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5211: The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Jacques Poot and Steven Stillman
5210: Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach
Anita Vaskova Staneva , Reza Arabsheibani and Philip D. Murphy
5209: The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Gautam Hazarika and Vejoya Viren
5208: Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia
Mark M. Pitt and Nidhiya Menon
5207: Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova
Daniela Borodak and Matloob Piracha
5206: Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
David Masclet , Charles Noussair and Marie Claire Villeval
5205: Tests of Hypotheses Arising in the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
James J. Heckman and Daniel Schmierer
5204: Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Loukas Balafoutas , Martin Georg Kocher , Louis Putterman and Matthias Sutter
5203: Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
Robert W. Fairlie , Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates
5202: Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Markus Poschke
5201: Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger
5200: Respect as an Incentive
Tor Eriksson and Marie Claire Villeval
5199: Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany
Martyna Marczak and Thomas Beissinger
5198: Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?
Danny Cohen-Zada and William Sander
5197: Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Guido Heineck and Oliver Wölfel
5196: Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance
Torben M Andersen and Michael Svarer
5195: Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
Peter Joseph Kuhn and Kailing SHEN
5194: The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Seonghoon Kim , Quheng Deng , Belton M. Fleisher and Shi Li
5193: Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
Lina Bergström and Maarten van Ham
5192: The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Olena Y. Nizalova
5191: Wage Subsidies, Work Incentives, and the Reform of the Austrian Welfare System
Viktor Steiner and Florian Wakolbinger
5190: Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
Laurens Cherchye , Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen
5189: Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Lorenz Götte , David Huffman , Stephan Meier and Matthias Sutter
5188: Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians
Bernard Fortin , Nicolas Jacquemet and Bruce S. Shearer
5187: Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland
5186: Splitting Tournaments
Edwin Leuven , Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw
5185: Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe
Mariya Aleksynska and Yann Algan
5184: Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
Bernard M.S. van Praag , Dmitri Romanov and Ada Ferrer--Carbonell
5183: The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
Joachim Wagner
5182: Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from China
Yi Chen , Xiaoyan Lei and Li-An Zhou
5181: Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?
l'Haridon, Olivier , Franck MALHERBET and Sébastien Pérez-Duarte
5180: Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?
Didier Fouarge , Trudie Schils and Andries de Grip
5179: Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China
Weiwei Ren and Paul W. Miller
5178: Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Judith Niehues
5177: Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?
Heléne Lundqvist , Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk
5176: Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques MAIRESSE
5175: From Estimation Results to Stylized Facts: Twelve Recommendations for Empirical Research in International Activities of Heterogeneous Firms
Joachim Wagner
5174: Risk Management among the Poor: The Case of Microfinancial Services
Thankom Arun and Mirko Bendig
5173: House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
James Banks , Richard Blundell , Zoe Oldfield and James P. Smith
5172: Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries
Jason M. Lindo and Charles Stoecker
5171: Using "Shares" vs. "Log of Shares" in Fixed-Effect Estimations
Christer Gerdes
5170: The Dilemma of Delegating Search: Budgeting in Public Employment Services
John Addison , Martin Altemeyer-Bartscher and Thomas Kuhn
5169: Poorer Health – Shorter Hours? Health and Flexibility of Hours of Work
Johannes Geyer and Michal Myck
5168: Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
James Banks , Richard Blundell , Zoe Oldfield and James P. Smith
5167: Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?
Alison Lee Booth and Pamela Katic
5166: Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Belgi Turan
5165: Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence for Germany
Marco Caliendo , Ricarda Schmidl and Arne Uhlendorff
5164: Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Javier Eduardo Baez , Alejandro de la Fuente and Indhira Santos
5163: Within- and Cross-Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth
Anders Frederiksen , Timothy J. Halliday and Alexander Karl Koch
5162: Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis
John Addison and Orgul Demet Ozturk
5161: Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS
James Banks , Alastair Muriel and James P. Smith
5160: Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality
Andreas Kuhn , Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller
5159: Economic Governance of MFIs: Inside the Black Box
Thankom Arun and Samuel Kobina Annim
5158: Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Gil S. Epstein , Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan
5157: Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank
Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters
5156: Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics
Andrew Dillon , Elena Bardasi , Kathleen Beegle and Pieter M. Serneels
5155: Household Choices and Child Development
Daniela Del Boca , Christopher Flinn and Matthew James Wiswall
5154: Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
Boris Hirsch and Claus Schnabel
5153: Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?
Paul Frijters , David W. Johnston , Manisha Shah and Michael Shields
5152: Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
John Strauss , Xiaoyan Lei , Albert Park , Yan Shen , James P. Smith , Zhe Yang and Yaohui Zhao
5151: International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Peng Sun and Almas Heshmati
5150: Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Michael Christopher Burda and Mark Weder
5149: Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Hongbin Li , Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang
5148: Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 Data
Guangjie Ning
5147: Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Yama Temouri , Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner
5146: Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah and Gaston Isaias Yalonetzky
5145: Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods
Tomer Blumkin , Bradley Ruffle and Yosef Ganun
5144: Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours
Martin F. Ryan , Liam Delaney and Colm P. Harmon
5143: Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger
Arnaud Dupuy
5142: Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis
Randall Akee , Arnab K. Basu , Nancy H. Chau and Melanie Khamis
5141: Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers: Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
Aslan Zorlu and Clara H. Mulder
5140: The Elephant in the Corner: A Cautionary Tale about Measurement Error in Treatment Effects Models
Daniel L. Millimet
5139: High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
Ainhoa Aparicio
5138: Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Shoshana Grossbard
5137: Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation under Incomplete Markets
Rahul Anand and Eswar Prasad
5136: The Distribution of Earnings under Monopsonistic/polistic Competition
Jacques François Thisse and Eric Toulemonde
5135: Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity
Randall Akee , Emilia Simeonova , William Copeland , Adrian Angold and Jane E. Costello
5134: Foreign Labour Migration and the Economic Crisis in the EU: Ongoing and Remaining Issues of the Migrant Workforce in Germany
Anna Myunghee Kim
5133: Productivity under Large Pay Increases: Evidence from Professional Baseball
Kerry L. Papps
5132: A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India
Mehtabul Azam and Nishith Prakash
5131: The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer
5130: The Desirability of Workfare as a Welfare Ordeal – Revisited
Tomer Blumkin , Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka
5129: The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Jiong Tu
5128: Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Jiong Tu
5127: Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Fredrik Carlsson , Haoran He , Peter Martinsson , Ping Qin and Matthias Sutter
5126: Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?
Heiko Stüber and Thomas Beissinger
5125: Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
David McKenzie and Dean Yang
5124: The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
John Gibson and David McKenzie
5123: Migration and Culture
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang
5122: Does Culture Matter?
Raquel Fernández
5121: Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses
Ana Rute Cardoso , Paulo Guimaraes and Jose Varejao
5120: Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000
Randall Akee and Mutlu Yuksel
5119: How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates
Xiaodong Gong , Robert Vincent Breunig and Anthony King
5118: Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
Christian Bredemeier and Falko Juessen
5117: Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?
Christian Merkl and Dennis Wesselbaum
5116: Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst
5115: Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
Maarten van Ham , Lee Williamson , Peteke Feijten and Paul Boyle
5114: Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom
Robert Holzmann
5113: Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave
Juliane Parys and Gregor Schwerhoff
5112: The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
David Powell and Joachim Wagner