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6452: Mental Health and Education Decisions

Francesca Cornaglia, Elena Crivellaro and Sandra McNally

6451: Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What Are the Effects on Pupil Performance?

Charlotte Geay, Sandra McNally and Shqiponja Telhaj

6450: Welfare Migration

Corrado Giulietti and Jackline Wahba

6449: The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence

Sebastian Kessing and Chiara Strozzi

6448: The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Florian Englmaier, Andreas Roider and Uwe Sunde

6447: Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes

Daniel Pollmann, Thomas Dohmen and Franz Palm

6446: Social Insurance Networks

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

6445: Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle

Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hamermesh

6444: Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

Fidan Ana Kurtulus and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

6443: Rent Building, Rent Sharing: A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis

Philippe Askenazy, Gilbert Cette and Paul Maarek

6442: The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

6441: Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?

Olaf Hübler

6440: Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Christina Gathmann and Björn Sass

6439: The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality

Valentina Calderón-Mejía and Ioana Marinescu

6438: HIV, Wages, and the Skill Premium

Ioana Marinescu

6437: The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States

Nicole Simpson and Chad Sparber

6436: The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework

Leslie Stratton

6435: What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

6434: This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'

Shane Niall O'Higgins

6433: Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category

Abdurrahman Aydemir

6432: Testing Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panels

Mohammad Pesaran

6431: Promotion Signals, Age and Education

Michael Bognanno and Eduardo Melero

6430: Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?

Norman Loayza, Iamele Rigolini and Gonzalo Llorente

6429: An Examination of the Work History of Pittsburgh Steelworkers, Who Were Displaced and Received Publicly-Funded Retraining in the Early 1980s

Robert W. Bednarzik and Joseph Szalanski

6428: The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy

Chiara Mussida and Matteo Picchio

6427: Active Inclusion of Immigrants in Poland

Maciej Duszczyk and Marek Góra

6426: Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS

Andrew Clark and Yannis Georgellis

6425: Image and Misreporting

Mara Ewers and Florian Zimmermann

6424: Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States

David Green and W. Craig Riddell

6423: The Shadow Economy and Work in the Shadow: What Do We (Not) Know?

Friedrich Schneider

6422: Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia

Michael Lokshin, Vladimir Gimpelson and Aleksey Oshchepkov

6421: Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort

6420: What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Francesca Fabbri and Dalia Marin

6419: Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

6418: Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California

N. Meltem Daysal

6417: Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Farzana Afridi, Sherry Xin Li and Ren Yufei

6416: Social Involvement and Level of Household Income among Immigrants: New Evidence from the Israeli Experience

Yuval Arbel, Yossef (Yossi) Tobol and Erez Siniver

6415: Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Martin Kocher, Wolfgang Luhan and Matthias Sutter

6414: Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market

Matloob Piracha and Florin Vadean

6413: Delayed Graduation and Overeducation: A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis

Carmen Aina and Francesco Pastore

6412: Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries

Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef, Hatem M'Henni and Christophe Rault

6411: Information and Competition Entry

Mara Ewers

6410: The Multi-Dimensional Effects of Reciprocity on Worker Effort: Evidence from a Hybrid Field-Laboratory Labor Market Experiment

Min-Taec Kim and Robert Slonim

6409: Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior

N. Meltem Daysal and Chiara Orsini

6408: Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers

Jon E. Anderson, Manjari Govada, Tricia K. Steffen, Chris P. Thorne, Vasileia Varvarigou, Stefanos N. Kales and Stephen Burks

6407: Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger and Ute Leuschner

6406: Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy

John Bennett and Matthew Rablen

6405: Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants?

Elke Jahn and Michael Rosholm

6404: Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data

Saibal Kar, Poulomi Roy and Sarani Saha

6403: Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe

Christina Gathmann, Hendrik Jürges and Steffen Reinhold

6402: Lost in Translation? Teacher Training and Outcomes in High School Economics Classes

Robert Valletta, K. Jody Hoff and Jane S. Lopus

6401: Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín

6400: Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen

6399: Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Delia Furtado and Stephen Trejo

6398: Grandparents' Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation

Josefina Posadas and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

6397: Decomposing the Composition Effect

Christoph Rothe

6396: The Distribution of Full Income in Greece

Christos Koutsampelas and Panos Tsakloglou

6395: Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

6394: A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales

Zhiqiang Feng, Maarten van Ham, Paul Boyle and Gillian M. Raab

6393: The Microstructure of the Great Export Collapse in German Manufacturing Industries, 2008/2009

Joachim Wagner

6392: Labour Supply and Taxes: New Estimates of the Responses of Wives to Husbands' Wages

Benoit Dostie and Lene Kromann

6391: The Effects of Personality Traits on Adult Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings

Jason Fletcher

6390: Gender Differences in Education

Tuomas Pekkarinen

6389: Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies

Per Johansson, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Jouko Verho

6388: Experimental Evidence of Self-Image Concerns as Motivation for Giving

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

6387: Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Antonio Filippin and Jan van Ours

6386: Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income

Giorgio Brunello, Guglielmo Weber and Christoph Weiss

6385: Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

6384: Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

Teresa M. García-Muñoz and Shoshana Neuman

6383: Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Daria Burnes, David Neumark and Michelle J. White

6382: Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data

Sumon Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova

6381: Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Christian Pfeifer and Joachim Wagner

6380: Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?

Heizler (Cohen), Odelia and Ayal Kimhi

6379: The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce

Gustaf Bruze, Michael Svarer and Yoram Weiss

6378: The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell and W. Craig Riddell

6377: The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

W. Craig Riddell and Xueda Song

6376: Parents' Economic Support of Young-Adult Children: Do Socioeconomic Circumstances Matter?

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Tue Gorgens

6375: What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination

Stephen Burks and Frederick Guy

6374: The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind

Francisca Antman

6373: Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers

Anders Frederiksen, Fabian Lange and Ben Kriechel

6372: Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process

Maarten van Ham and David Manley

6371: Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Laura Chioda, Joao De Mello and Rodrigo Soares

6370: Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, Overtime Payments and the Gender Wage Gap

João Cerejeira, K?z?lca, Kemal, Miguel Portela and Carla Sa

6369: The Evaluation of Immigration Policies

Ulf Rinne

6368: Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Raquel Vegas

6367: Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health

Timothy Halliday

6366: Search Capital

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Eric Smith

6365: Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover

Pierre Cahuc, Olivier Charlot and Franck Malherbet

6364: Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models

Christoph Rothe and Dominik Wied

6363: Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Julia Beckhusen, Raymond Florax, Thomas Graaff, Jacques Poot and Brigitte Waldorf

6362: Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

Ronald Bachmann and Mathias Sinning

6361: Educational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap for Recent College Graduates in Colombia

Laura Cepeda Emiliani and Juan Barón

6360: The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons

Alessandro Barbarino and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

6359: Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models

Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg and Wim Vijverberg

6358: The Short-Term Effectiveness of a Remedial Mathematics Course: Evidence from a UK University

Giorgio Di Pietro

6357: Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac and Harris Selod

6356: The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Florencia Lopez Boo, Martín Rossi and Sergio Urzua

6355: Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany

Michael Jan Kendzia and Klaus Zimmermann

6354: Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake

Monserrat Bustelo, Mary Arends-Kuenning and Leonardo Lucchetti

6353: To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?

Arnaud Chevalier