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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

4951: Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad

Takao Kato and Chad Sparber

4950: The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Soetevent and Arie Kapteyn

4949: The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003

Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi and Ken Yamada

4948: The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution

Tim Callan, Brian Nolan and John R. Walsh

4947: Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Alison Booth, Andrew Leigh and Elena Varganova

4946: Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

4945: Personality and Marital Surplus

Shelly Lundberg

4944: On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models: Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni and Eleonora Matteazzi

4943: North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

4942: Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

4941: Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Gary Charness and Peter Kuhn

4940: The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital

Pierre Koning, Dinand Webbink, Sunčica Vujić and Nicholas G. Martin

4939: Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Decio Coviello and Stefano Gagliarducci

4938: Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Maurice Schiff

4937: The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Anthony Atkinson and Andrew Leigh

4936: Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

Carol McAusland and Peter Kuhn

4935: A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY

Lidia Farre, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

4934: The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Sher Verick and Iyanatul Islam

4933: Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage

Sara Pinoli

4932: Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950

Timothy Hatton

4931: The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies

Kristiina Huttunen, Jukka Pirttilä and Roope Uusitalo

4930: Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Duha Altindag and Naci Mocan

4929: Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

4928: Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium

Vincenzo Verardi and Joachim Wagner

4927: Individual Determinants of Work Attendance: Evidence on the Role of Personality

Susi Störmer and René Fahr

4926: Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4925: The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4924: Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market: First Results from the Euro Experiment

Christian Merkl and Tom Schmitz

4923: Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics

Ramon Lopez and Maurice Schiff

4922: The Development of Multidimensional Poverty in Germany 1985-2007

Christopher Busch and Andreas Peichl