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4896: Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program

Eva Deuchert and Conny Wunsch

4895: Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Eric Bartelsman, Pieter Gautier and Joris De Wind

4894: Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice

Murat Kırdar

4893: "Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot

Markus Poschke

4892: Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why

Anabela Carneiro, Natércia Fortuna and Jose Varejao

4891: Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira and Miguel Portela

4890: Behind the Lighthouse Effect

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Marta Ribeiro

4889: Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Victoria Prowse

4888: Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Lucia Mangiavacchi

4887: The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Sara Z. Poggio

4886: Social Interaction and Stock Market Participation: Evidence from British Panel Data

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

4885: Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions

Christian Dustmann, Francesca Fabbri and Ian Preston

4884: Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Erik Snowberg and Justin Wolfers

4883: Mental Health and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

4882: Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs

María Cervini-Plá, Xavi Ramos and José I. Silva

4881: Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Torun Österberg

4880: Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity

Glen Waddell

4879: The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Sonia Bhalotra and Marcela Umana-Aponte

4878: Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

4877: Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China

Albert Park and Dewen Wang

4876: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

Miles Corak and Patrizio Piraino

4875: The Economic Value of Virtue

Fabio Mariani

4874: Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha and Max Tani

4873: One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka and Thomas Siedler

4872: Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Xuejun Liu, Albert Park and Yaohui Zhao

4871: Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

4870: What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists

Lex Borghans, Margo Romans and Jan Sauermann

4869: Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior

David Card and Gordon Dahl

4868: Economics and Religion

Carmel Chiswick

4867: Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons

Maria Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca

4866: Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

4865: Documentation IZA?MOD: The IZA Policy SImulation MODel

Andreas Peichl, Hilmar Schneider and Sebastian Siegloch

4864: Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Renate Neubäumer

4863: Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Anders Frederiksen

4862: Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj and Darrel Weinkauf

4861: Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Comi and Daniela Sonedda

4860: The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Organized Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results

Friedrich Schneider

4859: Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling

Anh Le, Paul Miller, Wendy S. Slutske and Nicholas G. Martin

4858: The Glass Door: The Gender Composition of Newly-Hired Workers Across Hierarchical Job Levels

Wolter Hassink and Giovanni Russo

4857: If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Birgitta Jansson

4856: How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle

David Mustard

4855: A Socio-economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Ruben Seiberlich

4854: Loss Aversion and Intertemporal Choice: A Laboratory Investigation

Robert Oxoby and William Morrison

4853: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy

John Bowblis and Myeong-Su Yun

4852: Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Matthias Kräkel

4851: Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data

Badi Baltagi and Francesco Moscone

4850: Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Alois Stutzer and Bruno Frey

4849: Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy

Ester Faia, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl

4848: The Gender Pay Gap in Top Corporate Jobs in Denmark: Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Both?

Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith and Mette Verner

4847: Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England

Nattavudh Powdthavee

4846: Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment: Comment

Martin Kocher, Marc V. Lenz and Matthias Sutter

4845: The Multitasking of Household Production

Charlene Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster

4844: Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and H. Mehmet Tasci

4843: The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence

Martin Halla

4842: Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany

Dirk Antonczyk, Thomas DeLeire and Bernd Fitzenberger

4841: Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures

Sergio Firpo

4840: Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini

4839: The Diffusion of Pay for Performance across Occupations

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

4838: An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports

Arnaud Dupuy

4837: Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses

Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann and Bruno Van der Linden

4836: The Impact of Degree Class on the First Destinations of Graduates: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Giorgio Di Pietro

4835: The Distinction between Dictatorial and Incentive Policy Interventions and its Implication for IV Estimation

Christian Belzil and Jörgen Hansen

4834: Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?

Fabrizio Coricelli, Nigel Driffield, Sarmistha Pal and Isabelle Roland

4833: Public Education for the Children Left Behind

Carmen Camacho and I-Ling Shen

4832: A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment

Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier and Bruno Van der Linden

4831: Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

Pieter Serneels, Jose G. Montalvo, Gunilla Pettersson Gelander, Tomas Lievens, Jean Damascene Butera and Aklilu Kidanu

4830: Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask

David Johnston, Carol Propper, Stephen Pudney and Michael Shields

4829: The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model

Luca Flabbi and Andrea Moro

4828: Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Daniel Baumgarten, Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

4827: Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment

Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Jianying Qiu and Matthias Sutter

4826: The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ

Rolf Aaberge, Manudeep Bhuller, Audun Langørgen and Magne Mogstad

4825: Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany

Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel

4824: Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term

Miles Corak and Darren Lauzon

4823: Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg and Sharif Faisal

4822: A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case

Iris BenDavid-Hadar and Adrian Ziderman

4821: Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford

4820: The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland and Eric Werker

4819: The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

Miles Corak and Patrizio Piraino

4818: Comparative Statics for a Consumer with Possibly Multiple Optimum Consumption Bundles

Indraneel Dasgupta and Prasanta K. Pattanaik

4817: Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graziella Bertocchi and Andrea Guerzoni

4816: The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia

Xiaodong Gong

4815: Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Johannes Geyer and Viktor Steiner

4814: Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Miles Corak, Lori Curtis and Shelley Phipps

4813: Higher Education Attainment: The Case of Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Portugal

Pedro Pereira

4812: Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA

Christian Grund, Jan Höcker and Stefan Zimmermann

4811: Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China

Honge Gong, Andrew Leigh and Xin Meng

4810: A Shred of Credible Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply

Orley Ashenfelter, Kirk Doran and Bruce Schaller

4809: The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Brahim Boudarbat, Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell

4808: Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

Paul Burke and Andrew Leigh

4807: Can We Measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?

Xiaohao Ding, Joop Hartog and Yuze Sun

4806: Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members

Nattavudh Powdthavee

4805: Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change

Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

4804: Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis

Sarah Brown, Andrew Dickerson, Jolian McHardy and Karl Taylor

4803: Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald and Martin Strobel

4802: The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Mehtabul Azam, Aimee Chin and Nishith Prakash

4801: Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services

Pierre Koning and Carolyn J. Heinrich

4800: The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

4799: Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection

Olivier Charlot and Franck Malherbet

4798: Labour Supply and Commuting

Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau and Jos van Ommeren

4797: Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?

Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, David Manley and Peteke Feijten