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6811: Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market

Zoe McLaren

6810: The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges

Marco Caliendo and Jens Andreas Hogenacker

6809: Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil

Isis Gaddis and Janneke Pieters

6808: Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Guyonne Kalb, Trinh Van Thi Le, Boyd Hamilton Hunter and Felix Leung

6807: The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

John Cawley, David Frisvold and Chad D. Meyerhoefer

6806: Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?

Alejandra Mizala and Hugo Rolando Ñopo

6805: Anti-Lemons: School Reputation, Relative Diversity, and Educational Quality

W. Bentley Macleod and Miguel Urquiola

6804: Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Abel Brodeur and Marie Connolly

6803: Comparing Quasi-Experimental Designs and Structural Models for Policy Evaluation: The Case of a Reform of Lone Parental Welfare

Chiara Daniela Pronzato

6802: Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects

Matthew Harding and Carlos Lamarche

6801: State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment

David L. Sjoquist and John V. Winters

6800: Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges

Robert Holzmann

6799: Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis

Matthias Strifler and Thomas Beissinger

6798: Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Seth H. Giertz and Mehmet Serkan Tosun

6797: Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China

Ren Mu and Yang Du

6796: Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?

Gil S. Epstein and Erez Siniver

6795: Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration

Costanza Biavaschi

6794: Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects

Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham and John Östh

6793: Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

Maarten van Ham and David Manley

6792: Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges

Claus Schnabel

6791: Spouses' Retirement and Hours Outcomes: Evidence from Twofold Regression Discontinuity with Differences-in-Differences

Elena G F Stancanelli

6790: The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Joshua D Angrist and Parag Pathak

6789: Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. Kassenböhmer and Stefanie Schurer

6788: Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices

Hendrik Wolff

6787: Extending Becker's Time Allocation Theory to Model Continuous Time Blocks: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

Hendrik Wolff and Momoe Makino

6786: Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?

Christoph Wunder and Guido Heineck

6785: Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ana Isabel Moreno-Monroy, Janneke Pieters and Abdul Azeez Erumban

6784: Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Robert M. Sauer

6783: The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann and Grant Miller

6782: Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees

Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen and Filip Pertold

6781: A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models

Daniel J. Henderson, Subal C. Kumbhakar and Christopher F. Parmeter

6780: A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes

Rolf Ketzler and Klaus F. Zimmermann

6779: Recent Longitudinal Evidence of Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders

Phanindra V. Wunnava

6778: Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya

Luke E. Chicoine

6777: Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

6776: Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Mehmet Balcilar and Aysit Tansel

6775: Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Ansgar Belke and Lukas Vogel

6774: How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Diego Javier Ubfal

6773: Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo Reis Soares

6772: Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?

Mehtabul Azam, Céline Ferré and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

6771: Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks

Christian Bayer and Falko Juessen

6770: School and Drugs: Closing the Gap – Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

6769: A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers

Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso and Yi-Ping Tseng

6768: Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Hong Liu and Zhong Zhao

6767: Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions

Falko Juessen and Ludger Linnemann

6766: An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

John V. Winters and Barry T. Hirsch

6765: Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China

Alan de Brauw and John T. Giles

6764: Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

Seamus McGuinness, Mark Peter Wooden and Markus Hahn

6763: Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence

Gigi Foster and Charlene Marie Kalenkoski

6762: Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment

Stephen Cheung

6761: The Great Happiness Moderation

Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik

6760: Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Ronald Bachmann, Marion König and Sandra Schaffner

6759: Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding

Sarah Hamersma, Carolyn J. Heinrich and Peter R. Mueser

6758: Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Christopher Jepsen, Peter R. Mueser and Kenneth R. Troske

6757: Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas

Fernando Rios-Avila and Barry T. Hirsch

6756: Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Lisa Ann Cameron and Manisha Shah

6755: Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments

Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero and Marian Vidal-Fernández

6754: Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Randall Akee, Miriam Jorgensen and Uwe Sunde

6753: How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey

Ronald Bachmann and Daniel Baumgarten

6752: Estimating the Income Loss of Disabled Individuals: The Case of Spain

María Cervini-Plá, José Ignacio Silva and Judit Vall-Castello

6751: Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand and Thomas Le Barbanchon

6750: Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon Anderson and Stephen V. Burks

6749: Do Employees Profit from Profit Sharing? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Richard J. Long and Tony Fang

6748: Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Pieter A. Gautier, Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

6747: Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey and Thibaud Vergé

6746: Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs: Exits from Temporary Contracts in Italy after the 2003 Reform

Giovanni S.F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Orietta Dessy

6745: Income Distribution among those of 65 Years and Older in Sweden

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Eskil Wadensjö

6744: Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nuesch and Steven Stillman

6743: Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro-Model

Peter Dungan, Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson

6742: Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Tony Fang, Al-Karim Samnani, Milorad M. Novicevic and Mark N. Bing

6741: De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

6740: Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

Matthew J. Lindquist, Joeri Sol and Mirjam van Praag

6739: In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

Giuseppe De Luca, Claudio Rossetti and Daniela Vuri

6738: Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey

6737: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Pieter M. Serneels and Marijke Verpoorten

6736: Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Lisa Ann Cameron and Manisha Shah

6735: Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results

Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl

6734: Differential Welfare State Impacts for Frontier Working Age Families

Irina S. Burlacu and O'Donoghue, Cathal

6733: Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies: Measurement Methods and Comparative Results

Carol A. Corrado, Jonathan E. Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio and Massimiliano Iommi

6732: Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe

Susana Ferreira, Alpaslan Akay, Finbarr Brereton, Juncal Cuñado, Peter Martinsson and Mirko Moro

6731: Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn and Mirjam van Praag

6730: Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects

Martin Biewen

6729: Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Evelyn L. Lehrer and Yu Chen

6728: On-the-Job Learning and Earnings: Comparative Evidence from Morocco and Senegal

Christophe Jalil Nordman and François-Charles Wolff

6727: Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan

Reza Arabsheibani and Anita V. Staneva

6726: Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Reza Arabsheibani and Anita V. Staneva

6725: Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity

David Gill, Victoria Liza Prowse and Michael Vlassopoulos

6724: The Timing of Earnings Sampling over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

6723: Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

John V. Winters

6722: Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Enric Meix-Llop

6721: Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Andreas Kuhn

6720: Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

6719: The Effects of Credit Status on College Attainment and College Completion

Dora Gicheva, Felicia Ionescu and Nicole B. Simpson

6718: The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Helena Skyt Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

6717: Business Taxation and Wages: Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Thomas K. Bauer, Tanja Kasten and Lars H. R. Siemers

6716: Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

6715: Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Amanda H. Goodall and Ganna Pogrebna

6714: The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health

Søren Dalsgaard, Helena Skyt Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

6713: Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Herbert Brücker, Elke Jutta Jahn and Richard Upward

6712: Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Riemer Faber and Pierre Koning