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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

5431: Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Guido Schwerdt, Dolores Messer, Ludger Woessmann and Stefan Wolter

5430: Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

5429: The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations

William P. Warburton, Rebecca N. Warburton, Arthur Sweetman and Clyde Hertzman

5428: Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater: Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University

Albert Okunade and Phanindra Wunnava

5427: Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka

Mirko Bendig and Thankom Arun

5426: An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sugata Marjit and Lei Yang

5425: The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths

Jerome Adda, Anders Bjorklund and Helena Holmlund

5424: Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance

Stephen Kastoryano and Bas van der Klaauw

5423: Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

5422: The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Ulla Lehmijoki and Tapio Palokangas

5421: Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007

Zhaopeng Qu and Zhong Zhao

5420: Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

5419: Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Nidhiya Menon

5418: Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor: Evidence from Danish Couples

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Jens Bonke and Shoshana Grossbard

5417: Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

5416: Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search

Ronald Wolthoff

5415: The Costs of Job Loss in Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev, Tiziano Razzolini and Anzelika Zaiceva

5414: Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment

Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati

5413: Smart and Dangerous: How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation

Ruby Henry

5412: Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Lex Borghans, Anne Gielen and Erzo Luttmer

5411: Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Alexander Muravyev and Oleksandr Talavera

5410: Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

Corrado Giulietti

5409: Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Giorgio Brunello, Elena Crivellaro and Lorenzo Rocco

5408: Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence

Umut Oguzoglu

5407: Are Employees Better Off in Socially Responsible Firms?

Katrin Tamm, Raul Eamets and Pille Mõtsmees

5406: Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India

Melanie Khamis, Nishith Prakash and Zahra Siddique

5405: Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Anna Eulerich, geb. Bohnstedt, Christian Schwarz and Jens Suedekum

5404: Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Matthias Sutter, Martin Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Stefan Trautmann

5403: Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Aitor Lacuesta and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5402: Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

5401: How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

5400: The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard van den Berg and Klaus Zimmermann

5399: High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

5398: An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

5397: Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

5396: Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

5395: Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin

Simone Bertoli and Herbert Brücker

5394: Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations

Bohdan Kukharskyy and Michael P. Pflüger

5393: Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap

Anh Le, Paul Miller, Wendy S. Slutske and Nicholas G. Martin

5392: Matching with a Handicap: The Case of Smoking in the Marriage Market

Pierre Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

5391: Hierarchical Organization and Inequality in an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time

Bertrand Candelon and Arnaud Dupuy

5390: Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission

Andrew Oswald

5389: Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults

Jon E. Anderson, Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Karsten Maurer, Daniele Nosenzo, Ruth Potter, Kim Rocha and Aldo Rustichini

5388: Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

Erwin Ooghe and Andreas Peichl

5387: Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries

Michael P. Pflüger and Stephan Russek

5386: Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

5385: Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI: Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Michael P. Pflüger, Uwe Blien, Joachim Möller and Michael Moritz

5384: Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach

Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Dominique Pinard

5383: Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li and Ludmila Nivorozhkina

5382: Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

Alain de Janvry, Frederico Finan and Elisabeth Sadoulet

5381: Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

Sonia Bhalotra and Tom Cochrane

5380: Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

5379: Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz

Marco Caliendo and Arne Uhlendorff

5378: Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale

Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl

5377: Labor Market Developments in China: A Neoclassical View

Suqin Ge and Dennis Yang

5376: Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Ya?ar, P?nar

5375: Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe

Lina Dunnzlaff, Dirk Neumann, Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl

5374: Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust is Reciprocity?

Joël van der Weele, Julija Kulisa, Michael Kosfeld and Guido Friebel

5373: Creative Unemployment

Knut Røed and Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm

5372: Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation

Massimiliano Bratti and Alfonso Miranda

5371: Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?

Sonia Bhalotra and Samantha Rawlings

5370: Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

5369: Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees

Torbjørn Hægeland, Lars Kirkebøen, Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G Salvanes

5368: Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs

Clair Brown, Julia Lane and Timothy Sturgeon

5367: The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada

Barry Chiswick, Nicholas Larsen and Paul Pieper

5366: Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index

Dean Jolliffe

5365: Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009

Alexander Muravyev

5364: Der Aufstieg des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses in Deutschland – vom Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zur Ölkrise 1973

Michael Jan Kendzia

5363: Poverty and Survival

Sonia Bhalotra

5362: A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life

Pedro Carneiro, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

5361: Bootstrap Inference for K-Nearest Neighbour Matching Estimators

Xavier de Luna, Per Johansson and Sara Sjöstedt-de Luna

5360: The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

5359: Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand

Magne Krogstad Asphjell, Wilko Letterie, Øivind Nilsen and Gerard Pfann

5358: The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Ronald Bachmann and Peggy Bechara (née David)

5357: Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

W. Bentley Macleod

5356: Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters

Ben D'Exelle and Arno Riedl

5355: No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data

Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll and Heikki Viitamäki

5354: Immigrants' Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

5353: African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Amelie Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien

5352: Contracts between Legal Persons

Lewis A. Kornhauser and W. Bentley Macleod

5351: Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Tilman Brück, Fernanda Llussá and Jose Tavares

5350: Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models

Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

5349: Cronyism

Pedro Martins

5348: Female Labour Supply and Spousal Education

Kerry Papps

5347: Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?

Christopher Bollinger and Barry Hirsch

5346: Urban Infrastructure and Economic Development: Experimental Evidence from Street Pavement

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Climent Quintana-Domeque

5345: Racial Discrimination and Household Chores

Shoshana Grossbard, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

5344: Die Messung von Armut unter Berücksichtigung regional divergierender Lebenshaltungskosten und öffentlicher Leistungen

Tilman Hillringhaus and Andreas Peichl

5343: The Case for Presenteeism

Simen Markussen, Arnstein Mykletun and Knut Røed

5342: Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance

Barry Hirsch

5341: The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

5340: Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain

Samuel Bentolila, Pierre Cahuc, Juan Dolado and Thomas Le Barbanchon

5339: Private Wealth and Planned Early Retirement: A Panel Data Analysis for the Netherlands, 1994-2009

Raun van Ooijen, Mauro Mastrogiacomo and Rob Euwals

5338: Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain

Meritxell Solé, Luis Diaz-Serrano and Marisol Rodriguez Martinez

5337: The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design

Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

5336: ICT Skills and Employment: A Randomized Experiment

Mariana Blanco and Florencia Lopez Boo

5335: Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation

Marco Leonardi and Giovanni Pica