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Well-being Increases in Age Among Workers: Evidence From 103 Countries
David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson #34786 (LS)
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Trade and US Inequality in the Tokyo Round
Andrew Greenland, James Lake, and John Lopresti #34785 (EFG)
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Changing Culture and Norms in Developing Countries
Eliana La Ferrara and David H. Yanagizawa-Drott #34784 (DEV, POL)
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Banking on Inattention
Xu Lu and Lingxuan Wu #34783 (CF, EFG)
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Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms
Virginia Minni, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons, and Carla Srebot #34782 (LS)
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Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model
Ajay K. Agrawal, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl #34781 (LS, PR)
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Optimal Use of Preferences in Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Joshua S. Gans #34780 (PR)
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A.I. and Our Economic Future
Charles I. Jones #34779 (EFG)
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The Effect of Charter Schools on Identification, Service Provision, and Achievement of Students with Disabilities
Scott A. Imberman and Andrew S. Johnson #34778 (ED)
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AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books?
Imke Reimers and Joel Waldfogel #34777 (IO, PR)
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Audit Centralization and Audit Quality: Evidence from Chinese Cities
Jian Chu, Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang, and Maoliang Ye #34776 (DEV, PE)
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Immigration Restrictions and Natives' Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s US Quota Acts
James J. Feigenbaum, Yi-Ju Hung, Marco Tabellini, and Monia Tomasella #34775 (DAE, LS, PE)
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Estimating Demand Systems with Bidding Data
Jason Allen, Jakub Kastl, and Milena Wittwer #34774 (AP, IO)
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How do Foundations Help Charities (Beyond Giving them Money)?
Daniel M. Hungerman, Teresa Harrison, and Sherry X. Li #34773 (PE)
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Stress Relief? Externalities from Specialty Hospital Entry
Daniel R. Arnold, Michael R. Richards, and Christopher M. Whaley #34772 (EH)
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Dynamic Selection and the Puzzle of Slow Climate Change Adaptation in U.S. Agriculture
Robert Huang and Matthew E. Kahn #34771 (EEE, PR)
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The Life-cycle of Concentrated Industries
Martin Beraja and Francisco J. Buera #34770 (EFG, IO, PR)
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Why Does Height Pay? Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
Wilson King, Edward Miguel, and Michael W. Walker #34769 (DEV, EH, LS)
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Welfare Added? Optimal Teacher Assignment with Value-Added Measures
Tanner S. Eastmond, Michael Ricks, Julian Betts, and Nathan Mather #34768 (ED, LS, PE)
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Life-Cycle Effects of Women's Education on their Careers and Children
Na'ama Shenhav and Danielle H. Sandler #34767 (CH, ED, EH, LS, PE)
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Competition, Procurement and Learning-By-Doing in the Space Launch Industry
Ruibing Su, Chenyu Yang, and Andrew Sweeting #34766 (IO)
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The Future of Monetarism after Milton Friedman
Michael D. Bordo #34765 (ME)
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Driving Innovation: The Policy Tools Powering Electric Vehicle Technological Inventions
Jingni Zhang and David Popp #34763 (EEE, PR)
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Policy Uncertainty
Konstantinos Gavriilidis, Diego R. Känzig, Ramya Raghavan, and James H. Stock #34762 (EEE, EFG)
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Clientelism: How It Works, Why It Persists and How to Break It
Jimmy Graham, Horacio Larreguy, and Pablo Querubín #34761 (POL)
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Mapping Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Two Centuries of Patent Data
Antonin Bergeaud, Ruveyda Nur Gozen, and John Van Reenen #34760 (PR)
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Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth #34759 (PE)
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The Redistributive Effects of Federal Medicaid Outlays Across Counties: Evidence from the ACA
Laura Montenovo, Kosali I. Simon, and Coady Wing #34758 (EH, PE)
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What Happens When Dating Goes Online? Evidence from U.S. Marriage Markets and Health Outcomes
Daniel Ershov, Jessica Fong, and Pinar Yildirim #34757 (IO, PR)
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Wedges: A Microeconomic Perspective on Misallocation
Lauren F. Bergquist, Danial Lashkari, and Eric Verhoogen #34756 (DEV, EFG)
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Learning to Quit? A Multi-Year, Multi-Site Field Experiment with Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurs
Esther Bailey, Daniel Fehder, Eric Floyd, Yael Hochberg, and Daniel J. Lee #34755 (CF, PR)
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Neighborhood Policies: a Dynamic Analysis
Alessandra Fogli, Veronica Guerrieri, Mark Ponder, and Marta Prato #34754 (EFG)
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Is the Environmental Exposure Gap Shrinking? Evidence from an Extreme Multi-exposure Index
Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini #34739 (EEE)
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Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program
Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Thomas B. Foster, Lawrence F. Katz, Sonya Porter, Matthew Staiger, and Laura Tach #34720 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
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