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6599: From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions

David de la Croix and Fabio Mariani

6598: Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers

Sarah Bohn and Magnus Lofstrom

6597: How Well Are Women Represented at the AEA Meeting? A Study of the 1985-2010 Programs

Rosemary Cunningham and Madeline Zavodny

6596: On the Heterogeneity of Terror

Krisztina Kis-Katos, Helge Liebert and Günther Schulze

6595: Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market

Ian Li and Paul Miller

6594: Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Sanjay Banerji, Rajesh Raj and Kunal Sen

6593: Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Farzana Afridi, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Soham Sahoo

6592: Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Hansen and Daniel Rees

6591: Are Relative-Income Effects Constant across the Well-being Distribution?

Santiago Budria Rodriguez

6590: Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Aldo Rustichini and Marie Claire Villeval

6589: A Counting Approach for Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation

Rolf Aaberge and Eugenio Peluso

6588: Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Winfried Pohlmeier

6587: A Price for Flexibility? The Temp Agency Wage Gap in Sweden 1998-2008

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

6586: Is it Necessary to Walk the Talk? The Effects of Maternal Experiences and Communication on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents

Susan Averett and Sarah M. Estelle

6585: Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch

6584: A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

Julian di Giovanni, Andrei Levchenko and Francesc Ortega

6583: Robust Standard Errors in Transformed Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models

Kazuhiko Hayakawa and Mohammad Pesaran

6582: Youth Crime and Education Expansion

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie and Sunčica Vujić

6581: The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility

Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

6580: Hard Evidence on Soft Skills

James Heckman and Tim Kautz

6579: Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?

Daniel Hamermesh

6578: The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia

Gavin Chan, Chris Heaton and Max Tani

6577: Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior

D. Mark Anderson, Resul Cesur and Erdal Tekin

6576: Changes in Wage Structure in Mexico Going Beyond the Mean: An Analysis of Differences in Distribution, 1987-2008

Claudia Tello, Raul Ramos and Manuel Artís

6575: Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Martin Halla, Alexander Wagner and Josef Zweimüller

6574: The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga, Dan Levy, Leigh Linden and Matt Sloan

6573: Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities: The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins

Barbara Hanel, Guyonne Kalb and Anthony Scott

6572: Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories

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

6571: Sharing Rule Identification for General Collective Consumption Models

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Arthur Lewbel and Frederic Vermeulen

6570: Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

6569: Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

6568: Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Anne Busch and Elke Holst

6567: Do Wealthier Households Save More? The Impact of the Demographic Factor

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Richard Ochmann

6566: A Theory of Expert Leadership

Amanda Goodall

6565: Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers

Jochen Kluve, Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

6564: On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Jens Suedekum, Verena Nowak and Christian Schwarz

6563: Preferences and Skills of Indian Public Sector Teachers

Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen

6562: Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx and Dieter Verhaest

6561: Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System

Timothy Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

6560: Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Pedro Carneiro, Andrea Locatelli, Tewolde Ghebremeskel and Joseph Keating

6559: Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Elizabeth Brainerd and Nidhiya Menon

6558: The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?

Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen Mumford and Catia Nicodemo

6557: Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Yohanes Riyanto

6556: The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Elif Acar

6555: A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell’Aringa, Carlo, Claudio Lucifora and Laura Pagani

6554: Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program

Hans Grönqvist, Per Johansson and Susan Niknami

6553: Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment

Per Engström, Pathric Hägglund and Per Johansson

6552: What Happened to God's Time? The Evolution of Secularism and Hours of Work in America, Evidence from Religious Holidays

Fernando Lozano

6551: Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Shareen Joshi and T. Schultz

6550: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

James Heckman and Junjian Yi

6549: Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India

Mehtabul Azam and Vipul Bhatt

6548: The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mehtabul Azam

6547: Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

6546: The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances

Matias Vaira-Lucero, Daehoon Nahm and Max Tani

6545: E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold and Stephan Heblich

6544: Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner and Arne Uhlendorff

6543: Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Raquel Vegas

6542: Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Raquel Vegas

6541: Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

6540: Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection

Anne Gielen and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

6539: Schooling and Voter Turnout: Is there an American Exception?

Arnaud Chevalier and Orla Doyle

6538: Retirement: Does Individual Unemployment Matter? Evidence from Danish Panel Data 1980–2009

Trine Filges, Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

6537: Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark

Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

6536: Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?

Getinet Haile

6535: Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data

Andrea Bassanini and Andrea Garnero

6534: The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Andrew Kerr and Francis J. Teal

6533: Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

Robert J. McCann, Xianwen Shi, Aloysius Siow and Ronald Wolthoff

6532: Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Nil Demet Güngör

6531: The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

Dana Burde and Leigh Linden

6530: Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence

Stéphane Robin, Agnieszka Rusinowska and Marie Claire Villeval

6529: What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families' Time Together?

Melinda Morrill and Sabrina Pabilonia

6528: Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Hong Liu, Hai Fang and Zhong Zhao

6527: Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?

Klaus Prettner, David Bloom and Holger Strulik

6526: Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity: A Tale of Two Reforms

Lorenzo Cappellari, Dell’Aringa, Carlo and Marco Leonardi

6525: Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

6524: Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri and André Souza

6523: Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Michele Binci and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

6522: On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms

Nauro Campos and Roman Horvath

6521: Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

6520: The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood

Gary Y.C. Yeung, Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

6519: Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia

Mihails Kuznecovs and Sarmistha Pal

6518: Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Marc Gurgand

6517: The International Migration of Health Professionals

Michel Grignon, Yaw Owusu-Ansah and Arthur Sweetman

6516: Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence: A Survey

Horst Entorf

6515: Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata

Raul Ramos, Juan Duque and Sandra Nieto

6514: Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni and Matteo Picchio

6513: Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective

Marco Vivarelli

6512: The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

6511: Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Andre Zylberberg

6510: Mind the Gap: Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US

Ive Marx, Sarah Marchal and Brian Nolan

6509: Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939

Bertil Holmlund

6508: Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

6507: Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Soham Sahoo

6506: Labour Supply as a Buffer: Evidence from UK Households

Andrew Benito and Jumana Saleheen

6505: The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries

Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl

6504: The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey

Achilleas Anagnostopoulos and William Siebert

6503: Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities

Catia Nicodemo and Josep M. Raya

6502: The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga and Sébastien Roux

6501: Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sébastien Roux

6500: Comparing Real Wage Rates

Orley Ashenfelter