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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

4021: An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector

Tony Clayton, Mariela Dal Borgo and Jonathan Haskel

4020: Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe

Lawrence Kahn

4019: Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty

Alicia Adsera and Alicia Menendez

4018: Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization

Indraneel Dasgupta

4017: Money Matters: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Dolores Messer and Stefan Wolter

4016: Volunteering and the State

Franz Hackl, Martin Halla and Gerald Pruckner

4015: Life Satisfaction

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

4014: Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

4013: Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience

Petri Böckerman, Ulla Hämäläinen and Roope Uusitalo

4012: Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Men across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001: Evidence from ECHP

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

4011: Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

4010: Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

David Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald and Bert Van Landeghem

4009: The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Christine Valente and Arthur van Soest

4008: Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?

Jos van Ommeren and Giovanni Russo

4007: Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

Bart Cockx and Matteo Picchio

4006: Did British Women Achieve Long-Term Economic Benefits from Working in Essential WWII Industries?

Robert Hart

4005: The Elite Brain Drain

Rosalind S. Hunter, Andrew Oswald and Bruce G. Charlton

4004: Identifying Sorting: In Theory

Jan Eeckhout and Philipp Kircher

4003: Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration

Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo and Markus Jantti

4002: Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber

4001: The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

4000: Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Richard Easterlin and Onnicha Sawangfa

3999: Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

Klaus Zimmermann

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