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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

3717: Informal Care and Labor Supply

Elisabeth Fevang, Snorre Kverndokk and Knut Røed

3716: Trade and Location with Land as a Productive Factor

Michael P. Pflüger and Takatoshi Tabuchi

3715: The Benefits of Linking CGE and Microsimulation Models: Evidence from a Flat Tax Analysis

Andreas Peichl

3714: Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag and Thijs van Rens

3713: Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Kenneth Couch and Robert Fairlie

3712: The Rise and Fall of Spanish Unemployment: A Chain Reaction Theory Perspective

Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

3711: Nepotism, Incentives and the Academic Success of College Students

Deniz Gevrek and Z. Eylem Gevrek

3710: Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany

Horst Entorf and Hannes Spengler

3709: Estimates of Intergenerational Elasticities Based on Lifetime Earnings

Øivind Nilsen, Kjell Vaage, Arild Aakvik and Karl Jacobsen

3708: Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage

Robert Fairlie and Rebecca A. London

3707: The Elite and the Marginalised: An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States

Sarmistha Pal and Sugata Ghosh

3706: Real Wage Inequality

Enrico Moretti

3705: The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

David Autor

3704: Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

Emilia Del Bono, John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

3703: Identifying Adjustment Costs of Net and Gross Employment Changes

Joao Ejarque and Øivind Nilsen

3702: Relative Performance Pay, Bonuses, and Job-Promotion Tournaments

Matthias Kräkel and Anja Schöttner

3701: Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 1994–2001

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

3700: Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

3699: Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Erkki Koskela and Panu Poutvaara

3698: A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom and Bas van der Klaauw

3697: Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment

Leo Kaas

3696: The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach

Franz Buscha, Arnaud Maurel, Lionel Page and Stefan Speckesser

3695: The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labour Market

David Blanchflower and Helen Lawton

3694: Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck and Katharina Wrohlich

3693: Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni

3692: Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement

Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

3691: Does School Privatization Improve Educational Achievement? Evidence from Sweden's Voucher Reform

Anders Böhlmark and Mikael Lindahl

3690: Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen Jenkins and Jeff Larrimore

3689: Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland

Alan Barrett and Elish Kelly

3688: Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

J. David Brown, John Earle and Almos Telegdy

3687: Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model

Pierre Cahuc and Thomas Le Barbanchon

3686: The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates

Rolf Aaberge, Audun Langørgen, Magne Mogstad and Marit Østensen

3685: Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

Paul Grout and Wendelin Schnedler

3684: Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences

Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner

3683: Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

J. David Brown and John Earle

3682: Trade, Wages, and Productivity

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Suedekum

3681: Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany

Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower

3680: Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

3679: How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income

Hans Bloemen and Elena Stancanelli

3678: Culture and Human Capital Investments: Evidence of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Bolivia

Monica Yanez-Pagans

3677: Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004

Melanie K. Jones, Richard Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter Sloane

3676: Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality

Anders Frederiksen and Odile Poulsen

3675: The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

Morris M. Kleiner and Alan Krueger

3674: Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

Michael Daly, Liam Delaney and Colm Harmon

3673: Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study

Ben D'Exelle and Arno Riedl

3672: Workplace, Human Capital and Ethnic Determinants of Sickness Absence in Sweden, 1993–2001

Tommy Bengtsson and Kirk Scott

3671: Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance

Markus Frölich and Blaise Melly

3670: Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Adriana Kugler and Mutlu Yuksel

3669: Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment

Quentin David, Alexandre Janiak and Etienne Wasmer

3668: Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory

Quentin David, Alexandre Janiak and Etienne Wasmer

3667: Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

3666: Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates

Phanindra Wunnava and Daniel B. Leiter

3665: Can We Test for Bias in Scientific Peer-Review?

Andrew Oswald

3664: School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

Daniel Millimet, Rusty Tchernis and Muna Husain

3663: Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany

Elke Jahn

3662: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Gap

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel

3661: The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

3660: How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being

John Pencavel

3659: Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition

Zhaopeng Qu and Zhong Zhao

3658: The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Cognitive Achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador

Juan Ponce and Arjun Bedi

3657: Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Annie Georges and Susan Pozo

3656: Social Interactions in Demand

Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner

3655: On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity

Ernst Fehr, Martin Brown and Christian Zehnder

3654: Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

3653: Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua

Ana Dammert

3652: The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860

Jonathan Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun

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