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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 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 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 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

7597: What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

7596: (Lack of) Pension Knowledge

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca and Brendan J. Whelan

7595: Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Shelly Lundberg

7594: The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Alexander Hijzen, Leopoldo Mondauto and Stefano Scarpetta

7593: Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh

Virginia Robano and Stephen Smith

7592: Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso and Patrick Kline

7591: Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Todd J. Kumler, Eric Verhoogen and Judith A. Frias

7590: Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Duncan McVicar and Mark Wooden

7589: Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

Camille Landais

7588: Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records

Osea Giuntella

7587: The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Abu Shonchoy

7586: Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland

Eibhlin Hudson and Alan Barrett

7585: Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Karthik Muralidharan and Nishith Prakash

7584: Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors

John Winters and Weineng Xu

7583: Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale

Mark Bryan and Stephen Jenkins

7582: Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha, Teresa Randazzo and Florin Vadean

7581: Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation

Kostas Mavromaras and Rong Zhu

7580: Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen and Thomas Rothe

7579: Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Ernesto Reuben, Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar

7578: Child Labor and Learning

Patrick M. Emerson, Vladimir Ponczek and André Souza

7577: Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Wenjin Long, Simon Appleton and Lina Song

7576: Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis

Annalisa Cristini and Almudena Sevilla

7575: Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap

Anne Gielen, Jessica Holmes and Caitlin Myers

7574: Channels of Labour Supply Responses of Lone Parents to Changed Work Incentives

Xiaodong Gong and Robert Breunig

7573: Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism

Ragui Assaad

7572: Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities: A Multi-Level Approach

Lutz Bellmann, Andreas Crimmann, Katalin Evers and Reinhard Hujer

7571: A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection

Robert Holzmann

7570: The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink

7569: Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide

Elvire Guillaud and Paul Marx

7568: Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss and Hillel Rapoport

7567: Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea

Byung-Yeon Kim, Syngjoo Choi, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae Lee and Kyunghui Choi

7566: An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout

Stephane Mahuteau and Kostas Mavromaras

7565: Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

7564: Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions

Christoph Rothe and Sergio Firpo

7563: The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

David Bloom, Elizabeth T. Cafiero, Mark McGovern, Klaus Prettner, Anderson Stanciole, Jonathan Weiss, Samuel Bakkila and Larry Rosenberg

7562: The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants

Chunbing Xing and Junfu Zhang

7561: Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

Massimo Bordignon, Tommaso Nannicini and Guido Tabellini

7560: Overtime Working and Contract Efficiency

Robert Hart and Yue Ma

7559: The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards: A Quasi-Experiment in Japan

Tomohiro Machikita, Miki Kohara and Masaru Sasaki

7558: Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain

Lidia Farre and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

7557: Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro

7556: Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans

Tim Higgins and Mathias Sinning

7555: China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers

Mary Gallagher, John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

7554: Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan and Thomas Kniesner

7553: Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Mthuli Ncube