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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

6699: Nudges at the Dentist

Steffen Altmann and Christian Traxler

6698: Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach

Elena Stancanelli and Arthur van Soest

6697: The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development

Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou and Almudena Sevilla

6696: Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Simone Schüller

6695: Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Eskil Wadensjö

6694: Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas

Aimee Chin, N. Meltem Daysal and Scott Imberman

6693: Immigrants in Risky Occupations

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

6692: Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument

Xavier de Luna and Per Johansson

6691: What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process

Stefan Eriksson, Per Johansson and Sophie Langenskiöld

6690: Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany

Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka

6689: A Theory of Child Adoption

Dirk Bethmann and Michael Kvasnicka

6688: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

6687: Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Monica Yanez-Pagans and Carlos Machicado Salas

6686: One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor

Harriet Duleep

6685: The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen and Jens Suedekum

6684: Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market: Distastes or Uncertainty?

Nick Drydakis

6683: Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform

Anders Böhlmark and Mikael Lindahl

6682: Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool

Harriet Duleep

6681: Peer Effects in Program Participation

Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken and Magne Mogstad

6680: The Effects of EITC Payment Expansion on Maternal Smoking

Susan Averett and Yang Wang

6679: Equilibrium Simulation with Microeconometric Models: A New Procedure with an Application to Income Support Policies

Ugo Colombino

6678: Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses? Earnings, Ability and Appearance

Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish

6677: How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Harriet Duleep, David Jaeger and Mark Regets

6676: Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kusum Mundra

6675: Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?

David Johnston and Wang-Sheng Lee

6674: Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution

Karina Doorley and Eva Sierminska

6673: Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace

Karen Mumford and Peter Smith

6672: Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence

Xavi Ramos and Dirk Van de gaer

6671: How Are Firms Affected by the Crisis and How Do They React?

Niels Westergård-Nielsen and Ioana Neamtu

6670: Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Christoph Ehlert, Jochen Kluve and Sandra Schaffner

6669: The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data

Stéphane Bonhomme and Laura Hospido

6668: The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach

Yu Chen, Kenneth D. Gibb, Christian Leishman and Robert Wright

6667: Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters

Robert M. Hutchens

6666: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade

Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato

6665: Migration, Redistribution and the Universal Welfare Model

Torben M. Andersen

6664: The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania: Evidence and Long-Run Implications

J. William Ambrosini, Karin Mayr-Dorn, Giovanni Peri and Dragos Radu

6663: The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers: Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941

Andrew Seltzer

6662: High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias

Martyn J. Andrews, Leonard Gill, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

6661: Power of the Pill or Power of Abortion? Re-Examining the Effects of Young Women's Access to Reproductive Control

Caitlin Myers

6660: Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

David Margolis, Lucas Navarro and David Robalino

6659: The Effect of College Education on Health

Kasey Buckles, Ofer Malamud, Melinda Morrill and Abigail Wozniak

6658: Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Evidence from the Orientation of Uncovered Employers

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers and Lutz Bellmann

6657: Worker Matching and Firm Value

Espen Moen and Eran Yashiv

6656: Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters

David Johnston, Stefanie Schurer and Michael Shields

6655: The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants

Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri

6654: Unemployment Persistence: How Important Are Non-Cognitive Skills?

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Santiago Budria Rodriguez

6653: Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Jian Zhang, John Giles and Scott Rozelle

6652: More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours

Martyn J. Andrews, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

6651: Fostering the Emancipation of Young People: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy

Ainoa Aparicio and Veruska Oppedisano

6650: Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Simon Lo, Gesine Stephan and Ralf Wilke

6649: Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

6648: Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti and Costanza Torricelli

6647: Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival: Evidence from Trade Policies

Tanika Chakraborty

6646: The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut

6645: Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Ernesto Dal Bó, Frederico Finan and Martín Rossi

6644: Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Pedro Martins, Matloob Piracha and Jose Varejao

6643: What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis

Marta Guerriero and Kunal Sen

6642: Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval and Malgorzata Wasmer

6641: Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009

Niklas Bengtsson, Bertil Holmlund and Daniel Waldenström

6640: Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

Francisca Antman

6639: The Economic Status of Asian Americans Before and After the Civil Rights Act

Harriet Duleep and Seth G. Sanders

6638: The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's

Harriet Duleep and Mark Regets

6637: Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Almas Heshmati

6636: Frictions and the Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment

Eran Yashiv

6635: Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li and Julie M. Wulf

6634: Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan and Diana Moreira

6633: Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Lorenz Kueng and John Silvia

6632: Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Mikael Elinder and Henrik Jordahl

6631: Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Alpaslan Akay, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino and Klaus Zimmermann

6630: The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives

Alpaslan Akay, Amelie Constant and Corrado Giulietti

6629: When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

6628: On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants

Massimiliano Bratti, Luca De Benedictis and Gianluca Santoni

6627: Southwest as the New Internal Migration Destination in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

6626: Private Tutoring and the Question of Equitable Opportunities in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

6625: The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model

Werner Eichhorst

6624: Optimal Fiscal Devaluation

Francois Langot, Lise Patureau and Thepthida Sopraseuth

6623: Employer Learning and the "Importance" of Skills

Audrey Light and Andrew McGee