendan Saloner

10744: Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig and Nathalie Zongo

10743: Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Massimo Anelli, Kevin Shih and Kevin Williams

10742: Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Pietro Biroli, Daniela Del Boca, James Heckman, Lynne Pettler Heckman, Yu Kyung Koh, Sylvi Kuperman, Sidharth Moktan, Chiara Pronzato and Anna Ziff

10741: Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type

Leslie Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta, David Reimer and Anders Holm

10740: Marriage and Housework

Cristina Borra, Martin Browning and Almudena Sevilla

10739: Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility

Charles Courtemanche, Rusty Tchernis and Xilin Zhou

10738: Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005

Stijn Baert

10737: HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Alex Bryson and Michael White

10736: The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Jeffrey Carpenter

10735: Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable

Benedicte Carlsen and Karine Nyborg

10734: Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity

Thomas Graaff, Daniel Arribas-Bel and Ceren Ozgen

10733: Does Delayed Retirement Affect Youth Employment? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

Marco Bertoni and Giorgio Brunello

10732: Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski, Roma Keister, Wojciech Hardy and Szymon Górka

10731: The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China

Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston and Ang Sun

10730: Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany

Gerard van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff and Joachim Wolff

10729: The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan Dolado, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Linas Tarasonis

10728: Explaining Non-Employment Magnitude and Duration: The Case of Italy

Bruno Contini and Roberto Quaranta

10727: Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

10726: Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs and Sébastien Roux

10725: Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Lisa Kahn and Fabian Lange

10724: What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John van Reenen

10723: How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes

Archontis L. Pantsios and Solomon Polachek

10722: Working Hours and Productivity

Marion Collewet and Jan Sauermann

10721: Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness

Ravi Kanbur and Andy Snell

10720: The Hukou Impact on the Chinese Wage Structure

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

10719: Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia

Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas Mavromaras, Sue Richardson and Rong Zhu