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2817: The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Guillermina Jasso

2816: Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?

Olivia Ekert-Jaffe and Shoshana Grossbard

2815: Population Policies, Fertility, Women’s Human Capital, and Child Quality

T. Schultz

2814: New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Stephen Jenkins and John Micklewright

2813: Self-Employment and Parenthood: Exploring the Impact of Partners, Children and Gender

Ruta Aidis and Cecile Wetzels

2812: Hooliganism and Police Tactics: Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?

Panu Poutvaara and Mikael Priks

2811: Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

2810: East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a “Double Disadvantage” vis-à-vis Stayers?

Anzelika Zaiceva

2809: Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap

Carlos Gradín

2808: Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing

Marian Rizov and Patrick Walsh

2807: On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation

Javier Ortega and Laurence Rioux

2806: Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages

Markus Pannenberg

2805: Offshoring and Unemployment

Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

2804: Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions

Joaquin Andaluz, Miriam Marcén and José Alberto Molina

2803: Explaining Women’s Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women’s Work

Sandra Black and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

2802: The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation

Lidia Farre and Francis Vella

2801: How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar and Jan Svejnar

2800: What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Conny Wunsch and Michael Lechner

2799: Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities in Collective Bargaining Agreements

Louis Christofides and Paris Nearchou

2798: Unemployment in East and West Europe

Daniel Münich and Jan Svejnar

2797: Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Andrea Conte and Marco Vivarelli

2796: When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus

Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina

2795: Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Daniele Checchi, Gianfranco De Simone and Riccardo Faini

2794: Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?

Lena Nekby, Peter Skogman Thoursie and Lars Vahtrik

2793: Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis

Emmanuel Dhyne, Catherine Fuss, Mohammad Pesaran and Patrick Sevestre

2792: Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and their Descendants

Dimitris Georgarakos and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

2791: China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies

Jan Svejnar

2790: Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

2789: Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Kristen Monaco, Kay Porter and Aldo Rustichini

2788: A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

2787: Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle

Dolores Messer and Stefan Wolter

2786: The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence

Anders Böhlmark and Mikael Lindahl

2785: Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement

Arthur van Soest, Arie Kapteyn and Julie Zissimopoulos

2784: Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?

Vincenzo Caponi and Miana Plesca

2783: Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Javier Birchenall and Rodrigo Soares

2782: Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Helmut Fryges and Joachim Wagner

2781: The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain: A Preliminary Analysis

Monojit Chatterji and Karen Mumford

2780: The Rate of Learning-by-Doing: Estimates from a Search-Matching Model

Julien Prat

2779: National Origin Wage Differentials in France: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Romain Aeberhardt and Julien Pouget

2778: Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers

Marco Francesconi

2777: Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark

Jens Bonke, Mette Deding, Mette Lausten and Leslie Stratton

2776: Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil

Diana Kruger, Rodrigo Soares and Matias Berthelon

2775: Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment

Dan-Olof Rooth

2774: Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Renuka Metcalfe and Peter Sloane

2773: Returns to Type or Tenure?

Roland A. Amann and Tobias Klein

2772: A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap

Thomas Bauer, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Vincent Hildebrand and Mathias Sinning

2771: Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

Rodrigo Soares

2770: Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?

Giuseppe Fiori, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta and Fabio Schiantarelli

2769: The Role of Association Agreements within European Union Enlargement to Central and Eastern European Countries

Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

2768: Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children

Marco Cipriani, Paola Giuliano and Olivier Jeanne

2767: The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

Daniel Hamermesh and Reuben Gronau

2766: Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle: New Evidence from Internal Migration

Raven E. Saks and Abigail Wozniak

2765: Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment

Armin Falk and Christian Zehnder

2764: Implicit Discrimination in Hiring: Real World Evidence

Dan-Olof Rooth

2763: Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Giacomo Corneo and Olivier Jeanne

2762: Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Francesca Francavilla

2761: College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables

Tobias Klein

2760: Replication in Economics

Daniel Hamermesh

2759: The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?

Martin Nordin and Dan-Olof Rooth

2758: Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Deng Quheng

2757: Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Jennifer Hunt

2756: Diagnostic Tests of Cross Section Independence for Nonlinear Panel Data Models

Cheng Hsiao, Mohammad Pesaran and Andreas Pick

2755: Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence

Richard Easterlin and Laura Angelescu McVey

2754: Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment

Gabriel Felbermayr and Julien Prat

2753: Physical Dating Violence Among College Students in Chile

Jocelyn A. Lehrer, Vivian L. Lehrer, Evelyn Lehrer and Zhenxiang Zhao

2752: Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development

David Johnston, Manisha Shah and Michael Shields

2751: Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises

Hong Tan, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov and Anna Lukiyanova

2750: The Power of the Family

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

2749: Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups

Guillermina Jasso and Samuel Kotz

2748: Maximum Fee vs. Child Benefit: A Welfare Analysis of Swedish Child-Care Fee Reform

Anne Brink, Katarina Nordblom and Roger Wahlberg

2747: Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure

Hartmut Egger, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

2746: Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training

Andrea Bassanini and Giorgio Brunello

2745: Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements

Fabian Lange and Douglas Gollin

2744: Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-Run Regularity

Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

2743: Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Eran Yashiv

2742: Labor Retrenchment Laws and their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation

Kaushik Basu, Gary Fields and Shub Debgupta

2741: Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Thomas Cornelissen and Olaf Hübler

2740: Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Michael Lechner and Stephan Wiehler

2739: High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models: Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch

Yves Zenou

2738: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?

Tobias Klein

2737: Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient

David Johnston, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

2736: Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das and Bhaskar Dutta

2735: Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2734: Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries

José Alberto Molina, Maria Navarro Paniagua and Ian Walker

2733: Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

2732: Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Emrah Arbak and Marie Claire Villeval

2731: Employment Performance and Institutions: New Answers to an Old Question

Bruno Amable, Lilas Demmou and Donatella Gatti

2730: Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

2729: The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited

Alexandra Spitz-Oener

2728: Urban Density and Pupil Attainment

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

2727: Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?

Einat Neuman and Shoshana Neuman

2726: How Does the Presence of Children Affect Dependent Care? A Psycho-Economic Approach

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miriam Marcén and José Alberto Molina

2725: The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov

2724: The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

2723: From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

2722: Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation

Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

2721: Recruitment and Job Applications of Older Jobseekers from the Establishments’ Perspective

Lutz Bellmann and Martin Brussig

2720: Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?

Michael Rosholm and Rune Vejlin

2719: International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay: The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Arnaud Dupuy and Daniel Fernández-Kranz

2718: Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets: Money in the Matching Function

Etienne Lehmann and Bruno Van der Linden