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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

5652: Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates

Arnaud Chevalier

5651: A Call for Comparative Research: Consequences of a Rising Income Inequality for State Activities

Renate Neubäumer

5650: China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Amelie Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus Zimmermann and Jingzhou Meng

5649: Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers

Andrea Ichino, Elly-Ann Lindström and Eliana Viviano

5648: Altruism in Society: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters

Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters

5647: Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

5646: Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon and Cathy Redmond

5645: Women and Power: Unwilling, Ineffective, or Held Back?

Pablo Casas-Arce and Albert Saiz

5644: Consistency in Organization (updated)

Ekkehart Schlicht

5643: Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

5642: Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses

Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann and Bruno Van der Linden

5641: Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Ralitza Dimova, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

5640: How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

5639: Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labour Supply

Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin and Barbara Petrongolo

5638: On Identification of Bayesian DSGE Models

Gary Koop, Mohammad Pesaran and Ronald Smith

5637: Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

5636: Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Chris Klaveren, Henriette Maassen van den Brink and Bernard van Praag

5635: Short-Time Work Benefits Revisited: Some Lessons from the Great Recession

Tito Boeri and Herbert Brücker

5634: Social Mixing as a Cure for Negative Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence Based Policy or Urban Myth?

David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Joe Doherty

5633: The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

5632: The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies for Immigrants Receiving Social Assistance in Denmark

Eskil Heinesen, Leif Husted and Michael Rosholm

5631: The Impact of Active Labour Market Policy on Post-Unemployment Outcomes: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Denmark

Sylvie Blasco and Michael Rosholm

5630: Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Stefanie Schurer

5629: Are Self-Employed Really Happier Than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes

Dominik Hanglberger and Joachim Merz

5628: The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK

Peteke Feijten and Maarten van Ham

5627: Utilising Microsimulation to Estimate New Marginal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987-2005

Darragh Flannery and Cathal O'Donoghue

5626: Lifecycle Impact of Alternative Higher Education Finance Systems in Ireland

Darragh Flannery and Cathal O'Donoghue

5625: Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem Shaikh and Adam Yavitz

5624: Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Giacomo De Giorgi and Michele Pellizzari

5623: Performance Appraisal: Dimensions and Determinants

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

5622: Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation

Magnus Strömgren, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Szymon Marcinczak, Olof Stjernström and Urban Lindgren

5621: Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction

Sarah Brown, Jolian McHardy and Karl Taylor

5620: Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors

Michela Braga, Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari

5619: Paid to Perform? Compensation Profiles under Pure Wage and Performance Related Pay Arrangements

John Sessions and John D. Skåtun