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7297: Immigration and Labor Productivity: New Empirical Evidence for Spain

Catia Nicodemo

7296: The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren and Serkan Ozbeklik

7295: Sample Attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics

Brahim Boudarbat and Lee Grenon

7294: Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

7293: Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior

Yoram Weiss, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang

7292: The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments across Europe: 1988-2010

Max Tani and Maurizio Manuguerra

7291: The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis

Alexander Hijzen and Sébastien Martin

7290: Is Leaving Home a Hardship?

David Ribar

7289: The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

7288: Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error

Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

7287: Employment Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Korea

Jungho Kim

7286: Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

7285: Migration Strategies of the Crisis-Stricken Youth in an Enlarged European Union

Martin Kahanec and Brian Fabo

7284: Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

Ulrich Kaiser and Bettina Müller

7283: Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec

Nicholas-James Clavet, Jean-Yves Duclos and Guy Lacroix

7282: What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants "Take Their Jobs"?

Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo Fiorio and Giovanni Peri

7281: Intrahousehold Bargaining and the Demand for Consumer Durables in Brazil

Ana Fava and Mary Arends-Kuenning

7280: Mincer Equation, Power Law of Learning, and Efficient Education Policy

Wolfram Richter

7279: Top?Down vs. Bottom?Up: The Long?Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Nicolas Ziebarth and Gert Wagner

7278: A Theoretical Model of the Chinese Labor Market

Gary Fields and Yang Song

7277: Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model

Almas Heshmati, Subal Kumbhakar and Kai Sun

7276: The Sources of Wage Variation: A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model

Sónia Torres, Pedro Portugal, John Addison and Paulo Guimaraes

7275: The Transformation of Hunger Revisited

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell and Mintewab Bezabih

7274: Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Matloob Piracha, Max Tani and Matias Vaira-Lucero

7273: The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice

Michael Kuhn, Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval

7272: Investment Crowding-Out and Labor Market Effects of Financialization in the U.S

Ignacio González and Hector Sala

7271: Authority and Incentives in Organizations

Matthias Kräkel

7270: Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba and Klaus Zimmermann

7269: How Sensitive Are Individual Retirement Expectations to Raising the Retirement Age?

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Raymond Montizaan

7268: Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back

Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier and Yanos Zylberberg

7267: The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

Evan Borkum, Fang He and Leigh Linden

7266: Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Bart Cockx, Corinna Ghirelli and Bruno Van der Linden

7265: Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding

Johannes Binswanger and Martin Salm

7264: Mixed Oligopoly in Education

Helmuth Cremer and Darío Maldonado

7263: The Relationship between the Housing & Labor Market Crises and Doubling-Up: An MSA-Level Analysis, 2005-2010

William Rogers and Anne Winkler

7262: Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?

Stijn Baert and Bart Cockx

7261: The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness

Casey Boyd-Swan, Chris M. Herbst, John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee

7260: Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

7259: Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Christine Binzel and Jean-Paul Carvalho

7258: Fifty Years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

7257: An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Lene Kromann

7256: Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Abel Brodeur and Sarah Flèche

7255: The Impact of Tax Knowledge and Budget Spending Influence on Tax Compliance

Behnud Mir Djawadi and René Fahr

7254: The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?

Evelyn Lehrer and Yu Chen

7253: Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota and Jacques Mairesse

7252: Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure

Nicole Bosch and Bas ter Weel

7251: Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

Hong Liu, Qi Sun and Zhong Zhao

7250: The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System

Nicolas Ziebarth and Martin Karlsson

7249: A Simple Approach to Treatment Effects on Durations When the Treatment Timing is Chosen

Myoung-jae Lee and Per Johansson

7248: Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark

Ulrich Kaiser, Susan Mendez, Thomas Rønde and Hannes Ullrich

7247: The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

John Cawley, Rosemary Avery and Matthew Eisenberg

7246: Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

7245: Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play

Orley Ashenfelter, David Bloom and Gordon Dahl

7244: Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

7243: Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions

René Böheim and Mario Lackner

7242: Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality

Cathal O'Donoghue, Jason Loughrey and Karyn Morrissey

7241: Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge and John van Reenen

7240: Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn, Ott Toomet and Daniela Hochfellner

7239: For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

7238: Business, Bankruptcy, and Beliefs: The Financial Demise of NBA Stars

Ruby Henry

7237: A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Jörgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

7236: The Distribution of Income in Central America

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Juan Diego Trejos

7235: Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Yeimin Chung and Almas Heshmati

7234: Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy

Richard Easterlin

7233: Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet and Mustafa Ulus

7232: The Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and Its Description by Pareto's Distribution

John Pencavel

7231: The Recent Decline in Employment Dynamics

Henry R. Hyatt and James R. Spletzer

7230: Immigrant Concentration in Schools: Consequences for Native and Migrant Students

Nicole Schneeweis

7229: Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig and Jann Lay

7228: School Starting Age and Crime

Rasmus Landersø, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

7227: University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo and V. Joseph Hotz

7226: Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse

Norman Loayza, Alfredo Mier y Teran and Iamele Rigolini

7225: Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Volker Grossmann, Andreas Schäfer and Thomas M. Steger

7224: Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Graziella Bertocchi and Monica Bozzano

7223: China's High Saving Puzzle

Guonan Ma and Dennis Yang

7222: Stayers and Returners: Educational Self-Selection among U.S. Immigrants and Returning Migrants

Arturo Aguilar Esteva

7221: Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and their Intergenerational Transmission

Fabian Kosse and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7220: Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia

7219: Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials

Philippe Askenazy

7218: The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths: A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009

Pieter Bevelander, Mikael Hjerm and Jenny Kiiskinen

7217: On the Power of Childhood Impressions for Skill Formation: Initial Evidence and Unsettled Questions

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7216: Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7215: Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

7214: Default Options and Training Participation

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

7213: The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control

John Cawley and Stephanie von Hinke

7212: Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India

Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen and M.R. Sharan

7211: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren

Robert Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson

7210: Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries

Martin Halla, Mario Lackner and Johann Scharler

7209: A Goodness-of-Fit Approach to Estimating Equivalence Scales

Martin Biewen and Andos Juhasz

7208: Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Carl Lin

7207: Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Alison Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa and Patrick Nolen

7206: Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hans K. Hvide and Georgios Panos

7205: Ageing and Productivity: Introduction

David Bloom and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

7204: UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Milena Buechs and Sylke Schnepf

7203: Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Julie Moschion and Domenico Tabasso

7202: Job Search as a Determinant of Graduate Over-Education: Evidence from Australia

David Carroll and Max Tani

7201: Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'

Andy Barnett, Bruce Yandle and George Naufal

7200: Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

David Card, Jörg Heining and Patrick Kline

7199: The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

7198: Note on Lilien and Modified Lilien Index

Muhammad Rashid Ansari, Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore