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2117: What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries

Benno Torgler and Friedrich Schneider

2116: Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies

Etienne Lehmann

2115: Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

2114: The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Jose Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue and Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

2113: Career Consequences of Hyperbolic Time Preferences

Francesco Drago

2112: Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

2111: Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

2110: Home Ownership, Job Duration and Wages

Jakob Munch, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

2109: Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany

Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze and Alexander Spermann

2108: Friendship in a Public Good Experiment

Marco Haan, Peter Kooreman and Tineke Riemersma

2107: Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

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

2106: Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity

Jeffrey Carpenter, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

2105: Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Alessio Brown, Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

2104: Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

2103: Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2102: Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

2101: Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Magnus Lofstrom and Chunbei Wang

2100: Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany

Lena Jacobi and Jochen Kluve

2099: On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger and Hans-Friedrich Eckey

2098: Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century

Karsten Kohn

2097: Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Amit Bhandari and Almas Heshmati

2096: Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal and Bas van der Klaauw

2095: Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

2094: Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance

Giacomo De Giorgi and Michele Pellizzari

2093: Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Nauro Campos and Roman Horvath

2092: Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

2091: Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido Imbens and Oscar Mitnik

2090: Non-Pecuniary Returns to Higher Education: The Effect on Smoking Intensity in the UK

Alfonso Miranda and Massimiliano Bratti

2089: Keeping in Touch: A Benefit of Public Holidays

Joachim Merz and Lars Osberg

2088: Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated

Maurice Schiff

2087: How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

2086: Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon Bhaumik, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Shagun Krishnan

2085: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak

2084: Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

Christoph Wunder and Johannes Schwarze

2083: Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States

Claudia Senik

2082: Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

2081: Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison and Pierre Pestieau

2080: The Returns to Computer Use Revisited, Again

Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman and Mathieu Trépanier

2079: Hedonic Capital

Liam Graham and Andrew Oswald

2078: Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China

Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar and John Giles

2077: Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Andreas Ammermüller and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2076: Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage

Zvi Eckstein, Suqin Ge and Barbara Petrongolo

2075: New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser

2074: Compensation for Earnings Risk under Worker Heterogeneity

Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog and Dinand Webbink

2073: Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach

Gabriele Cardullo and Bruno Van der Linden

2072: Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales: What Do We Know?

Alan Manning and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2071: A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Simon Parker

2070: An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers

Andrew Oswald

2069: Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen

Holger Bonin and Hilmar Schneider

2068: From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia's "Great Leap Forward"?

Paul Frijters and Robert Gregory

2067: The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment

Alexander Spermann and Harald Strotmann

2066: The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)

Dennis Snower and Christian Merkl

2065: Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US

Winfried Koeniger and Marco Leonardi

2064: Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation

Alois Stutzer, Lorenz Götte and Michael Zehnder

2063: Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?

Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin

2062: Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

2061: Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems

Gadi Barlevy and H. N. Nagaraja

2060: Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman

Daniel Hamermesh, Caitlin Myers and Mark Pocock

2059: Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations

Matthias Kräkel

2058: Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?

Jean Kimmel and Rachel Connelly

2057: Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2056: Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff

2055: Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Hilmar Schneider, Werner Eichhorst and Klaus Zimmermann

2054: Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Matthias Kräkel and Dirk Sliwka

2053: Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Katharina Wrohlich

2052: The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence

Herbert Brücker and Cécily Defoort

2051: How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer

Olof Åslund, John Östh and Yves Zenou

2050: Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Martin Kahanec

2049: International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence

Herbert Brücker and Philipp Schröder

2048: Ugly Criminals

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

2047: Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance

Russell Davidson and Jean-Yves Duclos

2046: Racial Identity and Education

Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2045: Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe

Julian Messina and Giovanna Vallanti

2044: The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis

Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

2043: Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage

Leo Kaas and Paul Madden

2042: Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?

Paola Giuliano

2041: Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" Reform Using a True Natural Experiment

Marco Caliendo and Katharina Wrohlich

2040: Ethnosizing Immigrants

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

2039: Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Robert Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff

2038: New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Tor Eriksson

2037: Reconstructing School Segregation: On the Efficacy and Equity of Single-Sex Schooling

Sherrilyn Billger

2036: Start-up Success of Freelancers: New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Joachim Merz and Peter Paic

2035: Testing Exclusion Restrictions at Infinity in the Semiparametric Selection Model

Bruno Crépon

2034: Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Hans Baumgartner and Viktor Steiner

2033: 'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market

Olivier Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan and Kristian Orsini

2032: Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Luigi Benfratello, Fabio Schiantarelli and Alessandro Sembenelli

2031: Variance Estimation in a Random Coefficients Model

Ekkehart Schlicht and Johannes Ludsteck

2030: The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and their Implications for Retirement

Daniel Hamermesh

2029: Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke and Michael Reiter

2028: Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies

Einat Neuman and Shoshana Neuman

2027: Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Gilles Saint-Paul

2026: The Effect of Benefits on Single Motherhood in Europe

Libertad Gonzalez

2025: Beans for Breakfast? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model?

Olivier Bargain and Kristian Orsini

2024: Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Mikael Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson and Nils Gottfries

2023: The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe

Libertad Gonzalez and Tarja Viitanen

2022: Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara and Andreas Wagener

2021: Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

2020: The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Lorenz Götte, David Huffman and Stephan Meier

2019: The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market

Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer and Rainer Winkelmann

2018: The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy

Jochen Kluve