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8961: Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri

8960: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts

8959: In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno

Joshua Angrist, Erich Battistin and Daniela Vuri

8958: The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Seth Gershenson and Erdal Tekin

8957: Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?

Bente Jensen, Peter Jensen and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

8956: Neighborhood Effects in Education

Carlo Leone Del Bello, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

8955: Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money

Joseph Deutsch, Gil Epstein and Alon Nir

8954: Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools

Benjamin Beranek, Robin Cubitt and Simon Gächter

8953: Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Tjaša Bjedov, Thierry Madies and Marie Claire Villeval

8952: Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

8951: The Effects of Binding and Non-Binding Job Search Requirements

Patrick Arni and Amelie Schiprowski

8950: Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules

Colin Green, Fernando Lozano and Rob Simmons

8949: Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU

Klara Kaliskova

8948: Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen and Roland Winkler

8947: Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

8946: Employment and Hours over the Business Cycle in a Model with Search Frictions

Noritaka Kudoh, Hiroaki Miyamoto and Masaru Sasaki

8945: Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry

Sonia A. Agudelo and Hector Sala

8944: Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies

Arindrajit Dube and Ben Zipperer

8943: Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

John Addison, Pedro Portugal and Hugo Vilares

8942: Bubble Economics and Structural Change: The Cases of Spain and France Compared

Pablo Agnese and Jana Hromcová

8941: Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Long and Markus Poschke

8940: Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Long and Markus Poschke

8939: Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Oliver Falck, Constantin Mang and Ludger Woessmann

8938: Robots at Work

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels

8937: Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis

Sinem Ayhan

8936: Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models

Jason Fletcher and Norma Padrón

8935: Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia

Joseph J. Sabia and Mark Wooden

8934: Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

8933: Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms

Juan Campaña, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

8932: Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants

Tiit Tammaru, Magnus Strömgren, Maarten van Ham and Alexander Danzer

8931: Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China

Chunbing Xing and Jianwei Xu

8930: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

8929: Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga, Niels-Hugo Blunch and Nabanita Datta Gupta

8928: Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru

Rosamaria Dasso Arana, Fernando Fernandez and Hugo Ñopo

8927: Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda

Lucia Ferrone and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

8926: The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia

Niels-Hugo Blunch and Caterina Cruggeri Laderchi

8925: Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance: An Analysis of Immigrants in France

Mehtap Akgüc and Ana Ferrer

8924: Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Joan Monras

8923: Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li

8922: Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs

Oliver Falck, Alfred Lameli and Jens Ruhose

8921: The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy

Francesco Pastore

8920: Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience

Thomas Beissinger, Nathalie Chusseau and Joel Hellier

8919: United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Claus Schnabel

8918: How the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor: A Preliminary Exploration with Historical Data

Harriet Duleep and Xingfei Liu

8917: The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010

Jean-Yves Duclos and Mathieu Pellerin

8916: Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo

8915: Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph S. Shapiro

8914: The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos and Michael I. Norton

8913: The Earnings and Employment Losses Before Entering the Disability System

María Cervini-Plá and Judit Vall-Castello

8912: The Effects of Over-Indebtedness on Individual Health

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Santiago Budría

8911: Long Work Hours and Health in China

Peng Nie, Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

8910: Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello and Eve Caroli

8909: Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?

Wolter Hassink and Roberto M. Fernandez

8908: Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Terence Cheng, Joan Costa-i-Font and Nattavudh Powdthavee

8907: Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up

Kyle Rozema and Nicolas Ziebarth

8906: On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children

Daniel Houser, John List, Marco Piovesan, Anya Samek and Joachim Winter

8905: Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

8904: Child Care Before Age Two and the Development of Language and Numeracy: Evidence from a Lottery

Nina Drange and Tarjei Havnes

8903: Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Jens Ruhose and Guido Schwerdt

8902: Finance for All: The Impact of Financial Literacy Training in Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain

Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva and Gema Zamarro

8901: Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany

Regina Riphahn and Michael Zibrowius

8900: 'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz

8899: The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

8898: GTL Regression: A Linear Model with Skewed and Thick-Tailed Disturbances

Wim Vijverberg and Takuya Hasebe

8897: Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets

Michael Savage and Tim Callan

8896: Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks

Vincent Boucher and Bernard Fortin

8895: The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Marta Lachowska and Michal Myck

8894: Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France

Juan Carluccio, Denis Fougere and Erwan Gautier

8893: Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Andreas Kostøl and Magne Mogstad

8892: Compulsory Military Service and Future Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Muhammad Asali

8891: The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession

Laura Hospido and Eva Moreno-Galbis

8890: Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke and Christian Merkl

8889: Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market

Bart Cockx and Corinna Ghirelli

8888: A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Austan D. Goolsbee and Alan Krueger

8887: Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee and Sarani Saha

8886: Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

Manuela Deidda, Adriana Di Liberto, Marta Foddi and Giovanni Sulis

8885: Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Guillaume Vermeylen

8884: Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment

Benedikt Herz and Thijs van Rens

8883: Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand

Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

8882: Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Merle Zwiers, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

8881: International Migration Opportunities and Occupational Choice: A Case Study of Philippine Nurses 2002 to 2014

Mary Arends-Kuenning, Alvaro Calara and Stella Go

8880: Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

Béatrice d'Hombres and Luca Nunziata

8879: The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms

Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer

8878: The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour

Alessandro Cigno, Giorgia Giovannetti and Laura Sabani

8877: The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation

Lanse Minkler and Nishith Prakash

8876: The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal

Francesca Marchetta and David Sahn

8875: The Effect of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM

David Sjoquist and John Winters

8874: Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Sonja Kassenboehmer, Stefanie Schurer and Felix Leung

8873: Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?

Stefanie Schurer, Sonja Kassenboehmer and Felix Leung

8872: Network Structure and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Youjin Hahn, Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

8871: Risk-Sharing and Student Loan Policy: Consequences for Students and Institutions

Douglas Webber

8870: The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?

Yoichi Arai, Hidehiko Ichimura and Daiji Kawaguchi

8869: Subject Specific League Tables and Students' Application Decisions

Arnaud Chevalier and Xiaoxuan Jia

8868: Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries

Anis Omri, Saida Daly, Christophe Rault and Anissa Chaibi

8867: The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Giorgio Di Pietro

8866: Reciprocal Climate Negotiators

Karine Nyborg

8865: Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski and Maria Vagliasindi

8864: "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked": Population, Crime, and the 2013 Government Shutdown

Ricard Gil and Mario Macis

8863: Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

John Sessions and John D. Skåtun

8862: Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age

Raymond Montizaan, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge