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3351: Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

3350: Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

3349: Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

3348: Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni

3347: Impact of Reforms on Plant-Level Productivity and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon Bhaumik and Subal Kumbhakar

3346: Consequences of Data Error in Aggregate Indicators: Evidence from the Human Development Index

Hendrik Wolff, Howard Chong and Maximilian Auffhammer

3345: Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Martin Brown, Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr

3344: On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings

Andrew Oswald

3343: Who Leaves the City? The Influence of Ethnic Segregation and Family Ties

Aslan Zorlu

3342: How Unilateral Divorce Affects Children

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

3341: Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe

Semih Akçomak and Bas ter Weel

3340: Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm

Takao Kato and Pian Shu

3339: Search, Wage Posting, and Urban Spatial Structure

Yves Zenou

3338: R&D and Productivity: Testing Sectoral Peculiarities Using Micro Data

Lesley Potters, Raquel Ortega-Argiles and Marco Vivarelli

3337: Inequality of Learning amongst Immigrant Children in Industrialised Countries

Sylke Schnepf

3336: ‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India

Indraneel Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra and Diganta Mukherjee

3335: What Is a Peer? The Role of Network Definitions in Estimation of Endogenous Peer Effects

Timothy Halliday and Sally Kwak

3334: Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis

Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach and Nachum Sicherman

3333: The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James Heckman and Bas ter Weel

3332: Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Nauro Campos and Yuko Kinoshita

3331: Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

3330: On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection

Christian Bayer and Falko Juessen

3329: The Impact of Income Shocks on Health: Evidence from Cohort Data

Jerome Adda, James Banks and Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

3328: Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Eric Gould and Todd Kaplan

3327: The Stairways to Heaven: A Model of Career Choice in Sports and Games, with an Application to Chess

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi and Lorenzo Rocco

3326: Incentives versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek, Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw

3325: Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Amelie Constant and Elena D'Agosto

3324: Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany

Ronald Bachmann and Michael Burda

3323: What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later?

Kathrin Bertschy, Maria Alejandra Cattaneo and Stefan Wolter

3322: Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

Timothy Halliday

3321: Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest and Erik Wengström

3320: Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing

Douglas Krupka and Douglas Noonan

3319: Segregation, Entrepreneurship and Work Values: The Case of France

Claudia Senik and Thierry Verdier

3318: Taxation, Aggregates and the Household

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura

3317: Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Indraneel Dasgupta and Ravi Kanbur

3316: Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

3315: The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher Pissarides

3314: The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s

Timothy Hatton and Richard M. Martin

3313: Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

3312: A Microfoundation for Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Jobs

Arnaud Dupuy

3311: How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions

Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega

3310: Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Petra Todd

3309: Leaving Home: What Economics Has to Say about the Living Arrangements of Young Australians

Deborah Cobb-Clark

3308: How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan van Ours and Justus Veenman

3307: Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring

John Sessions and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

3306: MIMIC Models, Cointegration and Error Correction: An Application to the French Shadow Economy

Andreas Buehn and Friedrich Schneider

3305: Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

3304: The Asset Portfolios of Native-Born and Foreign-Born Households

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand

3303: Market Work and Motherhood Decisions in Contexts

Daniela Del Boca, Silvia Pasqua and Chiara Pronzato

3302: Returns to Tenure or Seniority?

Ioan Sebastian Buhai, Miguel Portela, C. N. Teulings and Aico van Vuuren

3301: Mexican Immigrants, the Labor Market and the Current Population Survey: Seasonality Effects, Framing Effects, and Sensitivity of Results

Fernando Lozano and Todd Sorensen

3300: The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment: County-Level Estimates for the United States

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

3299: Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

3298: Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective

Stephane Dees, Mohammad Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith and Ron P. Smith

3297: Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?

John Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom

3296: The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leonce Ndikumana and Sher Verick

3295: Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni

3294: Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

John Addison and Clive R. Belfield

3293: Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries

Hector Sala, José Silva and Manuel Toledo

3292: Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy

Shane Niall O'Higgins, Marcello D'Amato, Floro Caroleo and Adriana Barone

3291: Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers

Uwe Jirjahn and Kornelius Kraft

3290: Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings

Erik Plug and Peter Berkhout

3289: Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

John Addison, Mário Centeno and Pedro Portugal

3288: Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity

Markus Frölich and Blaise Melly

3287: The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa M. García-Muñoz and Shoshana Neuman

3286: Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Luis Oviedo

3285: Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning

Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Julien Prat

3284: Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004

Olivier Bargain, Sumon Bhaumik, Manisha Chakrabarty and Zhong Zhao

3283: Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

Yves Zenou

3282: Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Yegor Grygorenko

3281: Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Alwine Mohnen, Kathrin Pokorny and Dirk Sliwka

3280: The Matching Method for Treatment Evaluation with Selective Participation and Ineligibles

Monica Costa Dias, Hidehiko Ichimura and Gerard van den Berg

3279: South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling

3278: Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Daniel Rondeau and John List

3277: Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

3276: Why Remit? The Case of Nicaragua

George Naufal

3275: Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating? A Laboratory Experiment

Christiane Schwieren and Doris Weichselbaumer

3274: A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Chris Klaveren, Bernard van Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

3273: Field Experiments in Economics: Palgrave Entry

John List and David Reiley

3272: Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

3271: Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Rolf Ketzler and Klaus Zimmermann

3270: Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989–2006

Zhong Zhao

3269: Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine

Hartmut Lehmann and Norberto Pignatti

3268: Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection from a Developing Country

Randall Akee

3267: Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Klara Sabirianova Peter

3266: Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Dirk Engelmann and Dorothea Kübler

3265: Why Are Hispanic and African-American Dropout Rates So High?

Magnus Lofstrom

3264: Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

3263: Errors in Self-Reported Earnings: The Role of Previous Earnings Volatility

Randall Akee

3262: Von der Frühverrentung zum längeren Erwerbsleben: Transferleistungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Weiterbildung

Werner Eichhorst

3261: Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger and Dorothea Kübler

3260: Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

3259: Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Matthias Doepke and Dirk Krüger

3258: On Pitchforks and Tomahawks

Michael P. Pflüger and Jens Suedekum

3257: Subjective Health Assessments and Active Labor Market Participation of Older Men: Evidence from a Semiparametric Binary Choice Model with Nonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Effects

Jürgen Maurer, Roger Klein and Francis Vella

3256: Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health

Justina A. V. Fischer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

3255: Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

3254: Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure

Mohammad Pesaran, L. Vanessa Smith and Takashi Yamagata

3253: The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan and Yishay Maoz

3252: Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Almas Heshmati