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6914: Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply

Philipp Doerrenberg and Denvil Duncan

6913: The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills

Magnus Carlsson, Gordon Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth

6912: Tax Reform in Georgia and the Size of the Shadow Economy

Karine Torosyan and Randall Filer

6911: Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society

Gilles Saint-Paul

6910: Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Denvil Duncan and Klara Sabirianova Peter

6909: Aging and Productivity: Evidence from Piece Rates

Tuomas Pekkarinen and Roope Uusitalo

6908: Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates

Luca Flabbi and James Mabli

6907: Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China

Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson and Shi Li

6906: The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Thepthida Sopraseuth

6905: Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

6904: The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Jennifer Hunt

6903: Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

6902: The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates

Christopher Jepsen, Kenneth Troske and Paul A. Coomes

6901: Measuring the Shadow Economy: Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation

Tomáš Lichard, Jan Hanousek and Randall Filer

6900: Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten

6899: The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America

James Smith

6898: Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt

Susan Averett and Julie Smith

6897: Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Holger Görg and Dennis Görlich

6896: Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

6895: What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?

David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

6894: Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Vanessa Dräger and Paul Marx

6893: Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap

Philippe Belley, Nathalie Havet and Guy Lacroix

6892: Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany

Christian Bredemeier and Falko Juessen

6891: Shadow Economies in Highly Developed OECD Countries: What Are the Driving Forces?

Friedrich Schneider and Andreas Buehn

6890: Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training

Costanza Biavaschi, Werner Eichhorst, Corrado Giulietti, Michael Jan Kendzia, Alexander Muravyev, Janneke Pieters, Núria Rodriguez-Planas, Ricarda Schmidl and Klaus Zimmermann

6889: Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt and Ludger Woessmann

6888: Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Boris Augurzky, Thomas Bauer, Arndt Reichert, Christoph Schmidt and Harald Tauchmann

6887: A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China

John Giles and Irina Murtazashvili

6886: Why Don't Women Patent?

Jennifer Hunt, Jean-Philippe Garant, Hannah Herman and David J. Munroe

6885: Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Jennifer Hunt

6884: The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser and Dirk Sliwka

6883: What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

M Asadullah, Rupa Chakrabarti and Nazmul Chaudhury

6882: Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings

Manfred Antoni and Guido Heineck

6881: The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960

Nauro Campos and Jeffrey Nugent

6880: Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?

Alessio Brown and Johannes Koettl

6879: Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir and Reyn Van Ewijk

6878: Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca

6877: An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion

Denis Conniffe and Donal O'Neill

6876: Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?

Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Leonor Modesto

6875: Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

6874: Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment

Daniel Henderson and Esfandiar Maasoumi

6873: Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector

John Addison, Orgul Ozturk and Si Wang

6872: Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Javier Baez, Dorothy Kronick and Andrew D. Mason

6871: Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

Steven Stillman, John Gibson, David McKenzie and Halahingano Rohorua

6870: Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Javier Baez, Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover and Roman Zarate

6869: Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S

John Winters

6868: Self Investments of Adolescents and their Cognitive Development

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini and Cheti Nicoletti

6867: Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes

Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy, Joniada Milla and Thanasis Stengos

6866: Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises

Kristin Göbel, Michael Grimm and Jann Lay

6865: Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab

Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett

6864: Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

Prashant Bharadwaj, Katrine Løken and Christopher Neilson

6863: Misery Loves Company: Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being

Raymond Montizaan and Maarten Vendrik

6862: Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam

M. Shahe Emran, Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka and Stephen Smith

6861: An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model

Yoichi Hizen, Keisuke Kawata and Masaru Sasaki

6860: Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Jens Suedekum

6859: Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing

Guido Friebel and Matthias Heinz

6858: Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme

Laura Zimmermann

6857: In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and its Impact on College Enrollment, Tuition Costs, Student Financial Aid, and Indebtedness

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Chad Sparber

6856: Do Babysitters Have More Kids? The Effects of Teenage Work Experiences on Adult Outcomes

Zeynep Erdogan, Joyce Jacobsen and Peter Kooreman

6855: The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition

Andrew Newell and Ian Gazeley

6854: Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey

Barry Chiswick and Nicholas Larsen

6853: Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China

Yuanyuan Chen and Shuaizhang Feng

6852: The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants

Govert Bijwaard and Stijn van Doeselaar

6851: Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Quang Nguyen, Marie Claire Villeval and Hui Xu

6850: Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State

Gil Epstein

6849: Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment

Andreas Mueller

6848: Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board

Kailing Shen and Peter Kuhn

6847: It's a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India

Laura Zimmermann

6846: Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck and Katharina Wrohlich

6845: Cultural Diversity and Plant?Level Productivity

Michaela Trax, Stephan Brunow and Jens Suedekum

6844: Entrepreneurship: Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?

Chris Dawson, David de Meza, Andrew Henley and Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani

6843: Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement

Benjamin Elsner

6842: Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

Grant R. McDermott and Øivind Nilsen

6841: Ethnic Segregation in Germany

Albrecht Glitz

6840: A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Hannes Schwandt

6839: Skilled Labor Supply, IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability

Luc Behaghel and Julie Moschion

6838: Musn't Grumble: Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany

Jonathan Wadsworth

6837: Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration

Gil Epstein

6836: How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

6835: Earnings Losses and Labor Mobility over the Lifecycle

Philip Jung and Moritz Kuhn

6834: Moving to Segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian Cities

Tito Boeri, Marta De Philippis, Eleonora Patacchini and Michele Pellizzari

6833: Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment

Laura Zimmermann

6832: Rational Students and Resit Exams

Peter Kooreman

6831: Assimilation through Marriage

Gil Epstein and Renana Lindner Pomerantz

6830: Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Marco Caliendo and Steffen Künn

6829: iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung and Ludger Woessmann

6828: What's Best for Women: Gender Based Taxation, Wage Subsidies or Basic Income?

Ugo Colombino and Edlira Narazani

6827: A Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Armed Conflicts' Casualties: Revisiting the Numbers of a 'Truth Commission'

Silvio Rendon

6826: The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Espen Moen

6825: Birth Order and Child Outcomes: Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?

Chiara Monfardini and Sarah Grace See

6824: Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Patricia Apps, Yuri Andrienko and Ray Rees

6823: Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

6822: Determinants of Domestic Workers' Employment: Evidence from Lebanese Household Survey Data

Ali Fakih and Walid Marrouch

6821: The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions

Natalia Zinovyeva and Manuel Bagues

6820: Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession

Kai Liu, Kjell G Salvanes and Erik Sørensen

6819: The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

Frank Fossen and Tobias J. M. Büttner

6818: "Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness

Ruud Gerards, Andries de Grip and Maaike Witlox

6817: Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment

Asako Ohinata and Jan van Ours

6816: Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi and James Ziliak

6815: Incentives and Group Identity

Paolo Masella, Stephan Meier and Philipp Zahn