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3551: The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada

Louis Christofides and Robert Swidinsky

3550: Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare

John Bennett

3549: The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Sandra Sookram and Eric Strobl

3548: Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening

Keith Chen and Fabian Lange

3547: Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

3546: Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children

Maria Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca

3545: The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the Role of Institutions

Willie Belton and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

3544: The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry

Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

3543: Crime and Partnerships

Michael Svarer

3542: Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Pedro Martins and Luiz Esteves

3541: The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature

Evelyn Lehrer

3540: Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003

Bernd Fitzenberger, Olga Orlyanskaya, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Waller

3539: Gender Differences and the Timing of First Marriages

Javier Díaz-Giménez and Eugenio Giolito

3538: Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000

María Cervini-Plá and Xavi Ramos

3537: Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness as an Instrument

Paul Frijters, David Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael Shields

3536: Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?

Martin Halla and Friedrich Schneider

3535: Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income

Alison Goode, Kostas Mavromaras and Murray Smith

3534: Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education

Aslan Zorlu and Joop Hartog

3533: Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company

Christian Pfeifer and Tatjana Sohr

3532: Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children

Richard Akresh and Ilana Redstone Akresh

3531: School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Leonardo Grilli

3530: Admission Conditions and Graduates' Employability

Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Portela and Carla Sa

3529: The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective

Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

3528: Calibration and IV Estimation of a Wage Outcome Equation in a Dynamic Environment

Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen

3527: Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik

3526: Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Yongil Jeon, Sang-Young Rhyu and Michael Shields

3525: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

3524: Between Agora and Shopping Mall

Josef Falkinger

3523: A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data

Christian Pfeifer

3522: Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Erkki Koskela and Panu Poutvaara

3521: Reforming Retirement-Income Systems: Lessons from the Recent Experiences of OECD Countries

John Martin and Edward Whitehouse

3520: Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment

Randall Akee, William Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold and Jane E. Costello

3519: Informality and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Norbert Fiess, Marco Fugazza and William Maloney

3518: Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking? A Simple Test

Ting Hu and Myeong-Su Yun

3517: Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem?

Mariana Blanco, Dirk Engelmann, Alexander Koch and Hans-Theo Normann

3516: Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Richard Akresh and Damien de Walque

3515: Schools, Skills, and Synapses

James Heckman

3514: Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

3513: Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective

Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower

3512: From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence

Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda

3511: Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

3510: Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: A Study of British University Academics and Administrators

Alison Booth and Jeff Frank

3509: Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Andrea Vindigni

3508: Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey

Gordon Betcherman, N. Meltem Daysal and Carmen Pages

3507: Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education Programs

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger

3506: Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Delia Furtado and Heinrich Hock

3505: Self-Selection into Teaching: The Role of Teacher Education Institutions

Stefan Denzler and Stefan Wolter

3504: Training Background and Early Retirement

Raymond Montizaan, Frank Cörvers and Andries de Grip

3503: Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

Christian Pfeifer

3502: Labor Market Policies, Institutions and Employment Rates in the EU-27

Riccardo Rovelli and Randolph Bruno

3501: The Effects of Labour Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining and Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

3500: Fungibility, Labels, and Consumption

Johannes Abeler and Felix Marklein

3499: The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants’ Employment and Earnings

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

3498: Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

3497: Rule of Law, Institutional Quality and Information

Randolph Bruno

3496: The Effects of Health and Health Shocks on Hours Worked

Lixin Cai, Kostas Mavromaras and Umut Oguzoglu

3495: Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James Heckman, John Humphries, Paul LaFontaine and Pedro L. Rodríguez

3494: Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy

Alan Barrett and Yvonne McCarthy

3493: Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations

Benedikt Halfdanarson, Daniel Heuermann and Jens Suedekum

3492: The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Anna Fräßdorf, Markus Grabka and Johannes Schwarze

3491: Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

3490: The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

3489: Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search

Stephane Mahuteau and Pramod (Raja) Junankar

3488: Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Robert Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff

3487: Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Paul Jensen, Umut Oguzoglu and Elizabeth Webster

3486: Does Immigration Raise Natives' Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

3485: Social Change

Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

3484: The Emerging Aversion to Inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992–2005

Irena Grosfeld and Claudia Senik

3483: Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

3482: Efficiency and Effectiveness of Social Spending

Peter Herrmann, Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati and Chemen S. J. Bajalan

3481: Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Roider and Patrick Schmitz

3480: Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse and Arne Uhlendorff

3479: The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland

Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness and Martin O`Brien

3478: The Treatment Effect, the Cross Difference, and the Interaction Term in Nonlinear “Difference-in-Differences” Models

Patrick Puhani

3477: Hyperbolic Discounting and the Phillips Curve

Liam Graham and Dennis Snower

3476: Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed

Andrew Clark, Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet

3475: A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad and Raghuram Rajan

3474: Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Marte Rønning

3473: Does the Effect of Incentive Payments on Survey Response Rates Differ by Income Support History?

Juan Barón, Robert Breunig, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Tue Gorgens and Anastasia Sartbayeva

3472: Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children’s Quality

Javier Baez

3471: Private Supplementary Tutoring in Turkey: Recent Evidence on Its Various Aspects

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

3470: What Have We Learned? Assessing Labor Market Institutions and Indicators

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil and Christoph Braun

3469: Endogenous Reversals of Fortune

Mark Gradstein

3468: Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees

Javier Baez

3467: Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference

Mahmood Arai, Moa Bursell and Lena Nekby

3466: Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

3465: Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland

Regina Dionisius, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann and Stefan Wolter

3464: In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China

Lina Song

3463: Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Timothy Halliday

3462: The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pedro Pereira

3461: Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan and Aysıt Tansel

3460: Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Guillermina Jasso

3459: Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

3458: Selective Migration and Health

Timothy Halliday and Michael C. Kimmitt

3457: The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina

3456: The Impact of Population Aging on the Labor Market: The Case of Sri Lanka

Milan Vodopivec and Nisha Arunatilake

3455: Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

Hans Bloemen and Elena Stancanelli

3454: The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition

Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

3453: Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Ira Gang, Kunal Sen and Myeong-Su Yun

3452: Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes