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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

6066: Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Mette Ejrnæs and Astrid Kunze

6065: Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages

German Blanco, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

6064: Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments

Chung Choe, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Sang-Jun Lee

6063: International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Zeynel Ozdemir, Mehmet Balcilar and Aysıt Tansel

6062: Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Darja Reuschke and Maarten van Ham

6061: Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Michael Kosfeld and Ulrich Schüwer

6060: Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets

Isaac Ehrlich, Jong Shin and Yong Yin

6059: Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms: The Case of Italy

Ugo Colombino

6058: Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006

Sara Lemos

6057: The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

6056: Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

6055: Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program

Kenneth T. Whelan, Ronald Ehrenberg, Kevin Hallock and Ronald L. Seeber

6054: Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms

Liugang Sheng and Dennis Yang

6053: Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Yann Algan, Camille Hemet and David D. Laitin

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