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3998: New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators

Matias Busso, John DiNardo and Justin McCrary

3997: Latina Entrepreneurship

Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy Bates

3996: Does Teaching Load Affect Faculty Size?

William Becker, William Greene and John Siegfried

3995: Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator

Guido Imbens and Karthik Kalyanaraman

3994: Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country

Florencia Lopez Boo, Lucia Madrigal and Carmen Pages

3993: Workplace Disability Diversity and Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Getinet Haile

3992: Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes and Gerard van den Berg

3991: Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment

Per Engström, Patrik Hesselius and Bertil Holmlund

3990: Sentence Reductions and Recidivism: Lessons from the Bastille Day Quasi Experiment

Eric Maurin and Aurelie Ouss

3989: External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nicolai Kristensen and Dario Pozzoli

3988: Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Indraneel Dasgupta

3987: The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball

Lawrence Kahn

3986: Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores

Sarah Brown, Steven McIntosh and Karl Taylor

3985: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn, James Heckman and Huub Meijers

3984: Is There Scope for Gains from Revenue-Neutral Labor Tax Reforms with Flexible Outsourcing?

Erkki Koskela and Panu Poutvaara

3983: Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries

Catia Nicodemo and Robert Waldmann

3982: Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Annette Bergemann and Regina Riphahn

3981: Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

3980: Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify

James Heckman and Sergio Urzua

3979: Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

3978: Gender Pay Gap and Quantile Regression in European Families

Catia Nicodemo

3977: Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Philipp Bauer and Regina Riphahn

3976: Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates

Horst Entorf

3975: Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti and Costanza Torricelli

3974: Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?

Chris Dawson, Andrew Henley and Paul Latreille

3973: A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India

Mehtabul Azam

3972: The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3971: Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models

Daniel Powers and Myeong-Su Yun

3970: This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

David Autor and David Dorn

3969: Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment

Andrew Henley

3968: India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply

Mehtabul Azam

3967: Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments

Lidia Farre, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

3966: Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences

Xavier de Luna and Per Johansson

3965: An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries

Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Kreiner and Nicolaj Verdelin

3964: American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930

Fabrice Murtin and Martina Viarengo

3963: Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition

Mehtabul Azam

3962: Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

3961: On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers If Identification Is Weak

David Jaeger and Juliane Parys

3960: Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?

Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson and J Peter Nilsson

3959: Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Sebastian Goerg, Sebastian Kube and Ro'i Zultan

3958: Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

J. David Brown, John Earle and Scott Gehlbach

3957: The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain

Marie Drolet and Karen Mumford

3956: Lessons from the Laureates

William Breit and Barry Hirsch

3955: Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Michael Burda and Daniel Hamermesh

3954: Non-Cash Benefits and the Distribution of Economic Welfare

Tim Callan and Claire Keane

3953: The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden

Motasam Tatahi and Almas Heshmati

3952: Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance

Gulcin Gumus and Tracy Regan

3951: I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

3950: Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Guillermina Jasso

3949: Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply: The Case of Ethiopia

Blen Solomon and Jean Kimmel

3948: Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace

Charles Bellemare, Patrick Lepage and Bruce S. Shearer

3947: On Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients

Matz Dahlberg, Kajsa Johansson and Eva Mörk

3946: Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

Davide Dottori and I-Ling Shen

3945: Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Mariacristina Piva, Lesley Potters and Marco Vivarelli

3944: Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Christian Bredemeier and Falko Juessen

3943: The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?

Alpaslan Akay

3942: Cheaper Child Care, More Children

Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svaleryd

3941: Are Public Sector Workers Underpaid in Russia? Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap

Vladimir Gimpelson and Anna Lukiyanova

3940: Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium

Andrew Clark

3939: Reference Points and Effort Provision

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Götte and David Huffman

3938: Are Young and Old Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?

Thierry Lallemand and Francois Rycx

3937: Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing

Han Wen-Jui, Christopher Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

3936: Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

J. David Brown, Julie Hotchkiss and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli

3935: A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects

Paulo Guimaraes and Pedro Portugal

3934: Stuck Between Surplus and Shortage: Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov and Anna Lukiyanova

3933: Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation

David Benson, Aaron Lies, Albert Okunade and Phanindra Wunnava

3932: The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Maurice Kugler and Eric Verhoogen

3931: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children

Delia Furtado

3930: Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap

Erling Barth and Harald Dale-Olsen

3929: Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania

Holger Seebens

3928: Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country

Kristian Giesen and Jens Suedekum

3927: India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad

3926: The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

3925: Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

Amy Finkelstein, Erzo Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo

3924: Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment?

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

3923: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey

Daniel Radowski and Holger Bonin

3922: Return Migration and Occupational Choice

Matloob Piracha and Florin Vadean

3921: How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle

3920: The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Michael Rosholm

3919: Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

Christian Dreger, Georg Erber and Daniela Glocker

3918: Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?

John Addison and Claus Schnabel

3917: Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

3916: Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

Omar Arias and Melanie Khamis

3915: Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany

Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci and Gert Wagner

3914: Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, Elke Renner and Martin Sefton

3913: Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3912: International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Maurice Schiff

3911: Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments

Melanie Khamis

3910: Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany

Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

3909: Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives

Pascal Courty, Do Han Kim and Gerald Marschke

3908: Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers

Francesca Bassi, Alessandra Padoan and Ugo Trivellato

3907: Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe

Massimiliano Bratti and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

3906: Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

3905: Contingent Convergence: A Comparative Analysis of Activation Policies

Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl

3904: Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

Juan Barón, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Nisvan Erkal

3903: Speed Discounting and Racial Disparities: Evidence from Speeding Tickets in Boston

Nejat Anbarci and Jungmin Lee

3902: Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition

Johannes Becker, Andreas Peichl and Johannes Rincke

3901: A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte and Christian Zehnder

3900: Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns

Marco Caliendo and Arne Uhlendorff

3899: Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates and Daniel Hamermesh