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5531: Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem and Joop Hartog

5530: The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Ernst Fehr, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Matthias Sutter

5529: Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

5528: Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System

Monique De Haan, Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

5527: Exit Exams and High School Dropout

Dave Marcotte

5526: Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan

Simon Chang, Belton Fleisher, Seonghoon Kim and Shi-yung Liu

5525: Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

Jason Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen Waddell

5524: What Determines the Return to Education: An Extra Year or a Hurdle Cleared?

Matt Dickson and Sarah Smith

5523: Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market

Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

5522: Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

5521: The Unequal Incidence of Non-Standard Employment across Occupational Groups: An Empirical Analysis of Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Germany and Europe

Paul Marx

5520: The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch

5519: Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet and Cristina Terra

5518: Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts

Sabien Dobbelaere and Roland Iwan Luttens

5517: Japan and Her Dealings with Offshoring: An Empirical Analysis with Aggregate Data

Pablo Agnese

5516: Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Corona Joyce and Bertrand Maître

5515: Immigrant Welfare Receipt across Europe

Alan Barrett and Bertrand Maître

5514: Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods

Felix Kölle, Dirk Sliwka and Nannan Zhou

5513: The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It

Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara

5512: Does It Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited

Jungmin Lee and Sokbae Lee

5511: Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms

Jens Arnold, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Stefano Scarpetta

5510: Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

5509: Too Low to Be True: The Use of Minimum Thresholds to Fight Tax Evasion

Mirco Tonin

5508: Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu

Saibal Kar and Bibhas Saha

5507: Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties

Yves Zenou

5506: Social Networks and Interactions in Cities

Robert Helsley and Yves Zenou

5505: Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Morris M. Kleiner and Alan Krueger

5504: Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia

Randolph Bruno, Maria Bytchkova and Saul Estrin

5503: Minu, Startu and All That: Pitfalls in Estimating the Sensitivity of a Worker's Wage to Aggregate Unemployment

Pedro Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas

5502: Fertility and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

5501: Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Esteban Klor, Sebastian Kube, Eyal Winter and Ro'i Zultan

5500: Personality Psychology and Economics

Mathilde Almlund, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Tim Kautz

5499: Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable

Alexander Danzer

5498: Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration

Christian Dustmann and Josep Mestres

5497: Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade

Jürgen Meckl and Benjamin Weigert

5496: Emigration and Democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff

5495: The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

James Heckman

5494: Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Luc Behaghel, Eve Caroli and Emmanuelle Walkowiak

5493: Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Bernard van den Berg

5492: The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Fernando Lozano and Todd Sorensen

5491: The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt

Peter Dolton and Jeffrey Smith

5490: The Transition from Work to Retirement

Werner Eichhorst

5489: The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market

Silke Anger

5488: Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Blair L. Cleave, Nikos Nikiforakis and Robert Slonim

5487: Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths

Eric Gould and Avi Simhon

5486: The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions

Dan-Olof Rooth and Anders Stenberg

5485: The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard van den Berg and Klaus Zimmermann

5484: Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Robert Dur and Joël van der Weele

5483: A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Mabel Andalón and Gary Fields

5482: Occupational Status and Health Transitions

G. Brant Morefield, David Ribar and Christopher Ruhm

5481: Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva and Tomasz Mickiewicz

5480: Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Klaus Zimmermann

5479: The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

5478: Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Mohammad Pesaran and Alexander Chudik

5477: Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

Pieter Gautier and C. N. Teulings

5476: Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems: Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

David A. Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn and Juan David Robalino

5475: Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Armin Falk, Stephan Meier and Christian Zehnder

5474: The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition

Barbara Mueller and Stefan Wolter

5473: In-Work Benefits and Unemployment

Mirco Tonin and Ann-Sofie Kolm

5472: Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer and Mechthild Schrooten

5471: Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Sumon Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova

5470: Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

5469: Population Growth and Multiple Equilibria: Inferences from a Modified Ramsey Model

Ulla Lehmijoki

5468: Pill Power: The Prequel

Lena Edlund and Cecilia Machado

5467: Motivations for Remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Matloob Piracha and Amrita Saraogi

5466: Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and John Roemer

5465: Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?

Dennis Yang, Junsen Zhang and Shaojie Zhou

5464: Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund and Andreas Schmitt

5463: The Japanese Lost Decade and Beyond: A Chain Reaction Theory Approach

Pablo Agnese

5462: The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal

Pedro Goulart and Arjun Bedi

5461: An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

5460: Workplace Democracy in the Lab

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

5459: Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"

Frank Fossen

5458: Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

Rikke Ibsen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

5457: The Gender Reservation Wage Gap: Evidence form British Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

5456: Public Housing and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in France, 1968-1999

Gregory Verdugo

5455: An Essay on Real Wage Index Numbers

John Pencavel

5454: The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

Gerard van den Berg and Sumedha Gupta

5453: Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

Sonja de New and Christoph Schmidt

5452: Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

Leo Kaas and Philipp Kircher

5451: Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

5450: Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

5449: Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America

Jose Cuesta, Hugo Ñopo and Georgina Pizzolitto

5448: Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Anne Busch and Elke Holst

5447: Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty

Sarah Brown, Jolian McHardy, Robert McNabb and Karl Taylor

5446: Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Junfu Zhang and Zhong Zhao

5445: Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Marc Sangnier

5444: Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers

Kristen Monaco and Steffen Habermalz

5443: Consistent Estimation of the Fixed Effects Ordered Logit Model

Gregori Baetschmann, Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

5442: Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Marloes Lammers

5441: Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country: North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Stephane Mahuteau and Max Tani

5440: Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

5439: The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment

Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

5438: Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Tanika Chakraborty and Prabal De

5437: Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation

Laura Giuliano and Michael Ransom

5436: Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge

Max Tani

5435: Reservation Wages and Starting Wages

Hans van Ophem, Joop Hartog and Peter Berkhout

5434: Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes

Horst Entorf

5433: Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates

Wolter Hassink and Bernard van den Berg

5432: Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR

Aaron Sojourner