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6799: Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis

Matthias Strifler and Thomas Beissinger

6798: Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Seth Giertz and Mehmet Tosun

6797: Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China

Ren Mu and Yang Du

6796: Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?

Gil Epstein and Erez Siniver

6795: Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration

Costanza Biavaschi

6794: Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects

Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham and John Östh

6793: Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

Maarten van Ham and David Manley

6792: Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges

Claus Schnabel

6791: Spouses' Retirement and Hours Outcomes: Evidence from Twofold Regression Discontinuity with Differences-in-Differences

Elena Stancanelli

6790: The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak

6789: Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sonja de New and Stefanie Schurer

6788: Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices

Hendrik Wolff

6787: Extending Becker's Time Allocation Theory to Model Continuous Time Blocks: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

Hendrik Wolff and Momoe Makino

6786: Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?

Christoph Wunder and Guido Heineck

6785: Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ana Moreno-Monroy, Janneke Pieters and Abdul Azeez Erumban

6784: Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Robert Sauer

6783: The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann and Grant Miller

6782: Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees

Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen and Filip Pertold

6781: A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models

Daniel Henderson, Subal Kumbhakar and Christopher Parmeter

6780: A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes

Rolf Ketzler and Klaus Zimmermann

6779: Recent Longitudinal Evidence of Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders

Phanindra Wunnava

6778: Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya

Luke Chicoine

6777: Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

6776: Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Zeynel Ozdemir, Mehmet Balcilar and Aysıt Tansel

6775: Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Ansgar Belke and Lukas Vogel

6774: How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Diego Ubfal

6773: Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rudi Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

6772: Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?

Mehtabul Azam, Céline Ferré and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

6771: Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks

Christian Bayer and Falko Juessen

6770: School and Drugs: Closing the Gap - Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

6769: A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers

Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso and Yi-Ping Tseng

6768: Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Hong Liu and Zhong Zhao

6767: Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions

Falko Juessen and Ludger Linnemann

6766: An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

John Winters and Barry Hirsch

6765: Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China

Alan de Brauw and John T. Giles

6764: Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

Seamus McGuinness, Mark Wooden and Markus Hahn

6763: Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence

Gigi Foster and Charlene Kalenkoski

6762: Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment

Stephen Cheung

6761: The Great Happiness Moderation

Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik

6760: Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Ronald Bachmann, Marion König and Sandra Schaffner

6759: Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding

Sarah Hamersma, Carolyn Heinrich and Peter Mueser

6758: Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Christopher Jepsen, Peter Mueser and Kenneth Troske

6757: Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas

Fernando Rios-Avila and Barry Hirsch

6756: Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah

6755: Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments

Jee-Yeon Lehmann, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

6754: Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Randall Akee, Miriam Jorgensen and Uwe Sunde

6753: How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey

Ronald Bachmann and Daniel Baumgarten

6752: Estimating the Income Loss of Disabled Individuals: The Case of Spain

María Cervini-Plá, José Silva and Judit Vall Castello

6751: Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon, Marc Gurgand and Thomas Le Barbanchon

6750: Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson and Stephen Burks

6749: Do Employees Profit from Profit Sharing? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Richard J. Long and Tony Fang

6748: Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Pieter Gautier, Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

6747: Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey and Thibaud Vergé

6746: Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs: Exits from Temporary Contracts in Italy after the 2003 Reform

Giovanni Bruno, Floro Caroleo and Orietta Dessy

6745: Income Distribution among those of 65 Years and Older in Sweden

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Eskil Wadensjö

6744: Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nuesch and Steven Stillman

6743: Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro-Model

Peter Dungan, Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson

6742: Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Tony Fang, Al-Karim Samnani, Milorad M. Novicevic and Mark N. Bing

6741: De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

6740: Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol and Mirjam Praag

6739: In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

Giuseppe De Luca, Claudio Rossetti and Daniela Vuri

6738: Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey

6737: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Pieter Serneels and Marijke Verpoorten

6736: Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah

6735: Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results

Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl

6734: Differential Welfare State Impacts for Frontier Working Age Families

Irina Burlacu and Cathal O'Donoghue

6733: Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies: Measurement Methods and Comparative Results

Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio and Massimiliano Iommi

6732: Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe

Susana Ferreira, Alpaslan Akay, Finbarr Brereton, Juncal Cuñado, Peter Martinsson and Mirko Moro

6731: Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn and Mirjam Praag

6730: Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects

Martin Biewen

6729: Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Evelyn Lehrer and Yu Chen

6728: On-the-Job Learning and Earnings: Comparative Evidence from Morocco and Senegal

Christophe Nordman and François-Charles Wolff

6727: Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Anita Staneva

6726: Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Anita Staneva

6725: Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity

David Gill, Victoria Prowse and Michael Vlassopoulos

6724: The Timing of Earnings Sampling over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

6723: Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

John Winters

6722: Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Enric Meix-Llop

6721: Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Andreas Kuhn

6720: Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

6719: The Effects of Credit Status on College Attainment and College Completion

Dora Gicheva, Felicia Ionescu and Nicole Simpson

6718: The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School

Tine Louise Eriksen, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

6717: Business Taxation and Wages: Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Thomas Bauer, Tanja Kasten and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

6716: Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

6715: Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Amanda Goodall and Ganna Pogrebna

6714: The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health

Søren Dalsgaard, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

6713: Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Herbert Brücker, Elke Jahn and Richard Upward

6712: Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Riemer Faber and Pierre Koning

6711: A Reason for Unreason: Returns-Based Beliefs in Game Theory

Chander Velu, Sriya Iyer and Jonathan R. Gair

6710: The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task

Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin

6709: Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

6708: Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003

Almudena Sevilla, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Jonathan I. Gershuny

6707: The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions

Kristiina Huttunen and Jenni Kellokumpu

6706: Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador

Monique De Haan, Erik Plug and Jose Rosero

6705: Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides

Chandler McClellan and Erdal Tekin

6704: Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

6703: Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values

John Winters

6702: How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

Andreas Kostøl and Magne Mogstad

6701: Time vs. Money: The Supply of Voluntary Labor and Charitable Donations across Europe

Thomas Bauer, Julia Bredtmann and Christoph Schmidt

6700: A Gift of Time

Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee and Daniel Hamermesh