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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

5952: Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution

Daniele Fabbri and Chiara Monfardini

5951: Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

5950: Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

James Heckman

5949: Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament

Naci Mocan and Duha Altindag

5948: Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

Andrew McGee and Peter McGee

5947: Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?

Alejandra Mizala and Hugo Ñopo

5946: Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data

Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

5945: Cycles of Wage Discrimination

Jeff Biddle and Daniel Hamermesh

5944: The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Giorgio Brunello, Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

5943: The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

5942: Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike

Mirco Tonin

5941: The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

5940: Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard van den Berg and Thomas Fritze

5939: Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs

Kate Wharton and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

5938: Does It Pay to Be Productive? The Case of Age Groups

Alessandra Cataldi, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

5937: Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers

Bart Cockx and Matteo Picchio

5936: Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Leo Kaas

5935: Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

5934: Social Interactions in the Labor Market

Andrew Grodner, Thomas Kniesner and John A. Bishop

5933: Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach

Charlene Kalenkoski and Donald J. Lacombe

5932: The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy

Chiara Mussida and Matteo Picchio

5931: Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China

Xiangquan Zeng, Cui Yuxue, Shisong Qing and Yang Yumei

5930: Taxes, Wages and Working Hours

Peter Ericson and Lennart Flood

5929: Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China

Syeda Shahanara Begum, Deng Quheng and Björn Anders Gustafsson

5928: Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle

Briggs Depew and Todd Sorensen

5927: Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries

Alassane Drabo and Linguere Mbaye

5926: Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US

Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel

5925: Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory

Franziska Barmettler, Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder

5924: Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Joachim Wagner

5923: The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon

Ariaster B. Chimeli and Rodrigo Soares

5922: Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement

Edwin Leuven and Marte Rønning

5921: Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Andrew Friedson and Thomas Kniesner

5920: Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa

Guido Friebel, Juan Gallego and Mariapia Mendola

5919: Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences

Ernst Fehr and Karla Hoff