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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

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 Åslund 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 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

7097: Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons

Christian Grund and Johannes Martin

7096: Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

7095: FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008

John Earle, Almos Telegdy and Gábor Antal

7094: Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border

Simone Bertoli and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

7093: The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

7092: The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry

William Even and David Macpherson

7091: Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa and Daniela Vuri

7090: The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev and Klaus Zimmermann

7089: Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?

Michael S. Delgado, Daniel Henderson and Christopher Parmeter

7088: Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company

Christian Pfeifer

7087: Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?

Greg Duncan and Aaron Sojourner

7086: Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy

Erich Battistin and Antonio Schizzerotto

7085: Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment

Eline van der Heijden, Tobias Klein, Wieland Müller and Jan Potters

7084: In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model

Ann-Sofie Kolm and Mirco Tonin

7083: Income Inequality and Saving

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado and Mayssun El-Attar

7082: Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Laurent Gobillon and Carine Milcent

7081: Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

7080: The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market

Ingo Isphording and Mathias Sinning

7079: Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia

Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita Almeida, Rebekka Grun and Mahdi Barouni

7078: Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A Selective Overview

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

7077: Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki and Tomohiro Machikita

7076: Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia

Sarmistha Pal and Zaki Wahhaj

7075: Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being

Getinet Haile, Alex Bryson and Michael White

7074: Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data

Francesco Pastore and Joanna Tyrowicz

7073: Immigration and Trade Creation for the U.S.: The Role of Immigrant Occupation

Kusum Mundra

7072: Mobility Across Multiple Generations: The Iterated Regression Fallacy

Jan Stuhler

7071: The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

7070: Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Michael Burda, Daniel Hamermesh and Jay Stewart

7069: Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Matteo Cervellati, Florian Jung, Uwe Sunde and Thomas Vischer

7068: The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor and David Dorn

7067: Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women

Zvi Eckstein and Osnat Lifshitz

7066: The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Martin Nybom

7065: Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?

Bruno Arpino, Chiara Pronzato and Lara Tavares

7064: Does Custody Law Affect Family Behavior In and Out of Marriage?

René Böheim, Marco Francesconi and Martin Halla

7063: Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

W. Bentley Macleod and Miguel Urquiola

7062: Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Barbara Hanel and Duncan McVicar

7061: Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg and Sir David Greenaway

7060: The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

Gabriella Conti and James Heckman

7059: Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj

7058: Working for a Good Cause

Robert Dur and Robin Zoutenbier

7057: Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William Maloney, Bob Rijkers and Mauricio Sarrias