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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 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 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 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

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

Guido Cozzi, Noemi Mantovan and Robert 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, William 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