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6297: International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies

James Banks and James P. Smith

6296: The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James P. Smith and Joachim Winter

6295: Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

Ira Gang, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

6294: Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models

Christian Merkl and Thijs van Rens

6293: Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Antje Kroeger and Kathryn Anderson

6292: Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America

Luis Lopez-Calva, Iamele Rigolini and Florencia Torche

6291: Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature

Marco Vivarelli

6290: Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

6289: Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan

Alisher Aldashev and Barbara Dietz

6288: Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Eren Inci and Simon Parker

6287: Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy

Pia Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny and Emily Kerr

6286: Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment about In-Group Favouritism

Andrea Hammermann, Alwine Mohnen and Petra Nieken

6285: Unequal Access to Higher Education in the Czech Republic: The Role of Spatial Distribution of Universities

Michal Franta and Martin Guzi

6284: Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives

Andrea Hammermann and Alwine Mohnen

6283: Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education in Greece

Christos Koutsampelas and Panos Tsakloglou

6282: Exogenous Treatment and Endogenous Factors: Vanishing of Omitted Variable Bias on the Interaction Term

Olena Nizalova and Irina Murtazashvili

6281: Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities

Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

6280: High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide

D. Mark Anderson, Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

6279: Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

6278: Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

6277: Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Christian Thöni and Simon Gächter

6276: The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

6275: Nice Guys Finish Last: Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

6274: Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data

Joachim Wagner

6273: The Indian Ultrasound Paradox

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Daniel Rosenblum

6272: Men's Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction

Nick Drydakis

6271: Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Aysıt Tansel and Elif Acar

6270: Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior

C. Sofia Machado and Miguel Portela

6269: Less Myth, More Measurement: Decomposing Excess Returns from the 1989 Minimum Wage Hike

Carl Lin

6268: Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China

Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani and Chunbing Xing

6267: How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets

Marco Stampini, Ron Leung, Setou M. Diarra and Lauréline Pla

6266: Aggregation without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer

Laurens Cherchye, Ian Crawford, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

6265: Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households

Richard Akresh, Joyce Chen and Charity Moore

6264: Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded?

Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Natascha Van Mechelen

6263: Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces

Biwei Su and Almas Heshmati

6262: Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence between the United States and the Taliban

David Jaeger and Zahra Siddique

6261: Immigration: The European Experience

Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini

6260: Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State

Martin Kahanec, Anna Myunghee Kim and Klaus Zimmermann

6259: H-1Bs: How Do They Stack Up to US Born Workers?

Magnus Lofstrom and Joseph Hayes

6258: The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries

Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden and Giovanni Peri

6257: How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

Christian Dustmann and Albrecht Glitz

6256: CEO and Board Characteristics as Determinants of Private Benefits of Control: Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange

Irina Berezinets, Yulia Ilina and Alexander Muravyev

6255: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Employer Provided Fringe Benefits

Wallace K C Mok and Zahra Siddique

6254: How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives

Lucia Marchegiani, Tommaso Reggiani and Matteo Rizzolli

6253: Chasing Graduate Jobs?

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright

6252: Analysis of Gender Wage Differential in China's Urban Labor Market

Biwei Su and Almas Heshmati

6251: Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory

John Hatgioannides and Marika Karanassou

6250: Another Economic Miracle? The German Labor Market and the Great Recession

Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

6249: Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS

Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian and Yaohui Zhao

6248: Agreement Theory and Consensus

Juan Carlos Candeal, Esteban Induráin and José Alberto Molina

6247: Impatience among Preschool Children and their Mothers

Fabian Kosse and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

6246: Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Regina Riphahn and Daniel D. Schnitzlein

6245: Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures

Assar Lindbeck, Mårten Palme and Mats Persson

6244: Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010

Leonardo Gasparini, Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces and Pablo Acosta

6243: Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

6242: The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement

Helena Nielsen and Beatrice Schindler Rangvid

6241: In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Hendrik Schmitz and Nicolas Ziebarth

6240: The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

6239: Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System

Mário Centeno and Alvaro A. Novo

6238: Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha, Max Tani and Matias Vaira-Lucero

6237: Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models

Carl Lin

6236: Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira Gang and John Landon-Lane

6235: Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stefan Eriksson and Dan-Olof Rooth

6234: Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico

Alan Fuchs and Hendrik Wolff

6233: Pulls of International Student Mobility

Martin Kahanec and Renáta Králiková

6232: Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications

Krzysztof Karbownik and Michal Myck

6231: Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

6230: Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini and Anzelika Zaiceva

6229: Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Elena G. F. Stancanelli and Arthur van Soest

6228: Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Zahra Siddique

6227: Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

6226: Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective

Randall Akee, Arjun Bedi, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau

6225: Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why Are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?

Roger Wilkins and Mark Wooden

6224: Detecting Wage Under-reporting Using a Double Hurdle Model

Péter Elek, János Köllő, Balazs Reizer and Péter A. Szabó

6223: Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Arno Riedl, Ingrid Rohde and Martin Strobel

6222: Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Ricarda Schmidl

6221: A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta and Trudy Owens

6220: Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case

Peder Pedersen

6219: Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Takao Kato and Pian Shu

6218: Evidence of State-Level Variability in the Economic and Demographic Well-Being of People with Disabilities in India

Nidhiya Menon, Susan L. Parish and Roderick A. Rose

6217: The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms

Helmut Fryges, Karsten Kohn and Katrin Ullrich

6216: Health and the Political Agency of Women

Sonia Bhalotra and Irma Clots-Figueras

6215: The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Matthias Doepke, Michele Tertilt and Alessandra Voena

6214: The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey

Kerry Papps

6213: Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Orley Ashenfelter

6212: How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children

Asako Ohinata and Jan van Ours

6211: Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Benjamin Fomba Kamga

6210: Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?

Cahit Guven and Wang-Sheng Lee

6209: War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal

Nidhiya Menon and Yana Rodgers

6208: The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School

Guido Schwerdt and Martin R. West

6207: Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Joachim Wagner and John P. Weche

6206: Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality

Jerome Adda and Valérie Lechene

6205: Immigrant Enclaves and Crime

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

6204: Impact of the 2008-2009 Food, Fuel, and Financial Crisis on the Philippine Labor Market

Yana Rodgers and Nidhiya Menon

6203: Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination

Konstanze Albrecht, Emma von Essen, Juliane Parys and Nora Szech

6202: Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Joanne Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

6201: The Career Costs of Children

Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann and Katrien Stevens

6200: Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Chihmao Hsieh, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag

6199: Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi and Daniel S. Hamermesh

6198: Scarring Effects of Unemployment

Øivind Nilsen and Katrine Holm Reiso