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3651: Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

3650: Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3649: The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence for Spain

Esteban Sanroma, Raul Ramos and Hipolito Simon

3648: If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Joop Hartog, Mirjam Praag and Justin van der Sluis

3647: Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?

Ansgar Belke and Julia Spies

3646: The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data

Martin Salm and Daniel Schunk

3645: Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization

William Siebert and Nick Zubanov

3644: Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Amelie Constant

3643: The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

3642: Correlated Poisson Processes with Unobserved Heterogeneity: Estimating the Determinants of Paid and Unpaid Leave

Georges Dionne and Benoit Dostie

3641: The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam Praag and Auke IJsselstein

3640: Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge

3639: The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity

Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo and Martin Sefton

3638: Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design

Markus Frölich and Blaise Melly

3637: Does Private Tutoring Payoff?

Ayfer Gurun and Daniel Millimet

3636: The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind

James Heckman

3635: Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle

Gerard van den Berg, Gabriele Doblhammer and Kaare Christensen

3634: Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

3633: The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Enrico Rettore, Adriano Paggiaro and Ugo Trivellato

3632: Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails

Daniel Millimet and Rusty Tchernis

3631: ‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Indraneel Dasgupta

3630: The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug

3629: When It's (Mostly) the Taking Part that Counts: The Post-Application Consequences of Employment Tribunal Claims

Stephen Drinkwater, Paul Latreille and Ben Knight

3628: Long-Term Economic Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings

Joshua Angrist and Stacey H. Chen

3627: Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game

Dietmar Fehr, Dorothea Kübler and David Danz

3626: Rhineland Exit?

Lans Bovenberg and C. N. Teulings

3625: Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Ernst Fehr and Andreas Leibbrandt

3624: Happiness Inequality in the United States

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

3623: Preparing for Policy Changes: Social Security Expectations and Pension Scheme Participation

Karen van der Wiel

3622: Intergenerational Persistence in Educational Attainment in Italy

Daniele Checchi, Carlo Fiorio and Marco Leonardi

3621: Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001: Estimation and Implication

Honge Gong and Xin Meng

3620: Experimental Evidence on the Nature of the Danish Employment Miracle

Michael Rosholm

3619: The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal Counties

Eric Strobl

3618: Graduate Employment in the UK: An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model

Suzanne Grazier, Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

3617: Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller

3616: Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations

Georg Weizsäcker

3615: Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany?

Katharina Spiess and Katharina Wrohlich

3614: A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

3613: Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment

Martin Halla, Friedrich Schneider and Alexander Wagner

3612: Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman

3611: Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland

Peter Haan and Michal Myck

3610: Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers

Timothy Halliday and Sally Kwak

3609: Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini

3608: A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data

John Addison, Lutz Bellmann, André Pahnke and Paulino Teixeira

3607: Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

Pedro Martins

3606: Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Joshua Angrist and Guido Kuersteiner

3605: The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes

Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

3604: Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data

Paul Frijters, David Johnston and Michael Shields

3603: The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

3602: Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration

Peter Kuhn and Carol McAusland

3601: Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

3600: From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers

Annette Bergemann and Gerard van den Berg

3599: Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?

Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi and Antonio Filippin

3598: On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration

Douglas Krupka

3597: New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

3596: Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

3595: Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

3594: Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?

Lina Song and Simon Appleton

3593: Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data

Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

3592: Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences: The Case of Italy

Vincenzo Caponi

3591: Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

3590: Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK

Dan Anderberg, Arnaud Chevalier and Jonathan Wadsworth

3589: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach

Tomislav Kovandzic, Mark Schaffer and Gary Kleck

3588: Student Loans Repayment and Recovery: International Comparisons

Hua Shen and Adrian Ziderman

3587: The Impact of Relative Cohort Size on U.S. Fertility, 1913-2001

Yongil Jeon and Michael Shields

3586: The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities

Christer Gerdes and Eskil Wadensjö

3585: Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

3584: Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Francesco Farina, Shane Niall O'Higgins and Patrizia Sbriglia

3583: Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Amanda Goodall, Lawrence Kahn and Andrew Oswald

3582: Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

M Asadullah and Rosa M. Fernández

3581: A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

3580: Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Lorenz Götte and Alois Stutzer

3579: Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina

Ana Iturriza, Arjun Bedi and Robert Sparrow

3578: The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz

3577: Self-Esteem and Earnings

Francesco Drago

3576: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

3575: Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Guy Laroque and Bernard Salanié

3574: The Motherhood Wage Penalty in a Mediterranean Country: The Case of Spain

José Alberto Molina and Victor Montuenga

3573: Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Eva Sierminska, Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

3572: Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999

M. Daniele Paserman

3571: The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?

Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy and Luis Gil-Alana

3570: Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question

Peter Fredriksson and Martin Söderström

3569: Why Should State Government Invest in College Education? An Equilibrium Approach for the US in 2000

Michael Shields

3568: The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview

Barry Chiswick

3567: Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Adama Konseiga

3566: Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms

Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb

3565: Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case

James Heckman, Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil

3564: Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Guillermina Jasso and Mark Rosenzweig

3563: The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

3562: Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis

Juan Barón and Deborah Cobb-Clark

3561: Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements

Torbjørn Hægeland, Oddbjørn Raaum and Kjell G Salvanes

3560: Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

3559: Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Michael Lechner

3558: Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa: Implication for Development Policies

Ralitza Dimova, Christophe Nordman and François Roubaud

3557: Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries

Tim Callan, Timothy M. Smeeding and Panos Tsakloglou

3556: Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Murat Iyigun

3555: Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries

Andrea Bassanini, Luca Nunziata and Danielle Venn

3554: Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity

Kendra McLeish and Robert Oxoby

3553: On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence

Sara De La Rica, Juan Dolado and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

3552: Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo