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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

11756: Behind Every High Earning Man Is a Conscientious Woman: A Study of the Impact of Spousal Personality on Wages

Susan Averett, Cynthia Bansak and Julie Smith

11755: Child Sleep and Maternal Labour Market Outcomes

Joan Costa-Font and Sarah Flèche

11754: Non-Labor Income and the Age of Marriage: Evidence from China's Heating Policy

Junhong Chu, Haoming Liu and Ivan Png

11753: Trends in Assortative Mating and Offspring Outcomes

Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed and Ole Rogeberg

11752: Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply

Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder and Andrea Weber

11751: Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan

Torben Fischer, Markus Frölich and Andreas Landmann

11750: Pathways to Formalization: Going beyond the Formality Dichotomy

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Iamele Rigolini and Claudia Ruiz

11749: Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises

Ritam Chaurey and Duong Le

11748: A Database on the Passage and Enactment of Recent State Minimum Wage Increases

Jeffrey Clemens, Duncan Hobbs and Michael Strain

11747: Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment

Mario Bossler, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

11746: Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short-Time Compensation Program

Marlon R. Tracey and Solomon Polachek

11745: Firm Dynamics with Frictional Product and Labor Markets

Leo Kaas and Bihemo Kimasa

11744: Social Norms and Fertility

Sunha Myong, JungJae Park and Junjian Yi

11743: Do Laws Shape Attitudes? Evidence from Same-Sex Relationship Recognition Policies in Europe

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas and Kevin Tran

11742: Twin Birth and Maternal Condition

Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

11741: What Do Parents Value in a Child Care Provider? Evidence from Yelp Consumer Reviews

Chris M. Herbst, Kevin C. Desouza, Saud Alashri, Srinivasa Srivatsav Kandala, Mayank Khullar and Vikash Bajaj

11740: Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the US and UK Using Microdata

Tom Kemeny, Max Nathan and Dave O'Brien

11739: Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030

David E. Bloom, Matthew J. McKenna and Klaus Prettner

11738: Occupational Classifications: A Machine Learning Approach

Akina Ikudo, Julia Lane, Joseph Staudt and Bruce Weinberg

11737: The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy

Wim Naudé and Nicola Dimitri

11736: How Do Automation and Offshorability Influence Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Job Quality?

Bernhard Schmidpeter and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

11735: Returns to Higher Education in China: Evidence from the 1999 Higher Education Expansion Using Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity

Fengyan Dai, Fang Cai and Yu Zhu

11734: Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

11733: Education and Labor Market Consequences of Student Protests in Late 1970s and the Subsequent Military Coup in Turkey

Ahmet Ozturk and Semih Tumen

11732: Students' Behavioural Responses to a Fallback Option: Evidence from Introducing Interim Degrees in German Schools

Natalie Obergruber and Larissa Zierow

11731: Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-To-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt and Gill Wyness

11730: Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

11729: The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use: The Mediating Role of Household Composition

Govert Bijwaard, Rob Alessie and Viola Angelini

11728: Minimum Wages and Retirement

Mark Borgschulte and Heepyung Cho

11727: Healthcare Utilization at Retirement: The Role of the Opportunity Cost of Time

Claudio Lucifora and Daria Vigani

11726: The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Josef Kjellander, Viktor Nilsson and Aico van Vuuren

11725: Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State

Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter and Nico Pestel

11724: The Skill Development of Children of Immigrants

Marie Hull and Jonathan Norris

11723: Labour Immigration and Union Strength

Henning Finseraas, Marianne Roed and Pål Schøne

11722: Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

Arne De Meyere, Ward Vanruymbeke and Stijn Baert

11721: Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?

Romain Gauriot, Stephanie Heger and Robert Slonim

11720: When the Market Drives You Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents

Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

11719: Welfare Activation and Youth Crime

Bernt Bratsberg, Øystein Hernæs, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed