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7231: The Recent Decline in Employment Dynamics

Henry Hyatt and James 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 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 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

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 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, John Michael 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 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