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2296: Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment

Antonio Cabrales, Gary Charness and Marie Claire Villeval

2295: Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi

Adama Konseiga, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu and Yazoumé Yé

2294: ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India

Rakesh Basant, Simon Commander, Rupert Harrison and Naercio Menezes-Filho

2293: Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka

2292: Peers at Work

Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti

2291: Life Cycle Effects of Job Displacement in Brazil

Jasper Hoek

2290: Copayments in the German Health System: Does It Work?

Boris Augurzky, Thomas Bauer and Sandra Schaffner

2289: Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

2288: Institution Formation in Public Goods Games

Michael Kosfeld, Akira Okada and Arno Riedl

2287: Brain Drain from Turkey: An Investigation of Students' Return Intentions

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

2286: Does Employment Protection Create Its Own Political Support?

Björn Brügemann

2285: Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments

Daniela Del Boca and Robert M. Sauer

2284: Equity and Equality

Jean-Yves Duclos

2283: Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter?

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch, Sanne Schroll and Jan Rose Skaksen

2282: The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Sami Miaari and Robert M. Sauer

2281: Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data

Magnus Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

2280: Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability

Konstantinos Tatsiramos

2279: Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

Maria Loureiro, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Daniela Vuri

2278: How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down

Jennifer Hunt

2277: Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Volker Grossmann and Panu Poutvaara

2276: Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Filipe Almeida-Santos and Karen Mumford

2275: Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2274: 1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the US: Dispersion from States of Immigration?

Mark Ellis and Jamie Goodwin-White

2273: Part-Time Pensions and Part-Time Work in Sweden

Eskil Wadensjö

2272: Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

James P. Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner and Jeremy Weinstein

2271: Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?

Helena Nielsen and Michael Svarer

2270: The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Michael Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh and Philippe Weil

2269: Dispersion or Concentration for the 1.5 Generation? Destination Choices of the Children of Immigrants in the US

Jamie Goodwin-White

2268: Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia

Alison Booth and Margi Wood

2267: Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong and Holger Görg

2266: State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

Jörgen Hansen, Magnus Lofstrom and Xuelin Zhang

2265: Phillips Curves and Unemployment Dynamics: A Critique and a Holistic Perspective

Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala and Dennis J. Snower

2264: The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?

Olmo Silva

2263: Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics

Pietro Garibaldi

2262: A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates: Algorithm and Example

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

2261: Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates

Jörgen Hansen and Magnus Lofstrom

2260: Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training

Jerome Adda, Christian Dustmann, Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin

2259: Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior

Thomas Bauer, Silja Göhlmann and Mathias Sinning

2258: Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?

Sumon Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova and Jeffrey Nugent

2257: Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services

Antonello D'Agostino, Roberta Serafini and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

2256: Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'

Michael P. Pflüger and Jens Suedekum

2255: Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Hilmar Schneider and Arne Uhlendorff

2254: Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the Italian Social Services

Michele Mosca, Marco Musella and Francesco Pastore

2253: Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records

Tuomas Pekkarinen and Chris Riddell

2252: How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility?

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

2251: Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

Wiji Arulampalam and Sonia Bhalotra

2250: Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Rafael Lalive and Maria Alejandra Cattaneo

2249: Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Guido Friebel and Michael Raith

2248: Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm

Eswar Prasad and Raghuram Rajan

2247: The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers

Hans Bloemen

2246: Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study

Arie Kapteyn, Pierre-Carl Michaud, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest

2245: Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

2244: Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: Ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Uwe Sunde

2243: Panels with Nonstationary Multifactor Error Structures

George Kapetanios, Mohammad Pesaran and Takashi Yamagata

2242: Do Wages Compensate for Anticipated Working Time Restrictions? Evidence from Seasonal Employment in Austria

Emilia Del Bono and Andrea Weber

2241: Is There a Trade-off Between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?

Dominik Hübler and Olaf Hübler

2240: The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior

Emily Cabegin

2239: Corporate and Personal Income Tax Declarations

Laszlo Goerke

2238: Insuring Displaced Workers: Human Capital Losses and Severance Pay Design

Shuaizhang Feng and Donald Parsons

2237: Is Man Doomed to Progress?

Claudia Senik

2236: The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Simon Gächter and Benedikt Herrmann

2235: Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband-Wife Families

John Pencavel

2234: New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Olmo Silva

2233: Money and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study of Medium-Sized Lottery Wins

Jonathan Gardner and Andrew Oswald

2232: Earnings-Related Severance Pay

Laszlo Goerke

2231: Sheepskin or Prozac: The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health

Arnaud Chevalier and Leon Feinstein

2230: A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes

Brian Krogh Graversen and Peter Jensen

2229: Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo and Giovanni Tonon

2228: Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey

Ken Clark and Joanne Lindley

2227: Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Charles Bellemare and Bruce S. Shearer

2226: The Tax System Incidence on Unemployment: A Country-Specific Analysis for the OECD Economies

Jose Garcia and Hector Sala

2225: Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato and Uwe Sunde

2224: The Location of Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or ‘Va-et-Vient’?

Augustin de Coulon and François-Charles Wolff

2223: Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships: A Cross Country Evidence

Marcel Neutel and Almas Heshmati

2222: Product Market Regulation and Endogenous Union Formation

Monique Ebell and Christian Haefke

2221: The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes

René Böheim and Andrea Weber

2220: Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Jens Suedekum

2219: Quantifying the Cost of Passive Smoking on Child Health: Evidence from Children’s Cotinine Samples

Paul Frijters, Michael Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price and Jenny Williams

2218: Happiness and Loss Aversion: When Social Participation Dominates Comparison

Maarten Vendrik and Geert Woltjer

2217: Crises, What Crises?

Nauro Campos, Cheng Hsiao and Jeffrey Nugent

2216: People's Trust: The Design of a Survey-based Experiment

John Ermisch and Diego Gambetta

2215: The German Labor Market: Still Adjusting Badly?

Werner Eichhorst and Lutz C. Kaiser

2214: Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

2213: Is Crime Contagious?

Jens Ludwig and Jeffrey Kling

2212: The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation

Carmel Chiswick

2211: Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs and Jan van Ours

2210: Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay over the Cycle

Robert A. Hart

2209: Friendship Ties and Geographical Mobility: Evidence from the BHPS

Michèle Belot and John Ermisch

2208: Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2207: Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti

2206: ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Menzie Chinn and Robert Fairlie

2205: Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2204: Education Policy and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Evidence from the Finnish Comprehensive School Reform

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

2203: Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Comi and Daniela Sonedda

2202: Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

Alberto Chong and Jose Galdo

2201: Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Robert Fairlie and Harry Krashinsky

2200: How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Rafael Lalive

2199: Extremism within the Family

Gil Epstein

2198: Fixed and Mixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis

Spyros Konstantopoulos

2197: A History of Canadian Recruitment of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Circa 1980-2001

Don DeVoretz