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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

5099: The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity

Jordi Galí and Thijs van Rens

5098: Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Sabrina Di Addario and Daniela Vuri

5097: Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

5096: Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations

Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala and José Silva

5095: Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program

James Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev and Adam Yavitz

5094: Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

Shane Niall O'Higgins

5093: Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Heather Antecol and Deborah Cobb-Clark

5092: The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

5091: The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time

Erik Biorn, Simen Gaure, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

5090: Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions: What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Franziska Tausch, Jan Potters and Arno Riedl

5089: The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis

Heather Antecol

5088: Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics

Laura Hospido

5087: Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe

Günther Schmid

5086: Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to

Hugo Ñopo and Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

5085: New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America

Hugo Ñopo, Juan Pablo Atal and Natalia Winder

5084: Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Eva Österbacka, Joachim Merz and Cathleen D. Zick

5083: Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

5082: Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy: The Italian Experience

Francesco Pastore

5081: Labor-Market Attachment and Training Participation

Toshie Ikenaga and Daiji Kawaguchi

5080: Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

5079: Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining

Emin Karagözoğlu and Arno Riedl

5078: Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?

Gesine Stephan

5077: The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus

John Addison, José António Machado and Pedro Portugal

5076: Hedonic Wage Equilibrium: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Thomas Kniesner and John D. Leeth

5075: The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

5074: Intergenerational Transmission of Education: An Alert to Empirical Implementation

Pedro Pereira

5073: The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Alejandro Hoyos Suarez, Hugo Ñopo and Ximena Peña

5072: Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys: Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (EVS) 2003

Joachim Merz and Henning Stolze

5071: Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

5070: The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China

Örn B. Bodvarsson and Jack Hou

5069: The Effect of Part-Time Work on Post-Secondary Educational Attainment: New Evidence from French Data

Magali Beffy, Denis Fougere and Arnaud Maurel

5068: How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism

Carmel Chiswick

5067: Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp and Alexandra Avdeenko

5066: Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life

Aaron Sojourner

5065: The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Oliver Falck, Michael Fritsch and Stephan Heblich

5064: The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination

Raj Arunachalam and Manisha Shah

5063: Immigrant Assimilation, Trust and Social Capital

James Cox and Wafa Orman

5062: Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany

Martin Biewen and Andos Juhasz

5061: Migration and Loving

Deniz Gevrek

5060: Disclosure, Trust and Persuasion in Insurance Markets

David de Meza, Bernd Irlenbusch and Diane Reyniers

5059: A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

5058: Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

James Rebitzer and Lowell Taylor

5057: Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates

Shuaizhang Feng and Yingyao Hu