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7952: Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success

Stephen Burks, Connor Lewis, Paul Kivi, Amanda Wiener, Jon E. Anderson, Lorenz Götte, Colin G. DeYoung and Aldo Rustichini

7951: Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device

Nadine Ketel, Jona Linde, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

7950: Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice

Frank Fossen and Daniela Glocker

7949: How School Principals Influence Student Learning

Elizabeth Dhuey and Justin Smith

7948: Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour

Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin

7947: Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty

Marco Caliendo and Markus Gehrsitz

7946: The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Erez Siniver and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

7945: Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Devin Pope, Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers

7944: Happy in the Hood? The Impact of Residential Segregation on Self-Reported Happiness

Chris M. Herbst and Joanna Lucio

7943: Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Richard Dorsett and Andrew Oswald

7942: Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets

Terence Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew Oswald

7941: Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance

Braz Camargo, Rafael Camelo, Sergio Firpo and Vladimir Ponczek

7940: "I wish I knew..." - Misperceived Ability, School Track Counseling Services and Performances in Upper Secondary Education

Martino Bernardi, Massimiliano Bratti and Gianfranco De Simone

7939: Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Murat Kırdar, Meltem Dayioglu and Ismet Koc

7938: Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Marco Casari and Maurizio Lisciandra

7937: Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use

Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon

7936: Family Employees and Absenteeism

Joern Block, Laszlo Goerke, Jose Maria Millan and Concepción Román

7935: Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Lutz C. Kaiser

7934: Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew Oswald

7933: An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity

Takao Asano, Hiroko Okudaira and Masaru Sasaki

7932: Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Zhixin Dai, Robin Hogarth and Marie Claire Villeval

7931: Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Michael Lechner and Nazmi Sari

7930: Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales

Jason Lindo, Peter Siminski and Oleg Yerokhin

7929: Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson and Peter Nilsson

7928: Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Isaac Ehrlich and Yong Yin

7927: The Effect of Wealth and Earned Income on the Decision to Retire: A Dynamic Probit Examination of Retirement

Keith Bender, Kostas Mavromaras, Ioannis Theodossiou and Zhang Wei

7926: Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe

Laura Hospido and Gema Zamarro

7925: The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

7924: Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

Indraneel Dasgupta and Diganta Mukherjee

7923: Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli and Davide Sala

7922: The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Massimiliano Bratti and Chiara Conti

7921: Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John Martin and Patrick Puhani

7920: From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

Pieter Bevelander and Mikael Spång

7919: Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?

Arthur Sweetman and Jan van Ours

7918: The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power

Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek and Viviane Sanfelice

7917: Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan and Christopher Zeppenfeld

7916: Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family

Richard Blundell, Michael Graber and Magne Mogstad

7915: A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market

Konstantinos Pouliakas

7914: How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions

Yasuhiro Sato and Yves Zenou

7913: Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment

Anna Godoy and Knut Røed

7912: Can Active Labour Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment?

Jonas Maibom, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

7911: Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?

Ximena Del Carpio, Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

7910: Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak and John Mondragon

7909: The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Rebecca Searle

7908: Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Catherine Co and Ralitza Dimova

7907: Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Sumon Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova and Ira Gang

7906: Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price

7905: Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions

Maria Humlum, Jannie Kristoffersen and Rune Vejlin

7904: Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Matthias Krapf, Heinrich Ursprung and Christian Zimmermann

7903: Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Amanda Goodall, John McDowell and Larry D. Singell

7902: The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors

Michela Braga, Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari

7901: Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh L. Linden

7900: Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Mabel Andalón, Jenny Williams and Michael Grossman

7899: Can You Leave High School Behind?

Sandra Black, Jane Arnold Lincove, Jenna Cullinane and Rachel Veron

7898: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark and Markus Frölich

7897: The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice

Christian Dustmann, Patrick Puhani and Uta Schönberg

7896: Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting

Nikos Askitas

7895: Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos

7894: The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Tim Friehe and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

7893: Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard

Donal O'Neill

7892: The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

7891: Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice

Andrea Bassanini and Eve Caroli

7890: Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed

Philipp Doerrenberg and Sebastian Siegloch

7889: Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Jolanda Hessels, Udo Brixy, Wim Naudé and Thomas Gries

7888: Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms

Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Leonor Modesto

7887: Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Cassandra M. D. Hart and Aaron Sojourner

7886: More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?

Sumon Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal Kumbhakar and Kai Sun

7885: Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Sumon Bhaumik and Ying Zhou

7884: The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos and Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir

7883: Informality and Long-Run Growth

Frédéric Docquier, Tobias Müller and Joaquín Naval Navarro

7882: Interacting Product and Labor Market Regulation and the Impact of Immigration on Native Wages

Susanne Prantl and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

7881: Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation

Giovanni Facchini, Eleonora Patacchini and Max Steinhardt

7880: International Migration and the Economics of Language

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

7879: Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs

Carmen Pages, Iamele Rigolini and David Robalino

7878: Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions

Alexander Muravyev and Aleksey Oshchepkov

7877: Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood

Maggie Switek

7876: The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli and Mark Cohen

7875: The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Nicolas Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt and Martin Karlsson

7874: Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies

Arun Advani and Tymon Słoczyński

7873: Making Work Pay for the Indebted: The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals

Pierre Koning

7872: Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises

Pierluigi Balduzzi, Emanuele Brancati and Fabio Schiantarelli

7871: Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers and Lutz Bellmann

7870: Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Tony Fang and Ying Ge

7869: Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity: Does Teamwork Play a Role?

Richard J. Long and Tony Fang

7868: Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Amelie Constant, Simone Schüller and Klaus Zimmermann

7867: International Human Trafficking: Measuring Clandestinity by the Structural Equation Approach

Alexandra Rudolph and Friedrich Schneider

7866: Two Centuries of International Migration

Joseph Ferrie and Timothy Hatton

7865: Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection

Costanza Biavaschi and Benjamin Elsner

7864: Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration

Maryam Naghsh Nejad

7863: Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation

Benjamin Elsner, Gaia Narciso and Jacco J. J. Thijssen

7862: Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Klaus Zimmermann

7861: Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges

Costanza Biavaschi and Klaus Zimmermann

7860: The RUMiC Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China

Mehtap Akgüç, Corrado Giulietti and Klaus Zimmermann

7859: Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left Behind

Costanza Biavaschi, Corrado Giulietti and Klaus Zimmermann

7858: Which Children Stabilize Marriage?

Héctor Bellido, José Alberto Molina, Anne Solaz and Elena Stancanelli

7857: Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children

Valeria Maggian and Marie Claire Villeval

7856: Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Timothy Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

7855: A Demographic Dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa: Source, Magnitude, and Realization

David Bloom, Salal Humair, Larry Rosenberg, J.P. Sevilla and James Trussell

7854: Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms

Gabriel Burdín

7853: Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers

Sylvi Rzepka and Marcus Tamm