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2013: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Charlotte Cabane and Andrew Clark

2013: Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Andrew Clark and Emanuela D'Angelo

2013: Flex Cars and Competition in Ethanol and Gasoline Retail Markets

Juliano Assuncao, João Paulo Pessoa and Leonardo Rezende

2013: Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

2013: The Transmission of Monetary Policy Operations through Redistributions and Durable Purchases

Vincent Sterk and Silvana Tenreyro

2013: Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012

Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

2013: An Urban Legend?! Power Rationing, Fertility and its Effects on Mothers

Thiemo Fetzer, Oliver Pardo and Amar Shanghavi

2013: Decoupling of Wage Growth and Productivity Growth? Myth and Reality

João Paulo Pessoa and John van Reenen

2013: What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Andrew Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit

2013: Trade Integration, Market Size and Industrialization: Evidence from China's National Trunk Highway System

Benjamin Faber

2013: Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters as Natural Experiments

Scott Baker and Nicholas Bloom

2013: Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Joanne Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

2013: The Importance of Rank Position

Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt

2013: Risk and Evidence of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics

Peter Boone, Alex Eble and Diana Elbourne

2013: Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Dan Chisholm, Richard Layard, Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena

2013: Crime and Immigration: New Evidence from England and Wales

Laura Jaitman and Stephen Machin

2013: Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay?

Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein

2013: The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Ed Diener, Louis Tay and Cody Xuereb

2013: A Model of Aggregate Demand and Unemployment

Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

2013: The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports

Jeronimo Carballo, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus

2013: A General Method for Valuing Non-Market Goods Using Wellbeing Data: Three-Stage Wellbeing Valuation

Daniel Fujiwara

2013: Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Holger Breinlich, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Jonathan Temple

2013: Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games

Michalis Drouvelis and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2013: Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence

Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer, Jonathan Wadsworth and Tanya Wilson

2013: Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-Shape in Human Wellbeing

Hannes Schwandt

2013: Winning Big But Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health

Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew Clark

2013: Enhancing Recovery Rates: Lessons from Year One of the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme

David M. Clark, Alex Gyani, Richard Layard and Roz Shafran

2013: The Effects of Resources Across School Phases: A Summary of Recent Evidence

Stephen Gibbons and Sandra McNally

2013: Molecular Genetics and Subjective Well-Being

Meike Bartels, Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger, Robert F. Krueger, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Nancy L. Pedersen, Cornelius A. Rietveld and Henning Tiemeier

2013: Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate and V. Joseph Hotz

2013: University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo and V. Joseph Hotz

2013: Neighbors, Knowledge, and Nuggets: Two Natural Field Experiments on the Role of Incentives on Energy Conservation

Paul Dolan and Robert Metcalfe

2013: A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Andy Feng and Georg Graetz

2013: Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in the Educational Gender Gap

Esteban Aucejo

2013: Racial Segregation Patterns in Selective Universities

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Andrew Hussey and Kenneth Spenner

2013: Pushing On a String: US Monetary Policy is Less Powerful in Recessions

Silvana Tenreyro and Gregory Thwaites

2013: The Financial Resource Curse

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

2013: Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom and William Kerr

2013: Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents

Michael J. Boehm

2013: The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia

Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Mark Wooden

2013: Mental Health: The New Frontier for Labour Economics

Richard Layard

2013: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner

2013: Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Priors

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

2013: Unemployment in the Great Recession

Christopher Pissarides

2013: Debt and Incomplete Financial Markets: A Case for Nominal GDP Targeting

Kevin Sheedy

2013: Decision–Making and Implementation in Teams

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Marc Möller

2013: Concentration Versus Re-Matching? Evidence About the Locational Effects of Commuting Costs

Michael J. Boehm

2013: Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Selection: Why and How Heterogeneity Matters

Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Matteo Salto

2013: Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

2013: Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

2013: Relational Knowledge Transfers

Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

2013: Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Abel Brodeur

2013: The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau

Peter Boone, Ila Fazzio, Kameshwari Jandhyala, Chitra Jayanty, Gangadhar Jayanty, Simon Johnson, Vimala Ramachandrin, Filipa Silva and Zhaoguo Zhan

2013: Firm Heterogeneity and Aggregate Welfare

Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding

2013: Outsourcing and the Rise in Services

Giuseppe Berlingieri

2013: The Great Stagnation: What Can Policymakers Do?

Sushil B. Wadhwani

2013: Fast-Tracking 'Green' Patent Applications: An Empirical Analysis

Antoine Dechezleprêtre

2013: Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Abel Brodeur and Sarah Flèche

2013: Really Uncertain Business Cycles

Nicholas Bloom, Max Floetotto, Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten and Stephen Terry

2013: Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying

2013: What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? Panel Data Evidence from German Companies

Dietmar Harhoff, Elisabeth Mueller and John van Reenen

2013: CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why Does City Location Matter?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

2013: When the Cat is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

2013: Moving Up and Sliding Down: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Paul Dolan and Grace Lordan

2013: A Trapped Factors Model of Innovation

Nicholas Bloom, Paul Romer, Stephen Terry and John van Reenen

2013: Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints

Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender

2013: Are You Happy While You Work?

