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3817: Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows

Norma Coe and Maarten Lindeboom

3816: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice

Markus Poschke

3815: Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany

Ana Rute Cardoso, Elsa Fontainha and Chiara Monfardini

3814: Car Ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities

Pieter Gautier and Yves Zenou

3813: Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods

Andrew Clark, Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

3812: Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay and Peter Martinsson

3811: An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3810: Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3809: Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds

Albert Saiz and Uri Simonsohn

3808: Internal Finance and Growth: Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms

Alessandra Guariglia, Xiaoxuan Liu and Lina Song

3807: Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Alexandru Voicu

3806: Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?

Martin Nordin, Inga Persson and Dan-Olof Rooth

3805: The Determinants of University Participation in Canada (1977?2003)

Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy and Ling Yang

3804: Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment

Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier and Bruno Van der Linden

3803: Welfare in Models of Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

Alexandre Janiak

3802: The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Simen Gaure, Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

3801: Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Anders Bjorklund, Jesper Roine and Daniel Waldenström

3800: Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

Richard Blundell and Monica Costa Dias

3799: Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring

Dan-Olof Rooth

3798: Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Helmut Fryges and Joachim Wagner

3797: Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay

Robert Hart and Yue Ma

3796: Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Felix Rioja

3795: The Younger, the Better? Relative Age Effects at University

Francesco Billari and Michele Pellizzari

3794: An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

3793: Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective

Gautam Hazarika and Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

3792: Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

3791: Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

3790: Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany

Andreas Peichl, Thilo Schaefer and Christoph Scheicher

3789: The Long Term Effects of Legalizing Divorce on Children

Libertad Gonzalez and Tarja Viitanen

3788: North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South: The Case of Mexico

Gautam Hazarika and Rafael Otero

3787: Determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure: Evidence from Romania

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova and Robert Sova

3786: Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Damiaan Persyn

3785: Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

Helena Nielsen, Torben Sørensen and Christopher Taber

3784: Competition and the Ratchet Effect

Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval

3783: The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Martyn J. Andrews, Ken Clark and William Whittaker

3782: On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Anamaria Sova and Robert Sova

3781: Living Wage Laws: How Much Do (Can) They Matter?

Harry Holzer

3780: Changes in Korean Wage Inequality, 1980?2005

Byung-Goo Kang and Myeong-Su Yun

3779: Crime, Unemployment, and Xenophobia? An Ecological Analysis of Right-Wing Election Results in Hamburg, 1986?2005

Ralph Rotte and Martin Steininger

3778: City Beautiful

Gerald Carlino and Albert Saiz

3777: Determinants of Historic and Cultural Landmark Designation: Why We Preserve What We Preserve

Douglas Noonan and Douglas Krupka

3776: Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?

Harry Holzer

3775: Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

Robert Hall and Alan Krueger

3774: Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Yunhee Kim, Jeong-Dong Lee and Almas Heshmati

3773: Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Leslie Stratton

3772: Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms

Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner and Gesine Stephan

3771: Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

3770: Motivating Altruism: A Field Study

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

3769: Does Money Matter for Schools?

Helena Holmlund, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

3768: Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques Reduce Unemployment?

Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner

3767: The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem

Gesine Stephan and André Pahnke

3766: Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

3765: The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

3764: Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden

Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur

3763: Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara

3762: Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Alexander Danzer and Hulya Ulku

3761: The Role of Information and Institutions in Understanding the Black-White Gap in Self-Employment

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

3760: Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Blaise Melly and Patrick Puhani

3759: Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Abdurrahman Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak

3758: Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Shwetlena Sabarwal and Katherine Terrell

3757: Dynamics of Intrahousehold Bargaining

Joaquin Andaluz, Miriam Marcén and José Alberto Molina

3756: New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market

Sara Lemos and Jonathan Portes

3755: The Cost Impact of Spam Filters: Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations

Marco Caliendo, Michel Clement, Dominik Papies and Sabine Scheel-Kopeinig

3754: The Economic Impact of Immigration in Greece: Taking Stock of the Existing Evidence

Ioannis Cholezas and Panos Tsakloglou

3753: Incorporating Cost in Power Analysis for Three-Level Cluster Randomized Designs

Spyros Konstantopoulos

3752: Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)

Nauro Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos and Bin Tan

3751: Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann and Salmai Qari

3750: Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

3749: Am I Missing Something? The Effects of Absence from Class on Student Performance

Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

3748: The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories: Theory and Test

Örn B. Bodvarsson and John Sessions

3747: Union Membership Effect on Wage Premiums: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries in India

Amit Bhandari

3746: 'Klin'-ing Up: Effects of Polish Tax Reforms on Those In and on Those Out

Leszek Morawski and Michal Myck

3745: The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A

Tito Boeri and Battista Severgnini

3744: Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing

Martin Halla and Johann Scharler

3743: Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

3742: International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

3741: Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence

Francesco Feri, Bernd Irlenbusch and Matthias Sutter

3740: Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating

Barry Chiswick and Christina Houseworth

3739: Testing Mundell's Intuition of Endogenous OCA Theory

Thierry Warin, Phanindra Wunnava and Hubert Janicki

3738: Heterogeneous Treatment and Self-Selection in a Wage Subsidy Experiment

Dany Brouillette and Guy Lacroix

3737: Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy

Zahra Siddique

3736: Evaluation of an In-Work Tax Credit Reform in Sweden: Effects on Labor Supply and Welfare Participation of Single Mothers

Rolf Aaberge and Lennart Flood

3735: What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents

Anders Bjorklund, Lena Lindahl and Matthew Lindquist

3734: Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

3733: The Changing Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Russia

Guy Lacroix and Natalia Radtchenko

3732: The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn, Albert Liu and Kerry Papps

3731: The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

Elizabeth Caucutt, Thomas Cooley and Nezih Guner

3730: Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms: New Evidence

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

3729: Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition

Leo Kaas

3728: Are Children Decision-Makers Within the Household?

Anyck Dauphin, AbdelRahmen El Lahga, Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix

3727: Polarisation and Health

Cristina Blanco Perez and Xavi Ramos

3726: The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior

Libertad Gonzalez and Berkay Özcan

3725: Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn and Kerry Papps

3724: Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis

Randolph Bruno, Maria Bytchkova and Saul Estrin

3723: How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings

Pedro Raposo and Jan van Ours

3722: Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search

Leo Kaas and Stefan Zink

3721: Effects of Flat Tax Reforms in Western Europe on Income Distribution and Work Incentives

Alari Paulus and Andreas Peichl

3720: Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty

Johannes Schwarze

3719: The Construction of Neighbourhoods and its Relevance for the Measurement of Social and Ethnic Segregation: Evidence from Denmark

Anna Damm and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

3718: Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb