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4698: Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time

Julie Zissimopoulos and James Smith

4697: Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective Household Labour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Hans Bloemen

4696: Low-Wage Careers: Are There Dead-End Firms and Dead-End Jobs?

Alexander Mosthaf, Claus Schnabel and Jens Stephani

4695: Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-being: Evidence from the USA

Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu

4694: Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK

Sean Holly, Mohammad Pesaran and Takashi Yamagata

4693: Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia

Luis Diaz-Serrano

4692: In School or at Work? Evidence from a Crisis

Florencia Lopez Boo

4691: How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment

Jan van Ours and Sander Tuit

4690: Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Alison Booth and Andrew Leigh

4689: Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments

Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

4688: Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

4687: Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Simon Gächter and Christian Thöni

4686: Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

4685: Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence

Andrea Salvatori

4684: Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities

Dan-Olof Rooth

4683: International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Catia Batista and Jacques Potin

4682: Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?

Dennis Coates and Thomas (Tim) Gindling

4681: Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile

Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

4680: Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

James Heckman and Bas Jacobs

4679: Class Size and the Regression Discontinuity Design: The Case of Public Schools

Danny Cohen-Zada, Mark Gradstein and Ehud Reuven

4678: Outsourcing and Technological Change

Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach and Nachum Sicherman

4677: Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?

Mutlu Yuksel

4676: A Note on Informality in the Labor Market

Melanie Khamis

4675: Cultural Integration in Germany

Amelie Constant, Olga Nottmeyer and Klaus Zimmermann

4674: Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Ghana

Gokhan H. Akay and Mutlu Yuksel

4673: How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Hartmut Lehmann and Alexander Muravyev

4672: The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni and Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou

4671: Directed Search in the Housing Market

James Albrecht, Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman

4670: Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Arne Uhlendorff

4669: Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia

Alexander Muravyev

4668: Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China

Maëlys De La Rupelle, Deng Quheng, Shi Li and Thomas Vendryes

4667: Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Fabbri and Margherita Fort

4666: Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

4665: Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience

Marco Caliendo

4664: Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines

Ronald Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main and Thomas Eisenberg

4663: A Factorial Survey on the Justice of Earnings within the SOEP-Pretest 2008

Carsten Sauer, Stefan Liebig, Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz, Andy Donaubauer and Jürgen Schupp

4662: Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Thomas Aronsson and Erkki Koskela

4661: "I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

4660: Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

4659: Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Maharouf Oyolola

4658: Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Marcos Chamon, Joao De Mello and Sergio Firpo

4657: Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Subal Kumbhakar, Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli and Peter Voigt

4656: Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search

Astrid Kunze and Kenneth Troske

4655: Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data

Alpaslan Akay

4654: The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies

Olivier Bargain and Olivier Donni

4653: Older Women: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Diane J. Macunovich

4652: Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Diane J. Macunovich

4651: Was there a Skills Shortage in Australia?

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

4650: The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

4649: The Effectiveness of Regional Active Labour Market Policies to Fight against Unemployment: An Analysis for Catalonia

Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach and Manuel Artís

4648: Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions

Konstantinos Pouliakas, Deborah Roberts, Eudokia Balamou and Demetrios Psaltopoulos

4647: The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services

Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter and Uwe Dulleck

4646: Exports, Imports and Wages: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels

Pedro Martins and Luca David Opromolla

4645: Happiness and Productivity

Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

4644: In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland

Olivier Bargain and Karina Doorley

4643: Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas

Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch and Bettina Rockenbach

4642: Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

4641: The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois

Sherrilyn Billger and Frank D. Beck

4640: Seeking Similarity: How Immigrants and Natives Manage at the Labor Market

Olof Åslund, Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

4639: Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?

Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strøm, Alessandra Venturini and Claudia Villosio

4638: Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Aderonke Osikominu

4637: On the Origin of the Family

Marco Francesconi, Christian Ghiglino and Motty Perry

4636: The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country

Ilias Livanos and Konstantinos Pouliakas

4635: What's the Use of Marriage?

Alessandro Cigno

4634: Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

4633: Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Nils Braakmann and Joachim Wagner

4632: Does Public Information about School Quality Lead to Flight from Low-Achieving Schools?

Jane Friesen, Mohsen Javdani and Simon Woodcock

4631: Mortgage Indebtedness and Household Financial Distress

Dimitris Georgarakos, Adriana Lojschova and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

4630: Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Pierre Cahuc and Edouard Challe

4629: Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Wolfram Richter and Christoph Braun

4628: Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Mirjam Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis

4627: Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges

Herwig Immervoll

4626: Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms

Krishna Pendakur and Simon Woodcock

4625: Why Are Economics Students More Selfish than the Rest?

Yoram Bauman and Elaina Rose

4624: Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-Subjects Analysis

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander Koch and Hans-Theo Normann

4623: The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Admasu Shiferaw and Arjun Bedi

4622: On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Titus Galama and Arie Kapteyn

4621: Social Networks

Joan de Martí Beltran and Yves Zenou

4620: Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

4619: Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets

Jens Suedekum, Katja Wolf and Uwe Blien

4618: Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles

Deborah Cobb-Clark and David Ribar

4617: New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

4616: Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Thitima Puttitanun

4615: Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Amelie Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien

4614: Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis

Melanie Khamis

4613: Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing

Massimiliano Bratti and Roberto Leombruni

4612: Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Servén

4611: Low-Wage Employment versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?

Alexander Mosthaf, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

4610: Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Daniel Hamermesh and Gerard Pfann

4609: Financial Dependence, Formal Credit, and Informal Jobs: New Evidence from Brazilian Household Data

Luis Catão, Carmen Pages and Maria Rosales-Rueda

4608: Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Ron Leung, Marco Stampini and Désiré Vencatachellum

4607: The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes

Patrick Puhani and Katja Sonderhof

4606: Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille and Arnaud Maurel

4605: Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Joachim Wagner

4604: Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts

Spiros Bougheas, Indraneel Dasgupta and Oliver Morrissey

4603: Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature

Pierre Chiappori and Olivier Donni

4602: Interrelated Dynamics of Health and Poverty in Australia

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Lixin Cai

4601: To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

4600: Well-being across America

Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu

4599: You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik and Holger Stichnoth