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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 Jorgen 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

Jorgen 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 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

4796: The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins

Pierre Koning, Dinand Webbink and Nicholas G. Martin

4795: Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations

Axel Ockenfels, Dirk Sliwka and Peter Werner

4794: Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Gerard van den Berg and Tao Zhang

4793: Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Christer Gerdes and Patrik Gränsmark

4792: The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

4791: Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

Anders Frederiksen and Odile Poulsen

4790: Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo and Steffen Künn

4789: Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples

John Micklewright, Sylke Schnepf and Chris Skinner

4788: Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program

Christer Gerdes

4787: Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the

Nicolas Ziebarth and Joachim Frick

4786: Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Monika Schnitzer

4785: Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes and Klaus Zimmermann

4784: Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces

Almas Heshmati and Subal Kumbhakar

4783: Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction

Matteo Picchio and Chiara Mussida

4782: Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace

Robert Dur, Arjan Non and Hein Roelfsema

4781: Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model

Ugo Colombino, Marilena Locatelli, Edlira Narazani and Cathal O'Donoghue

4780: The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life

Gerard van den Berg, Dorly J. H. Deeg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

4779: Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

4778: What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business

Marina Furdas and Karsten Kohn

4777: Job Competition and the Wage Curve

Simonetta Longhi

4776: Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water

Yasheng Maimaiti and William Siebert

4775: No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men

Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt and Dan-Olof Rooth

4774: Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY

David Johnston, Michael E. R. Nicholls, Manisha Shah and Michael Shields

4773: Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance

Conny Wunsch

4772: Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector

Jonathan Haskel and Gavin Wallis

4771: Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?

Olaf Hübler and Lukas Menkhoff

4770: Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Hilmar Schneider

4769: Robust Inequality Comparisons

Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad

4768: The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities

Anh Le and Paul Miller

4767: The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis and Enrico Moretti

4766: Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Josse Delfgaauw and Robert Dur

4765: Age, Wage and Productivity

Jan van Ours and Lenny Stoeldraijer

4764: Accounting for China's Growth

Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu

4763: The Impact of 9/11 and the London Bombings on the Employment and Earnings of U.K. Muslims

Faisal Rabby and William M. Rodgers

4762: Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Solomon Polachek and Daria Sevastianova

4761: The ART of Life: IVF or Child Adoption?

Gulcin Gumus and Jungmin Lee

4760: Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain

John Addison, Alex Bryson, Paulino Teixeira and André Pahnke

4759: The Analytical Returns to Measuring a Detailed Household Roster

Richard Akresh and Eric Edmonds

4758: Mortgage Finance in Central and Eastern Europe: Opportunity or Burden?

Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka and Erwin R. Tiongson

4757: Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle

Pedro Martins, Gary Solon and Jonathan Thomas

4756: Stability of Time Preferences

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger

4755: Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach

Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi and Andrew Oswald

4754: Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

4753: Returns to Education and Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from Argentina

Florencia Lopez Boo

4752: Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

Emmanuel Saez, Manos Matsaganis and Panos Tsakloglou