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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

4751: Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions

Achim Schmillen and Joachim Möller

4750: Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Arne Uhlendorff

4749: Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design

Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Zhichao Wei and Guochang Zhao

4748: Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool

Wang-Sheng Lee and Sandy Suardi

4747: Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Paola Giuliano

4746: Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia

Danila Serra, Pieter Serneels and Abigail Barr

4745: Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Jennifer Hunt

4744: The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada

Jiong Tu

4743: Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli and Jens Suedekum

4742: Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Alexander Danzer and Firat Yaman

4741: Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment

Leo Kaas and Christian Manger

4740: Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez, Oliver Azuara, Pedro Bernal Lara, James Heckman and Cajeme Villarreal

4739: Demographics, Fiscal Health, and School Quality: Shedding Light on School Closure Decisions

Sherrilyn Billger

4738: Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz and Songman Kang

4737: Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Francesc Ortega

4736: Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants

Alan Barrett and Jean Goggin

4735: The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent

Martin Kahanec and Michael Shields

4734: An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Ioannis Theodossiou

4733: Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Elena Bardasi, Kathleen Beegle, Andrew Dillon and Pieter Serneels

4732: Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Matthias Sutter, Simon Czermak and Francesco Feri

4731: The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence

Jozef Konings and Stijn Vanormelingen

4730: Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health

Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew Clark

4729: Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Peter Debaere, Holger Görg and Horst Raff

4728: The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures

Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli

4727: Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research

Bernard van Praag

4726: Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Alexander Danzer

4725: Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide

Martin Schlotter, Guido Schwerdt and Ludger Woessmann

4724: Disposable Workforce in Italy

Bruno Contini and Elisa Grand

4723: Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Vincent Boucher, Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari and Bernard Fortin

4722: Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Nigel Driffield, Sourafel Girma, Michael Henry and Karl Taylor

4721: Changes in Job Stability: Evidence from Lifetime Job Histories

Miikka Rokkanen and Roope Uusitalo

4720: Retire Later or Work Harder?

David Bell and Robert Hart

4719: Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform

Stephen Machin and Kjell G Salvanes

4718: Youth Employment in Europe: Institutions and Social Capital Explain Better than Mainstream Economics

Bruno Contini