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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

5197: Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice

Guido Heineck and Oliver Wölfel

5196: Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance

Torben M. Andersen and Michael Svarer

5195: Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence

Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

5194: The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine

Seonghoon Kim, Deng Quheng, Belton Fleisher and Shi Li

5193: Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility

Lina Bergström and Maarten van Ham

5192: The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Olena Nizalova

5191: Wage Subsidies, Work Incentives, and the Reform of the Austrian Welfare System

Viktor Steiner and Florian Wakolbinger

5190: Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

5189: Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

Lorenz Götte, David Huffman, Stephan Meier and Matthias Sutter

5188: Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians

Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet and Bruce S. Shearer

5187: Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland

5186: Splitting Tournaments

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

5185: Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe

Mariya Aleksynska and Yann Algan

5184: Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Bernard van Praag, Dmitri Romanov and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

5183: The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Joachim Wagner

5182: Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from China

Yi Chen, Xiaoyan Lei and Li-An Zhou

5181: Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?

Olivier L'Haridon, Franck Malherbet and Sebastien Perez-Duarte

5180: Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?

Didier Fouarge, Trudie Schils and Andries de Grip

5179: Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China

Weiwei Ren and Paul Miller

5178: Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Judith Niehues

5177: Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?

Heléne Lundqvist, Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

5176: Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

5175: From Estimation Results to Stylized Facts: Twelve Recommendations for Empirical Research in International Activities of Heterogeneous Firms

Joachim Wagner

5174: Risk Management among the Poor: The Case of Microfinancial Services

Thankom Arun and Mirko Bendig

5173: House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

5172: Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Jason Lindo and Charles Stoecker

5171: Using "Shares" vs. "Log of Shares" in Fixed-Effect Estimations

Christer Gerdes

5170: The Dilemma of Delegating Search: Budgeting in Public Employment Services

John Addison, Martin Altemeyer-Bartscher and Thomas Kuhn

5169: Poorer Health – Shorter Hours? Health and Flexibility of Hours of Work

Johannes Geyer and Michal Myck

5168: Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

5167: Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?

Alison Booth and Pamela Katic

5166: Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Belgi Turan

5165: Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence for Germany

Marco Caliendo, Ricarda Schmidl and Arne Uhlendorff

5164: Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence

Javier Baez, Alejandro de la Fuente and Indhira Santos

5163: Within- and Cross-Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth

Anders Frederiksen, Timothy Halliday and Alexander Koch

5162: Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis

John Addison and Orgul Ozturk

5161: Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS

James Banks, Alastair Muriel and James Smith

5160: Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

5159: Economic Governance of MFIs: Inside the Black Box

Thankom Arun and Samuel Annim

5158: Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests

Gil Epstein, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan

5157: Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank

Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters

5156: Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics

Andrew Dillon, Elena Bardasi, Kathleen Beegle and Pieter Serneels

5155: Household Choices and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn and Matthew Wiswall

5154: Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender

Boris Hirsch and Claus Schnabel

5153: Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?

Paul Frijters, David Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael Shields

5152: Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot

John Strauss, Xiaoyan Lei, Albert Park, Yan Shen, James Smith, Zhe Yang and Yaohui Zhao

5151: International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Peng Sun and Almas Heshmati

5150: Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Michael Burda and Mark Weder

5149: Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang

5148: Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 Data

Guangjie Ning

5147: Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Yama Temouri, Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner

5146: Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States

M Asadullah and Gaston Yalonetzky

5145: Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods

Tomer Blumkin, Bradley Ruffle and Yosef Ganun

5144: Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours

Martin Ryan, Liam Delaney and Colm Harmon

5143: Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen Meets Sattinger

Arnaud Dupuy

5142: Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis

Randall Akee, Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Melanie Khamis

5141: Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers: Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?

Aslan Zorlu and Clara H. Mulder

5140: The Elephant in the Corner: A Cautionary Tale about Measurement Error in Treatment Effects Models

Daniel Millimet

5139: High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom

Ainoa Aparicio

5138: Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics

Shoshana Grossbard

5137: Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation under Incomplete Markets

Rahul Anand and Eswar Prasad

5136: The Distribution of Earnings under Monopsonistic/polistic Competition

Jacques Thisse and Eric Toulemonde

5135: Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity

Randall Akee, Emilia Simeonova, William Copeland, Adrian Angold and Jane E. Costello

5134: Foreign Labour Migration and the Economic Crisis in the EU: Ongoing and Remaining Issues of the Migrant Workforce in Germany

Anna Myunghee Kim

5133: Productivity under Large Pay Increases: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Kerry Papps

5132: A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India

Mehtabul Azam and Nishith Prakash

5131: The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Etienne Wasmer

5130: The Desirability of Workfare as a Welfare Ordeal – Revisited

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka

5129: The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians

Jiong Tu

5128: Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada

Jiong Tu

5127: Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Fredrik Carlsson, Haoran He, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin and Matthias Sutter

5126: Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?

Heiko Stüber and Thomas Beissinger

5125: Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

David McKenzie and Dean Yang

5124: The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

John Gibson and David McKenzie

5123: Migration and Culture

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

5122: Does Culture Matter?

Raquel Fernández

5121: Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes and Jose Varejao

5120: Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000

Randall Akee and Mutlu Yuksel

5119: How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates

Xiaodong Gong, Robert Breunig and Anthony King

5118: Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply

Christian Bredemeier and Falko Juessen

5117: Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?

Christian Merkl and Dennis Wesselbaum

5116: Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst

5115: Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK

Maarten van Ham, Lee Williamson, Peteke Feijten and Paul Boyle

5114: Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom

Robert Holzmann

5113: Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave

Juliane Parys and Gregor Schwerhoff

5112: The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models

David Powell and Joachim Wagner

5111: The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans: Evidence from Korean Panel Data

Takao Kato, Ju Ho Lee and Jang-Soo Ryu

5110: Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

Simon Fietze, Elke Holst and Verena Tobsch

5109: Hidden Skewness

Ludwig Ensthaler, Olga Nottmeyer and Georg Weizsäcker

5108: Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia

Martin Kahanec and Mutlu Yuksel

5107: Herausbildung erster Wesenszüge des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses in Deutschland

Michael Jan Kendzia

5106: Running and Jumping Variables in RD Designs: Evidence Based on Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Birth Weights

Alan Barreca, Melanie Guldi, Jason Lindo and Glen Waddell

5105: Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals

Boris Maciejovsky, Matthias Sutter, David V. Budescu and Patrick Bernau

5104: Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Olga Nottmeyer

5103: Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Robin Hogarth and Marie Claire Villeval

5102: The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

5101: Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Ludger Woessmann

5100: Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

Lawrence Kahn