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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

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