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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

5334: Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Nauro Campos, Ralitza Dimova and Ahmad Saleh

5333: What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

Elke Jahn and Jan Bentzen

5332: Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study

Jens Grosser, Ernesto Reuben and Agnieszka Tymula

5331: Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar Prasad

5330: Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education

Tom McKenzie and Dirk Sliwka

5329: Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

5328: Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration

Fernando Lozano and Michael D. Steinberger

5327: Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom

Pedro Gomes

5326: Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

5325: Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design

Wendelin Schnedler

5324: Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

5323: Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty

Julien Prat and Boyan Jovanovic

5322: Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages

Antonio Afonso and Pedro Gomes

5321: Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages

Pedro Gomes

5320: The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Werner Eichhorst, Verónica Escudero, Paul Marx and Steven Tobin

5319: The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison

Andreas Kuhn

5318: The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China

James Smith, Yan Shen, John Strauss, Yang Zhe and Yaohui Zhao

5317: Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It's Probably Who You Are, Not Who You Marry!

Lena Nekby

5316: Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box

Manan Roy, Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis

5315: Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany

Christian Grund and Johannes Martin

5314: Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess

Anna Dreber, Christer Gerdes and Patrik Gränsmark

5313: Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

5312: Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies

Yves Zenou

5311: Rational Inattention and Employer Learning

Steffen Habermalz

5310: Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age

Luc Behaghel and David Blau

5309: Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting

Tor Eriksson and Nicolai Kristensen

5308: Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction

Mathias Sinning and Shane Worner

5307: Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments

Jeffrey Carpenter, Shachar Kariv and Andrew Schotter

5306: How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

5305: Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Christian Schwarz and Jens Suedekum

5304: An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness

Eunho Choi, Almas Heshmati and Yongsung Cho

5303: Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap

Sonja de New and Mathias Sinning

5302: Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Matloob Piracha, Max Tani and Florin Vadean

5301: Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

André Decoster and Peter Haan

5300: The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Ernesto Reuben, Pedro Rey-Biel, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

5299: Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler

5298: What Do We Work For? An Anatomy of Pre- and Post-Tax Earnings Growth

Anders Frederiksen, Timothy Halliday and Alexander Koch

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 Sneessens

5275: Estimating Marginal Returns to Education

Pedro Carneiro, James 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 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