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7197: Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-Related and National Factors

Ali Fakih and Pascal Ghazalian

7196: China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010

Richard Easterlin, Robson Morgan, Maggie Switek and Fei Wang

7195: Investment under Company-Level Pacts

Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner and Olaf Hübler

7194: The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Melanie Allwine, Iamele Rigolini and Luis Lopez-Calva

7193: Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Melike Wulfgramm and Lukas Fervers

7192: Cyclicality of Job and Worker Flows: New Data and a New Set of Stylized Facts

Ruediger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Stefan Seth and Felix Wellschmied

7191: Self-Employment in China: Are Rural Migrant Workers and Urban Residents Alike?

Yuling Cui, Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

7190: Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch

7189: Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs

Leandro Carvalho and Rodrigo R. Soares

7188: Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel

Carmel Chiswick

7187: Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence

Richard Easterlin

7186: Persistence Bias and the Wage-Schooling Model

Corrado Andini

7185: Return Migration of Foreign Students

Govert Bijwaard and Qi Wang

7184: Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?

Roger Gordon and Gordon Dahl

7183: Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Christine Binzel and Dietmar Fehr

7182: The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Measuring IQ

Lex Borghans, Huub Meijers and Bas ter Weel

7181: Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

7180: Place Based Policies with Unemployment

Patrick Kline and Enrico Moretti

7179: Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

7178: The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

David Autor

7177: Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

7176: Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

7175: Spatial Frictions

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Suedekum

7174: Do the Maths: An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics in Africa

Andrew Dickerson, Steven McIntosh and Christine Valente

7173: Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Olivier Godart and Holger Görg

7172: Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region

Ali Fakih and Pascal Ghazalian

7171: Is Self-Esteem a "Double Edged Sword"? Self-Esteem and the Onset of Adolescent Sexual Activity

Marta Favara

7170: The European Crisis and Migration to Germany: Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

7169: Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Francesco Drago, Tommaso Nannicini and Francesco Sobbrio

7168: Lessons Learned from the Largest Tenure Mix Operation in the World: Right to Buy in the United Kingdom

Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

7167: Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Semih Akçomak, Dinand Webbink and Bas ter Weel

7166: Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?

David Neumark, J.M. Ian Salas and William Wascher

7165: Time Preferences and Lifetime Outcomes

Bart Golsteyn, Hans Grönqvist and Lena Lindahl

7164: Math and Gender: Is Math a Route to a High-Powered Career?

Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Nielsen

7163: Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin Lester, Ludo Visschers and Ronald Wolthoff

7162: Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Biwei Su and Almas Heshmati

7161: Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks: The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Murat Kırdar

7160: Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Junfu Zhang and Zhong Zhao

7159: Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China

Ana Dammert, Beyza Ural Marchand and Chi Wan

7158: Gender Differences in German Wage Mobility

Bodo Aretz

7157: Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID

Timothy Halliday

7156: The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

7155: Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine

7154: Framing Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme: A Non-Parametric Analysis

Peter Kooreman, Bertrand Melenberg, Henriette Prast and Nathanaël Vellekoop

7153: The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Leonardo Becchetti, Riccardo Massari and Paolo Naticchioni

7152: Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries

Peter Siminski, Simon Ville and Alexander Paull

7151: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

7150: The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

7149: Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam

Huu Chi Nguyen, Christophe Nordman and François Roubaud

7148: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Sebastian Fehrler and Wojtek Przepiorka

7147: Asymmetric Information between Employers

Lisa Kahn

7146: Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Sascha Becker and Hans K. Hvide

7145: Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Niels Gheyle and Cora Vandamme

7144: Population Ageing and PAYG Pensions in the OLG Model

Giam Pietro Cipriani

7143: Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep

Jay Stewart

7142: The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007

Qingjie Xia, Lina Song, Shi Li and Simon Appleton

7141: Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Gary Fields

7140: Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

7139: Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance

Felix Weinhardt

7138: 'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Ricard Gil

7137: Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?

Elisabeth Fevang, Inés Hardoy and Knut Røed

7136: U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Harriet Duleep

7135: Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks

Massimiliano Bratti and Laura Cavalli

7134: How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Thitima Puttitanun and Ana Martinez-Donate

7133: Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch, Claus Aastrup Seidelin and Jan Rose Skaksen

7132: Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption

Matteo Cervellati, Alireza Naghavi and Farid Toubal

7131: Minority and Immigrant Homeownership Experience: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Kusum Mundra

7130: 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany

Benjamin Elsner and Klaus Zimmermann

7129: Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch Firms

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

7128: Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari and Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen

7127: Incidence of a "Social VAT" Reform: A French Scenario

Therese Rebiere

7126: Primum vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment

Francesco Pastore

7125: Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni and Margherita Fort

7124: Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Ludo Visschers

7123: Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?

Matt Dickson, Paul Gregg and Harriet Robinson

7122: The Changing of the Guards: Can Physicians Contain Social Insurance Costs?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed and Ole Rogeberg

7121: Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship

Knut Røed and Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm

7120: Economic Science and Political Influence

Gilles Saint-Paul

7119: Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis

Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyay

7118: The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Aslund and Mattias Engdahl

7117: Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

7116: The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Pierre Koning and Arthur van de Meerendonk

7115: Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

7114: The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?

David Neumark, Matthew Thompson and Leslie Koyle

7113: Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City

David Neumark, Matthew Thompson, Francesco Brindisi, Leslie Koyle and Clayton Reck

7112: How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added

Steven Dieterle, Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase and Jeffrey Wooldridge

7111: Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

7110: A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World

Werner Eichhorst, Núria Rodriguez-Planas, Ricarda Schmidl and Klaus Zimmermann

7109: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes and Pedro Portugal

7108: Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

7107: Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

7106: Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia

Saibal Kar and Shrabani Saha

7105: The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being

Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

7104: Wage Growth through Job Hopping in China

Kenn Ariga, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki and Zheren Wu

7103: Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective

Le Wang

7102: Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects

Fortuna Casoria and Arno Riedl

7101: Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

7100: Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Christina Felfe and Rafael Lalive

7099: Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin and Roy Wada

7098: Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

Arindrajit Dube, Oeindrila Dube and Omar García-Ponce