In the second quarter of 2018, HCEO members submitted 22 new working papers, on topics ranging from fathers' role in skill development to the impact of changes in manufacturing. Browse our most recent working papers below:
- 2018-039: Maternal education, parental investment and non-cognitive characteristics in rural China by Jessica E. Leight and Elaine Liu
- 2018-038: Does Hope Lead to Better Futures? Evidence from a Survey of the Life Choices of Young Adults in Peru by Carol Graham and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo
- 2018-037: Redistribution through Markets by Piotr Dworczak, Scott Duke Kominers and Mohammad Akbarpour
- 2018-036: Environmental Bottlenecks on Children’s Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock by Jason Fletcher
- 2018-035: Survey item-response behavior as an imperfect proxy for unobserved ability: Theory and application by Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and Stefanie Schurer
- 2018-034: Exploring the role of fathers in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse by Rosemary Elkins and Stefanie Schurer
- 2018-033: Understanding the mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect lifetime economic outcomes by Stefanie Schurer and Kristian Trajkovski
- 2018-032: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children by Orazio Attanasio, Teodora Boneva and Christopher Rauh
- 2018-031: Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets by Bjorn Bartling, Alexander Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden
- 2018-030: Investing in People: The Case for Human Capital Tax Credits by Rui Costa, Nikhil Datta, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally
- 2018-029: Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams by Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
- 2018-028: The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment by Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Mariel Schwartz
- 2018-027: Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment by Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix and Steeve Marchand
- 2018-026: Longer, More Optimistic, Lives: Historic Optimism and Life Expectancy in the United States by Kelsey J. O'Connor and Carol Graham
- 2018-025: The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment by Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Pia Pinger, Hannah Schildberg-Horisch and Armin Falk
- 2018-024: Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind by Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova and Carol Graham
- 2018-023: Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment by Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn
- 2018-022: Race and the City by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Stephen L. Ross
- 2018-021: Maternal Depression, Women’s Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial by Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli and Joanna Maselko
- 2018-020: Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance: A cross-country analysis by Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini and Sarah Grace See
- 2018-019: On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting by Pierre Nguimkeu, Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis
- 2018-018: Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation by Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis