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7797: Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Riccardo Crescenzi, Max Nathan and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

7796: Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds and Utz Weitzel

7795: Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Nora Stel and Wim Naudé

7794: Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar and Rong Zhang

7793: Impact of Duration of Primary Education on School Outcomes: A Cross-Country Analysis

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Jessica Pérez-Reynosa

7792: Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices

Giuseppina Autiero and Shane Niall O'Higgins

7791: The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe

Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola

7790: "High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar and Rong Zhang

7789: Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

7788: Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data

Floro Caroleo and Francesco Pastore

7787: Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

7786: Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Laura Juarez

7785: Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Robert Fairlie, Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates

7784: Age and Opportunities for Promotion

C. Sofia Machado and Miguel Portela

7783: Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre and Sergio Perelman

7782: Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration

James P. Smith and Liam Delaney

7781: Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista and Janis Umblijs

7780: The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?

Marion Mercier

7779: Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha and Amrita Saraogi

7778: Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence

Sara De La Rica, Albrecht Glitz and Francesc Ortega

7777: Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad

7776: The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Claus Schnabel

7775: Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared

Mark Bryan and Simonetta Longhi

7774: Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments

Stijn Baert, Freddy Heylen and Daan Isebaert

7773: Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions

Silvio Rendon and Núria Quella

7772: Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Colleen M. Heflin and Peter Mueser

7771: Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

7770: Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal

Linguere Mbaye and Natascha Wagner

7769: Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy

Maria De Paola and Francesca Gioia

7768: After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner and Petra Thiemann

7767: Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?

Stijn Baert

7766: Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists

Terence Cheng, Guyonne Kalb and Anthony Scott

7765: Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World

Catia Batista and Jacques Potin

7764: Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Robert Fairlie and Samantha H. Grunberg

7763: Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet

Vanessa Lutgen and Bruno Van der Linden

7762: The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder and Magne Mogstad

7761: Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

7760: Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle

Amedeo Piolatto and Matthew Rablen

7759: After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision

Andrew McGee and Peter McGee

7758: Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility

William Fuchs

7757: The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Markus Poschke

7756: Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

7755: The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy

Giorgio Brunello and Simona Comi

7754: Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?

Mika Haapanen and Petri Böckerman

7753: Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools: Evidence from Vatican II

Rania Gihleb and Osea Giuntella

7752: The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments

Kristian Koerselman and Roope Uusitalo

7751: Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?

Gil Epstein and Joseph Menis

7750: Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition

James J. Heckman and Tim Kautz

7749: Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies

Simone Bertoli and Hillel Rapoport

7748: How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?

Carl Lin

7747: "To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria

David Margolis, Egidio Miotti, El Mouhoub Mouhoud and Joel Oudinet

7746: Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times

Hector Sala and Pedro Trivin

7745: The Incidence and Persistence of Cyclical Job Loss in New Zealand

David Maré and Richard Fabling

7744: Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jae Song and Dmitriy Stolyarov

7743: A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis

Tavis Barr and Carl Lin

7742: Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited

Mike Brewer, Thomas Crossley and Robert Joyce

7741: Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences

Matthew Harding and Carlos Lamarche

7740: Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring

Gerard van den Berg and Bas van der Klaauw

7739: Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy

Graziella Bertocchi, Alfonso Gambardella, Tullio Jappelli, Carmela A. Nappi and Franco Peracchi

7738: A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions

Rolf Aaberge, Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

7737: Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective

Olivier Bargain, Tim Callan, Karina Doorley and Claire Keane

7736: Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Gil Epstein and Yosef Mealem

7735: People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Patrick Kline and Enrico Moretti

7734: To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Eva Sierminska and Karina Doorley

7733: Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Sutirtha Bagchi and Jan Svejnar

7732: Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?

Govert Bijwaard and Jackline Wahba

7731: Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Almas Heshmati and Robert Rudolf

7730: Income Mobility

Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins

7729: The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony Atkinson and Jørgen Modalsli

7728: 'Barcelona or Die': Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal

Linguere Mbaye

7727: Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China

Sylvie Démurger and Hui Xu

7726: Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico

Manuela Angelucci

7725: The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization

Costanza Biavaschi, Corrado Giulietti and Zahra Siddique

7724: Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

7723: Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Todd Pugatch and Elizabeth Schroeder

7722: Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA

Massimiliano Bratti and Daniele Checchi

7721: Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education

Eleni Kalfa and Matloob Piracha

7720: Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach

Asako Ohinata and Jan van Ours

7719: Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Matteo Picchio and Stefano Staffolani

7718: Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

A. Kerem Coşar, Nezih Guner and James Tybout

7717: Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

7716: Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy

Giovanni Bruno, Floro Caroleo and Orietta Dessy

7715: Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Dmitri Koustas

7714: Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market

Loukas Balafoutas, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

7713: Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James P. Smith and Joachim Winter

7712: Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie

7711: The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health

Christian Dustmann and Francesco Fasani

7710: Women Labor Market Participation in Europe: Novel Evidence on Trends and Shaping Factors

Angela Cipollone, Eleonora Patacchini and Giovanna Vallanti

7709: Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data

Nicolas Moreau and Elena G. F. Stancanelli

7708: What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

Sungwook Cho and Almas Heshmati

7707: What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?

Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken, Magne Mogstad and Kari Vea Salvanes

7706: U.S. versus Sweden: The Effect of Alternative In-Work Tax Credit Policies on Labour Supply of Single Mothers

Rolf Aaberge and Lennart Flood

7705: Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

Fabian Slonimczyk and Anna Yurko

7704: Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Claudia Olivetti, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

7703: Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data

Fabian Slonimczyk and Vladimir Gimpelson

7702: Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Andrey Stoyanov and Nick Zubanov

7701: Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives

Sandra Nieto, Alessia Matano and Raul Ramos

7700: A Gravity Model of Migration between ENC and EU

Raul Ramos and Jordi Suriñach

7699: Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Alois Kneip, Monika Merz and Lidia Storjohann

7698: Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

Olivier Bargain and Andreas Peichl