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5052: Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

5051: Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Gil Epstein and Yosef Mealem

5050: Investing in Our Young People

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

5049: Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Simon Czermak, Francesco Feri, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Matthias Sutter

5048: Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta and Pedro Vicente

5047: Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties

Glen Waddell

5046: GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

5045: Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil and Paul Marx

5044: The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union

Louis Christofides, Alexandros Polycarpou and Konstantinos Vrachimis

5043: Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Patrick Emmenegger and Paul Marx

5042: Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann

5041: Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

5040: Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance

Michael Kosfeld and Susanne Neckermann

5039: Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages

Alessandro Barattieri, Susanto Basu and Peter Gottschalk

5038: Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?

Arthur van Soest and Elena Stancanelli

5037: Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Mohammad Pesaran

5036: Raising Juveniles

Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Maik Schneider

5035: Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States

Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx

5034: Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence

Gary Charness, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

5033: Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections

Henry S Farber

5032: Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain

Sara De La Rica, Juan Dolado and Raquel Vegas

5031: The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools

Kalena E. Cortes, Jesse Bricker and Chris Rohlfs

5030: The State of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation in Germany: The Erosion Continues

John Addison, Alex Bryson, Paulino Teixeira, André Pahnke and Lutz Bellmann

5029: Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

5028: The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Jose Galdo

5027: Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent Is Free to Leave

Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser and Andreas Roider

5026: Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on Property Values

Kalena E. Cortes and Andrew Friedson

5025: Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe

Daniele Checchi, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

5024: School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann

5023: Uniform and Nonuniform Staggering of Wage Contracts

Leif Danziger

5022: Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

5021: Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan

Kalena E. Cortes

5020: Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation

Johannes Berger, Christine Harbring and Dirk Sliwka

5019: From Classroom to Wedding Aisle: The Effect of a Nationwide Change in the Compulsory Schooling Law on Age at First Marriage in the UK

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Kampon Adireksombat

5018: The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School

Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu

5017: Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy: A Field Experiment

Alastair R. Beresford, Dorothea Kübler and Sören Preibusch

5016: Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Matthias Sutter, Francesco Feri, Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Katarina Nordblom and Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

5015: Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life

Matthias Sutter and Daniela Glätzle-Rützler

5014: Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men in Luxembourg, 1988-2004: Evidence from Administrative Data

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

5013: Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation: Labor Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance

Anna Batyra and Henri Sneessens

5012: Spanish Regional Unemployment Revisited: The Role of Capital Accumulation

Roberto Bande and Marika Karanassou

5011: The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK

Marco Leonardi

5010: How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation

Daniel Hamermesh and Stephen Trejo

5009: School Shootings and Student Performance

Panu Poutvaara and Olli Ropponen

5008: Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?

Dennis Yang, Vivian Chen and Ryan Monarch

5007: Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy

Volker Grossmann, Thomas Steger and Timo Trimborn

5006: A Salience Theory of Choice Errors

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

5005: Moody Choice

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

5004: The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany

Patrick Hullegie and Tobias Klein

5003: Residual Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007

Chunbing Xing

5002: Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies

Anders Bjorklund and Kjell G Salvanes

5001: Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk and David Huffman

5000: The Crime Reducing Effect of Education

Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie and Sunčica Vujić

4999: The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation

Johannes Metzler and Ludger Woessmann

4998: Imperfect Information, On-the-Job Training, and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle: Theory and Evidence

Shuaizhang Feng and Bingyong Zheng

4997: The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Marina Rybalka and Terje Skjerpen

4996: Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves

Brian Bell, Stephen Machin and Francesco Fasani

4995: Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data

Andrew Leigh and Christine Neill

4994: Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

Andrew Clark and Carine Milcent

4993: Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient

Markus Frölich and Blaise Melly

4992: Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England

James Banks, Alastair Muriel and James Smith

4991: Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data

Haroon Chowdry, Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alissa Goodman and Anna Vignoles

4990: Violent Conflict and Inequality

Çağatay Bircan, Tilman Brück and Marc Vothknecht

4989: Short-Time Compensation and Establishment Exit: An Empirical Analysis with French Data

Oana Calavrezo, Richard Duhautois and Emmanuelle Walkowiak

4988: Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

Matteo Picchio and Jan van Ours

4987: Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

Huong Thu Le and Alison Booth

4986: Concave-Monotone Treatment Response and Monotone Treatment Selection: With an Application to the Returns to Schooling

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

4985: Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Ha Nguyen

4984: Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands

Pierre Koning and Karen van der Wiel

4983: The Combined Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation: A Meta-Analysis

Bernhard Boockmann

4982: Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators

Ana Lamo and Julian Messina

4981: The Investment in Job Training: Why Are SMEs Lagging So Much Behind?

Rita Almeida and Reyes Aterido

4980: The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Ronen Bar-El, Teresa M. García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

4979: Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions: Evidence from Rural and Urban China

Chunbing Xing

4978: Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences

Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

4977: Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?

Robert Hart and J Roberts

4976: The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Henrik Ohlsson, Per Broomé and Pieter Bevelander

4975: The GED

James Heckman, John Humphries and Nicholas S. Mader

4974: China's Higher Education Expansion and its Labor Market Consequences

Shi Li and Chunbing Xing

4973: Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes

Elke Jahn and Michael Rosholm

4972: Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization

Magnus Lofstrom, Laura E. Hill and Joseph Hayes

4971: What Linear Estimators Miss: Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

Katrine Løken, Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

4970: Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the "Dying Seconds" of International Football Matches

Jan van Ours and Martin A. van Tuijl

4969: School Responsiveness to Quality Rankings: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education in the Netherlands

Pierre Koning and Karen van der Wiel

4968: Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

4967: The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs

Donald Parsons

4966: Immigrant Selection and Short-Term Labour Market Outcomes by Visa Category

Abdurrahman Aydemir

4965: Labor Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas Bauer and Peggy Bechara (née David)

4964: Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations

Vincenzo Verardi and Joachim Wagner

4963: Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games

Michalis Drouvelis, Robert Metcalfe and Nattavudh Powdthavee

4962: Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Toni Pierenkemper and Michael Jan Kendzia

4961: Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?

Brighita Negrusa and Sonia Oreffice

4960: Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms

Andrew Leigh

4959: Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Libertad Gonzalez, Claire Keane and Berkay Özcan

4958: Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Andrey Launov and Klaus Wälde

4957: Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Francesc Ortega

4956: High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Kiu-Sik Bae, Hiroyuki Chuma, Takao Kato, Dong-Bae Kim and Isao Ohashi

4955: Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions

Loukas Balafoutas and Matthias Sutter

4954: Mother or Motherland: Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India

Sumon Bhaumik and Manisha Chakrabarty

4952: Identification of the Covariance Structure of Earnings Using the GMM Estimator

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman