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7352: The Making of Middle Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data

Mthuli Ncube and Abebe Abebe

7351: Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

7350: The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Andrea Garnero and Francois Rycx

7349: Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008

Yuling Cui, Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

7348: Migration from Ukraine: Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence

Simon Commander, Olexandr Nikolaychuk and Dmytro Vikhrov

7347: Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Henry S Farber and Robert Valletta

7346: Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach

Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries and Natasa Bilkic

7345: Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

7344: Does Experience Rating Reduce Disability Inflow?

Tomi Kyyrä and Juha Tuomala

7343: Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap

Douglas Webber

7342: Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution

Douglas Webber

7341: Cross Sections Are History

Richard Easterlin

7340: How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini and Francesco Trebbi

7339: Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life

David Albouy, Walter Graf, Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff

7338: The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined

Natasa Bilkic, Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

7337: Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan

Andreas Landmann and Markus Frölich

7336: Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case

Gustavo García Cruz and Catia Nicodemo

7335: Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Solomon Polachek, Tirthatanmoy Das and Rewat Thamma-Apiroam

7334: "Thou Shalt Not Covet...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Matteo Cervellati and Paolo Vanin

7333: Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis

Yoonyoung Cho and Maddalena Honorati

7332: Making it Work: The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand

Trudie Cain and Paul Spoonley

7331: Male Wage Inequality and Marital Dissolution: Is There a Link?

Andriana Bellou

7330: Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Lukas Inderbitzin, Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller

7329: Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

7328: How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review

Beatriz Fabiola López Ulloa, Valerie Moller and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

7327: The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

Yuhao Ge and Hartmut Lehmann

7326: The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

7325: Migration, Trade and Income

Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri

7324: Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon

Benjamin Fomba Kamga, Arline Kengne Kamga and Martine Audibert

7323: Offshoring and Productivity Revisited: A Time-Series Analysis

Pablo Agnese

7322: Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

Roland Benabou

7321: Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

7320: Skill-Biased Technological Change and Skill-Enhancing Trade in Turkey: Evidence from Longitudinal Microdata

Ilina Srour, Erol Taymaz and Marco Vivarelli

7319: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the U.S

Harry Holzer and Erin Dunlop Velez

7318: Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück and Damir Esenaliev

7317: Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risk

Gaëtan Delprat, Marie-Louise Leroux and Pierre-Carl Michaud

7316: The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market

Andriana Bellou

7315: Population Average Gender Effects

Tymon Słoczyński

7314: The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida

Guido Schwerdt and Martin R. West

7313: An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions

Barry Hirsch

7312: Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs

Bradley Ruffle and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

7311: Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

7310: The Relation between Maternal Work Hours and Cognitive Outcomes of Young School-Aged Children

Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

7309: Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

7308: Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction

Aysıt Tansel and Saziye Gazioglu

7307: Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis

Ronen Bar-El and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

7306: Transactions Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy

W. Bentley Macleod and Daniel Parent

7305: The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality

Shelly Lundberg

7304: Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S

Vincenzo Caponi and Miana Plesca

7303: The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills

Arnaud Dupuy

7302: Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Luca Colombo, Herbert Dawid, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

7301: The Effect of Non-Cognitive Traits on Health Behaviours in Adolescence

Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker

7300: Still Not Allowed on the Bus: It Matters If You're Black or White!

Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters

7299: The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime

Mark Nichols and Mehmet Tosun

7298: The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Aaron K. Chatterji, Kenneth Y. Chay and Robert Fairlie

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