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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

7522: Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?

Stefan Boes and Steven Stillman

7521: Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Marie Claire Villeval

7520: Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

Miles Corak

7519: Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Vincenzo Scoppa

7518: Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?

Nadia Karamcheva and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

7517: Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal

Jean-Louis Arcand and Linguere Mbaye

7516: Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Christine Binzel and Dietmar Fehr

7515: Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence

Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer, Jonathan Wadsworth and Tanya Wilson

7514: Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler

7513: The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

7512: The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders and Body Mass Index

Susan Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi and Yang Wang

7511: After the Farm Crisis: Religiosity in the Rural United States

Wafa Orman

7510: Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Pieter Hooimeijer, Maarten van Ham and Wim Meeus

7509: Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

7508: Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France

Olivier Bargain and Karina Doorley

7507: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Wim Naudé

7506: Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Michal Myck, Anna Kurowska and Kundera, Micha?

7505: Australia: The Miracle Economy

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

7504: Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders

Bridget Daldy, Jacques Poot and Matthew Roskruge

7503: "Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For Whom? Evidence from the Manila Contraceptive Ban

Christelle Dumas and Arnaud Lefranc

7502: Minimum Wage and the Average Wage in France: A Circular Relationship?

Gilbert Cette, Valérie Chouard and Gregory Verdugo

7501: Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-Use Data

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Almudena Sevilla

7500: Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!

Alessandro Fedele and Paolo Naticchioni

7499: Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Jeffrey Carpenter and David Dolifka

7498: Mit Neo-Korporatismus durch die Krise? Die Rolle des Sozialen Dialogs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

Werner Eichhorst and J. Timo Weishaupt

7497: Financial Liberalization and Remittances: Recent Longitudinal Evidence

James Bang, Aniruddha Mitra and Phanindra Wunnava

7496: Cash Transfers and Child Labour

Jacobus de Hoop and Furio Rosati

7495: Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games

Michalis Drouvelis and Nattavudh Powdthavee

7494: Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Andreas Lichter, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

7493: Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Laurent Gobillon and Thierry Magnac

7492: On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Ernesto Reuben and Frans van Winden

7491: Earnings and Labour Market Volatility in Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

7490: Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

7489: The Legacy of Conflict: Regional Deprivation and School Performance in Northern Ireland

Neil Ferguson and Maren Michaelsen

7488: Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?

Sebastian Koehne and Moritz Kuhn

7487: Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation

Almas Heshmati and Flávio Lenz-Cesar

7486: Long Run Trends in Australian Executive Remuneration: BHP 1887-2012

Mike Pottenger and Andrew Leigh

7485: Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows

George Naufal and Ismail Genc

7484: Superstition in the Housing Market

Nicole Fortin, Andrew Hill and Jeff Huang

7483: Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field

Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

7482: The Effect of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Pille Mõtsmees

7481: Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland

Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, Claire Keane, Michael Savage and John R. Walsh

7480: Gender Differences in Preferences for Health-Related Absences from Work

Daniel Avdic and Per Johansson

7479: Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

Fabrice Defever and Jens Suedekum

7478: An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence in the Czech Republic

Martin Guzi

7477: Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Anastasia Danilov and Dirk Sliwka

7476: Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Maria Zumbühl, Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann

7475: Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl

7474: Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers and Lutz Bellmann

7473: Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Guilhem Cassan and Lakshmi Iyer

7472: Joint Custody in the Italian Courts

Guido de Blasio and Daniela Vuri

7471: Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions

Laszlo Goerke and Inga Hillesheim

7470: The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation

Ann-Kathrine Ejsing, Ulrich Kaiser, Hans Christian Kongsted and Keld Laursen

7469: Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Benjamin Crost, Joseph Felter, Hani Mansour and Daniel Rees

7468: Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond

Kusum Mundra and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

7467: Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

7466: Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China

Ren Mu and Alan de Brauw

7465: Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths

Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin and Roy Wada

7464: Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

7463: How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?

Ian Davidoff and Andrew Leigh

7462: Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock

Emma Tominey

7461: Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar and Erwin R. Tiongson

7460: Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed

Marco Caliendo and Steffen Künn

7459: Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

7458: Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment

Randolph Bruno and Nauro Campos

7457: Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health

Daniel Millimet and Manan Roy

7456: Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers

Briggs Depew, Peter Norlander and Todd Sorensen

7455: The Economics of Severance Pay

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Espen Moen

7454: Education, Birth Order, and Family Size

Jesper Bagger, Javier Birchenall, Hani Mansour and Sergio Urzua

7453: Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood

Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis