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3610: Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers
Timothy J. Halliday and Sally Kwak
3609: Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Stephen V. Burks , Jeffrey Carpenter , Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini
3608: A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data
John Addison , Lutz Bellmann , André Pahnke and Paulino Teixeira
3607: Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility
Pedro S. Martins
3606: Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score
Joshua D Angrist and Guido M. Kuersteiner
3605: The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes
Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg
3604: Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
Paul Frijters , David W. Johnston and Michael Shields
3603: The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
Semih İbrahim Akçomak and Bas ter Weel
3602: Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Peter Joseph Kuhn and Carol McAusland
3601: Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany
Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich
3600: From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers
Annette Bergemann and Gerard J. van den Berg
3599: Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Massimiliano Bratti , Daniele Checchi and Antonio Filippin
3598: On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration
Douglas James Krupka
3597: New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
John Addison , McKinley L. Blackburn and Chad Cotti
3596: Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
3595: Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe
Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus F. Zimmermann
3594: Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?
Lina Song and Simon Mark Appleton
3593: Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data
Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg
3592: Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences: The Case of Italy
Vincenzo Caponi
3591: Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang
3590: Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
Dan Anderberg , Arnaud Chevalier and Jonathan Wadsworth
3589: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach
Tomislav Kovandzic , Mark E Schaffer and Gary Kleck
3588: Student Loans Repayment and Recovery: International Comparisons
Hua Shen and Adrian Ziderman
3587: The Impact of Relative Cohort Size on U.S. Fertility, 1913-2001
Yongil Jeon and Michael P. Shields
3586: The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities
Christer Gerdes and Eskil Wadensjö
3585: Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang
3584: Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures
Francesco Farina , O'Higgins, Shane Niall and Patrizia Sbriglia
3583: Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Amanda H. Goodall , Lawrence Kahn and Andrew J. Oswald
3582: Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Mohammad Niaz Asadullah and Rosa M. Fernández
3581: A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö
3580: Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Lorenz Götte and Alois Stutzer
3579: Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
Ana Iturriza , Arjun Singh Bedi and Robert Sparrow
3578: The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Philip Oreopoulos , Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz
3577: Self-Esteem and Earnings
Francesco Drago
3576: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Belton M. Fleisher , Haizheng Li and Min Qiang Zhao
3575: Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Guy Laroque and Bernard Salanié
3574: The Motherhood Wage Penalty in a Mediterranean Country: The Case of Spain
José Alberto Molina and Victor M. Montuenga
3573: Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Eva M. Sierminska , Joachim R. Frick and Markus M. Grabka
3572: Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999
M. Daniele Paserman
3571: The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?
Bertrand Candelon , Arnaud Dupuy and Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana
3570: Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question
Peter Fredriksson and Martin Söderström
3569: Why Should State Government Invest in College Education? An Equilibrium Approach for the US in 2000
Michael P. Shields
3568: The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview
Barry R. Chiswick
3567: Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Adama Konseiga
3566: Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms
Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb
3565: Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case
James J. Heckman , Sergio S Urzua and Edward Vytlacil
3564: Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration
Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig
3563: The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
3562: Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis
Juan David Barón and Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
3561: Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Torbjørn Hægeland , Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G Salvanes
3560: Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann
3559: Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Michael Lechner
3558: Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa: Implication for Development Policies
Ralitza Dimova Dimova , Christophe Jalil Nordman and François Roubaud
3557: Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries
Tim Callan , Timothy M. Smeeding and Panos Tsakloglou
3556: Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)
Murat F. Iyigun
3555: Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries
Andrea Bassanini , Luca Nunziata and Danielle Venn
3554: Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity
Kendra N. McLeish and Robert J. Oxoby
3553: On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence
Sara De La Rica , Juan J. Dolado and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa
3552: Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States
Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo
3551: The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada
Louis N. Christofides and Robert Swidinsky
3550: Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare
John Bennett
3549: The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sandra Sookram and Eric Albert Strobl
3548: Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
Keith Chen and Fabian Lange
3547: Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans
Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo
3546: Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children
Maria Concetta Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca
3545: The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the Role of Institutions
Willie Belton and Ruth Osarenti Uwaifo Oyelere
3544: The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
Eric Albert Strobl and Frank Walsh
3543: Crime and Partnerships
Michael Svarer
3542: Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers
Pedro S. Martins and Luiz Alberto Esteves
3541: The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature
Evelyn L. Lehrer
3540: Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003
Bernd Fitzenberger , Olga Orlyanskaya , Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Waller
3539: Gender Differences and the Timing of First Marriages
Javier Díaz-Giménez and Eugenio Pedro Giolito
3538: Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000
María Cervini-Plá and Xavi Ramos
3537: Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness as an Instrument
Paul Frijters , David W. Johnston , Manisha Shah and Michael Shields
3536: Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?
Martin Halla and Friedrich Georg Schneider
3535: Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income
Alison Goode , Kostas Mavromaras and Murray Smith
3534: Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education
Aslan Zorlu and Joop Hartog
3533: Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
Christian Pfeifer and Tatjana Sohr
3532: Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children
Richard Akresh and Ilana Redstone Akresh
3531: School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India
Francesca Francavilla , Gianna Claudia Claudia Giannelli and Leonardo Grilli
3530: Admission Conditions and Graduates' Employability
Fernando Alexandre , Miguel Portela and Carla Sa
3529: The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective
Giorgio Brunello , Pierre-Carl Michaud and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
3528: Calibration and IV Estimation of a Wage Outcome Equation in a Dynamic Environment
Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen
3527: Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization
Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik
3526: Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty
Yongil Jeon , Sang-Young Rhyu and Michael P. Shields
3525: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Marco Caliendo , Frank M. Fossen and Alexander S. Kritikos
3524: Between Agora and Shopping Mall
Josef Falkinger
3523: A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Christian Pfeifer
3522: Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Erkki Koskela and Panu Poutvaara
3521: Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries
John Paul Martin and Edward Whitehouse
3520: Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment
Randall Akee , William Copeland , Gordon Keeler , Adrian Angold and Jane E. Costello
3519: Informality and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Norbert M. Fiess , Marco Fugazza and William F. Maloney
3518: Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking? A Simple Test
Ting Hu and Myeong-Su Yun
3517: Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?
Mariana Blanco , Dirk Engelmann , Alexander Karl Koch and Hans-Theo Normann
3516: Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Richard Akresh and Damien de Walque
3515: Schools, Skills, and Synapses
James J. Heckman
3514: Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Mariano Bosch and William F. Maloney
3513: Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective
Wolfgang Lechthaler , Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower
3512: From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence
Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda
3511: Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
Suresh de Mel , David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff