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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

5797: External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board

Alexandru Minea and Christophe Rault

5796: Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

5795: Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment

Marco Caliendo and Wang-Sheng Lee

5794: Workforce Reorganization and the Worker

Ben Kriechel and Gerard Pfann

5793: A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children

Pedro Carneiro, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

5792: Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits

Rafael Lalive, Analia Schlosser, Andreas Steinhauer and Josef Zweimüller

5791: Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

5790: Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

5789: The Impact of Bologna Process on the Graduate Labour Market: Demand and Supply

Giulio Bosio and Marco Leonardi

5788: Life-Cycle Bias and the Returns to Schooling in Current and Lifetime Earnings

Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad and Kjell G Salvanes

5787: Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

5786: International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

5785: Antidepressants and Age

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

5784: The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Michael Elsby, Jennifer Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth

5783: Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?

Matilde Machado and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

5782: Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ruth Ben-Yashar and Leif Danziger

5781: The Kid's Speech: The Effect of Stuttering on Human Capital Acquisition

Daniel Rees and Joseph J. Sabia

5780: Short-Time Work: The German Answer to the Great Recession

Karl Brenke, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

5779: Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions

John Ham, Serkan Ozbeklik and Lara Shore-Sheppard

5778: Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries

Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

5777: Referral-based Job Search Networks

Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Uta Schönberg

5776: Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence

Donald Parsons

5775: Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Agnieszka Kanas, Barry Chiswick, Tanja van der Lippe and Frank van Tubergen

5774: The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance

Simon Gächter, Esther Kessler and Manfred Königstein

5773: Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

5772: Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation

Erik Plug, Dinand Webbink and Nicholas G. Martin

5771: Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Gabriela Grotkowska and Mieczyslaw Socha

5770: For Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Ute Stephan

5769: The Shadow Economy and Shadow Economy Labor Force: What Do We (Not) Know?

Friedrich Schneider

5768: Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring

Bernhard Michel and Francois Rycx

5767: Why Use ROSCAs When You Can Use Banks? Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia

Abbi Kedir, Richard Disney and Indraneel Dasgupta

5766: Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises

Joachim Wagner

5765: Tradable Immigration Quotas

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport

5764: Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen and Takao Kato

5763: Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer

5762: Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

5761: Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

Liana Fox, Han Wen-Jui, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

5760: Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure

Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard

5759: The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups

Luc Bissonnette and Arthur van Soest

5758: A Steady-State Model of a Non-Walrasian Economy with Three Imperfect Markets

Etienne Wasmer

5757: Mobility, Taxation and Welfare

Sami Bibi, Jean-Yves Duclos and Abdelkrim Araar

5756: Learning about Education

Patrick Emerson and Bruce McGough

5755: Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?

Wolfgang Höchtl, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Rudi Stracke and Uwe Sunde

5754: Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled: Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders

Carl Lin

5753: Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer

Peter Kooreman and Erik W. Baars

5752: The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Barbara Hanel and Regina Riphahn

5751: Assessing the Long-term Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia

Javier Baez and Adriana Camacho

5750: Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Kate H. Choi, Marta Tienda, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mathias Sinning

5749: The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Silke Anger

5748: Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models

Govert Bijwaard

5747: Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann

5746: Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?

Alessandra Catozzella and Marco Vivarelli

5745: Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families

Richard Blundell and Andrew Shephard

5744: Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo Paloyo and Christoph Schmidt

5743: Non Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits: Labour Market Relevance and their Development in Education & Training Systems

Giorgio Brunello and Martin Schlotter

5742: More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis

Pablo Agnese and Pablo Salvador

5741: Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality

Thong Le Pham, Peter Kooreman, Ruud Koning and Doede Wiersma

5740: Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr and Daniel Schunk

5739: Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities

Katherine Carman and Peter Kooreman

5738: The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities

Oluwarotimi Owolabi and Sarmistha Pal

5737: Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Almas Heshmati and Ilham Haouas

5736: Gender Earnings Gaps in the World

Hugo Ñopo, Nancy Daza Báez and Johanna Ramos

5735: On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

5734: A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures

Diane J. Macunovich

5733: The Effects of Cooperation: A Structural Model of Siblings' Caregiving Interactions

Marike Knoef and Peter Kooreman

5732: Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?

Nick Drydakis

5731: Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms

Robert Holzmann, Yann Pouget, Milan Vodopivec and Michael Weber

5730: Eight Questions about Brain Drain

John Gibson and David McKenzie

5729: A Panel Data Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Married Women's Labor Supply

Kenneth Troske and Alexandru Voicu

5728: The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

John Cawley and Christopher Ruhm

5727: Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Goerg, Sebastian Kube and Matthias Wibral

5726: High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Robert Fairlie and Aaron K. Chatterji

5725: Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Robert Fairlie

5724: Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures

Mariya Aleksynska and Barry Chiswick

5723: Field Experiments with Firms

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

5722: The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants

Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter and Jackline Wahba

5721: Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?

Karin Jacobsen, Kari H. Eika, Leif Helland, Jo Lind and Karine Nyborg

5720: Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde and Johannes Siegrist

5719: Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks

Mikael Carlsson, Julian Messina and Oskar Skans

5718: Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model

Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

5717: The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010

Jason Loughrey and Cathal O'Donoghue

5716: Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh

M Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury

5715: Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues

Robert Holzmann and Johannes Koettl

5714: Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students’ Earnings Expectations

Jacopo Mazza and Joop Hartog

5713: Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Francisco Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite and Leonardo Lucchetti

5712: Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?

Stefan Denzler and Stefan Wolter

5711: Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon

Saioa Arando Lasagabaster, Monica Gago, Derek Jones and Takao Kato

5710: A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark

Torben M. Andersen

5709: Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5708: The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany

Karsten Kohn and Dirk Antonczyk

5707: Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Thomas Bauer, Regina Flake and Mathias Sinning

5706: Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure

Mehtabul Azam and Geeta Kingdon

5705: Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

5704: League-Table Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets

Stephen Cheung and Andrew Coleman

5703: Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan

Andaleeb Alam, Javier Baez and Ximena Del Carpio

5702: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua

Enrique Alaniz, Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

5701: Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Arnab Basu

5700: What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Loukas Balafoutas, Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter