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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 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 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 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

2196: Testing Dependence among Serially Correlated Multi-Category Variables

Mohammad Pesaran and Allan Timmermann

2195: Working Hours in Japan: Who Is Time-Privileged?

Scott Fuess

2194: A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation

Etienne Lehmann

2193: The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Qingwei Wang

2192: Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain

Pablo Brañas-Garza and Shoshana Neuman

2191: The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

2190: Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

Eric I. Knudsen, James Heckman, Judy L. Cameron and Jack P. Shonkoff

2189: Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities

Albert Saiz

2188: Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms

John Pencavel, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi

2187: Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes

Markus Frölich

2186: The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism

Lawrence Kahn

2185: Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Bernd Fitzenberger and Karsten Kohn

2184: Contributions of Zvi Griliches

James Heckman

2183: Intergenerational Transmission of 'Religious Capital': Evidence from Spain

Pablo Brañas-Garza and Shoshana Neuman

2182: Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison

Horst Entorf and Martina Lauk

2181: Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions: The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure

Erling Barth and Claudio Lucifora

2180: Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

2179: Transition with Heterogeneous Labor

Katalin Balla, Janos Köllő and Andras Simonovits

2178: Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline

Herve Boulhol, Sabien Dobbelaere and Sara Maioli

2177: The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Miguel Malo and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón

2176: The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

2175: Rottenberg and the Economics of Sport after 50 Years: An Evaluation

Peter Sloane

2174: U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?

José António Machado, Pedro Portugal and Juliana Guimaraes Cavalcanti

2173: An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini and Holly Sutherland

2172: A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation: A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Chris Klaveren, Bernard van Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

2171: Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

2170: Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Solomon Polachek and Carlos Seiglie

2169: Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Andrew Clark, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

2168: Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

2167: Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle

Guido Imbens and Lisa Lynch

2166: Age at Marriage and Marital Instability: Revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Evelyn Lehrer

2165: Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Anne Gielen and Jan van Ours

2164: Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Frank Fossen and Viktor Steiner

2163: Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Sonia Bhalotra and Arthur van Soest

2162: Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Jungho Kim and Arnstein Aassve

2161: Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Ruta Aidis and Saul Estrin

2160: Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth

Paola Giuliano and Marta Ruiz-Arranz

2159: Economic Surplus and Derived Demand

Ekkehart Schlicht

2158: Ten Do It Better, Do They? An Empirical Analysis of an Old Football Myth

Marco Caliendo and Dubravko Radic

2157: Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

2156: Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

John Bennett and Saul Estrin

2155: Remittances and the Brain Drain

Riccardo Faini

2154: Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

2153: Naturalisation and Socioeconomic Integration: The Case of the Netherlands

Pieter Bevelander and Justus Veenman

2152: China's Lesser Known Migrants

Deng Quheng and Björn Anders Gustafsson