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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

7452: Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan, Max Steinhardt and David Ulph

7451: Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia

John Roy and Stefanie Schurer

7450: The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment

Rulof Burger, Servaas van der Berg and Dieter von Fintel

7449: Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Matthias Doepke

7448: Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Laurent Gobillon, Peter Rupert and Etienne Wasmer

7447: Robustness of the Encouragement Design in a Two-Treatment Randomized Control Trial

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Marc Gurgand

7446: Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study

Ana Dammert and Jose Galdo

7445: The Price of Warm Glow

Andrew Lilley and Robert Slonim

7444: Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence

Giuseppe Bertola and Daniele Checchi

7443: Incidence of Strict Quality Standards: Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?

Daiji Kawaguchi, Tetsushi Murao and Ryo Kambayashi

7442: Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Armin Falk and Nora Szech

7441: Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values

Davide Ticchi, Thierry Verdier and Andrea Vindigni

7440: The Scarring Effects of Unemployment, Low Pay and Skills Under-utilisation in Australia Compared

Kostas Mavromaras, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

7439: Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

7438: Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Bernd Fitzenberger, Katrin Sommerfeld and Susanne Steffes

7437: Should We Increase Instruction Time in Low Achieving Schools? Evidence from Southern Italy

Erich Battistin and Elena Meroni

7436: Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli

7435: Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Christian Grund and Tanja Walter

7434: Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors

Jason Delaney and John Winters

7433: A Note on Height and Surnames: The Role of Networks

Wolter Hassink and Bas van Leeuwen

7432: Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Nick Drydakis

7431: Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States: Description and Correlates

Janice Compton and Robert Pollak

7430: Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer

7429: Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

Joshua Angrist and Miikka Rokkanen

7428: A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages

José R. Guardado and Nicolas Ziebarth

7427: Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional Destinations

Neeraj Kaushal and Ce Shang

7426: Multitasking and Wages

Dennis J. Snower and Dennis Görlich

7425: Testing for Discrimination against Lesbians of Different Marital Status: A Field Experiment

Doris Weichselbaumer

7424: Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences

Petri Böckerman and Jari Vainiomäki

7423: Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?

Getinet Haile

7422: Income and Population Growth

Markus Brückner and Hannes Schwandt

7421: Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José A. Cuesta, Carlos Garcia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno and Angel Sanchez

7420: School Accountability: Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection?

Erwin Ooghe and Erik Schokkaert

7419: Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak

7418: Polarization of Time and Income – A Multidimensional Approach with Well-Being Gap and Minimum 2DGAP: German Evidence

Joachim Merz and Bettina Scherg

7417: Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt

Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber and Olmo Silva

7416: Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?

Guyonne Kalb and Jan van Ours

7415: Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

James Heckman and Lakshmi K. Raut

7414: The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?

Ive Marx, Lina Salanauskaite and Gerlinde Verbist

7413: Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Dennis J. Snower and Wolfgang Lechthaler

7412: Are Worker-Managed Firms Really More Likely to Fail?

Gabriel Burdín

7411: Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions

Sebastian Fehrler and Michael Kosfeld

7410: Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes

Jannie Kristoffersen and Nina Smith

7409: Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata

Peter Eibich and Nicolas Ziebarth

7408: Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior

Yoonyoung Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mobarak and Victor Orozco-Olvera

7407: Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings

Thierry Magnac, Nicolas Pistolesi and Sébastien Roux

7406: Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Tanika Chakraborty, Bakhrom Mirkasimov and Susan Steiner

7405: Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City

Huashu Wang, Lei Pan and Nico Heerink

7404: The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence

Peter Gal, Alexander Hijzen and Zoltán Wolf

7403: Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Gerhard Krug and Gesine Stephan

7402: A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

7401: Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization

David McKenzie and Melissa Siegel

7400: Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Patrick Hullegie and Jan van Ours

7399: Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Petri Böckerman and Mika Maliranta

7398: What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux

Avner Greif and Murat Iyigun

7397: Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Alfred Lameli, Volker Nitsch, Jens Suedekum and Nikolaus Wolf

7396: Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

Jason Lindo

7395: Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ana Dammert, Jose Galdo and Virgilio Galdo

7394: Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs

Ana Dammert and Jose Galdo

7393: Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Vincent O'Sullivan, Brian Nolan and Alan Barrett

7392: Coworker Networks in the Labour Market

Albrecht Glitz

7391: Disease and Development Revisited

David Bloom, David Canning and Günther Fink

7390: Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

7389: Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

7388: Who Moves and For How Long: Determinants of Different Forms of Migration

Daniela Borodak and Matloob Piracha

7387: Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data

Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre

7386: Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

7385: Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?

Eva Spring and Volker Grossmann

7384: Job Spells, Employer Spells, and Wage Returns to Tenure

Paul Devereux, Robert Hart and J Roberts

7383: The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Behnud Mir Djawadi and René Fahr

7382: The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Stephen Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman and Michael Housman

7381: State Merit-Aid Programs and College Major: A Focus on STEM

David Sjoquist and John Winters

7380: Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

Jan Feld, Nicolas Salamanca and Daniel Hamermesh

7379: Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

7378: Intra-Firm Upward Mobility and Immigration

Mohsen Javdani and Andrew McGee

7377: Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Avner Greif and Murat Iyigun

7376: Family Ties

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

7375: Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and Jonathan Shaw

7374: Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards

Johannes Abeler and Daniele Nosenzo

7373: Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation

Johannes Abeler and Simon Jäger

7372: Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Benjamin Enke and Florian Zimmermann

7371: Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Wolfgang Ahrens, Stefaan De Henauw, Gabriele Eiben, Juan M. Fernández-Alvira, Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Toomas Veidebaum, Garrath Williams and Karin Bammann

7370: Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Alexander Danzer, Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova and Achim Schmillen

7369: Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Nicole Simpson

7368: The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe

William Betz and Nicole Simpson

7367: Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets

Giovanni Peri and Kevin Shih

7366: Language Proficiency of Migrants: The Relation with Job Satisfaction and Matching

Hans Bloemen

7365: The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu and Mark Wooden

7364: Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Tilman Brück and Sindu Workneh Kebede

7363: Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace

Robert Dur and Jan Tichem

7362: South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda and Mariapia Mendola

7361: Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Christian Grund and Andreas Schmitt

7360: Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores

Ingo Isphording

7359: Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development

Daniel Millimet and Ian McDonough

7358: Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations

Rita Almeida and Jennifer Poole

7357: Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Abel Brodeur