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5897: On Educational Performance Measures

Alastair Muriel and Jeffrey Smith

5896: How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

André Betzer, Markus Doumet and Ulf Rinne

5895: Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

5894: Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?

Larry L. Howard and Nishith Prakash

5893: Immigration and House Prices in the UK

Filipa Sa

5892: Role Selection and Team Performance

David Cooper and Matthias Sutter

5891: Manipulation of Choice Behavior

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti and Christopher Tyson

5890: Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

5889: China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Mohammad Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci and TengTeng Xu

5888: Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain

Natalia Nollenberger and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5887: The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey

Murat Kırdar, Meltem Dayioglu and Ismet Koc

5886: Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: Marriage in the U.S. 1968-2010

Diane J. Macunovich

5885: Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: U.S. Fertility 1968-2010

Diane J. Macunovich

5884: Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Julie Rosaz and Marie Claire Villeval

5883: There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia

Mathias Sinning and Matthias Vorell

5882: Surviving the Crisis: Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

5881: On Input Market Frictions and Estimation of Factors Demand

Arnaud Dupuy and Todd A. Sorensen

5880: Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980

Ohyun Kwon, Belton Fleisher and Deng Quheng

5879: Long-Term Effects of Class Size

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek

5878: The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets

Mihails Hazans and Kaia Philips

5877: Informal Caring and Labour Market Outcomes Within England and Wales

Stephen Drinkwater

5876: Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors

Donald Parsons

5875: Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Boris Hirsch and Claus Schnabel

5874: Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem

David Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

5873: The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

5872: What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth

Mihails Hazans

5871: Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries

Mihails Hazans

5870: Parental Health and Child Schooling

Massimiliano Bratti and Mariapia Mendola

5869: Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey

Nattavudh Powdthavee

5868: And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts

Aekapol Chongvilaivan and Nattavudh Powdthavee

5867: Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market

Domenico Tabasso

5866: Retirement Choice Simulation in Household Settings with Heterogeneous Pension Plans

Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue

5865: Incentives of Retirement Transition for Elderly Workers: An Analysis of Actual and Simulated Replacement Rates in Ireland

Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue

5864: Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Alireza Naghavi and Chiara Strozzi

5863: Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?

Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller

5862: Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games

Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark and Michael Rosholm

5861: Socio-Spatial Mobility in British Society

William A.V. Clark, Maarten van Ham and Rory Coulter

5860: Explaining Differences in Job Search Outcomes Between Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Simonetta Longhi and Mark Taylor

5859: Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Pieter Gautier and Christian Holzner

5858: Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

5857: The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Anne Winkler, Wolfgang Glänzel, Sharon Levin and Paula Stephan

5856: Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa

Graziella Bertocchi

5855: The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany

Thomas Bauer, Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka

5854: Time to Vote?

John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim, Steven Stillman and Geua Boe-Gibson

5853: Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly and Christophe Rault

5852: Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England

Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough and James P. Smith

5851: The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching

Gustave Goldmann, Arthur Sweetman and Casey Warman

5850: The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel

5849: Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction: New Evidence from Athens, Greece

Nick Drydakis

5848: Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marianne Simonsen

5847: Using the Helmert-Transformation to Reduce Dimensionality in a Mixed Model: Application to a Wage Equation with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Terje Skjerpen

5846: Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China

Hong Liu and Zhong Zhao

5845: Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

5844: Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition among University Students

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort, Mattia Nardotto and Tommaso Reggiani

5843: The Effect of an Acute Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Kristin Kleinjans and Mona Larsen

5842: Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data

Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Antoine Reberioux and Thomas Breda

5841: Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes

David Johnston and Wang-Sheng Lee

5840: Preferences for Consistency

Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann

5839: The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels

Lorraine Dearden, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles

5838: The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment

Roberto Bande and Marika Karanassou

5837: Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Elke Jahn and Dario Pozzoli

5836: Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Roberto Golinelli and Riccardo Rovelli

5835: Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi, Denis Fougere and Erwan Gautier

5834: Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl

5833: The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Martin Halla and Martina Zweimüller

5832: The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Mary Daly, Bart Hobijn and Robert Valletta

5831: Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Eric Helland

5830: Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association?

Amanda Goodall

5829: The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Susanne Link

5828: Multiple Glass Ceilings

Giovanni Russo and Wolter Hassink

5827: Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?

Simonetta Longhi and Mark Taylor

5826: Testing for IIA with the Hausman-McFadden Test

Wim Vijverberg

5825: The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes

Brindusa Anghel, Sara De La Rica and Juan Dolado

5824: Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women

Michelle S. Goeree, John C. Ham and Daniela Iorio

5823: Race, Social Class, and Bulimia Nervosa

Michelle S. Goeree, John C. Ham and Daniela Iorio

5822: Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment

John Cawley and Johanna Maclean

5821: A Flexible Test for Present Bias and Time Preferences Using Land-Lease Contracts

Pieter Gautier and Aico van Vuuren

5820: Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US

Olivier Bargain, Kristian Orsini and Andreas Peichl

5819: Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

5818: A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen Burks and Erin L. Krupka

5817: Migrant Women on the Labour Market: On the Role of Home- and Host-Country Participation

Suzanne Kok, Nicole Bosch, Anja Deelen and Rob Euwals

5816: Calculating Confidence Intervals for Continuous and Discontinuous Functions of Estimated Parameters

John C. Ham and Tiemen Woutersen

5815: Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Marie Paul and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5814: Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy

Johan Almenberg and Christer Gerdes

5813: Theft and Deterrence

William T. Harbaugh, Naci Mocan and Michael S. Visser

5812: Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Ama Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler and Leigh Linden

5811: Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

5810: The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands: An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector

Rob Euwals, Annemiek van Vuren and Daniel van Vuuren

5809: Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter J. Sloane

5808: Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini

5807: Accounting For Endogenous Search Behavior in Matching Function Estimation

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Gregory Jolivet and Fabien Postel-Vinay

5806: Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System

Stefanie Hof, Mirjam Strupler Leiser and Stefan Wolter

5805: Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Corrado Giulietti, Guangjie Ning and Klaus Zimmermann

5804: Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

5803: Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

5802: Goals and Psychological Accounting

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

5801: A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

5800: What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Michael Burda and Jennifer Hunt

5799: The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited

Richard Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey, Maggie Switek, Onnicha Sawangfa and Jacqueline Smith Zweig

5798: The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela and Jan König