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6352: The Size Distribution Across All “Cities”: A Unifying Approach

Kristian Giesen and Jens Suedekum

6351: Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach

Sumon Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova, Subal Kumbhakar and Kai Sun

6350: Human Smuggling

Guido Friebel and Sergei Guriev

6349: Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

6348: The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One

Annalisa Cristini, Federica Origo and Sara Pinoli

6347: Empowering Women through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program

Eeshani Kandpal, Kathy Baylis and Mary Arends-Kuenning

6346: Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis

Christopher K. Hsee, Yuval Rottenstreich and Alois Stutzer

6345: Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo and Martin Sefton

6344: Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training

Marc Blatter, Samuel Mühlemann, Samuel Schenker and Stefan Wolter

6343: The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-Out

Emmanuelle Auriol, Guido Friebel and Frauke Lammers

6342: Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments

Alpaslan Akay and Peter Martinsson

6341: Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Merlin Hanauer

6340: Fading Hope in the US

Jo Ritzen and Klaus Zimmermann

6339: Characterizing the Instrumental Variable Identifying Assumption as Sample Selection Conditions

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

6338: Gender Gaps in PISA Test Scores: The Impact of Social Norms and the Mother's Transmission of Role Attitudes

Ainara González de San Román and Sara De La Rica

6337: Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Barbara Sianesi

6336: Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Balázs Égert

6335: The Renminbi's Role in the Global Monetary System

Eswar Prasad and Ye, Lei (Sandy)

6334: The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Oded Galor

6333: The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration

Alicia Adsera and Mariola Pytlikova

6332: Childhood Sexual Abuse and Later-Life Economic Consequences

Alan Barrett and Yumiko Kamiya

6331: Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca

6330: The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

6329: Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004

M Asadullah, Uma Kambhampati and Florencia Lopez Boo

6328: Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Oded Galor

6327: Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos

6326: Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos and Alina Rusakova

6325: Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca

6324: The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Alan Barrett and Irene Mosca

6323: The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John van Reenen

6322: Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance

Michael Gibbs

6321: Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

6320: Unhappiness and Job Finding

Anne Gielen and Jan van Ours

6319: Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

6318: Exponent of Cross-sectional Dependence: Estimation and Inference

Natalia Bailey, George Kapetanios and Mohammad Pesaran

6317: Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Working in Spain? A Job Search Approach

José Silva and Judit Vall Castello

6316: Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner and Matthias Sutter

6315: Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja

6314: The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants

Nick Drydakis

6313: Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States

Johannes Koettl and Michael Weber

6312: Random or Referral Hiring: When Social Connections Matter

Catia Nicodemo and Rosella Nicolini

6311: Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz

6310: The Effectiveness of Health Screening

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla, Michael Hummer and Gerald Pruckner

6309: Vocational High School or Vocational College? Comparing the Transitions from School to Work

Cristina Lopez-Mayan and Catia Nicodemo

6308: Unemployment Benefits or Taxes: How Should Policy Makers Redistribute Income over the Business Cycle?

Susanne Ek

6307: Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Robert Scholte, Gerard van den Berg and Maarten Lindeboom

6306: Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

6305: Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa

Todd Pugatch

6304: Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Roman Sheremeta and Steven Wu

6303: Combat Exposure and Migraine Headache: Evidence from Exogenous Deployment Assignment

Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin

6302: Envy, Guilt, and the Phillips Curve

Steffen Ahrens and Dennis J. Snower

6301: Training and Retirement

Nicolai Kristensen

6300: Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo and Stefan Wolter

6299: Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion

Volker Tjaden and Felix Wellschmied

6298: Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None

Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan and Markus Frölich

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

James Banks and James Smith

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

Iris Kesternich, Bettina M. Siflinger, James 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