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6052: Teaching Practices and Social Capital

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Andrei Shleifer

6051: Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France

Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque

6050: Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation: Announcement and Implementation Effects

Richard Blundell, Marco Francesconi and Wilbert van der Klaauw

6049: The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment

Martin Fochmann and Joachim Weimann

6048: Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa

Anagaw Derseh Mebratie and Arjun Bedi

6047: Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates: New Australian Panel Evidence

David Carroll and Max Tani

6046: The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Raquel Fernández and Joyce Cheng Wong

6045: Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income: Insights from the UK and Germany

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan and Max Steinhardt

6044: Work-Related Health in Europe: Are Older Workers More at Risk?

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille, Peter Sloane and Anita Staneva

6043: Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply

Z. Eylem Gevrek, Deniz Gevrek and Sonam Gupta

6042: Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Erdal Tekin

6041: The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Sonia Bhalotra and Atheendar Venkataramani

6040: Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Thomas Bauer, Michael Fertig and Matthias Vorell

6039: What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?

Christian Haefke and Michael Reiter

6038: On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?

Anna Laura Mancini, Chiara Monfardini and Silvia Pasqua

6037: When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail

Christiane Hinerasky and René Fahr

6036: Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

6035: Alte Idee, neues Programm: Der Gründungszuschuss als Nachfolger von Überbrückungsgeld und Ich-AG

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn and Frank Wießner

6034: Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski and Alexander Plekhanov

6033: Educational Scores: How Does Russia Fare?

Chiara Amini and Simon Commander

6032: Role Reversal in Global Finance

Eswar Prasad

6031: Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data

Gerard van den Berg and Bettina Drepper

6030: Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Herwig Immervoll and Linda Richardson

6029: Intrahousehold Distribution and Child Poverty: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni and Prudence Magejo

6028: Overeducation and Local Labour Markets in Spain

Raul Ramos and Esteban Sanroma

6027: Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

Mohammad Pesaran and TengTeng Xu

6026: Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Barbara Pertold-Gębicka

6025: The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

6024: Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sajal Lahiri and Javed Younas

6023: Severance Packages

Fabien Postel-Vinay and Hélène Turon

6022: Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty: Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence

Joachim Merz and Tim Rathjen

6021: Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Floro Caroleo and Francesco Pastore

6020: Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo and Holger Lüthen

6019: Maternal Autonomy and the Education of the Subsequent Generation: Evidence from Three Contrasting States in India

Marco Alfano, Wiji Arulampalam and Uma Kambhampati

6018: Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati and Nabaz Khayyat

6017: Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

6016: Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Octávio Figueiredo, Paulo Guimaraes and Douglas Woodward

6015: More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

6014: Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations

David Johnston, Stefanie Schurer and Michael Shields

6013: Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Pedro Martins and Luca David Opromolla

6012: Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

Lidia Farre and Francesco Fasani

6011: Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance: Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010

Pieter Bevelander and Anders Hellström

6010: Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

6009: Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?

Joachim Wagner

6008: Semiparametric Selection Models with Binary Outcomes

Roger Klein, Chan Shen and Francis Vella

6007: Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Patricia Apps, Ngo Long and Ray Rees

6006: Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential Enforcement

Rita Almeida and Z. Bilgen Susanli

6005: Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences

René Böheim and Thomas Leoni

6004: A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Almas Heshmati and Subal Kumbhakar

6003: Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts

Donald Parsons

6002: It's About Time: Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model

Ronald Wolthoff

6001: Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

6000: The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

5999: Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval

5998: The Process of Wage Adjustment: An Analysis Using Establishment-Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

5997: When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation

Oleg Badunenko, Daniel Henderson and Subal Kumbhakar

5996: Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular

Reyes Aterido, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Carmen Pages

5995: Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood

David Bjerk

5994: The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

Libertad Gonzalez

5993: The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Roberto González and Hector Sala

5992: Factor Shares, the Price Markup, and the Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labor

Xavier Raurich, Hector Sala and Valeri Sorolla

5991: Human Capital and Growth: Specification Matters

Uwe Sunde and Thomas Vischer

5990: Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons

Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

5989: Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay: A Test Case of Major League Baseball

Örn B. Bodvarsson and John Sessions

5988: Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

5987: The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation: Change and Persistence in the German Model

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Alex Bryson and André Pahnke

5986: Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan Kuhn

5985: Optimizing Incentive Plan Design: A Case Study

Alec R. Levenson, Cindy Zoghi, Michael Gibbs and George Benson

5984: A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market (2011-2012 Edition)

John Cawley

5983: A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Robert Fairlie, Florian Hoffmann and Philip Oreopoulos

5982: A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review

Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or, Thorvaldur Gylfason, Juergen von Hagen and Gerard Pfann

5981: Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education

Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin

5980: Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt

5979: The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan and Pierre-Carl Michaud

5978: Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Saibal Kar and Sugata Marjit

5977: Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India

Divya Balasubramaniam, Santanu Chatterjee and David Mustard

5976: The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andries de Grip and Jan Sauermann

5975: Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

5974: Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Min Sun

5973: Non-cognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School

Christopher Cornwell, David Mustard and Jessica Van Parys

5972: Duration of Low Wage Employment: A Study Based on a Survival Model

António M. S. Pimenta, Francisco José Silva and José Vieira

5971: Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP

Eirini Andriopoulou and Panos Tsakloglou

5970: Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity

David Johnston and Wang-Sheng Lee

5969: Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms

Robert Gregory

5968: Lying and Team Incentives

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Rilke and Gari Walkowitz

5967: Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination

Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong and Xin Meng

5966: Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Andrew Clark

5965: Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

Frederico Finan and Laura Schechter

5964: Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

5963: Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences

Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Nezih Guner and Gustavo Ventura

5962: Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura

5961: Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007

Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith and Mette Verner

5960: Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US

Delia Furtado, Miriam Marcén and Almudena Sevilla

5959: Are Children “Normal”?

Dan Black, Natalia Kolesnikova, Seth G. Sanders and Lowell Taylor

5958: Multilateral Resistance to Migration

Simone Bertoli and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

5957: Learning about a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information on Beliefs

Charles Bellemare and Alexander Sebald

5956: Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries

Gaurav Khanna, David Newhouse and Pierella Paci

5955: Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?

Peter Kuhn and Hani Mansour

5954: Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability: Evidence from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth

Evelyn Lehrer and Yu Chen

5953: Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain: A Panel Data Analysis

Aniruddha Mitra, James Bang and Phanindra Wunnava