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2951: Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp and Richard Akresh

2950: Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy

John Bennett and Saul Estrin

2949: Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

2948: A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

David McKenzie

2947: Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Per Engström and Bertil Holmlund

2946: Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply

Anne Gielen

2945: The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting, Human Capital, and Discrimination

Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong and Michael D. Steinberger

2944: Interdependency in Performance

Kelii H. Haraguchi and Glen Waddell

2943: Social and Occupational Security and Labour Market Flexibility in Sweden: The Case of Unemployment Compensation

Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist and Eskil Wadensjö

2942: Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany

Matloob Piracha and Yu Zhu

2941: College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs

James A. Freeman and Barry Hirsch

2940: The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds

Flavio Cunha, James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

2939: Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

David Card and Michael Ransom

2938: Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

Seamus McGuinness and Mark Wooden

2937: Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality: A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method

Myeong-Su Yun

2936: Modelling the Time on Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Govert Bijwaard

2935: Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

2934: Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

2933: Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Annika Alexius and Bertil Holmlund

2932: Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Anne Gielen

2931: Firms and Early Retirement: Offers That One Does Not Refuse

Lutz Bellmann and Florian Janik

2930: Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Barry Hirsch

2929: Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

Pedro Martins

2928: Minorities, Social Capital and Voting

Pieter Bevelander and Ravi Pendakur

2927: Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture

Michael Kosfeld and Ferdinand von Siemens

2926: Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Michael Lechner and Blaise Melly

2925: Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness

Alois Stutzer

2924: Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Shuming Bao, Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack Hou and Yaohui Zhao

2923: Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance

Dave Marcotte and Steven W. Hemelt

2922: The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Graziella Bertocchi

2921: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups

Hugo Ñopo

2920: Women on the Move: The Neglected Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain

Jean-Christophe Dumont, John Martin and Gilles Spielvogel

2919: Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift

Örn B. Bodvarsson, Joshua Lewer and Hendrik Van den Berg

2918: Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study

Martina Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Doris Weichselbaumer

2917: The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Derek Jones and Takao Kato

2916: Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Ernesto Reuben and Arno Riedl

2915: Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany: The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Michael Fertig and Stefanie Schurer

2914: Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India

Sonia Bhalotra

2913: Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Eric Verhoogen

2912: The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Pietro Vertova

2911: Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Olaf Groh-Samberg

2910: The Taxation of Couples

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

2909: Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours

John Knowles

2908: Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands

Govert Bijwaard and Justus Veenman

2907: Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Rita Almeida and Ana Fernandes

2906: Modelling Volatilities and Conditional Correlations in Futures Markets with a Multivariate t Distribution

Bahram Pesaran and M. Hashem Pesaran

2905: Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

2904: Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR

Spyros Konstantopoulos

2903: How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

2902: Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence among Welfare Participants in Argentina

Rita Almeida and Emanuela Galasso

2901: Why Is Child Labor Illegal?

Sylvain Dessy and John Knowles

2900: The Evolution of Inflation and Unemployment: Explaining the Roaring Nineties

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis Snower

2899: The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Spouse Import

Helena Nielsen, Nina Smith and Aycan Celikaksoy

2898: Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin

Romain Aeberhardt, Denis Fougere, Julien Pouget and Roland Rathelot

2897: A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data

Corrado Andini

2896: Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Effects for Duration Outcomes

Govert Bijwaard

2895: Job Losses and Child Outcomes

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

2894: Spousal Influences on Parents' Non-Market Time Choices

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

2893: How Long Do Teacher Effects Persist?

Spyros Konstantopoulos

2892: Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras

Thomas (Tim) Gindling and Katherine Terrell

2891: Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants: The Case of The Netherlands

Govert Bijwaard

2890: The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

2889: Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development

Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik

2888: Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment

Peter Haan and Arne Uhlendorff

2887: Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?

Imed Drine and Christophe Rault

2886: Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

2885: Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Waller

2884: Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Almudena Sevilla

2883: Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon and Patrick G. Wall

2882: Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

2881: Social and Economic Determinants of Turkish Voter Choice in the 1995 Parliamentary Election

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

2880: Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Ludger Woessmann

2879: Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting

Steven Wu and Brian Roe

2878: Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model

Pushkar Maitra and Sarmistha Pal

2877: Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Knut Røed and Lars Westlie

2876: Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy: The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

Daniele Checchi and Luca Flabbi

2875: The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

James Heckman

2874: Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Thepthida Sopraseuth

2873: Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

2872: When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

2871: Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Maurice Schiff

2870: Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

Supriya Sarnikar, Todd Sorensen and Ronald Oaxaca

2869: Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Ana Dammert

2868: How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest

2867: Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

Umut Oguzoglu

2866: Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed

Gulcin Gumus and Tracy Regan

2865: Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Lex Borghans and Ben Kriechel

2864: Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

2863: Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers

2862: A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger and Matthias Wrede

2861: How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment

Erkki Koskela and Ronnie Schöb

2860: Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales

Arthur van Soest, Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

2859: Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

2858: Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Santanu Chatterjee, Paola Giuliano and Ilker Kaya

2857: The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic

Robert Oxoby

2856: Employment and Deadweight Loss Effects of Observed Non-Wage Labor Costs

Giovanna Aguilar Andía and Silvio Rendon

2855: Why Are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?

Anna Maria Mayda

2854: Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

2853: First Time Parents’ Paid Work Patterns in Amsterdam: Father’s Part-Time Work, Family’s Immigrant Background and Mother’s Work for Pay When the Infant Is Very Young

Cecile Wetzels

2852: Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92

Sarmistha Pal and Sugata Ghosh