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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

2821: Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?

Cecile Wetzels

2820: Subjective Beliefs and Schooling Decisions

Christian Belzil

2819: The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lisa Lynch

2818: Entrepreneurship in the UK

David Blanchflower and Chris Shadforth

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