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1739: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Anders Bjorklund, Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug

1738: What Is Behind Stagnant Unemployment in Ukraine: The Role of the Informal Sector

Olga Kupets

1737: The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Roger Wilkins

1736: The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000

Barry Chiswick

1735: The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis

Solomon Polachek and Jun Xiang

1734: Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices

Almas Heshmati and Jong-Eun Oh

1733: Firm Productivity Dispersion and the Matching Role of UI Policy

Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv

1732: The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets

Herbert Buscher, Christian Dreger, Raul Ramos and Jordi Suriñach

1731: Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

1730: Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

1729: Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Panu Poutvaara

1728: What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

1727: Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes

Esfandiar Maasoumi and Almas Heshmati

1726: The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Barry Chiswick and Michael Wenz

1725: Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's Educational Attainment and Wages

Evelyn Lehrer

1724: Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ina Ganguli and Katherine Terrell

1723: Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Uwe Blien, Jens Suedekum and Katja Wolf

1722: Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked

Stéphane Auray and Samuel Danthine

1721: European Asylum Policy

Timothy Hatton

1720: The Existence and Persistence of Long Work Hours

Robert Drago, David Black and Mark Wooden

1719: Did Political Constraints Bind During Transition? Evidence from Czech Elections 1990-2002

Orla Doyle and Patrick Walsh

1718: The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform

Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl

1717: Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data

Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz and Jeffrey Smith

1716: What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002

Christian Bjørnskov, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Peder Pedersen

1715: Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

1714: A Model of Foreign-Born Transfers: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data

Don DeVoretz and Florin Vadean

1713: Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Alison Booth and Hiau Joo Kee

1712: Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach

Simon Parker

1711: Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

1710: On the Estimation and Forecasting of International Migration: How Relevant Is Heterogeneity Across Countries?

Herbert Brücker and Boriss Siliverstovs

1709: The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

1708: Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms

Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith and Mette Verner

1707: Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes

Jaan Masso, Raul Eamets and Kaia Philips

1706: Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

1705: Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

1704: Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP

Béatrice d'Hombres and Giorgio Brunello

1703: Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?

Alexander Koch and Hans-Theo Normann

1702: Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender

Luojia Hu and Christopher Taber

1701: The Impact on Nutrition of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Power

Habiba Djebbari

1700: Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Petra Todd

1699: The Unemployment Inflation Trade-Off in the Euro Area

Tobias Linzert

1698: Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001

Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater

1697: Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence from Fishermen in Toyama Bay

Jeffrey Carpenter and Erika Seki

1696: On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Axel Heitmueller and Kostas Mavromaras

1695: Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

1694: Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Howard Wall

1693: Can Democracy Educate a Society?

Hans Gersbach and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

1692: Don't Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour

Andrew Clark and Fabrice Etilé

1691: Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community

Jeffrey Carpenter and Erika Seki

1690: The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage: Transitions Between Different Labour Market States

Melanie K. Jones, Richard Jones, Philip D. Murphy and Peter Sloane

1689: Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs

Linda A. Bell

1688: How Do Marital Status, Wage Rates, and Work Commitment Interact?

Avner Ahituv and Robert Lerman

1687: On-The-Job Search and Sorting

Pieter Gautier, C. N. Teulings and Aico van Vuuren

1686: Educational Attainment and Child Labor: Do Subsidies Work?

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Abhra Roy

1685: An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation

Rasmus Lentz and Dale Mortensen

1684: The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel and Conny Wunsch

1683: The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?

Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc

1682: Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment

Andrea Galeotti and Gerrit Mueller

1681: Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

Daniele Checchi and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

1680: The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper

Daniel Hamermesh and Joel Slemrod

1679: The Perverse Effects of Partial Employment Protection Reform: Experience Rating and French Older Workers

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Béatrice Sédillot

1678: Optimum Income Taxation and Layoff Taxes

Pierre Cahuc and Andre Zylberberg

1677: The Determinants of the Prevalence of Single Mothers: A Cross-Country Analysis

Libertad Gonzalez

1676: Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven's Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration

Xavier Chojnicki, Frédéric Docquier and Lionel Ragot

1675: Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy V. Masterov

1674: A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209

Caitlin Myers

1673: Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Christopher Ruhm

1672: Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies

Bertrand Koebel

1671: Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel

1670: Age-Specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labor Mobility

Anne Gielen and Jan van Ours

1669: Division of Labour and Directed Production

Marisa Ratto and Wendelin Schnedler

1668: Brain Drain in Developing Regions (1990-2000)

Frédéric Docquier, Olivier Lohest and Abdeslam Marfouk

1667: Low-Wage Employment in Portugal: A Mixed Logit Approach

Carlos Barros, Isabel Proença and José Vieira

1666: Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations

Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger and Arthur van Soest

1665: The Wage Curve Reloaded

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

1664: Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal

José Vieira, João Couto and Maria Teresa Tiago

1663: Unemployment and Transitions in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence from Individual Level Data

H. Mehmet Tasci and Aysıt Tansel

1662: Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility

John Budd and Karen Mumford

1661: From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency

Alexander Koch and Albrecht Morgenstern

1660: Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany

René Fahr and Uwe Sunde

1659: Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance

Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert

1658: Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany

Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner

1657: Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap

Alison Booth and Melvyn Coles

1656: Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?

Dolores Messer and Stefan Wolter

1655: Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

Gerard van den Berg

1654: Unhealthy Assimilation: Why Do Immigrants Converge to American Health Status Levels?

Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard

1653: The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Marco Caliendo and Reinhard Hujer

1652: Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?

Giorgina Brown, John Micklewright, Sylke Schnepf and Robert Waldmann

1651: Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers

Paul Devereux and Robert Hart

1650: Job Displacement Penalties in Japan

Michael Bognanno and Lisa Delgado

1649: Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Alison Booth and Melvyn Coles

1648: How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?

Victoria Prowse

1647: The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy

Tania Singer and Ernst Fehr

1646: The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Martijn Egas and Arno Riedl

1645: Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Till von Wachter

1644: Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery

Wolter Hassink and Pierre Koning

1643: Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion

Florian Englmaier and Achim Wambach

1642: U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration

Manuela Angelucci

1641: Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences

Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher and Michael Kosfeld

1640: Workplace Training in Europe

Andrea Bassanini, Alison Booth, Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Edwin Leuven