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10618: Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda and Atheendar Venkataramani

10617: Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?

Soohyung Lee and Chiara Orsini

10616: Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents: Evidence from Sweden

Lina Aldén, Anders Bjorklund and Mats Hammarstedt

10615: Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya

David McKenzie and Olga Susana Puerto

10614: Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies

Guy Johnson, David Ribar and Anna Zhu

10613: Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil, Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

10612: The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review

Geeta Kingdon

10611: Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann and Andries de Grip

10610: Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major

Sungjin Cho, Jihye Kam and Soohyung Lee

10609: Honesty toward the Holy Day

Ronen Bar-El and Yossef Tobol

10608: On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Ritwik Banerjee and Arnab Mitra

10607: Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser and Andreas Roider

10606: Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

10605: The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift

Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov

10604: The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin Green and Vincenzo Scoppa

10603: Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Xin Meng and Luigi Minale

10602: On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carlos Gratereaux Hernández and Susan Pozo

10601: Job-to-Job Transitions, Sorting, and Wage Growth

David Carson Jinkins and Annaïg Morin

10600: Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football

Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Bryson and Rob Simmons

10599: Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market

David Dickinson, David Masclet and Emmanuel Peterle

10598: Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Russell Weinstein

10597: The Perfect Storm: Graduating in a Recession in a Segmented Labor Market

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

10596: Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts

Elizabeth Cascio

10595: Where's the Teacher? How Teacher Workplace Segregation Impedes Teacher Allocation in India

Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen

10594: Long Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School

Edwin Leuven and Sturla Løkken

10593: Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg

10592: Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health among Young Mothers?

Albert Young-Il Kim and Jungmin Lee

10591: Zika Virus Prevalence, Correlates and Preventive Behaviors: New Evidence from Survey Data

José-Raimundo Carvalho, Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Climent Quintana-Domeque

10590: Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares and Daniel I. Rees

10589: The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-Utero Exposure and Labor Market Outcomes

Hannes Schwandt

10588: Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Marie Claire Villeval

10587: Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Mosi Rosenboim and Offer Moshe Shapir

10586: Girls Helping Girls: The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices

Pål Schøne, Kristine von Simson and Marte Strøm

10585: Gender Differences in the Link between Income and Trust Levels: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Jessica R. Bilson, Michael Jetter and Ingebjørg Kristoffersen

10584: Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market

Eric Mak and Aloysius Siow

10583: A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

10582: The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance

Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore and Gian Paolo Barbetta

10581: Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

10580: Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio García Pérez and Marcel Jansen

10579: Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors

Romina Giuliano, Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy and Francois Rycx

10578: State Health Insurance Mandates and Labor Market Outcomes: New Evidence on Old Questions

Yaa Akosa Antwi and Johanna Maclean

10577: I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Deniz Gevrek, Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins and Valrie Chambers

10576: Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

10575: Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

10574: On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony Atkinson and Jørgen Modalsli

10573: An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Charlotte Bartels and Maria Metzing

10572: Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes

Arindrajit Dube

10571: Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence

Barry Hirsch, David Macpherson and Anne E. Preston

10570: The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

10569: Religious Pluralism and the Transmission of Religious Values through Education

Danny Cohen-Zada and Todd Elder

10568: The Effect of School Entrance Age on Educational Outcomes: Evidence Using Multiple Cutoff Dates and Exact Date of Birth

Itay Attar and Danny Cohen-Zada

10567: Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Nicholas Papageorge and Kevin Thom

10566: Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China

Paul Glewwe, Qiuqiong Huang and Albert Park

10565: Money Counts, but So Does Timing: Public Investment and Adult Competencies

Alison Cathles and Jo Ritzen

10564: Equal Opportunity through Higher Education: Theory and Evidence on Privilege and Ability

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El and Yossef Tobol

10563: Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?

Bart Golsteyn and Cécile A. J. Magnée

10562: Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart Golsteyn and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

10561: Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits

Silke Anger, Georg Camehl and Frauke Peter

10560: Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities

Sandra Black, Erik Grönqvist and Björn Öckert

10559: The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries

Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii and Karl Schulze

10558: The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data

Christian Neumeier, Todd Sorensen and Douglas Webber

10557: Household Bargaining, Spouses' Consumption Patterns and the Design of Commodity Taxes

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Kerstin Roeder

10556: Marriage Markets in Developing Countries

S Anukriti and Shatanjaya Dasgupta

10555: Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh and Christophe Rault

10554: Impact of Financial Crises on Dynamics of Capital Structure: Evidence from Korean Listed Companies

Lyubov Tsoy and Almas Heshmati

10553: Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea

Bobae Noh and Almas Heshmati

10552: Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters and Robert Sparrow

10551: Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy

Nicola Fontana, Tommaso Nannicini and Guido Tabellini

10550: Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer and Cédric Gorinas

10549: Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?

Michael White and Alex Bryson

10548: Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation

Michael Clemens and Hannah M. Postel

10547: Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools

Naureen Karachiwalla and Albert Park

10546: The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs

Sebastian Goerg, Sebastian Kube and Jonas Radbruch

10545: True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment

Stephen Cheung and Lachlan Johnstone

10544: Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes

David Bjerk

10543: You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age

Stefan Boes and Steven Stillman

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Nick Zubanov, Charles Cadsby and Fei Song

10541: Recent Developments in the Irish Labour Market: Is It All Good News?

Elish Kelly and Alan Barrett

10540: Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?

Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

10539: Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

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

10538: Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Jason Fletcher and Stefanie Schurer

10537: The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers

Emily Beam, Joshua Hyman and Caroline Theoharides

10536: University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium: Evidence from the UK

Ian Walker and Yu Zhu

10535: Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly

Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

10534: Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier

Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon Polachek

10533: The Economics of Replication

Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff and Gert Wagner

10532: Practical Procedures to Deal with Common Support Problems in Matching Estimation

Michael Lechner and Anthony Strittmatter

10531: Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance

Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw and Arjan Heyma

10530: Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models

Chung Choe, SeEun Jung and Ronald Oaxaca

10529: The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla and Jörg Paetzold

10528: Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market

Wenchao Li, Changcheng Song, Shu Xu and Junjian Yi

10527: Cleaning in the Shadow of the Law? Bargaining, Marital Investment, and the Impact of Divorce Law on Husbands' Intra-Household Work

Jennifer Roff

10526: Parents and Peers: Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes over Time

Elise de Vuijst and Maarten van Ham

10525: Bonus Skills: Examining the Effect of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Child Human Capital Formation

Jason Gaitz and Stefanie Schurer

10524: The Effect of Working Hours on Health

Inés Berniell and Jan Bietenbeck

10523: Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety

D’Ambrosio, Anna, Roberto Leombruni and Tiziano Razzolini

10522: Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana

Davide Dragone, Giovanni Prarolo, Paolo Vanin and Giulio Zanella

10521: Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany: Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)

Gert Wagner, Martin Bruemmer, Axel Glemser, Julia Rohrer and Jürgen Schupp

10520: Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana

Elwyn Davies and Marcel Fafchamps

10519: Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents

Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang and Songfa Zhong