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11299: Adjusting to Globalization in Germany

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen and Jens Suedekum

11298: The Effect of Computer Use on Job Quality: Evidence from Europe

Seetha Menon, Andrea Salvatori and Wouter Zwysen

11297: People versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs

Grace Lordan and David Neumark

11296: Stochastic Complementarity

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti and Levent Ülkü

11295: Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Irene van Staveren

11294: Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules: An Application to Wage Decompositions

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Aico van Vuuren and Francis Vella

11293: Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination: A Note

Nick Drydakis

11292: Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

11291: Crushing Hope: Short Term Responses to Tragedy Vary by Hopefulness

Jason Fletcher

11290: Civility and Trust in Social Media

Angelo Antoci, Laura Bonelli, Fabio Paglieri, Tommaso Reggiani and Fabio Sabatini

11289: Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation

Matthias Kräkel

11288: Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld and Yvonne Oswald

11287: Voting in Hiring Committees: Which "Almost" Rule Is Optimal?

Eyal Baharad and Leif Danziger

11286: Can Quotas Increase the Supply of Candidates for Higher-Level Positions? Evidence from Local Government in India

Stephen O'Connell

11285: Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco and Dan-Olof Rooth

11284: Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Magnus Carlsson, Abdulaziz Abrar Reshid and Dan-Olof Rooth

11283: Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation

Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt, Lisa Simon and Ludger Woessmann

11282: Women and Migration

Francisca Antman

11281: The Economic Effects of Providing Legal Status to DREAMers

Francesc Ortega, Ryan Edwards and Amy Hsin

11280: Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports

Massimiliano Bratti, Luca De Benedictis and Gianluca Santoni

11279: China's "Great Migration": The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty

Giovanni Facchini, Maggie Liu, Anna Maria Mayda and Minghai Zhou

11278: Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon Dahl, Katrine Løken and Magne Mogstad

11277: Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program

Nancy Chau, Yanyan Liu and Vidhya Soundararajan

11276: Intertemporal Labor Supply: A Household Collective Approach

José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Jorge Velilla

11275: Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner and Victoria Prowse

11274: Intimate Partner Violence and the Business Cycle

Sonia Bhalotra, Uma Kambhampati, Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique

11273: How Does Terrorism Affect Individuals' Wellbeing?

Alex Bryson and George MacKerron

11272: The Economic and Social Determinants of Migrants' Well-Being during the Global Financial Crisis

Alexander Danzer and Barbara Dietz

11271: Telework, the Timing of Work, and Instantaneous Well-Being: Evidence from Time Use Data

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

11270: If Not Now, When? The Timing of Childbirth and Labour Market Outcomes

Matteo Picchio, Claudia Pigini, Stefano Staffolani and Alina Verashchagina

11269: Free Daycare and its Effects on Children and their Families

Anna Busse and Christina Gathmann

11268: For Better or Worse? The Effects of Physical Education on Child Development

Michael Knaus, Michael Lechner and Anne K. Reimers

11267: Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment

Magdalena Bennett and Peter Bergman

11266: Why Are Professors "Poorly Paid"?

Daniel Hamermesh

11265: The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain

Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido and Ernesto Villanueva

11264: The Effects of Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Samuel Mühlemann, Gerard Pfann, Harald Pfeifer and Hans Dietrich

11263: Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?

Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour and Stephen O'Connell

11262: Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

11261: Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap

Wifag Adnan and Sami Miaari

11260: Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics: The Role of Gender Inequality

Z. Eylem Gevrek, Christian Neumeier and Deniz Gevrek

11259: The 'Mighty Girl' Effect: Does Parenting Daughters Alter Attitudes towards Gender Roles?

Mireia Borrell-Porta, Joan Costa-Font and Julia Philipp

11258: Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation

Robert Fairlie and Frank Fossen

11257: Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs' Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession

David Cornille, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

11256: Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?

Hartmut Lehmann and Norberto Pignatti

11255: The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Sascha Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm

11254: Labor Market Concentration

José Azar, Ioana Marinescu and Marshall Steinbaum

11253: Why Does Emissions Trading under the EU ETS Not Affect Firms' Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature

Eugénie Joltreau and Katrin Sommerfeld

11252: Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union

Timo Baas and Ansgar Belke

11251: World Commodity Prices, Job Security and Health: Evidence from the Mining Industry

David Johnston, Michael Shields and Agne Suziedelyte

11250: Wage Inequality and Structural Change

Joanna Tyrowicz and Magdalena Smyk

11249: Labor Reallocation and Demographics

Joanna Tyrowicz and Lucas van der Velde

11248: The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Thomas Le Barbanchon

11247: Nature of the Relationship between Minimum Wage and the Shadow Economy Size: An Empirical Analysis for the Case of Romania

Adriana Anamaria Davidescu and Friedrich Schneider

11246: The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder and Linda Wittbrodt

11245: Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring

Ahmed Elsayed and Jackline Wahba

11244: War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II

Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Onorato, Francesco Sobbrio and Guido Tabellini

11243: Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid

Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

11242: Child Labor and the Arrival of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania

Chiara Kofol and Maryam Naghsh Nejad

11241: Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Max Tani

11240: Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt

Ahmed Elsayed and Rania Roushdy

11239: Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé and Sanchari Roy

11238: Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: Conflicting or Compatible Roles?

Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren, Banu Ergöçmen and Aysıt Tansel

11237: Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance

Richard Blundell, Luigi Pistaferri and Itay Saporta-Eksten

11236: The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

Emma Antrobus, Victoria Baranov, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Lorraine Mazerolle and Agnieszka Tymula

11235: Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply

Peter Rupert and Giulio Zanella

11234: Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform

Jesper Alex-Petersen, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

11233: Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania

Kashi Kafle, Dean Jolliffe and Alex Winter-Nelson

11232: The Effects of Academic Probation on College Success: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Four Texas Universities

Jason Fletcher and Mansur Tokmouline

11231: Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences

Jared Ashworth, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel and Tyler Ransom

11230: Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap

Dan Zeltzer

11229: The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis

Christian Grund, Axel Minten and Nevena Toporova

11228: Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur and Michiel Souverijn

11227: Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma

Alice Solda and Marie Claire Villeval

11226: Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks

Bénédicte Apouey, Cahit Guven and Claudia Senik

11225: Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Sabien Dobbelaere and Kozo Kiyota

11224: Geography and Employer Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

11223: The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice

Alex Bryson, Richard Freeman, Rafael Gomez and Paul Willman

11222: Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

11221: Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians

Robert Breunig, Syed Hasan and Boyd Hunter

11220: The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change

Michael Johannes Böhm

11219: The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv

Tal Modai-Snir and Maarten van Ham

11218: Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context

Lina Hedman, Maarten van Ham and Tiit Tammaru

11217: The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education

Stefan Wolter and Maria Zumbühl

11216: A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia

Le Wen and Sholeh Maani

11215: Beyond Conflict: Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

11214: The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Bin Xie

11213: Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals

Peter Savelyev and Kegon Tan

11212: Preschool Attendance, School Progression, and Cognitive Skills in East Africa

Jan Bietenbeck, Sanna Ericsson and Fredrick Wamalwa

11211: The Effect of Multigrade Classes on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: Causal Evidence Exploiting Minimum Class Size Rules in Italy

Daniele Checchi and Maria De Paola

11210: Education Effects on Days Hospitalized and Days out of Work by Gender: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Halil Ibrahim Keskin

11209: Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India

Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri and Francesco Pastore

11208: Does Class Size Matter for School Tracking Outcomes after Elementary School? Quasi-Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Panel Data from Germany

Bethlehem A. Argaw and Patrick Puhani

11207: Fake News

Andreas Grunewald and Matthias Kräkel

11206: Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Anke Plagnol, Paul Frijters and Andrew Clark

11205: A New Year, a New You? Heterogeneity and Self-Control in Food Purchases

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Rachel Griffith, O’Connell, Martin, Kate Smith and Frederic Vermeulen

11204: Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Michael Jetter and Ingebjørg Kristoffersen

11203: Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier

11202: Ordering History Through the Timeline

Eugenio Garibaldi and Pietro Garibaldi

11201: Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

11200: Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates: The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Cappellari