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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. 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, Anna Nicińska 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 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 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 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 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

4296: The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition

Olivier Bargain

4295: The End of Destitution

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

4294: Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: Wie konsistent sind die Reformen?

Werner Eichhorst and Eric Thode

4293: On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

4292: Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Alexander Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding and Claas Christian Germelmann

4291: Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance

Olivier Bargain and Karina Doorley

4290: Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

David Autor and David Dorn

4289: Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Michelle Tan

4288: Linking Individuals and Societies

Guillermina Jasso

4287: Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migration?

Florin Vadean and Matloob Piracha

4286: The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Olivier Bargain and Prudence Magejo

4285: A Model of Overconfidence

Bruce Weinberg

4284: The Impact of a Phased Retirement Program: A Case Study

Marta Lachowska, Annika Sundén and Eskil Wadensjö

4283: Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

4282: Competing on Good Politicians

Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

4281: Flexible Labor Supply Models

Olivier Bargain

4280: Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

4279: Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States

Evelyn Lehrer

4278: Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Sven Jung and Claus Schnabel

4277: The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC

George Naufal and Ali Termos

4276: Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Joana Naritomi, Rodrigo Soares and Juliano Assuncao

4275: Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

4274: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

James Smith

4273: Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Tito Boeri

4272: Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Jan Boone, Karen van der Wiel and Frederic Vermeulen

4271: Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a "New Monopsony" Framework: School Teachers in Missouri

Michael Ransom and David P. Sims

4270: Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

Emilia Del Bono and John Ermisch

4269: Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey

John J. McArdle, James Smith and Robert Willis

4268: What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?

Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Jan Sauermann

4267: Causes and Consequences of a Father's Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes

Helena Nielsen

4266: The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt and Dan-Olof Rooth

4265: Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Lidia Farre, Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega

4264: Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?

Jan van Ours

4263: Age at Migration and Social Integration

Olof Åslund, Anders Böhlmark and Oskar Skans

4262: Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair

Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube and Matthias Wibral

4261: The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives

Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman

4260: EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market

Alan Barrett

4259: Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher and Justina A. V. Fischer

4258: Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change

Almut Balleer and Thijs van Rens

4257: Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Denvil Duncan and Klara Sabirianova Peter

4256: Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler