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696: Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest

694: Potential Recruits Seek Information Online for Military Enlistment Decision-Making

Douglas Yeung and Brian Gifford

693: Teacher Effectiveness in Urban High Schools

Richard John Buddin and Gema Zamarro

684: Grossman's Missing Health Threshold

Titus J. Galama and Arie Kapteyn

680: Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

Kathleen J. Mullen, Richard Frank and Meredith Rosenthal

679: Early Retirement and Employment of the Young

Adriaan Kalwij, Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos

678: Do More Friends Mean Better Grades?: Student Popularity and Academic Achievement

Kata Mihaly

671: Teacher Qualifications and Middle School Student Achievement

Richard John Buddin and Gema Zamarro

668: Mode and Context Effects in Measuring Household Assets

Arthur van Soest and Arie Kapteyn

667: Long-Term Financial Incentives and Investment in Daughters: Evidence From Conditional Cash Transfers In North India

Nistha Sinha and Joanne Kannan Yoong

666: Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories

James P. Smith

658: Grossman's Health Threshold and Retirement

Titus J. Galama, Arie Kapteyn, Raquel Fonseca and Pierre-Carl Michaud

653: How Do Mutual Fund Fees Affect Investor Choices? Evidence from Survey Experiments

Jeff Dominitz, Angela Hung and Joanne Kannan Yoong

646: Methodological Innovations in Collecting Spending Data: The HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey

Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

645: Marital Histories and Economic Well-Being

Julie Margaretta Zissimopoulos, Benjamin Karney and Amy Rauer

643: Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

642: Cobertura del Sistema Privado de Capitalizacion en Chile, Colombia y Mexico

Emma Aguila, Orazio Attanasio and Ximena Quintanilla

626: Using International Micro Data to Learn about Individuals' Responses to Changes in Social Insurance

Michael D. Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Susann Rohwedder

623-1: Life Satisfaction

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest

621: Changes in Consumption at Retirement

Emma Aguila, Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir

614: Health Indexes and Retirement Modeling in International Comparisons

Erik Meijer, Arie Kapteyn and Tatiana Andreyeva

613: Differential Mortality in Europe and the U.S.: Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival

Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder

600: Personal Retirement Accounts and Saving

Emma Aguila

597: The Impact of Terrorism on the Defense Industry

Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor

589: Eliciting Subjective Expectations in Internet Surveys

Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder

588: Retirement Effects on Health in Europe

Norma B. Coe and Gema Zamarro

587: Prioritizing Educational Investments in Children in the Developing World

David Evans and Arkadipta Ghosh

586: The Rise in Obesity Across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective

Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

584: Prediction of Latent Variables in a Mixture of Structural Equation Models, with an Application to the Discrepancy Between Survey and Register Data

Erik Meijer, Susann Rohwedder and Tom Wansbeek

574: The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Peter Joseph Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Stoetevent and Arie Kapteyn

563: The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data

Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

562: Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles

Raquel Fonseca and Lise Patureau

555: Teacher Quality, Teacher Licensure Tests, and Student Achievement

Richard John Buddin and Gema Zamarro

552: Childhood Educational Disruption and Later Life Outcomes: Evidence from Prince Edward County

Paul Scott Heaton

536: Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks

535: Intertemporal Consumption with Directly Measured Welfare Functions and Subjective Expectations

Arie Kapteyn, Kristin J. Kleinjans and Arthur van Soest

531: The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

Jeffrey T. Grogger and Lynn Karoly

528: The Effect of Retirement Incentives on Retirement Behavior: Evidence from the Self-Employed In the United States and England

Julie Margaretta Zissimopoulos, Nicole Maestas and Lynn Karoly

525: Employment and Self-Employment in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Julie Margaretta Zissimopoulos and Lynn Karoly

524-1: Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Michael D. Hurd, James P. Smith and Julie Zissimopoulos

524: Inter-vivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Michael D. Hurd, James P. Smith and Julie Margaretta Zissimopoulos

511: Business Cycle Comovement and Labor Market Institutions: An Empirical Investigation

Raquel Fonseca, Lise Patureau and Thepthida Sopraseuth

506: Are 'Webographic' or Attitudinal Questions Useful for Adjusting Estimates From Web Surveys Using Propensity Scoring?

Matthias Schonlau, Arthur van Soest and Arie Kapteyn

505: The Impact of Health Insurance Status on Treatment Intensity and Health Outcomes

David E. Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

504: Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap

Nicole Maestas, Mathis Schroeder and Dana Goldman

501: Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales

Arthur van Soest, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Arie Kapteyn and James P. Smith

500: Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Thepthida Sopraseuth

498: Historical and Life Course Timing of the Male Mortality Disadvantage in Europe: Epidemiologic Transitions, Evolution, and Behavior

Margaret Weden and Ryan Brown

497: Twentieth Century U.S. Racial Inequalities in Mortality: Changes in the Average Age of Death and the Variability in the Age of Death for White and non-White Men and Women, 1900-2002

Margaret Weden

496: Bayesian Estimation of Hispanic Fertility Hazards from Survey and Population Data

Michael Rendall, Mark Handcock and Stefan Jonsson