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7697: Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan and Robert M. Sauer

7696: Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

Jacques Poot and Matthew Roskruge

7695: Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea

Junghee Han and Almas Heshmati

7694: Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren and Serkan Ozbeklik

7693: Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Emilia Del Bono, Klaus Grünberger and Daniela Vuri

7692: The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine

Rey Hernández-Julián, Hani Mansour and Christina Peters

7691: Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach and Nicolas Ziebarth

7690: Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Michael Lechner and Paul Downward

7689: Does Full Insurance Increase the Demand for Health Care?

Stefan Boes and Michael Gerfin

7688: Is Climbing Difficult? A Gendered Analysis on the Use of Financial Services in Ghana and South Africa

Samuel Annim and Thankom Arun

7687: Usage of Financial Services in South Africa: Perceptions Matter

Philip Kostov, Thankom Arun and Samuel Annim

7686: Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? A Deeper Look at the Victim-Offender Overlap

Horst Entorf

7685: Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level

Wang-Sheng Lee and Cahit Guven

7684: Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Elaine Liu, Juanjuan Meng and Joseph Wang

7683: Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Antonio Espín and Shoshana Neuman

7682: What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

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

7681: Household Behavior and the Marriage Market

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

7680: Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance

V. Joseph Hotz and Juan Pantano

7679: Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

Marco Bertoni and Giorgio Brunello

7678: Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007

Pierpaolo Parrotta and Nina Smith

7677: The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Vincenzo Galasso, Paola Profeta, Chiara Pronzato and Francesco Billari

7676: Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?

Brian Stacy, Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase and Jeffrey Wooldridge

7675: Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?

Giorgio Di Pietro

7674: Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?

Arindrajit Dube

7673: Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data

Carlos Lamarche

7672: Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data

Tanja Hethey-Maier and Johannes Schmieder

7671: Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data

Andrea Conte and Marco Vivarelli

7670: Catastrophic Job Destruction

Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal and Jose Varejao

7669: Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Robert Fairlie and Magnus Lofstrom

7668: The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

Shane Niall O'Higgins and Christian Brüggemann

7667: Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe

Shane Niall O'Higgins

7666: Money for Nothing? Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland and their Remitting Behaviors

Pawel Kaczmarczyk

7665: UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries

Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater

7664: Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: The Case of Poland

Maciej Duszczyk, Marek Góra and Pawel Kaczmarczyk

7663: Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

Indermit Gill, Johannes Koettl and Truman Packard

7662: Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and Verena Tobsch

7661: Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Jessica Pérez-Reynosa

7660: The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment

John Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert and Xiangdong Wei

7659: Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment

Andrey Launov and Klaus Wälde

7658: Labor Market Transparency

Eskil Wadensjö

7657: The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis

7656: The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Samuel Mühlemann and Harald Pfeifer

7655: How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Adrian Hille and Jürgen Schupp

7654: The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

Christian von Scheve, Frederike Esche and Jürgen Schupp

7653: The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Max Nathan

7652: Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non and Willem Verbeke

7651: Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Yevgeniya Savchenko and Francis Vella

7650: Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Rafael Lalive, Camille Landais and Josef Zweimüller

7649: Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg

7648: Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis and Justus Veenman

7647: Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Heaven Crawley, Stephen Drinkwater and Rukhsana Kauser

7646: Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments

Etienne Lehmann, Laurent Simula and Alain Trannoy

7645: Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow

7644: Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Natalia Danzer

7643: Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Yuanyuan Ma and Patrick Walsh

7642: Open Enrolment and Student Achievement

Jane Friesen, Benjamin Cerf Harris and Simon Woodcock

7641: Understanding Severance Pay

Donald Parsons

7640: Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

7639: Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Aysıt Tansel

7638: Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies

Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich and Ben Zipperer

7637: Wealth Distribution within Couples

Markus Grabka, Jan Marcus and Eva Sierminska

7636: Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Sarmistha Pal

7635: Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy

Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Piazzalunga and Alessandra Venturini

7634: Mobility in an Enlarging European Union: Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia

Michael Fertig and Martin Kahanec

7633: Making It Real: The Benefits of Workplace Learning in Upper-Secondary VET Courses

Cain Polidano and Domenico Tabasso

7632: Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary

János Köllő

7631: Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings

Charles Courtemanche, Samir Soneji and Rusty Tchernis

7630: Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

Gerard van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff and Joachim Wolff

7629: Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Catia Batista, Dan Silverman and Dean Yang

7628: Causal Analysis after Haavelmo

James J. Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto

7627: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence

Gaetano D'Adamo and Riccardo Rovelli

7626: Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Natalia Danzer and Victor Lavy

7625: Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Rilke and Gari Walkowitz

7624: Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Hanna Brenzel, Hermann Gartner and Claus Schnabel

7623: The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe

Lawrence Kahn

7622: Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

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

7621: Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Fredrik W. Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia Lane, David Rosenblum and Jeffrey Smith

7620: Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Richard Layard, Dan Chisholm, Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena

7619: Artifactual Evidence of Discrimination in Correspondence Studies? A Replication of the Neumark Method

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco and Dan-Olof Rooth

7618: A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-being of Spanish Workers

Martin Guzi and Pablo de Pedraza

7617: Peer Effects in the Workplace

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

7616: Labor Market Institutions and the Response of Inflation to Macro Shocks in the EU: A Two-Sector Analysis

Gaetano D'Adamo and Riccardo Rovelli

7615: Occupations after WWII: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia

7614: Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch and Patrycja Scioch

7613: Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Pierpaolo Parrotta and Nina Smith

7612: The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Marco Alberto De Benedetto and Maria De Paola

7611: Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Liugang Sheng and Dennis Yang

7610: Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk and Andreas Grunewald

7609: Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?

Werner Eichhorst and Verena Tobsch

7608: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India

Mehtabul Azam

7607: Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Shelly Lundberg and Robert Pollak

7606: Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Benedikt Herrmann and Alexander Kritikos

7605: Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Gerard van den Berg and Bitte Modin

7604: Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing

Hannes Schwandt

7603: Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010

Hartmut Lehmann and Maria Giulia Silvagni

7602: Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Jeffrey Carpenter and Erick Gong

7601: Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting

Cristian Bartolucci and Francesco Devicienti

7600: Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality

Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

7599: Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Afsin Sahin, Aysıt Tansel and Hakan Berument

7598: Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession

Jakub Cerveny and Jan van Ours