Alex Bryson and George MacKerron

2013: Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding

2013: Long and Short-Term Effects of the Financial Crisis on Labour Productivity, Capital and Output

Nicholas Oulton and Maria Sebastia-Barriel

2013: Free Trade Aggreements and the Consolidation of Democracy

Xuepeng Liu and Emanuel Ornelas

2012: Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding

2012: China's Pure Exporter Subsidies

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

2012: Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Wenya Cheng, John Morrow and Kitjawat Tacharoen

2012: Pride and Prejudice: Using Ethnic-Sounding Names and Inter-Ethnic Marriages to Identify Labor Market Discrimination

Dror Brenner and Yona Rubinstein

2012: Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

2012: Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin and John van Reenen

2012: Minimum Wages and Wage Inequality: Some Theory and an Application to the UK

Tim Butcher, Richard Dickens and Alan Manning

2012: Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Andrew Oswald

2012: The Enduring Impact of Childhood Experience on Mental Health: Evidence Using Instrumented Co-Twin Data

Rachel Berner Shalem, Francesca Cornaglia and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

2012: Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

Monika Mrazova and J. Peter Neary

2012: Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying

Nattavudh Powdthavee

2012: Optimal Policy for Macro-Financial Stability

Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric Young

2012: The Careers of Immigrants

Ana Damas de Matos

2012: Policy Design in a Model with Swings in Risk Appetite

Bianca De Paoli and Pawel Zabczyk

2012: Exporters, Importers and Credit Constraints

Mirabelle Muûls

2012: Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Technology Diffusion and Learning On-the-job

Thomas Sampson

2012: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

2012: Musn't Grumble. Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany

Jonathan Wadsworth

2012: The Transferable Scars: A Longitudinal Evidence of Psychological Impact of Past Parental Unemployment on Adolescents in the United Kingdom

Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit

2012: On the Measurement of Trade Costs: Direct vs. Indirect Approaches to Quantifying Standards and Technical Regulations

Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy

2012: A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Hannes Schwandt

2012: Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade

Cletus Coughlin and Dennis Novy

2012: Reserve Accumulation, Growth and Financial Crises

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

2012: Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric Young

2012: Happy Talk: Mode of Administration Effects on Subjective Well-Being

Paul Dolan and Georgios Kavetsos

2012: Steady-State Equilibrium in a Model of Short-Term Wage-Posting

Alan Manning

2012: Not all Incentives Wash out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Joan Costa-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Steven T. Yen

2012: Female Employment and Fertility - The Effects of Rising Female Wages

Christian Siegel

2012: The German Transfer Problem, 1920-1933: A Sovereign Debt Perspective

Albrecht Ritschl

2012: The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm and Nikolaus Wolf

2012: Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice?

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Yohanes Riyanto

2012: Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality

Thomas Sampson

2012: Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction

Tim Barmby, Alex Bryson and Barbara Eberth

2012: Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich Wagner and Laure de Preux

2012: Reparations, Deficits, and Debt Default: the Great Depression in Germany

Albrecht Ritschl

2012: The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

2012: Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg Wright

2012: Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

Thierry Mayer, Marc Melitz and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2012: What Do CEOs Do?

Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

2012: Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

2012: The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity

Michael Boehm and Martin Watzinger

2012: Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection

Johannes Spinnewijn

2012: Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market

Raphael Calel and Antoine Dechezleprêtre

2012: Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare

Stephen Redding

2012: Span of Control and Span of Activity

Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf

2012: Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc-Andreas Muendler and Stephen Redding

2012: Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Andrew Bernard, Marco Grazzi and Chiara Tomasi

2012: Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers

Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer

2012: CEO Bonding: Who Posts Performance Bonds and Why?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

2012: Why Are Migrants Paid More?

Alex Bryson, Giambattista Rossi and Rob Simmons

2012: Incentives for Quality over Time - The Case of Facebook Applications

Jörg Claussen, Tobias Kretschmer and Philip Mayrhofer

2012: Cyclical Risk Aversion, Precautionary Saving and Monetary Policy

Bianca De Paoli and Pawel Zabczyk

2012: Global Value Chains During the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?

Carlo Altomonte, Filippo di Mauro, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Armando Rungi and Vincent Vicard

2012: The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Swati Dhingra and John Morrow

2012: Agglomeration, Trade and Selection

Gianmarco Ottaviano

2012: Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge and John van Reenen

2012: Genes, Economics and Happiness

Nicholas A. Christakis, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, James H. Fowler and Bruno Frey

2012: Happiness as a Driver of Risk-Avoiding Behavior

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Robert J. B. Goudie, Sach Mukherjee, Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu

2012: Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service

Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones and Alistair McGuire

2012: Market Leadership Through Technology - Backward Compatibility in the U.S. Handheld Video Game Industry

Jörg Claussen, Tobias Kretschmer and Thomas Spengler

2012: A Model of Equilibrium Institutions

Bernardo Guimaraes and Kevin Sheedy

2012: Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Rules

Francesco Caselli, Tom Cunningham, Massimo Morelli and Ines Moreno de Barreda

2012: Why Has China Grown So Fast? The Role of International Technology Transfer

John van Reenen and Linda Yueh

2012: The Household Effects of Government Spending

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon

2012: The Determinants of Intrafirm Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Gregory Corcos, Delphine Irac, Giordano Mion and Thierry Verdier

2012: Institutions and Export Dynamics

Luis Araujo, Giordano Mion and Emanuel Ornelas

2012: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Labor Market

Emanuel Ornelas

2012: The Provision of Relative Performance Feedback Information: An Experimental Analysis of Performance and Happiness

Ghazala Azmat and Nagore Iriberri

2012: Fiscal Multipliers over the Business Cycle

Pascal Michaillat

2012: Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data

Dennis Novy

2012: Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John van Reenen

2012: Paying for Performance: Incentive Pay Schemes and Employees' Financial Participation

Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman, Claudio Lucifora, Michele Pellizzari and Virginie Perotin

2012: Left, Right, Left: Income and Political Dynamics in Transition Economies

Michael Carter and John Morrow