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5297: The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

5296: Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing

Robert Holzmann and Alain Jousten

5295: Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000

Pedro Carneiro and Sokbae (Simon) Lee

5294: The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina

Carlos Bozzoli and Climent Quintana-Domeque

5293: The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages

Wiji Arulampalam, Michael P. Devereux and Giorgia Maffini

5292: With or Without You: Divorce Rates and Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Domenico Tabasso

5291: Teacher Pay, Class Size and Local Governments: Evidence from the Latvian Reform

Mihails Hazans

5290: The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces

Federica Origo and Claudio Lucifora

5289: Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages

Rémi Piatek and Pia Pinger

5288: Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers

Xin Meng and Dandan Zhang

5287: The Choice Between Fixed and Random Effects Models: Some Considerations for Educational Research

Paul Clarke, Claire Crawford, Fiona Steele and Anna Vignoles

5286: Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?

Sarmistha Pal and Jaideep Roy

5285: Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl, Alison Koslowski and Paul Marx

5284: Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Christian Grund and Matthias Kräkel

5283: Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries

Pedro Martins and Yong Yang

5282: Early Childhood Stimulation Interventions in Developing Countries: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Helen Baker-Henningham and Florencia Lopez Boo

5281: Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from a Decentralised Economy

Sarmistha Pal

5280: Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico

5279: Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America

Juan-Camilo Cardenas and Jeffrey Carpenter

5278: Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term

Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene and Jonathan Wadsworth

5277: A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour

Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham and Peteke Feijten

5276: Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter

David de la Croix, Olivier Pierrard and Henri R. Sneessens

5275: Estimating Marginal Returns to Education

Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

5274: Can Private School Growth Foster Universal Literacy? Panel Evidence from Indian Districts

Sarmistha Pal and Geeta Kingdon

5273: Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Fernando Rios-Avila

5272: Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions

Kristin Kleinjans and Arthur van Soest

5271: Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes

David Manley and Maarten van Ham

5270: Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Rodrigo R. Soares and Igor Viveiros

5269: The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Paul

5268: How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

5267: Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Steffen Huck and Imran Rasul

5266: Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS

Pedro Martins

5265: Analyzing the Anticipation of Treatments Using Data on Notification Dates

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Gregory Jolivet and Gerard van den Berg

5264: Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms

Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler and Jörgen Weibull

5263: Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies

David Neumark

5262: Equilibrium Policy Simulations with Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Ugo Colombino

5261: Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries

Jens Arnold, Andrea Bassanini and Stefano Scarpetta

5260: Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

Sherrilyn M. Billger and Carlos Lamarche

5259: Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

Alexander Hijzen, Pedro Martins, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

5258: Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training

Benoit Dostie

5257: Determinants of Employer-Provided Further Training: A Multi-Level Approach

Lutz Bellmann, Christian Hohendanner and Reinhard Hujer

5256: What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?

William Even and David Macpherson

5255: Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

5254: Differences by Degree: Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales

Ian Walker and Yu Zhu

5253: Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time: An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work

Elena G. F. Stancanelli and Leslie Stratton

5252: Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D

Roger Bandick, Holger Görg and Patrik Karpaty

5251: Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy: The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela

5250: Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Ana Lamo, Julian Messina and Etienne Wasmer

5249: Are Microloans Bad for Growth?

Patrick Emerson and Bruce McGough

5248: Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities

Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

5247: Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?

Simon Commander and Zlatko Nikoloski

5246: Trust and the Choice Between Housing and Financial Assets: Evidence from Spanish Households

Mayssun El-Attar and Markus Poschke

5245: Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature

Jan Stuhler

5244: Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries

Joachim Wagner

5243: Corruption as a Barrier to Entry: Theory and Evidence

Nauro Campos, Saul Estrin and Eugenio Proto

5242: The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Stephen Jenkins

5241: Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being

Felix FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

5240: Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates

Lorenzo Cappellari and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

5239: Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth

Dennis Yang and Xiaodong Zhu

5238: Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Lina Bergström, Maarten van Ham and David Manley

5237: Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income

Kusum Mundra

5236: Efficient Redistribution: Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits

Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin

5235: Is Social Security Secure with NDC?

Tito Boeri and Vincenzo Galasso

5234: Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou

5233: Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview

Eswar Prasad

5232: Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension

John Gibson, Steven Stillman, David McKenzie and Halahingano Rohorua

5231: Der Institutionalisierungsprozess des Lohnarbeitsverhältnisses vom Ersten bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland

Michael Jan Kendzia

5230: Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Daniel W. Sacks, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

5229: Economic Reform, Informal-Formal Sector Linkages and Intervention in the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: A Paradox

Hassan Arvin-Rad, Arnab Basu and Maria Willumsen

5228: Wage Cyclicality under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Hermann Gartner, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

5227: Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors: An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris

Badi Baltagi and Georges Bresson

5226: Back to the Future: Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations

Olivier Bargain

5225: Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

Kerry Papps, Alex Bryson and Rafael Gomez

5224: On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics

Eugenio Giolito

5223: The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty

Nicholas T. Longford and Catia Nicodemo

5222: Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

5221: Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005

Olivier Bargain and Claire Keane

5220: Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09

Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

5219: A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Guido Heineck and Bernd Süssmuth

5218: The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants

Alan Barrett and Elish Kelly

5217: Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Wolfgang Dauth, Reinhard Hujer and Katja Wolf

5216: Linearity in Instrumental Variables Estimation: Problems and Solutions

Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

5215: Religion and Child Health

Barry Chiswick and Donka Mirtcheva

5214: Post-Socialist International Migration: The Case of China-to-South Korea Ethnic Labour Migration

Anna Myunghee Kim

5213: Parental Job Loss and Infant Health

Jason Lindo

5212: Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?

Timothy Bates, Magnus Lofstrom and Lisa Servon

5211: The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand

Jacques Poot and Steven Stillman

5210: Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach

Anita Staneva, Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani and Philip D. Murphy

5209: The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India

Gautam Hazarika and Vejoya Viren

5208: Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Mark Pitt and Nidhiya Menon

5207: Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Daniela Borodak and Matloob Piracha

5206: Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

David Masclet, Charles Noussair and Marie Claire Villeval

5205: Tests of Hypotheses Arising in the Correlated Random Coefficient Model

James J. Heckman and Daniel Schmierer

5204: Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Loukas Balafoutas, Martin Kocher, Louis Putterman and Matthias Sutter

5203: Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?

Robert Fairlie, Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates

5202: Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

5201: Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Giuseppe Bertola and Winfried Koeniger

5200: Respect as an Incentive

Tor Eriksson and Marie Claire Villeval

5199: Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany

Martyna Marczak and Thomas Beissinger

5198: Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?

Danny Cohen-Zada and William Sander