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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

4598: Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis

Rolf Aaberge and Ugo Colombino

4597: Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007

Nauro Campos, Ahmad Saleh and Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev

4596: Contraction Consistent Stochastic Choice Correspondence

Indraneel Dasgupta

4595: Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and Verena Tobsch

4594: Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market

Pierre Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

4593: Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine

Olena Nizalova and Maria Vyshnya

4592: When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal

Mário Centeno and Alvaro A. Novo

4591: Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen and Claudia Villosio

4590: The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Barry Chiswick

4589: Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football

Sue Bridgewater, Lawrence Kahn and Amanda Goodall

4588: Tobit or Not Tobit?

Jay Stewart

4587: Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Elena Cottini, Takao Kato and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

4586: Excess Turnover and Employment Growth: Firm and Match Heterogeneity

Mário Centeno, Carla Machado and Alvaro A. Novo

4585: Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?

Petter Lundborg and Anders Stenberg

4584: Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sumon Bhaumik and Howard Wall

4583: How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

Corrado Andini

4582: Investment in Human Capital during Incarceration and Employment Prospects of Prisoners

Margaret Giles and Anh Le

4581: The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries

Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou

4580: Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?

Bernhard Boockmann, Stephan Thomsen and Thomas Walter

4579: Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain

Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach and Manuel Artís

4578: Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta

4577: Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?

Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

4576: Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4575: Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

4574: The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

George Hammond and Mehmet Tosun

4573: Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Douglas Krupka

4572: Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy

Sarmistha Pal

4571: Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination

Maarten Vendrik and Christiane Schwieren

4570: Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

4569: New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program

Carolyn Heinrich, Peter Mueser, Kenneth Troske, Kyung-Seong Jeon and Daver C. Kahvecioglu

4568: Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

4567: Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Robert Slonim

4566: How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?

Spyros Konstantopoulos

4565: Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence

Zahra Siddique

4564: Life Expectancy and the Environment

Fabio Mariani, Agustín Pérez-Barahona and Natacha Raffin

4563: Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status

Alpaslan Akay and Peter Martinsson

4562: How Much Should We Trust Linear Instrumental Variables Estimators? An Application to Family Size and Children's Education

Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

4561: No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes

Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

4560: Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Magnus Lofstrom

4559: Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics

Alexandre Janiak and Paulo Santos Monteiro

4558: Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Francesco Giavazzi, Fabio Schiantarelli and Michel Serafinelli

4557: The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann

4556: Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Sascha Becker, Erik Hornung and Ludger Woessmann

4555: The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Rachel Friedberg and David Jaeger

4554: What Do Unions Do to Temporary Employment?

Andrea Salvatori

4553: Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile

Diana Kruger and Matias Berthelon

4552: Adolescent Motherhood and Secondary Schooling in Chile

Diana Kruger, Matias Berthelon and Rodrigo Navia

4551: Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium Investment

Örn B. Bodvarsson and Brad Humphreys

4550: Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Zvi Eckstein and Osnat Lifshitz

4549: Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Jens Grosser and Ernesto Reuben

4548: From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland

Liam Delaney, Mark McGovern and James Smith

4547: The Unknown Immigration: Incentives and Family Composition in Inter-Country Adoptions to the United States

Fernando Lozano and Sherrie Kossoudji

4546: The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?

Mathieu Lefebvre, Ferdinand Vieider and Marie Claire Villeval

4545: Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects

Mathieu Lefebvre, Ferdinand Vieider and Marie Claire Villeval

4544: Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

4543: A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Govert Bijwaard and Geert Ridder

4542: The Timing of Work and Work-Family Conflicts in Spain: Who Has a Split Work Schedule and Why?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

4541: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Jackline Wahba and Yves Zenou

4540: Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Armin Falk and James Heckman

4539: Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?

Magnus Lofstrom

4538: Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being

Peder Pedersen and Torben Schmidt

4537: Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy

Hadi Esfahani, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mohammad Pesaran

4536: A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

4535: Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo Paloyo and Christoph Schmidt

4534: Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More

Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten and Hillel Rapoport

4533: The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

James Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter Savelyev and Adam Yavitz

4532: Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives

Robert Dur and Joeri Sol

4531: Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program

Pablo Fajnzylber, William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas

4530: Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Govert Bijwaard

4529: Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Indraneel Dasgupta

4528: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Size of Government

Francesc Ortega

4527: Illegal Migration, Wages, and Remittances: Semi-Parametric Estimation of Illegality Effects

Christian Schluter and Jackline Wahba

4526: Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

4525: Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model

James Heckman, Daniel Schmierer and Sergio Urzua

4524: Layoff Costs and Efficiency with Asymmetric Information

Alain Delacroix and Etienne Wasmer

4523: Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Jan Boone and Jan van Ours

4522: The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

4521: Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

4520: The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

Clemens Fuest, Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl

4519: Labor-Market Exposure as a Determinant of Attitudes toward Immigration

Francesc Ortega and Javier Polavieja

4518: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from a Randomised Evaluation of a Parenting Programme

Donal O'Neill