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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 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

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