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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

7356: Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Francesco Pastore and Simona Tenaglia

7355: Economic Conditions and Child Abuse

Jason Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller and Benjamin Hansen

7354: International Education and Economic Growth

Jan Bergerhoff, Lex Borghans, Philipp K. Seegers and Tom van Veen

7353: Subjective Well?Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

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