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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

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