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4121: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance

Kai Konrad and Salmai Qari

4120: Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility

Salmai Qari, Kai Konrad and Benny Geys

4119: Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Romero Rocha and Rodrigo Soares

4118: Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription during WWII and the Post-War Years

Robert Hart

4117: A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population

Adam S. Booij, Bernard van Praag and Gijs Kuilen

4116: Cultures, Clashes and Peace

Erin Fletcher and Murat Iyigun

4115: Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

Sara De La Rica and Francesc Ortega

4114: Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area

Veronique Genre, Karsten Kohn and Daphne Momferatou

4113: The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

4112: Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition

Ernesto Reuben and Jean-Robert Tyran

4111: Do Immigrants Take the Jobs of Native Workers?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

4110: Making – or Picking – Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies

Douglas Noonan and Douglas Krupka

4109: Hostility Toward Immigration in Spain

Ferran Martínez i Coma and Robert Duval Hernández

4108: The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water

Yasheng Maimaiti and William Siebert

4107: Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation

Ernesto Reuben and Sigrid Suetens

4106: SWEtaxben: A Swedish Tax/Benefit Micro Simulation Model and an Evaluation of a Swedish Tax Reform

Peter Ericson, Lennart Flood and Roger Wahlberg

4105: Occupational Choice: Personality Matters

Roger Ham, Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Robert Wells

4104: The Effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market

Sara De La Rica

4103: Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension

Daniel Henderson and Christopher Parmeter

4102: A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

4101: Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Getinet Haile

4100: Reforming German Labor Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility

Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx

4099: Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS

Maarten Lindeboom, Petter Lundborg and Bas van der Klaauw

4098: Overweight and Obesity and the Demand for Primary Physician Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jane Greve

4097: Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro and Susan Vroman

4096: Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying, and Technological Change

Tapio Palokangas

4095: Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Christopher Ryan and Anastasia Sartbayeva

4094: The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective

Maarten van Ham and David Manley

4093: The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy

Emilio Congregado, Antonio Golpe and Simon Parker

4092: 'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?

William Becker and David K. Round

4091: Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining

Tapio Palokangas

4090: Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch and Thomas Walter

4089: Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

4088: The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans

William Even and David Macpherson

4087: Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Michael Naef and Jürgen Schupp

4086: Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges

Glenn Blomquist, Paul A. Coomes, Christopher Jepsen, Brandon Koford and Kenneth Troske

4085: Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Anton Hemerijck and Werner Eichhorst

4084: Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets

Brian Roe and Steven Wu

4083: Remittances and Chain Migration: Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ralitza Dimova and François-Charles Wolff

4082: Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms

William Even and David Macpherson

4081: Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates

Denis Conniffe and Donal O'Neill

4080: Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Martin Kocher, Ganna Pogrebna and Matthias Sutter

4079: How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance

Brian Krogh Graversen and Jan van Ours

4078: Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?

Daniel Millimet and Le Wang

4077: Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Getinet Haile

4076: Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Joachim Wagner

4075: Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?

Donatella Gatti and Anne-Gaël Vaubourg

4074: The Effect of Children on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women: What is the Role of Education?

Kenneth Troske and Alexandru Voicu

4073: A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators

Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens

4072: TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Lena Nekby

4071: Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot, Sébastien Ménard and Thepthida Sopraseuth

4070: Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Denis Fougere, Erwan Gautier and Hervé Le Bihan

4069: Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog and Stefan Wolter

4068: The Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany

Toni Pierenkemper

4067: Religion and Intimate Partner Violence in Chile: Macro- and Micro-Level Influences

Evelyn Lehrer, Vivian L. Lehrer and Ramona Krauss

4066: Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

George Naufal and Carlos Vargas-Silva

4065: Atypical Work and Employment Continuity

John Addison and Christopher Surfield

4064: Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity

Karen van der Wiel

4063: Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Erkki Koskela and Jan König

4062: The Impact of Child Labor and School Quality on Academic Achievement in Brazil

Márcio Bezerra, Ana Lucia Kassouf and Mary Arends-Kuenning

4061: International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

Nauro Campos and Martin Gassebner

4060: Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Richard Easterlin and Laura Angelescu McVey

4059: Sequential Bargaining in a New-Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment and Staggered Wage Negotiation

Grégory de Walque, Olivier Pierrard, Henri Sneessens and Raf Wouters

4058: School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

4057: The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová

4056: Preferences for Redistribution

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

4055: EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Karl Brenke, Mutlu Yuksel and Klaus Zimmermann

4054: A Computationally Practical Simulation Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Endogenous State Variables

Michael Keane and Robert Sauer

4053: Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany

Wencke Gwozdz and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

4052: Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

4051: Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation

Pedro Martins

4050: Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger and Ute Leuschner

4049: Commitment to Self-Rewards

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

4048: How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

4047: Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia

Vidya Atal, Kaushik Basu, John Gray and Travis Lee

4046: Choice by Lexicographic Semiorders

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

4045: Unintended Effects of National-based Active Labour Market Policies

Carlo Altavilla and Floro Caroleo

4044: Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Mélanie Volral

4043: University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK

Iftikhar Hussain, Sandra McNally and Shqiponja Telhaj

4042: The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions

Vincenzo Caponi, Burc Kayahan and Miana Plesca

4041: Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher

4040: What Should Be Done about Rising Unemployment in the UK?

David Bell and David Blanchflower

4039: Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns

Alexander Koch and Albrecht Morgenstern

4038: International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid and Christophe Rault

4037: Financial Globalization and Economic Policies

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Kenneth Rogoff and Shang-Jin Wei

4036: Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories

James Smith

4035: Forecasting Errors: Yet More Problems for Identification?

Bruno Contini

4034: Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game

Andries de Grip, Maarten Lindeboom and Raymond Montizaan

4033: Understanding the Labour Market for Older Workers: A Survey

John Heywood and William Siebert

4032: Democracy and Reforms

Paola Giuliano, Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo

4031: Wage Dispersion and Wage Dynamics Within and Across Firms

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Eric Smith

4030: The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

4029: Female Labor Supply Differences by Sexual Orientation: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach

Heather Antecol and Michael D. Steinberger

4028: Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data

Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun

4027: Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?

Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen

4026: Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?

Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen

4025: Persistencies in the Labour Market

Paul Frijters, Maarten Lindeboom and Gerard van den Berg

4024: How Do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California

Oscar Mitnik

4023: The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Olaf Groh-Samberg

4022: Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest and Erik Wengström