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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

2851: Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries

Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

2850: Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley Macleod and Daniel Parent

2849: Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany

Karsten Kohn and Alexander Lembcke

2848: The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac and Harris Selod

2847: Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children: Evidence from Rural India

Sarmistha Pal

2846: Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez and Todd C. Neumann

2845: Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis

Helene Dearing, Helmut Hofer, Christine Lietz, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Katharina Wrohlich

2844: Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa

Jean Bourdon, Markus Frölich and Katharina Michaelowa

2843: Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports

Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

2842: Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien and Thierry Magnac

2841: Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Pushkar Maitra and Sarmistha Pal

2840: Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles

Andrew Clark, Paul Frijters and Michael Shields

2839: Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Stephen Jenkins

2838: Are Ireland’s Immigrants Integrating into its Labour Market?

Alan Barrett and David Duffy

2837: Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects of Over-Skilling in the Australian Labour Market

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness and King Fok

2836: Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes

Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

2835: Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower

2834: Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

M. Daniele Paserman

2833: Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari and Silvia Redaelli

2832: Cognitive Dissonance, Pessimism, and Behavioral Spillover Effects

David Dickinson and Robert Oxoby

2831: Inequality and the GB2 Income Distribution

Stephen Jenkins

2830: Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia

2829: Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Eric Toulemonde

2828: Within-Groups Wage Inequality and Schooling: Further Evidence for Portugal

Corrado Andini

2827: Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Sher Verick

2826: Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Lena Nekby and Magnus Rödin

2825: Is There Too Little Immigration?

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Howard Wall

2824: Labour Market Policy and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off

Trine Filges, John Kennes, Birthe Larsen and Torben Tranaes

2823: Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment

Xiaojun Wang, Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li and Shi Li

2822: On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Nauro Campos and Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev