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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

6152: Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

6151: The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Victor Sulla

6150: Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Mathias Sinning and Steven Stillman

6149: Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education

Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

6148: Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

6147: Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants

Aslan Zorlu

6146: Contextualised Mobility Histories of Moving Desires and Actual Moving Behaviour

Rory Coulter and Maarten van Ham

6145: The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis

Murat Genc, Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

6144: Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK

Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

6143: The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions

Elena Meschi, Joanna Swaffield and Anna Vignoles

6142: The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Marieke Schnabel

6141: Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health: Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

6140: Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being

Beata Nowok, Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay and Vernon Gayle

6139: Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth

Christine Binzel

6138: Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

6137: The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and José Pastore

6136: R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

6135: Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma

6134: Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed

W. Craig Riddell and Xueda Song

6133: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Alison Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa and Patrick Nolen

6132: Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment

Barry Hirsch, Bruce Kaufman and Tetyana Zelenska

6131: Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Christopher J. Boyce and Alex M. Wood

6130: Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences

Michal Myck and Radim Bohacek

6129: Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson

6128: Immigrant Participation in Welfare Benefits in the Netherlands

Aslan Zorlu

6127: Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes

Christian Grund

6126: Work Hours Constraints and Health

David Bell, Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

6125: Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data

Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston

6124: The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya and Kosali Simon

6123: Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?

Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger

6122: "One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

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

6121: Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers

Petter Lundborg, Martin Nilsson and Johan Vikström

6120: Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

6119: Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Amelie Constant

6118: Profit Sharing and Training

Kornelius Kraft and Julia Lang

6117: Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes

Antonio Filippin and Marco Paccagnella

6116: Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market

Sher Verick

6115: The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy

Joachim Wagner

6114: The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco

6113: A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory

Martin Biewen and Constantin Weiser

6112: Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel Rees

6111: Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment

Benjamin Elsner

6110: Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Gerard van den Berg, Pia Pinger and Johannes Schoch

6109: Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Michael P. Pflüger and Stephan Russek

6108: Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms

Etienne Lehmann, François Marical and Laurence Rioux

6107: The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students

Seth Zimmerman

6106: The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

6105: Sports and Child Development

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner and Andreas Steinmayr

6104: Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport and Sara Salomone

6103: Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates and Simon Parker

6102: Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Olivier Bargain, André Decoster, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

6101: Work to Live or Live to Work? Unemployment, Happiness, and Culture

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

6100: Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

6099: The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins

Petter Lundborg, Martin Nordin and Dan-Olof Rooth

6098: A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension

Jinjing Li and Denisa Sologon

6097: Adjusting to Skill Shortages: Complexity and Consequences

Joshua Healy, Kostas Mavromaras and Peter Sloane

6096: Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns

Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Gluzmann and Luis Lopez-Calva

6095: How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

6094: Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment

Luca Marchiori, Olivier Pierrard and Henri Sneessens

6093: Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit

Christoph Kneiding and Alexander Kritikos

6092: The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply

Anette Primdal Kvist, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

6091: Remittances and Return Migration

William Collier, Matloob Piracha and Teresa Randazzo

6090: A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst

6089: Lagged Duration Dependence in Mixed Proportional Hazard Models

Matteo Picchio

6088: The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective

John Giles, Dewen Wang and Wei Cai

6087: Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Julian Conrads and Bernd Irlenbusch

6086: Rent-Sharing, Hold-up, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data

David Card, Francesco Devicienti and Agata Maida

6085: Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide

David Card, Pablo Ibarraran and Juan Villa

6084: Semiparametric Estimation with Generated Covariates

Enno Mammen, Christoph Rothe and Melanie Schienle

6083: General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Eric Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann and Lei Zhang

6082: Publishing Trends in Economics across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007

Anne Winkler, Sharon Levin, Paula Stephan and Wolfgang Glänzel

6081: Job and Worker Turnover in German Establishments

Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner and Richard Upward

6080: The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups

Gaetano Basso, Mathias Dolls, Werner Eichhorst, Thomas Leoni and Andreas Peichl

6079: Studying the NAIRU and its Implications

Vasiliki Bozani and Nick Drydakis

6078: Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece

Nick Drydakis

6077: Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training: A Meta-Analysis

Carla Haelermans and Lex Borghans

6076: Partial Distributional Policy Effects

Christoph Rothe

6075: Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU

Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

6074: Labor Demand During the Crisis: What Happened in Germany?

Olga Bohachova, Bernhard Boockmann and Claudia Buch

6073: Performance-related Funding of Universities: Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?

Thomas Bauer and Barbara Grave

6072: Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children

Miles Corak

6071: The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Oscar Mitnik, Adrian Peralta-Alva and Maximilian Schmeiser

6070: Differentiation and Performance: An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans

Patrick Kampkötter and Dirk Sliwka

6069: Every Child Matters? An Evaluation of "Special Educational Needs" Programmes in England

Francois Keslair, Eric Maurin and Sandra McNally

6068: Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target

Ive Marx, Pieter Vandenbroucke and Gerlinde Verbist

6067: Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case

Ive Marx, Josefine Vanhille and Gerlinde Verbist