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11856: Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights

11855: Broadband Internet and Social Capital

Andrea Geraci, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Reggiani and Fabio Sabatini

11854: The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital

Jens Ruhose, Stephan Thomsen and Insa Weilage

11853: On the Job Search and Business Cycles

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

11852: Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Andreas Kettemann, Andreas Mueller and Josef Zweimüller

11851: Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality

Andreas Kuhn, Stefan Staubli, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller

11850: The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach

Lucía Gorjón, Sara de la Rica and Antonio Villar

11849: Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Impact on Employment and Skills

Marco Vivarelli

11848: Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Mayula Chaikumbung, Chris Doucouliagos and Helen Scarborough

11847: Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile

Damian Clarke, Gustavo Cortés Méndez and Diego Vergara Sepúlveda

11846: The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea

Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee and Timothy Halliday

11845: Information Provision and Streamlined Medical Service: Evidence from a Mobile Appointment App

Changcheng Song, Nan Yang, Junjian Yi and Ye Yuan

11844: Job Mismatches and Career Mobility

Le Wen and Sholeh Maani

11843: The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability

Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Anna Maccagnan and Silvia Mendolia

11842: The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and Its Consequences

V. Joseph Hotz, Emily Wiemers, Joshua Rasmussen and Kate Maxwell Koegel

11841: Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings

William E. Even and Austin Smith

11840: Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Hoang Khieu and Klaus Wälde

11839: A Fresh Look at Fiscal Redistribution and Inequality in the US across Electoral Cycles

Hector Sala

11838: Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Charlotte Bartels

11837: What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us about Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?

David J. Bjerk and Eric Helland

11836: Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S

Adriana Hernández Catañeda and Todd Sorensen

11835: Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya

Annie Laurie Hines and Nicole Simpson

11834: Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks

Tilman Brück, Kai M. Dunker, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Aline Meysonnat and Eleonora Nillesen

11833: The Impact of Migration on Productivity and Native-Born Workers' Training

Francesco Campo, Giuseppe Forte and Jonathan Portes

11832: Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being: A Panel Analysis for Germany

Joachim Merz

11831: The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design

Han Ye

11830: Pension Strategies of Workers in a Country Getting Old before Getting Rich

Sonia Buchholtz, Jan Gaska and Marek Góra

11829: Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach

Konstantinos Pouliakas

11828: Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France

Denis Fougere, Erwan Gautier and Sébastien Roux

11827: Which Ladder to Climb? Wages of Workers by Job, Plant, and Education

Christian Bayer and Moritz Kuhn

11826: The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins and Etienne Lalé

11825: How Common Are Bad Bosses?

Benjamin Artz, Amanda H. Goodall and Andrew Oswald

11824: Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s

Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz

11823: The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models

Karina Doorley, Arnaud Dupuy and Simon Weber

11822: Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation

Ana Rute Cardoso and Louis-Philippe Morin

11821: Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Yevgeniya Savchenko

11820: The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students

Hani Mansour, Daniel I. Rees, Bryson Rintala and Nathan Wozny

11819: Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Muhammad Bhuiyan and Artjoms Ivlevs

11818: Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction: German Results with an Australian Replication

Bruce Headey and Gert Wagner

11817: Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models

Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels, Marc Suhrcke and Max Bachmann

11816: Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Oded Galor and Viacheslav Savitskiy

11815: The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Adrian Bruhin, Ernst Fehr and Daniel Schunk

11814: How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search: A Field Experiment

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller

11813: Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken? An Empirical Analysis Using Nationally Representative Data

Stephen Burks and Kristen Monaco

11812: Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Lessons Learned

Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Daniel Martinez, Oscar Mitnik, Lynn Scholl and Antonia Vazquez

11811: Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Catia Nicodemo and Josep M. Raya

11810: The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega and Süleyman Taspinar

11809: Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China: An Update

M Asadullah and Saizi Xiao

11808: Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Jeffrey Denning, Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt

11807: The Timing of Instruction Time: Accumulated Hours, Timing and Pupil Achievement

Paul Bingley, Eskil Heinesen, Karl Fritjof Krassel and Nicolai Kristensen

11806: Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain

Slobodan Djajic, Frédéric Docquier and Michael Michael

11805: Why Does Education Reduce Crime?

