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7052: The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Simone Schüller

7051: Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers

Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari

7050: Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer and Joachim Wagner

7049: The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

7048: Per Se Drugged Driving Laws and Traffic Fatalities

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

7047: The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector

Bodo Aretz, Melanie Arntz and Terry Gregory

7046: What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?

Bodo Aretz and Nicole Gürtzgen

7045: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends

Arnaud Lefranc, Fumiaki Ojima and Takashi Yoshida

7044: Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag

7043: Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

7042: Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa

Samuel Annim, Thankom Arun and Philip Kostov

7041: Are Skills a Constraint on Firms? New Evidence from Russia

Simon Commander and Irina Denisova

7040: Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto and Peter Savelyev

7039: The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation

Chris M. Herbst

7038: United but (Un-)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau and Kerstin Roeder

7037: The Cost of Acting "Girly": Gender Stereotypes and Educational Choices

Marta Favara

7036: Worker Productivity and Wages: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Ana Lopes and Paulino Teixeira

7035: Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Hartmut Lehmann and Alexander Muravyev

7034: Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes

Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

7033: Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Andrew Oswald

7032: Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Gil Epstein, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan

7031: The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Gil Epstein, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan

7030: The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Ernst Fehr, Holger Herz and Tom Wilkening

7029: Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

7028: Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work

Michael Clemens and Erwin R. Tiongson

7027: The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon

7026: Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Suqin Ge, Dennis Yang and Junsen Zhang

7025: Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Joop Hartog and Michael Sattinger

7024: How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?

Daniel Sgroi and Andrew Oswald

7023: Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Gil Epstein

7022: Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Rafael Gralla and Kornelius Kraft

7021: Higher Wages, Overstaffing or Both? The Employer's Assessment of Problems Regarding Wage Costs and Staff Level in Co-Determined Establishments

Rafael Gralla and Kornelius Kraft

7020: Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

7019: English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap

Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu

7018: The Decline of Professional Football in Italy

Tito Boeri and Battista Severgnini

7017: One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors

Stefanie Schurer, Daniel Kühnle, Anthony Scott and Terence Cheng

7016: Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction: Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult

Maggie Switek

7015: Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa

Todd Pugatch

7014: Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Anthony Atkinson, Peter Backus and John Micklewright

7013: Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance

Sylvie Blasco and Barbara Pertold-Gębicka

7012: Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region

Ubarevi?ien?, R?ta, Donatas Burneika and Maarten van Ham

7011: Higher Education in Turkey: Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?

Asena Caner and Cagla Okten

7010: The Economics of Grief

Gerard van den Berg, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

7009: Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being

Alexander Weiss, James E. King, Miho Inoue-Murayama, Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Andrew Oswald

7008: The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

7007: Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children

Patricia Apps, Jan Kabátek, Ray Rees and Arthur van Soest

7006: Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking and Birth Outcomes

Prashant Bharadwaj, Julian Johnsen and Katrine Løken

7005: Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap

Cecilia Machado

7004: Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview

Timothy Hatton

7003: A Flexible Sample Selection Model: A GTL-Copula Approach

Takuya Hasebe and Wim Vijverberg

7002: House Lock and Structural Unemployment

Robert Valletta

7001: Movin' on Up: Hierarchical Occupational Segmentation and Gender Wage Gaps

Dina Shatnawi, Ronald Oaxaca and Michael Ransom

7000: Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate and V. Joseph Hotz

6999: Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

6998: Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Ernesto Reuben and Matthew Stephenson

6997: Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Alison Booth and Pamela Katic

6996: Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Ingo Geishecker and Thomas Siedler

6995: The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe

María Navarro Paniagua and Ian Walker

6994: New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan and Thomas Kniesner

6993: Time Limits: The Effects on Welfare Use and Other Consumption-Smoothing Mechanisms

Francesca Mazzolari and Giuseppe Ragusa

6992: Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Mário Centeno and Alvaro A. Novo

6991: The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover

Nikita Cespedes Reynaga and Silvio Rendon

6990: Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements

Jihui Susan Chen, Qihong Liu and Sherrilyn M. Billger

6989: Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth

Margherita Fort, Francesco Manaresi and Serena Trucchi

6988: Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

6987: Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings

Paul Bingley and Lorenzo Cappellari

6986: Kindergarten for All: Long Run Effects of a Universal Intervention

Nina Drange, Tarjei Havnes and Astrid Marie Sandsør

6985: The Effect of Overskilling Dynamics on Wages

Kostas Mavromaras, Stephane Mahuteau, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

6984: High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark

Annalisa Cristini, Tor Eriksson and Dario Pozzoli

6983: Assortative Matching and Gender

Luca Merlino, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

6982: Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Francisco Campos-Ortiz, Louis Putterman, T.K. Ahn, Loukas Balafoutas, Mongoljin Batsaikhan and Matthias Sutter

6981: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Thomas Siedler and Bettina Sonnenberg

6980: The Impact of the German Child Benefit on Child Well-Being

Christian Raschke

6979: Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India

Basab Dasgupta and Christian Zimmermann

6978: Gender Gaps in Spain: Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women

Ainara González de San Román and Sara De La Rica

6977: Family Values, Social Needs and Preferences for Welfare

Claudio Lucifora and Dominique Meurs

6976: Leadership at School: Does the Gender of Siblings Matter?

Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola

6975: Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation: Cause or Effect?

Gabriel Felbermayr, Volker Grossmann and Wilhelm Kohler

6974: Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Vietnam

Ha Nguyen, Amy Liu and Alison Booth

6973: Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli and Mariola Pytlikova

6972: The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli and Mariola Pytlikova

6971: The Impact of Pre-school on Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence from a Recent English Cohort

Patricia Apps, Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker

6970: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation

Jonas Maibom, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

6969: Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia

Matias Vaira-Lucero, Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

6968: The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China: Results from a Joint Estimation

Yuling Cui, Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

6967: Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program

Claudio Lucifora and Marco Tonello

6966: Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly and Christophe Rault

6965: How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes

Astrid Würtz Rasmussen and Leslie Stratton

6964: Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China

Dennis Yang

6963: The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Daniel Lau and Dario Pozzoli

6962: Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Mette Lausten and Dario Pozzoli

6961: Trust and Cheating

Jeffrey Butler, Paola Giuliano and Luigi Guiso

6960: Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists: How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics

Christiana E. Hilmer, Michael J. Hilmer and Michael Ransom

6959: Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America

María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces and Laura Ripani

6958: Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?

Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

6957: The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pablo Swedberg

6956: Who Cares about Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health

Anita Ratcliffe and Karl Taylor

6955: Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers, Andries de Grip and Thomas Dohmen

6954: Is There a Southern-Sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy

Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore

6953: Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort