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1917: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Robert Fairlie

1916: Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

1915: The Economics of Dual Job Holding: A Job Portfolio Model of Labor Supply

Francesco Renna and Ronald Oaxaca

1914: CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data

Takao Kato and Cheryl Long

1913: Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

1912: Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Daniel Beltran, Kuntal Das and Robert Fairlie

1911: Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects

Orley Ashenfelter

1910: Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

1909: The Scots May Be Brave But They Are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

David Bell and David Blanchflower

1908: Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families: A Structural Approach

Antonia Parera-Nicolau and Karen Mumford

1907: Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages

Jakob Munch and Jan Skaksen

1906: Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity

Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich Ursprung and Ludger Woessmann

1905: Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Thomas Dohmen

1904: Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation

Christian Holzner and Andrey Launov

1903: On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Panu Poutvaara

1902: The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model

Kai Christoffel, Keith Kuester and Tobias Linzert

1901: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

1900: Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility

Ana Rute Cardoso

1899: Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk

Refet Gürkaynak and Justin Wolfers

1898: Cross-Sectional Heterogeneity in Price-Cost Margins and the Extent of Rent Sharing at the Sector and Firm Level in France

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

1897: Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment

Tuomas Pekkarinen

1896: The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics

Kai Christoffel and Tobias Linzert

1895: Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?

Lorenz Götte and David Huffman

1894: Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?

Alexandre Baclet, Fabien Dell and Katharina Wrohlich

1893: Unreported Labour

Erling Barth and Tone Ognedal

1892: Oligopoly and Outsourcing

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Howard Wall

1891: Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Joachim Frick and Jan Goebel

1890: Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient

Lorenz Götte and David Huffman

1889: Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration

Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara

1888: Employer Size or Skill-Group Size Effect on Wages?

Erling Barth and Harald Dale-Olsen

1887: Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy

Adriaan Kalwij and Frederic Vermeulen

1886: A Note on Decompositions in Fixed Effects Models in the Presence of Time-Invariant Characteristics

Axel Heitmueller

1885: Demographic Alternatives for Aging Industrial Countries: Increased Total Fertility Rate, Labor Force Participation, or Immigration

Robert Holzmann

1884: Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

Alison Booth and Jan van Ours

1883: Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Eric Gould, Victor Lavy and M. Daniele Paserman

1882: Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment

Daniel Henderson, Alexandre Olbrecht and Solomon Polachek

1881: Preferences, Gender Segregation and Affirmative Action

Peter Sloane, Suzanne Grazier and Richard Jones

1880: Cultural Transmission and Discrimination

Maria Saez-Marti and Yves Zenou

1879: Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

1878: One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata

Andrea Conte and Marco Vivarelli

1877: Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach

Zhong Zhao

1876: Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization

Lutz C. Kaiser

1875: Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: Evidence from a Skill Group Approach

Holger Bonin

1874: Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

1873: Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications

Zhong Zhao

1872: Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality

Martin Kahanec

1871: Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland

Holger Bonin

1870: Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market

Michael Ransom and Ronald Oaxaca

1869: Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1868: Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

1867: The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies

Nauro Campos and Francesco Giovannoni

1866: Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates

John Addison, C. R. Barrett and William Siebert

1865: The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset

Ana Rute Cardoso and Miguel Portela

1864: From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

1863: International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Josef Falkinger and Volker Grossmann

1862: Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching

Michele Pellizzari

1861: The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Yves Zenou

1860: The Cost of Caring for Young Children

Dan Rosenbaum and Christopher Ruhm

1859: Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments

Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso and Miguel Almunia

1858: Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations

Richard Akresh

1857: Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings

Sarah Crichton, Steven Stillman and Dean Hyslop

1856: An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

David Blanchflower and Jon Wainwright

1855: Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

1854: Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?

Kenn Ariga, Giorgio Brunello, Roki Iwahashi and Lorenzo Rocco

1853: Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative

Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie

1852: Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market

Harminder Battu, McDonald Mwale and Yves Zenou

1851: The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

William E. Encinosa , Martin Gaynor and James Rebitzer

1850: Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions

Denis Fougere and Thierry Kamionka

1849: Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

1848: Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

1847: Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and Thomas Siedler

1846: Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching

Christopher Bollinger and Barry Hirsch

1845: Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Werner Eichhorst and Ole Wintermann

1844: Tournaments and Multiple Productive Inputs: The Case of Performance Enhancing Drugs

Kai Konrad

1843: Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

1842: O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

1841: Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns

Alexander Koch and Eloic Peyrache

1840: Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Michael Beenstock, Barry Chiswick and Ari Paltiel

1839: Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

John Micklewright and Gyula Nagy

1838: Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex

José A.M. Borghans, Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

1837: Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

1836: Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino

1835: Health Determinants in Urban China

Zhong Zhao

1834: Immigration and Public Spending

René Böheim and Karin Mayr-Dorn

1833: Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Anders Poulsen and Marie Claire Villeval

1832: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon and Ian Walker

1831: Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach

Marko Koethenbuerger, Panu Poutvaara and Paola Profeta

1830: The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Amelie Constant

1829: A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes. A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries

Anna Ferragina, Giorgia Giovannetti and Francesco Pastore

1828: Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy

Dell’Aringa, Carlo, Claudio Lucifora and Federica Origo

1827: Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Patrick Puhani and Andrea M. Weber

1826: Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Atanas Christev, Olga Kupets and Hartmut Lehmann

1825: Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods

Denis Fougere, Jacqueline Pradel and Muriel Roger

1824: Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland and Gerlinde Verbist

1823: The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One?

Hector Sala and José Silva

1822: Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference

Myeong-Su Yun

1821: Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts

Daniela Del Boca and Christopher Flinn

1820: SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

1819: Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Adama Konseiga

1818: Young Women's Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of High School Completion

Evelyn Lehrer