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11099: The Relationship between Status and Happiness: Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India

Bert Van Landeghem and Anneleen Vandeplas

11098: Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Alois Stutzer

11097: Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving

Jonathan Schulz, Petra Thiemann and Christian Thöni

11096: Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats

Tobias Thomas, Moritz Heß and Gert Wagner

11095: Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics

Robert Dur and Max van Lent

11094: Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?

Riccardo Magnani, Luca Piccoli, Martine Carré and Amedeo Spadaro

11093: Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India

Sabyasachi Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Rajas Saroy

11092: Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

11091: Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy

Pedro Gomes

11090: Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession: The Effects of a Mandatory Activation Program for Young Welfare Recipients

Emile Cammeraat, Egbert L. W. Jongen and Pierre Koning

11089: Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?

Felix Bransch and Michael Kvasnicka

11088: How Entry into Parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from Longitudinal UK Data

Elena Grinza, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi and Davide Vannoni

11087: Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe

Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten and Christian Rulff

11086: Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis

Sudipa Sarkar, Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen

11085: Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca, Vincent O'Sullivan and Robert Wright

11084: Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France

Nicolas Frémeaux and Arnaud Lefranc

11083: Higher Education Funding Reforms: A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Ghazala Azmat and Stefania Simion

11082: Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo

11081: So Similar and Yet So Different: A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland

Luca Moretti, Martin Mayerl, Samuel Mühlemann, Peter Schlögl and Stefan Wolter

11080: Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options

Martin Biewen and Madalina Tapalaga

11079: Sleep and Student Success: The Role of Regularity vs. Duration

Phuc Luong, Lester Lusher and Vasil Yasenov

11078: The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students

Amy Hsin and Francesc Ortega

11077: Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks

Sebastian Braun, Anica Kramer and Michael Kvasnicka

11076: Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland

Maria Vaalavuo, Maarten van Ham and Timo M. Kauppinen

11075: Immigrants' Residential Choices and Their Consequences

Christoph Albert and Joan Monras

11074: What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Liang Zheng and Zhong Zhao

11073: Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials

Simonetta Longhi

11072: Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger and Jakob de Lazzer

11071: What Really Happened to British Inequality in the Early 20th Century? Evidence from National Household Expenditure Surveys 1890–1961

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

11070: Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Nicolas Salamanca and Anna Zhu

11069: The Truly Vulnerable: Integrating Wealth into the Measurement of Poverty and Social Policy Effectiveness

Sarah Kuypers and Ive Marx

11068: Employer-Provided Severance Pay: The Emergence of Job Displacement Insurance, 1930–1954

Donald Parsons

11067: Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay

Donald Parsons

11066: Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils

Uwe Jirjahn and Stephen Smith

11065: Antecedents of Overtime Work: The Case of Junior Academics

Irina Frei and Christian Grund

11064: The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?

Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

11063: Worker Churn and Employment Growth at the Establishment Level

Ruediger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Christian Merkl, Stefan Seth, Heiko Stüber and Felix Wellschmied

11062: Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces

Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani and Lorenzo Rocco

11061: Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Michael Clemens

11060: What Are You Voting For? Proximity to Refugee Reception Centres and Voting in the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum

Massimiliano Bratti, Claudio Deiana, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Elena Meroni

11059: Was Brexit Caused by the Unhappy and the Old?

Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano

11058: Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China

Yuanyuan Chen, Le Wang and Min Zhang

11057: Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?

Viktor Bozhinov, Christopher Koch and Thorsten Schank

11056: Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Muhammad Asali, Norberto Pignatti and Sophiko Skhirtladze

11055: The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed

Lutz Bellmann, Marco Caliendo and Stefan Tübbicke

11054: Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

John Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn and Annika Pfister

11053: Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates

Luis Gil-Alana, Zeynel Ozdemir and Aysıt Tansel

11052: Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Shaimaa Yassin

11051: Wage Cyclicalities and Labor Market Dynamics at the Establishment Level: Theory and Evidence

Christian Merkl and Heiko Stüber

11050: Broadband Internet, Digital Temptations, and Sleep

Francesco Billari, Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella

11049: Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Distance to the North

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

11048: The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth

Isaac Ehrlich, Dunli Li and Zhiqiang Liu

11047: The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

James Heckman, John Humphries and Gregory Veramendi

11046: Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce

Jan Kabátek and David Ribar

11045: The Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates in Italy

Daniela Piazzalunga

11044: Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

Katrin John and Stephan Thomsen

11043: Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?

Shuai Chen and Jan van Ours

11042: A Multinomial Probit Model with Latent Factors: Identification and Interpretation without a Measurement System

Rémi Piatek and Miriam Gensowski

11041: A Walk on the Wild Side: 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations

Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva

11040: The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences

Amelie Schiprowski

11039: Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis

Verónica Escudero, Jochen Kluve, Elva López Mourelo and Clemente Pignatti

11038: Dual Practice by Health Workers: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Paula González, Gabriel Montes-Rojas and Sarmistha Pal

11037: Escaping from Hunger before WW1: Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

11036: Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah and Amanda Dahlstrand

11035: Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani and Pablo Ibarraran

11034: Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints

Juliana Mesén Vargas and Bruno Van der Linden

11033: Tax Refunds and Income Manipulation Evidence from the EITC

Florian Buhlmann, Benjamin Elsner and Andreas Peichl

11032: Households Debt Restructuring: The Re-default Effect of a Debt Suspension

Henri Fraisse

11031: Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors

Sascha Behnk, Li Hao and Ernesto Reuben

11030: How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does It Reveal about Education Quality in Their Home Countries?

Daniel Alonso-Soto and Hugo Ñopo

11029: Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China

Yaqin Su, Petros Tesfazion and Zhong Zhao

11028: Migration, Education and Work Opportunities

Esther Mirjam Girsberger

11027: The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools

Tommaso Frattini and Elena Meschi

11026: The 'Gravity' of Quality: Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy

Massimiliano Bratti and Stefano Verzillo

11025: The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium

Joniada Milla

11024: The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education

Petra Thiemann

11023: Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature

Brecht Neyt, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest and Stijn Baert

11022: The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez and Soojae Moon

11021: Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870 - 2017

Gregory Clark, Andrew Leigh and Mike Pottenger

11020: Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia

Chelsea Murray, Robert Clark, Silvia Mendolia and Peter Siminski

11019: Optimal Income Taxation with Composition Effects

Laurence Jacquet and Etienne Lehmann

11018: The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data

Mirjam Praag and Arvid Raknerud

11017: Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure

Diego Zunino, Mirjam Praag and Gary Dushnitsky

11016: Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms

Rita Almeida, Ana Fernandes and Mariana Viollaz

11015: Media and Occupational Choice

Alexander Konon and Alexander Kritikos

11014: Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries

Shaimaa Yassin and Francois Langot

11013: A Tale of Two Countries: A Story of the French and US Polarization

Julien Albertini, Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Thepthida Sopraseuth

11012: Temporary Employment Boom in Poland: A Job Quality vs. Quantity Trade-off?

Piotr Lewandowski, Marek Góra and Maciej Lis

11011: Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms

Andrea Bassanini and Federico Cingano

11010: Inefficient Short-Time Work

Pierre Cahuc and Sandra Nevoux

11009: Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach

Gianni Betti, Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

11008: Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa: (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data

Steffen Otterbach and Michael Rogan

11007: Poverty and Material Deprivation among the Self-Employed in Europe: An Exploration of a Relatively Uncharted Landscape

Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx

11006: Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis

Eirini Andriopoulou, Alexandros Karakitsios and Panos Tsakloglou

11005: 'Inequality Is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy

Miles Corak

11004: Indirect Inference with Importance Sampling: An Application to Women's Wage Growth

Robert Sauer and Christopher Taber

11003: Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason Cook and Miriam Larson-Koester

11002: Taxes and Market Hours: The Role of Gender and Skill

Robert Duval Hernández, Lei Fang and L. Rachel Ngai

11001: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Wages

Angela Cools and Eleonora Patacchini

11000: Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations

Friederike Mengel, Jan Sauermann and Ulf Zölitz