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12401: Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Fredrik W. Andersson, Henrik Jordahl and Jens Josephson

12400: How Effective Are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data

Daniel Kühnle

12399: Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy

Alois Stutzer, Michael Baltensperger and Armando Meier

12398: Business Culture: The Role of Personal and Impersonal Business Relationships on Market Efficiency

Manuel Munoz-Herrera and Ernesto Reuben

12397: Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?

Karen Mumford and Cristina Sechel

12396: Neighbourhood and School Poverty Simultaneously Predicting Educational Achievement, Taking into Account Timing and Duration of Exposure

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tom Kleinepier and Maarten van Ham

12395: Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?

Gary Charness, Thomas Garcia, Theo Offerman and Marie Claire Villeval

12394: Risk-Adjusted Returns to Education

Judith Delaney

12393: Financial Crises and Liberalization: Progress or Reversals?

Orkun Saka, Nauro Campos, Paul De Grauwe, Yuemei Ji and Angelo Martelli

12392: Questioning the Stereotype of the "Malingering Bureaucrat": Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany

Stephanie Prümer and Claus Schnabel

12391: Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

12390: The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

12389: Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Timothy Hatton

12388: Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2017

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

12387: Sufficient Statistics for Frictional Wage Dispersion and Growth

Rune Vejlin and Gregory Veramendi

12386: When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health

Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater

12385: Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development

Dong Frank Wu and Friedrich Schneider

12384: The Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment: Evidence from France

Pierre Cahuc, Franck Malherbet and Julien Prat

12383: Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care

Ayako Kondo

12382: Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport

12381: Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?

Mutlu Yuksel, Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Cahit Guven

12380: Trade and Worker Deskilling

Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin

12379: Labor Productivity during the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing

Robert Hart

12378: Testing the Reference-Dependent Model: A Laboratory Search Experiment

Takahiro Miura, Keigo Inukai and Masaru Sasaki

12377: Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

12376: An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions

Brian A. Bourquard and Steven Y. Wu

12375: Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How Do Parents React?

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

12374: Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China

Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

12373: Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules

Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré and Annalisa Luporini

12372: Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China

Teevrat Garg, Matthew Gibson and Fanglin Sun

12371: Culture, Gender, and Math: A Revisitation

Brindusa Anghel, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

12370: Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind

Jackline Wahba and Chuhong Wang

12369: What Do We Really Know about the Employment Effects of the UK's National Minimum Wage?

Mike Brewer, Thomas Crossley and Federico Zilio

12368: Who Is in Favor of Immigration

Gil Epstein and Shirit Katav-Herz

12367: Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

12366: A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of the Running Variable

Otavio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet and Steven Dieterle

12365: Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries?

Kurt Mitman and Stanislav Rabinovich

12364: Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012: An Analysis by Gender

Barbara M. Fraumeni and Michael S. Christian

12363: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

James Heckman and Ganesh Karapakula

12362: The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference

James Heckman and Ganesh Karapakula

12361: Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski and Grzegorz Kosiorowski

12360: Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change

Raquel Fernández, Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo

12359: Monetary Policy Transmission to Consumer Financial Stress and Durable Consumption

Dimitris Georgarakos and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

12358: The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Kai Ingwersen and Stephan Thomsen

12357: The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from Russia

Tatiana Garanina and Alexander Muravyev

12356: The Marriage Age U-Shape

Pavel Jelnov

12355: Comparison Dimensions and Similarity: Addressing Individual Heterogeneity

Pavel Jelnov

12354: Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party

Artyom Jelnov and Pavel Jelnov

12353: Intertemporal Labor Supply and Intra-Household Commitment

Pierre-André Chiappori, José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Jorge Velilla

12352: Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

12351: Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly

Marco de Pinto and Laszlo Goerke

12350: The Distribution of Well-Being among Europeans

Andrea Brandolini and Alfonso Rosolia

12349: Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Zhengyu Cai, Karen Maguire and John Winters

12348: How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior

Loukas Balafoutas and Matthias Sutter

12347: An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez and Matthias Sutter

12346: Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatch in Europe: A Review of the Literature

Giorgio Brunello and Patricia Wruuck

12345: Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang and Terry Sicular

12344: Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser

12343: Targeting Disability Insurance Applications with Screening

Mathilde Godard, Pierre Koning and Maarten Lindeboom

12342: Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Paul Marx

12341: Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation

Petri Böckerman, Andrew Conlin and Rauli Svento

12340: Modelling the Dynamic Effects of Elective Hospital Admissions on Emergency Levels in England

Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Catia Nicodemo and Stuart Redding

12339: Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Wojciech Hardy and Yang Du

12338: Math Scores in High Stakes Grades

Giorgio Brunello and David Kiss

12337: Passive Choices and Cognitive Spillovers

Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald and Jonas Radbruch

12336: Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner and Michael Wyrwich

12335: Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni Gonzalez, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

12334: Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability

Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman and Eleonora Patacchini

12333: Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Thomas Zwick

12332: The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Badi Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Haci M. Karatas

12331: The Pure Effect of Social Preferences on Regional Location Choices: The Evolving Dynamics of Convergence to a Steady State Population Distribution

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski and Grzegorz Kosiorowski

12330: The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers

Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdín, Mariana Chávez and Andrés Dean

12329: Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects among Local Labour Markets in China

Xiaodong Gong, Jiti Gao and Xuan Liang

12328: The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda

Kati Kraehnert, Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio and Roberto Nisticò

12327: Workers in the Crowd: The Labour Market Impact of the Online Platform Economy

Michele Cantarella and Chiara Strozzi

12326: Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust

Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova and Vladimir Otrachshenko

12325: The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch

12324: What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?

Pavel Jelnov

12323: Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms

Marcus Eliason, Lena Hensvik, Francis Kramarz and Oskar Skans

12322: The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada: A Multivariate Analysis

Tony Fang, Byron Lee, Andrew R. Timming and Di Fan

12321: Faces of Joblessness in Australia: An Anatomy of Employment Barriers Using Household Data

Herwig Immervoll, Daniele Pacifico and Marieke Vandeweyer

12320: Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes

Joshua Graff Zivin, Lisa Kahn and Matthew Neidell

12319: Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students

Harry Holzer and Zeyu Xu

12318: Military Intervention via Drone Strikes

Rafat Mahmood and Michael Jetter

12317: Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court

Maxwell R. Mindock and Glen R. Waddell

12316: Life Expectancy and Parental Education

Mathias Huebener

12314: Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

Angela Cools, Raquel Fernández and Eleonora Patacchini

12313: The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China

Xin Zhang, Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

12312: Intergenerational Mobility: An Assessment for Latin American Countries

Hasan Bilgehan Yavuz, Francesco Pastore and Ömer Doruk

12311: Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity: The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China

Chunbing Xing and Yan Sun

12310: Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle

Richard Blundell, David Goll, Monica Costa Dias and Costas Meghir

12309: How Stable Is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries

Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx

12308: Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Sascha Becker, Ana Fernandes and Doris Weichselbaumer

12307: Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?

Simon Briole and Eric Maurin

12306: The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking

Laura Hospido, Luc Laeven and Ana Lamo

12305: The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection

Sebastian Butschek and Jan Sauermann

12304: The Unexpected Consequences of Job Search Monitoring: Disability Instead of Employment?

Octave De Brouwer, Elisabeth Leduc and Ilan Tojerow

12303: Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?

Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi, Dan Weltmann, Saehee Kang, Jung Ook Kim and William Castellano

12302: Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU

Marco Colagrossi, Béatrice d'Hombres and Sylke Schnepf

12301: The Long-Term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright