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16294: Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs: What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?

Derek Wu and Bruce D. Meyer

16293: Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty

Margarita Leib, Nils Köbis, Rainer Michael Rilke, Marloes Hagens and Bernd Irlenbusch

16292: Tightening Access to Early Retirement: Who Can Adapt?

Bernhard Boockmann, Martin Kroczek and Natalie Laub

16291: The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

Stefan Bauernschuster, Matthias Blum, Erik Hornung and Christoph Koenig

16290: Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?

Andrew Clark and Maria Cotofan

16289: Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL

Quinn Keefer and Thomas Kniesner

16288: The Oral Contraceptive Pill and Adolescents' Mental Health

Ana Costa-Ramón, N. Meltem Daysal and Ana Rodríguez-González

16287: Later-Life Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition

David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Anthony Wray

16286: Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Aline Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell G Salvanes

16285: Welfare Reform and Migrant's Long-Term Labor Market Integration

Johannes Kunz and Anna Zhu

16284: Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler, David B. Huffman and Collin Raymond

16283: Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers

David B. Huffman, Collin Raymond and Julia Shvets

16282: Illicit Shadows: An Economic Analysis of Trade Gaps in Cultural Goods through the Italian Market

Elia Acciai, Michele Belloni, Marina Della Giusta and Giovanna Segre

16281: Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Timothy Hatton

16280: (Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health

Aline Bütikofer, Rita Ginja, Krzysztof Karbownik and Fanny Landaud

16279: Pro-environment Attitudes and Worker Commuting Behavior

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

16278: Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity

Jakob Alfitian, Marvin Deversi and Dirk Sliwka

16277: The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections

Mark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt and Xinyu Zhao

16276: Writing Tips for Crafting Effective Economics Research Papers – 2023-2024 Edition

Plamen Nikolov

16275: Policy Diffusion through Elections

Hitoshi Shigeoka and Yasutora Watanabe

16274: Time on the Crossing: Emigrant Voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913

Timothy Hatton

16273: Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility

Catherine Haeck and Jean-William Laliberté

16272: Diluted Blood Still Better than Water? The Beneficial Effects of Politicians' Birthplaces on Refugee Acceptance

Hai-Anh Dang and Trong-Anh Trinh

16271: Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

16270: Universal Investments in Toddler Health. Learning from a Large Government Trial

Jennifer L. Baker, Lise G. Bjerregaard, Christian Dahl, Torben S. D. Johansen, Emil N. Sørensen and Miriam Wüst

16269: Come Out and Play: Public Space Recovery, Social Capital, and Citizen Security

Matías Braun, Francisco Gallego and Rodrigo Soares

16268: What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data

Antoine Bertheau, Birthe Larsen and Zeyu Zhao

16267: Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?

Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser

16266: The Effects of Cash for Clunkers on Local Air Quality

Ines Helm, Nicolas Koch and Alexander Rohlf

16265: State-Level Trucking Employment and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S: Understanding Heterogenous Declines and Rebounds

Jonathan Phares, Jason W. Miller and Stephen Burks

16264: Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment

Oded Stark

16263: Assessing the Fertility Effects of Childcare Cost Subsidies: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit

Susan L. Averett and Yang Wang

16262: Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand

Anna Bottasso, Massimiliano Bratti, Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

16261: When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment

Luisa Wieser, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Cornelia Niessen and Mauren Wolff

16260: Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Annette Alstadsæter, Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

16259: The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises

Zhong Zhao and Liang Zheng

16258: Spillover Effects of Black Teachers on White Teachers' Racial Competency: Mixed Methods Evidence from North Carolina

Seth Gershenson, Constance A. Lindsay, Nicholas Papageorge, Romaine A. Campbell and Jessica H. Rendon

16257: Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being: Evidence from the Child Care Market

Jessica H. Brown and Chris M. Herbst

16256: The Impact of Pension Reform on Employment, Retirement and Disability Insurance Claims

Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott and Knut Røed

16255: China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

16254: Unpacking Name-Based Race Discrimination

Martin Abel and Rulof Burger

16253: Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts

Jeffrey G. Shrader, Laura Bakkensen and Derek Lemoine

16252: Improving School Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Gautam Anand, Aishwarya Atluri, Lee Crawfurd, Todd Pugatch and Ketki Sheth

16251: Mobility Restrictions and Alcohol Use during Lockdown: 'A Still and Dry Pandemic for the Many'?

Martina Celidoni, Joan Costa-Font and Luca Salmasi

16250: Sibling Spillovers May Enhance the Efficacy of Targeted School Policies

David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik and Umut Özek

16249: The Fast and the Studious? Ramadan Observance and Student Performance

Kyra Hanemaaijer, Olivier Marie and Marco Musumeci

16248: Financial Incentives and Private Health Insurance Demand on the Extensive and Intensive Margins

Nathan Kettlewell and Yuting Zhang

16247: Access to Guns in the Heat of the Moment: More Restrictive Gun Laws Mitigate the Effect of Temperature on Violence

Jonathan Colmer and Jennifer Doleac

16246: Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions

Luca Henkel and Christian Zimpelmann

16245: Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers

Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola and Giulia Tura

16244: Where Are the Fathers? The Effects of Earmarking Parental Leave on Fathers in France

Hélène Périvier and Gregory Verdugo

16243: Medical Brain Drain – Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits

Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay and Yuanyuan Gu

16242: Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness?

Santiago Budría, Alejandro Betancourt-Odio and Eszter Wirth

16241: Feelings in Travel Episodes and Extreme Temperatures

Ignacio Belloc, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

16240: Does the Tendency for 'Quiet Quitting' Differ across Generations? Evidence from the UK

Odessa S. Hamilton, Daniel Jolles and Grace Lordan

16239: Bridging the Gap: Mismatch Effects and Catch-up Dynamics in a Brazilian College Affirmative Action

Rodrigo Oliveira, Alei Santos and Edson Severnini

16238: Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics

Elizabeth Brainerd and Olga Malkova

16237: The Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Mental Health in the United States

Clemente Pignatti and Zachary Parolin

16236: The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes

Karen Clay, Alex Hollingsworth and Edson Severnini

16235: Disability Insurance Screening and Worker Outcomes

Alexander Ahammer and Analisa Packham

16234: Pricing Neighborhoods

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James Heckman and Goya Razavi

16233: External Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap

Wolfgang Frimmel, Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rene Wiesinger and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

16232: Learning during the Pandemic: Evidence from Uzbekistan

Syedah Aroob Iqbal and Harry Patrinos

16231: Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration

Jingting Fan and Lei Li

16230: New Evidence on the Underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Leadership Positions

Maria Zhu

16229: The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

16228: When Death Was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage

Mette Ejrnæs, Esteban Garcia-Miralles, Mette Gørtz and Petter Lundborg

16227: New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Stefania Albanesi, António Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo and Alena Wabitsch

16226: Household and Individual Economic Responses to Different Health Shocks: The Role of Medical Innovations

Volha Lazuka

16225: Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?

Luca Flabbi and Mauricio Tejada

16224: The Anatomy of Competitiveness

Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek

16223: The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

16222: Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach

Cha’Ngom, Narcisse, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier and Joël Machado

16221: Taking a Chance on Workers: Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT

Tania Barham, Brian Cadena and Patrick Turner

16220: Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa

16219: Examining the Determinants of Managers' Hiring Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey

Tony Fang, Tingting Zhang and John Hartley

16218: Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination

Štěpán Mikula and Josef Montag

16217: Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment

Vegar Bjørnshagen, Dan-Olof Rooth and Elisabeth Ugreninov

16216: Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers: Evidence from Poland

Zuzanna Kowalik, Piotr Lewandowski and Pawel Kaczmarczyk

16215: Preference-Choice Mismatch and University Dropout

Didier Fouarge and Pascal Heß

16214: Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market

Shyamal Chowdhury and Prachi Singh

16213: Trade Liberalization and Local Labor Markets in Morocco

Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Daniela Ruiz Zárate

16212: Baby Bump? Birth Month, Family Income, and Early Childhood Development

Dave Marcotte and Katherine Engel

16211: Stimulus through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt

Gizem Kosar, Davide Melcangi, Laura Pilossoph and David Wiczer

16210: Roots of Inequality

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp and Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock

16209: Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis

Viola Angelini and Joan Costa-Font

16208: Fertility, Son-Preference, and the Reversal of the Gender Gap in Literacy/Numeracy Tests

Minhee Chae, Xin Meng and Sen Xue

16207: China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply: The Quantity Myth

Xin Meng

16206: Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence

Lucio Morettini and Max Tani

16205: A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Alex Lyford and Mingfang Zhang

16204: Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages

Gökay Demir

16203: Managerial Practices and Student Performance: Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Adriana Di Liberto, Ludovica Giua, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri and Giovanni Sulis

16202: Fixed Effects and Causal Inference

Daniel Millimet and Marc Bellemare

16201: COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship

Alina Sorgner

16200: Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences

Ernst Fehr and Gary Charness

16199: Innovation and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Nicoletta Corrocher, Daniele Moschella, Jacopo Staccioli and Marco Vivarelli

16198: First Generation College Students and Peer Effects

Michael Kofoed and Todd Jones

16197: Playing the System: Address Manipulation and Access to Schools

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen, Mikkel Gandil and Hans Henrik Sievertsen

16196: The Employment Effects of a Wage Subsidy for the Young during an Economic Recovery

Astrid Kunze, Marta Palczyńska and Iga Magda

16195: The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education

Marina Dodlova, Michelle Escobar Carias and Michael Grimm