Brian Bell, Rui Costa and Stephen Machin

11804: Geography of Skills and Global Inequality

Michał Burzyński, Christoph Deuster and Frédéric Docquier

11803: Leader Identity and Coordination

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer and Joseph Vecci

11802: Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period

Frédéric Docquier, Riccardo Turati, Jérôme Valette and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

11801: Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants

Khuong Truong and Arthur Sweetman

11800: The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Colm Harmon and Anita Staneva

11799: Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

11798: A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim and Marie Claire Villeval

11797: Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges

Olivier Deschenes and Kyle Meng

11796: Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook and Anthony Heyes

11795: The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective

Mathias Huebener

11794: Parental Leave Policies and Socio-Economic Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from a Substantial Benefit Reform Using Administrative Data

Mathias Huebener, Daniel Kühnle and Katharina Spiess

11793: Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language

Ramon Caminal, Lorenzo Cappellari and Antonio Di Paolo

11792: ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare

Jeffrey Denning, Benjamin Marx and Lesley Turner

11791: The Price of Capital, Factor Substitutability, and Corporate Profits

Philipp Hergovich and Monika Merz

11790: Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – at Home and Abroad

Sonia Cabral, Pedro Martins, João Pereira Dos Santos and Mariana Tavares

11789: Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Agne Kajackaite and Dirk Sliwka

11788: The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

John Heywood, Mary O'Mahony, William Siebert and Ana Rincon-Aznar

11787: Training and Changes in Job Tasks

Marcus Tamm

11786: Exploiting the Unbanked: Evidence from Singapore's Unlicensed Moneylending Market

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

11785: Combat, Casualties, and Compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan

Laura Armey, Thomas Kniesner, John D. Leeth and Ryan Sullivan

11784: Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Marie-Hélène Hubert and Beyza Ural Marchand

11783: Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil

Gabriel Ulyssea and Vladimir Ponczek

11782: Economic Integration and State Capacity: Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

Laszlo Bruszt and Nauro Campos

11781: The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants

Max Steinhardt

11780: Interdependent Hazards, Local Interactions, and the Return Decision of Recent Migrants

Govert Bijwaard and Christian Schluter

11779: Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Regina Riphahn and Salwan Saif

11778: Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration

Anthony Edo and Hillel Rapoport

11777: Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Catia Batista, Julia Seither and Pedro Vicente

11776: Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation

Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag and Robert M. Goerge

11775: Social Security Incentives in Belgium: An Analysis of Four Decades of Change

Anne-Lore Fraikin, Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre

11774: Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

11773: Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees

11772: Mergers and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

11771: Mental Health and Reporting Bias: Analysis of the GHQ-12

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris, Preety Pratima Srivastava and Karl Taylor

11770: Is Good Health Contagious? The Impact of BMI Environment on Individual BMI

Caitlin McKennie, Laura M. Argys and Andrew Friedson

11769: The Growing American Health Penalty: International Trends in the Employment of Older Workers with Poor Health

Ben Baumberg Geiger, René Böheim and Thomas Leoni

11768: Faces of Joblessness in Italy: A People-Centred Perspective on Employment Barriers and Policies

Daniele Pacifico, James Browne, Rodrigo Fernandez, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann and Céline Thévenot

11767: A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities

Jake Bradley and Axel Gottfries

11766: Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?

Lionel Cottier, Yves Flückiger, Pierre Kempeneers and Rafael Lalive

11765: Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes

Patrick Arni and Amelie Schiprowski

11764: Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

Manuel Denzer, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

11763: Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Daniel Houser and Lina Diaz

11762: Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias

Gopi Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff

11761: Choking under Pressure: Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance

René Böheim, Dominik Grübl and Mario Lackner

11760: The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser

Jeffrey Carpenter

11759: Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties

Magnus Carlsson, Gordon Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth

11758: A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences

Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti and Veronica Rattini

11757: Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households

Natalia Zinovyeva and Maryna Tverdostup