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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

5699: Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez Truglia and Martin Tetaz

5698: Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil

Fernanda Brollo and Tommaso Nannicini

5697: Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation

Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler

5696: Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010

Henry S Farber

5695: Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball

Francesca Cornaglia and Naomi Feldman

5694: Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation

Liam Graham and Dennis J. Snower

5693: Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests

Yigal Attali, Zvika Neeman and Analia Schlosser

5692: The Determinants of Poverty Transitions in Europe and the Role of Duration Dependence

Eirini Andriopoulou and Panos Tsakloglou

5691: Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation

Ann-Kathrine Ejsing, Ulrich Kaiser and Hans Christian Kongsted

5690: Who Benefits from KIPP?

Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

5689: New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment

Stephen Cheung

5688: Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety

Jan Boone, Jan van Ours, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

5687: Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India

Laura Zimmermann

5686: Immigration and Innovation

David Maré, Richard Fabling and Steven Stillman

5685: Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway

Katrine Løken, Kjell Lommerud and Shelly Lundberg

5684: Managerial Valuation of Applicant Credentials and Personal Traits in Hiring Decisions

James R. Jones, Catherine Co, James K. Harter and Myeong-Su Yun

5683: Europe Agreements and Trade Balance: Evidence form Four New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

5682: Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?

Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

5681: How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries

Yoonyoung Cho and David Newhouse

5680: The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs

David Bell and David Blanchflower

5679: Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China

Joop Hartog, Xiaohao Ding and Juan Liao

5678: Fixed Effects and Variance Components Estimation in Three-Level Meta-Analysis

Spyros Konstantopoulos

5677: Labor Disputes and Labor Flows

Henri Fraisse, Francis Kramarz and Corinne Prost

5676: Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

5675: Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Manudeep Bhuller, Tarjei Havnes, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad

5674: Young People and the Great Recession

David Bell and David Blanchflower

5673: Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

David Bell and David Blanchflower

5672: The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences of Works Council Relations

Christian Pfeifer

5671: Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market

Christian Pfeifer, Simon Janssen, Philip Yang and Uschi Backes-Gellner

5670: Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction

Horst Entorf

5669: The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability

Ainoa Aparicio

5668: The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Maharouf Oyolola

5667: The Impact of 'Equal Educational Opportunity' Funds: A Regression Discontinuity Design

Erwin Ooghe

5666: Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

Semih Akçomak, Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

5665: Returns to Education in Professional Football

René Böheim and Mario Lackner

5664: Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Christian Pfeifer

5663: How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Alessandro Cigno

5662: Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return

Daniel Henderson, Solomon Polachek and Le Wang

5661: Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Mohammad Pesaran and Ronald Smith

5660: Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence

Mirco Tonin

5659: School Access, Resources, and Learning Outcomes: Evidence from a Non-formal School Program in Bangladesh

Hai-Anh Dang, Leopold Sarr and M Asadullah

5658: The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Gil Epstein and Alessandra Venturini

5657: Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances

Ainoa Aparicio

5656: Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors

Alexander Danzer and Peter Dolton

5655: The Sick Pay Trap

Elisabeth Fevang, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

5654: Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity

Ulrich Kaiser, Hans Christian Kongsted and Thomas Rønde

5653: Debt Portfolios

Thomas Hintermaier and Winfried Koeniger