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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

7552: Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

James Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto

7551: Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nikhil Jha

7550: Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon, James Heckman, Caitriona Logue and Seong Hyeok Moon

7549: Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement

Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti and Mariacristina Rossi

7548: Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows

Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal and Hillel Rapoport

7547: "Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Wim Naudé, José Amorós and Oscar Cristi

7546: Older Workers and Working Time

David Bell and Alasdair Rutherford

7545: Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?

Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

7544: Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?

J. David Brown and John Earle

7543: Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai and Alejandro Lavopa

7542: Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008

Daniel Fackler and Claus Schnabel

7541: The Economics of First-Contract Mediation

Sabien Dobbelaere and Roland Iwan Luttens

7540: Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere and Bettina Peters

7539: Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality

Federico Ciani and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

7538: Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Erdal Tekin, Chandler McClellan and Karen Jean Minyard

7537: The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study

Tyas Prevoo and Bas ter Weel

7536: Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS

Xiaoyan Lei, James Smith, Xiaoting Sun and Yaohui Zhao

7535: Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

James Smith, Meng Tian and Yaohui Zhao

7534: Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences

Richard Fabling and David Maré

7533: Testing the Internal Validity of Compulsory School Reforms as Instrument for Years of Schooling

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Guglielmo Weber and Christoph Weiss

7532: Poverty and Transitions in Health

Maja Adena and Michal Myck

7531: If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

7530: Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants

Ahmed Elsayed and Andries de Grip

7529: The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages

Nick Drydakis

7528: Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?

Karsten Albæk, Søren Leth-Petersen, Daniel le Maire and Torben Tranaes

7527: Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling

Polona Domadenik, Far?nik, Daša and Francesco Pastore

7526: Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model

Sanne Boschman and Maarten van Ham

7525: New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space

Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham and Allan M. Findlay

7524: The Effect of Public Wages on Corporate Compensation in Hungary

Almos Telegdy

7523: Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Sotiris Georganas, Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos