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4396: Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva and Tomasz Mickiewicz

4395: Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Joeri Sol and Willem Verbeke

4394: Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

Miguel Angel Alcobendas and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

4393: Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

4392: The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

4391: The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Aimee Chin and Nishith Prakash

4390: Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence

Guy Mayraz, Gert Wagner and Jürgen Schupp

4389: Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions

David Comerford, Liam Delaney and Colm P. Harmon

4388: Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest

4387: How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?

David Bjerk

4386: Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota

Nishith Prakash

4385: Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?

Joshua Lewer, Gail Pacheco and Stephanie Rossouw

4384: Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Michael P. Pflüger and Jens Suedekum

4383: Pay for Percentile

Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

4382: Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

4381: Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Alison Booth and Yuji Tamura

4380: Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?

Pedro Portugal and Jose Varejao

4379: A Microsimulation Approach to an Optimal Swedish Income Tax

Peter Ericson and Lennart Flood

4378: Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects

Daniel S. Hamermesh

4377: Endogeneous Household Interaction

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

4376: Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow

4375: The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

John Gibson, David McKenzie and Steven Stillman

4374: How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?

Charlene Kalenkoski, David Ribar and Leslie Stratton

4373: Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions

Steven Wu

4372: Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera, Olga Bilyk and Bogdana Grechaniuk

4371: A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009

Robert Duval Hernández and Pedro Orraca Romano

4370: Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Conny Wunsch

4369: Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle

Timothy Halliday

4368: Health Status and the Allocation of Time

Timothy Halliday and Melinda Podor

4367: International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng and Adam H. Gailey

4366: Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng and Adam H. Gailey

4365: Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo

4364: The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data Based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany

Joachim Wagner

4363: Sweatshop Equilibrium

Nancy Chau

4362: Do No-Loan Policies Change the Matriculation Patterns of Low-Income Students?

Glen Waddell and Larry D. Singell

4361: Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages

Manasi Bhattacharya, Arjun Bedi and Amrita Chhachhi

4360: In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Andreas Kuhn

4359: Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn

Sher Verick

4358: Time Use and Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Joachim Merz

4357: Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Pierre Picard and David Wildasin

4356: Perceptions and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11

Deepti Goel

4355: The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

4354: Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

4353: Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Sonia Bhalotra and Samantha Rawlings

4352: One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data

Joachim Wagner

4351: Reputation and Credit Market Formation: How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact

Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder

4350: Immigrant Self-Employment: Does Intermarriage Matter?

Dimitris Georgarakos and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

4349: Does Racism Affect a Migrant's Choice of Destination?

Ruby Henry

4348: Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

4347: Terror and the Costs of Crime

Eric Gould and Guy Stecklov

4346: Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting

Pedro Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas

4345: Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?

Douglas Webber and Ronald Ehrenberg

4344: Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard

James Costain and Marcel Jansen

4343: Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Karla Hoff, Mayuresh Kshetramade and Ernst Fehr

4342: The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

4341: Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment

Murat Iyigun

4340: Population and Health Policies

T. Paul Schultz

4339: On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm: Evidence from Field Experiments

Charles Bellemare and Bruce S. Shearer

4338: Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals

Nauro Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli

4337: Time and Income Poverty: An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

Joachim Merz and Tim Rathjen

4336: Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity

Dimitris Christelis and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

4335: Setting the Minimum Wage

Tito Boeri

4334: Another Look at the Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille and Arnaud Maurel

4333: Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain

Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega

4332: Count Your Hours: Returns to Education in Poland

Michal Myck, Nici?ska, Anna and Leszek Morawski

4331: Gender Gaps across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?

Yekaterina Chzhen and Karen Mumford

4330: Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany

Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold and Martin Salm

4329: Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models

James J. Heckman, Rosa Matzkin and Lars Nesheim

4328: Severity of Work Disability and Work

Umut Oguzoglu

4327: The Economies of Scale of Living Together and How They Are Shared: Estimates Based on a Collective Household Model

Aline Bütikofer and Michael Gerfin

4326: The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: A Review of the Evidence

Giorgio Brunello

4325: Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

Gerard van den Berg and Johan Vikström

4324: Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin

Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

4323: Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?

Thomas Schober and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

4322: Labor Turnover Costs, Workers' Heterogeneity, and Optimal Monetary Policy

Ester Faia, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl

4321: Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness and King Fok

4320: Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms

Leif Danziger

4319: Job Search with Bidder Memories

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Guido Menzio and Eric Smith

4318: Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States: Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Francesca Mazzolari

4317: Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States

Fernando Lozano

4316: Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Thierry Warin, Phanindra Wunnava, Optat Tengia and Kirsten Wandschneider

4315: Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations

Giacomo Corneo

4314: The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce

Martin Halla

4313: A Suggested Method for the Measurement of World-Leading Research (Illustrated with Data on Economics)

Andrew Oswald

4312: Immigrant Circulation and Citizenship: Hotel Canada?

Don DeVoretz

4311: Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

4310: Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

4309: Cherry-Picking in Labor Market with Imperfect Information

Shuaizhang Feng and Bingyong Zheng

4308: Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy

Douglas Krupka and Douglas Noonan

4307: The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages

Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson and Alpaslan Akay

4306: Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938

Timothy J. Hatton and Richard M. Martin

4305: IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?

Anders Bjorklund, Karin Hederos Eriksson and Markus Jantti

4304: A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples

James J. Heckman and Petra Todd

4303: Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations

Ernesto Reuben and Arno Riedl

4302: Expected Inflation, Sunspots Equilibria and Persistent Unemployment Fluctuations

Frédéric Dufourt, Teresa Lloyd-Braga and Leonor Modesto

4301: How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?

Gabriele Pellegrino, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

4300: Gender and Competition

Alison Booth

4299: Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve: A Reassessment of the US Experience

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

4298: Rebalancing Growth in Asia

Eswar Prasad

4297: Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Christian Grund and Christine Harbring