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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 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 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 Hamermesh

6198: Scarring Effects of Unemployment

Øivind Nilsen and Katrine Holm Reiso

6197: Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy

Roberto Basile, Alessandro Girardi, Marianna Mantuano and Francesco Pastore

6196: Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics

Pierre Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

6195: Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda

Gunther Bensch, Jochen Kluve and Jörg Peters

6194: War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Richard Akresh, Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone and Una Osili

6193: Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa

Mina Baliamoune, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Leonce Ndikumana

6192: The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

6191: Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

6190: Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective

Michela Braga, Daniele Checchi and Elena Meschi

6189: Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China

Chen Liwen, Xiangquan Zeng and Yang Yumei

6188: Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Mehmet Tosun

6187: Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Antonio Filippin and Francesco Guala

6186: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience

Samuel Bentolila, Juan Dolado and Juan F Jimeno

6185: Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Eric Hanushek, Susanne Link and Ludger Woessmann

6184: Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007

Chunbing Xing

6183: Long-term Employment and Job Security over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S

Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato

6182: Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality: Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Fredrik W. Andersson, Elizabeth Davis, Matthew Freedman, Julia Lane, Brian McCall and Kristin Sandusky

6181: Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov and Bruno Van der Linden

6180: The New Role of Temporary Agency Work in Germany

Alexander Spermann

6179: The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson

6178: How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

6177: Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright

6176: Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Christian Dahl, Daniel le Maire and Jakob Munch

6175: The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness

Claudia Senik

6174: Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency: The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard van Praag and Ioannis Theodossiou

6173: How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?

Le Wang

6172: The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan

Alpaslan Akay, Gokhan Karabulut and Peter Martinsson

6171: Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe

Hector Sala and José Silva

6170: Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany

Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel

6169: Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

6168: Homeownership, Social Capital and Parental Voice in Schooling

Arthur Grimes, Steven Stillman and Chris Young

6167: Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings

Christian Belzil, Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

6166: It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog and Mirjam Praag

6165: Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?

Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

6164: The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data

Andries de Grip, Jan Sauermann and Inge Sieben

6163: The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data

Alpaslan Akay and Melanie Khamis

6162: Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Pedro Carneiro, Michael Lokshin, Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Nithin Umapathi

6161: The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity

Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux

6160: A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils

Mathias Dolls, Andreas Peichl and Klaus Zimmermann

6159: Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Aslan Zorlu

6158: Ethnic Disparities in Degree Performance

Aslan Zorlu

6157: Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

6156: How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant

Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh

6155: Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Simone Schüller

6154: Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal

Pranab Das, Saibal Kar and Madhumanti Kayal

6153: Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth