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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

5618: Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz and Dirk Sliwka

5617: Ethnic Dimensions of Suburbanisation in Estonia

Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Kadri Leetmaa and Anneli Kährik

5616: Unofficial Development Assistance: A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income

Wiji Arulampalam, Peter Backus and John Micklewright

5615: The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health

Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia and Erdal Tekin

5614: Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Simona Valmori

5613: The Use of Welfare by Migrants in Italy

Michele Pellizzari

5612: Partner (Dis)agreement on Moving Desires and the Subsequent Moving Behaviour of Couples

Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham and Peteke Feijten

5611: Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia: The Issue of Youth Unemployment

Marco Stampini and Audrey Verdier-Chouchane

5610: Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Ralitza Dimova, Ira Gang, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou and Daniel Hoffman

5609: Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Mathieu Lefebvre, Pierre Pestieau, Arno Riedl and Marie Claire Villeval

5608: Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households

Olivier Bargain and Olivier Donni

5607: Revealed Informal Activity

Ralitza Dimova, Ira Gang and John Landon-Lane

5606: Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?

Christophe Rault and Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

5605: Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn, James Heckman and John Humphries

5604: The Aggregate Effects of Trade and Migration: Evidence from OECD Countries

Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri

5603: Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach

Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto and Thomas Seegmuller

5602: Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Nicolas Ziebarth

5601: Health and Well-Being in the Crisis

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

5600: "Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?

Daniel Hamermesh and Jason Abrevaya

5599: Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts

Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff and Klaus Zimmermann

5598: Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?

Avner Greif, Murat Iyigun and Diego Sasson

5597: Wage Structure Effects of International Trade: Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Philip Du Caju, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

5596: The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods

Johan Vikström, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

5595: Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik

5594: Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Pierre Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune and Yoram Weiss

5593: The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark

Paul Bingley, Miles Corak and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

5592: Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

Mateus Joffily, David Masclet, Charles Noussair and Marie Claire Villeval

5591: Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers

Matteo Picchio and Jan van Ours

5590: Globalization, Brain Drain and Development

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

5589: Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind

Christine Binzel and Ragui Assaad

5588: Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Vladimir Gimpelson and Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

5587: Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training

Samuel Mühlemann, Paul Ryan and Stefan Wolter

5586: The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit?

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

5585: The Long Shadow of Income on Trustworthiness

John Ermisch and Diego Gambetta

5584: The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Sascha Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz and Ludger Woessmann

5583: Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Enclaves

Mariano Bosch, M. Angeles Carnero and Lidia Farre

5582: Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience

Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Marco Vivarelli and Peter Voigt

5581: Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case

Hipolito Simon, Raul Ramos and Esteban Sanroma

5580: Cigarette Taxes and the Social Market

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees

5579: Informal Sector and Corruption: An Empirical Investigation for India

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar and Sanjukta Roy

5578: Is there Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing against Immigrants in the Spanish Lending Market?

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Josep M. Raya

5577: Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment

Ana Ferrer and W. Craig Riddell

5576: The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak

5575: Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest and Erik Wengström

5574: Union Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms

Andrea Salvatori

5573: Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Andreas Kuhn

5572: The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

W. Craig Riddell and Xueda Song

5571: Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain: Accounting for Differences in the Supports

Catia Nicodemo and Raul Ramos

5570: Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

5569: Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

John Griffin, David Nickerson and Abigail Wozniak

5568: Remittances and Income Smoothing

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

5567: Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage

Olga Nottmeyer

5566: Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

5565: Scarring Effects of the First Labor Market Experience

Oskar Skans

5564: Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain: Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Siddhartha Chib and Liana Jacobi

5563: Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years

Julien Grenet, Robert Hart and J Roberts

5562: Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India

Luojia Hu and Analia Schlosser

5561: What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes

Giovanni Facchini and Max Steinhardt

5560: Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease

Guy Lacroix and Marie-Ève Brouard

5559: The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index

Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer

5558: Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict

Richard Akresh, Leonardo Lucchetti and Harsha Thirumurthy

5557: Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France

Denis Fougere, Francis Kramarz, Roland Rathelot and Mirna Safi

5556: Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis

Gerlinde Fellner-Röhling, Yoshio Iida, Sabine Kröger and Erika Seki

5555: Democratization and Civil Liberties: The Role of Violence During the Transition

Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato and Uwe Sunde

5554: Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis

David Blau

5553: Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

5552: Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

5551: Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte d'Ivoire

Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

5550: Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann and Frédéric Schneider

5549: Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura

5548: Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities through Vocational Education

Kostas Mavromaras and Cain Polidano

5547: Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?

Ozkan Eren and Daniel Henderson

5546: Free vs. Restricted Immigration: Bilateral Country Study

Assaf Razin and Jackline Wahba

5545: Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Badi Baltagi, Francesco Moscone and Elisa Tosetti

5544: Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Luc Behaghel, Eve Caroli and Muriel Roger

5543: Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions: Theory and Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz and Dirk Sliwka

5542: Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure

Sergio Firpo, Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux

5541: Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries

Michael P. Pflüger and Stephan Russek

5540: Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Susanne Ek and Bertil Holmlund

5539: Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary

Szilvia Hámori and János Köllő

5538: Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees: Theory and Evidence

Patrick Kampkötter and Dirk Sliwka

5537: Does Gender Matter for Academic Promotion? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

Natalia Zinovyeva and Manuel Bagues

5536: Retirement and Subjective Well-Being

Eric Bonsang and Tobias Klein

5535: The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

Hani Mansour and Daniel Rees

5534: Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard van den Berg and Lambert H. Lumey

5533: Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger

5532: Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees

Bruce Chapman and Mathias Sinning