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Finding the Genomic Basis of Local Adaptation: Pitfalls, Practical Solutions, and Future Directions by Hoban, Sean, Kelley, Joanna L., Lotterhos, Katie E., Antolin, Michael F., Bradburd, Gideon, Lowry, David B., Poss, Mary L., Reed, Laura K., Storfer, Andrew, Whitlock, Michael C.

“…Uncovering the genetic and evolutionary basis of local adaptation is a major focus of evolutionary biology. The recent development of cost-effective methods…”
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Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy by Christiano, Lawrence J., Eichenbaum, Martin, Evans, Charles L.

“…We present a model embodying moderate amounts of nominal rigidities that accounts for the observed inertia in inflation and persistence in output. The key…”
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Save More Tomorrow™: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving by Thaler, Richard H., Benartzi, Shlomo

“…As firms switch from defined‐benefit plans to defined‐contribution plans, employees bear more responsibility for making decisions about how much to save. The…”
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Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory by Card, David, Cardoso, Ana Rute, Heining, Joerg, Kline, Patrick

“…We synthesize two related literatures on firm-level drivers of wage inequality. Studies of rent sharing that use matched worker-firm data find elasticities of…”
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Selection on observed and unobserved variables: Assessing the effectiveness of Catholic schools by Altonji, Joseph G, Elder, Todd E, Taber, Christopher R

“…In this paper we measure the effect of Catholic high school attendance on educational attainment and test scores. Because we do not have a good instrumental…”
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Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The Anticolonial Frame and the Rise of Illiberal Populism by Korolczuk, Elżbieta, Graff, Agnieszka

“…This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights, and sex education, which vilify the term “gender” in…”
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Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research by Kopp, Michael, Servedio, Maria R., Mendelson, Tamra C., Safran, Rebecca J., Rodríguez, Rafael L., Hauber, Mark E., Scordato, Elizabeth C., Symes, Laurel B., Balakrishnan, Christopher N., Zonana, David M., van Doorn, G. Sander

“…The large body of theory on speciation with gene flow has brought to light fundamental differences in the effects of two types of mating rules on speciation:…”
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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s by Acemoglu, Daron, Autor, David, Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H., Price, Brendan

“…Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved…”
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Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation by Butlin, Roger K., Smadja, Carole M.

“…During the process of speciation, populations may diverge for traits and at their underlying loci that contribute barriers to gene flow. These barrier traits…”
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A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis by Lagos, Ricardo, Wright, Randall

“…Search‐theoretic models of monetary exchange are based on explicit descriptions of the frictions that make money essential. However, tractable versions of…”
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INORDINATE FONDNESS MULTIPLIED AND REDISTRIBUTED: THE NUMBER OF SPECIES ON EARTH AND THE NEW PIE OF LIFE by Larsen, Brendan B., Miller, Elizabeth C., Rhodes, Matthew K., Wiens, John J.

“…The number of species on Earth is one of the most fundamental numbers in science, but one that remains highly uncertain. Clearly, more species exist than the…”
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Skill requirements across firms and labor markets: Evidence from job postings for professionals by Deming, David, Kahn, Lisa B

“…We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into 10 general…”
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Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach by Miguel, Edward, Satyanath, Shanker, Sergenti, Ernest

“…Estimating the impact of economic conditions on the likelihood of civil conflict is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variable bias. We use rainfall…”
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Thermoregulatory Behavior Simultaneously Promotes and Forestalls Evolution in a Tropical Lizard by Muñoz, Martha M., Losos, Jonathan B.

“…The role of behavior in evolution has long been discussed, with some arguing that behavior promotes evolution by exposing organisms to selection (behavioral…”
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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Prices by Bils, Mark, Klenow, Peter J.

“…We examine the frequency of price changes for 350 categories of goods and services covering about 70 percent of consumer spending, on the basis of unpublished…”
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Urban Decline and Durable Housing by Glaeser, Edward L., Gyourko, Joseph

“…Urban decline is not the mirror image of growth, and durable housing is the primary reason the nature of decline is so different. This paper presents a model…”
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Beyond Thermal Performance Curves: Modeling Time-Dependent Effects of Thermal Stress on Ectotherm Growth Rates by Kingsolver, Joel G., Woods, H. Arthur

“…Thermal performance curves have been widely used to model the ecological responses of ectotherms to variable thermal environments and climate change. Such…”
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Understanding peer effects: On the nature, estimation, and channels of peer effects by Feld, Jan, Zölitz, Ulf

“…This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on…”
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The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties by Allen, Jafari Sinclaire, Jobson, Ryan Cecil, Channa, Subhadra Mitra, Schiller, Nina Glick, Hale, Charles R., Nyamnjoh, Francis B.

“…In the wake of anthropology’s much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of “Third World” peoples, women, and queer…”
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When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much? by Gelbach, Jonah B.

“…Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular coefficient’s “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this…”
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