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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

6622: Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry Using Spanish Immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

6621: Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

Anna D'Souza and Dean Jolliffe

6620: Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Thomas Markussen, Ernesto Reuben and Jean-Robert Tyran

6619: Does Breastfeeding Support at Work Help Mothers and Employers at the Same Time?

Emilia Del Bono and Chiara Pronzato

6618: Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics: An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing

Mohammad Pesaran and Ronald Smith

6617: Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design

Pablo Ibarraran, Laura Ripani, Bibiana Taboada, Juan Villa and Brígida García

6616: Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?

Karao?lan, Deniz and Cagla Okten

6615: Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

6614: Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar

Priya Ranjan and Nishith Prakash

6613: The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner

6612: The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System

Harriet Duleep

6611: Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

6610: Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments?

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

6609: Management of Knowledge Workers

Hans Hvide and Eirik Kristiansen

6608: Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Ervin Prifti and Daniela Vuri

6607: Sociability and the Timing of First Marriage

Heizler (Cohen), Odelia, Nira Yacouel and Ayal Kimhi

6606: Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?

Xiaodong Gong and Robert Breunig

6605: Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment

Abigail Wozniak

6604: The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self-employed Workers

Olivier Bargain, Eliane El Badaoui, Prudence Magejo, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

6603: Dynamics of Disability and Work in Canada

Umut Oguzoglu

6602: Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?

Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase and Jeffrey Wooldridge

6601: Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project

Jacobus de Hoop and Furio Rosati

6600: Creating New Administrative Data to Describe the Scientific Workforce: The STAR METRICS Program

Julia Lane and Lou Schwarz

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