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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

6814: Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Sarah Stith

6813: Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Heteroskedasticity

Nils Saniter

6812: Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades

Nezih Guner, Ezgi Kaya and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

6811: Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market

Zoë McLaren

6810: The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges

Marco Caliendo and Jens Hogenacker

6809: Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil

Isis Gaddis and Janneke Pieters

6808: Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Guyonne Kalb, Trinh Le, Boyd Hunter and Felix Leung

6807: The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

John Cawley, David Frisvold and Chad Meyerhoefer

6806: Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?

Alejandra Mizala and Hugo Ñopo

6805: Anti-Lemons: School Reputation, Relative Diversity, and Educational Quality

W. Bentley Macleod and Miguel Urquiola

6804: Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Abel Brodeur and Marie Connolly

6803: Comparing Quasi-Experimental Designs and Structural Models for Policy Evaluation: The Case of a Reform of Lone Parental Welfare

Chiara Pronzato

6802: Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects

Matthew Harding and Carlos Lamarche

6801: State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment

David Sjoquist and John Winters

6800: Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges

Robert Holzmann

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