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10952: Did Parental Involvement Laws Grow Teeth? The Effects of State Restrictions on Minors' Access to Abortion

Caitlin Myers and Daniel Ladd

10951: The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times

Charles Courtemanche, Andrew Friedson, Andrew P. Koller and Daniel I. Rees

10950: (How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Pedro Martins

10949: Date of Birth and Selective Schooling

Robert Hart and Mirko Moro

10948: Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

10947: Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?

Adriana Kugler, Catherine H. Tinsley and Olga Ukhaneva

10946: Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Andre Jungmittag and Paul Welfens

10945: International Migration and Institutional Quality in the Home Country: It Matters Where You Go and How Long You Stay!

Ngoc Tran, Michael Cameron and Jacques Poot

10944: Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage during Childhood

Tom Kleinepier and Maarten van Ham

10943: Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

10942: Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

Robert Hartley, Carlos Lamarche and James Ziliak

10941: Housing Prices, Unemployment Rates, Disadvantage, and Progress toward a Degree

Leslie Stratton

10940: Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being

Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Xavi Ramos

10939: The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia

Zemzem Shigute, Christoph Strupat, Francesco Burchi, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

10938: First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War

Richard Akresh, Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone and Una O. Osili

10937: Violent Conflict and Breastfeeding: The Case of Iraq

Vidya Diwakar, Michael Malcolm and George Naufal

10936: Child Discipline in Times of Conflict

Michael Malcolm, Vidya Diwakar and George Naufal

10935: Does Broadband Internet Affect Fertility?

Francesco Billari, Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella

10934: Stigma of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Swapnika Reddy Rachapalli and Sarani Saha

10933: The Gender Wage Gap in Europe: Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects

Paul Redmond and Seamus McGuinness

10932: Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes: A Large Field Study of Managers

Tor Eriksson, Nina Smith and Valdemar Smith

10931: Gender: An Historical Perspective

Paola Giuliano

10930: Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change

Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

10929: Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia

Marianna Battaglia, Bastien Chabé-Ferret and Lara Lebedinski

10928: Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions

Michael Clemens

10927: Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Matloob Piracha, Max Tani and Guy Tchuente

10926: Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Model

Badi Baltagi, Ying Deng and Xiangjun Ma

10925: Modeling Life-Cycle Earnings Risk with Positive and Negative Shocks

Manuel Sanchez and Felix Wellschmied

10924: Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China

Liugang Sheng and Dennis Yang

10923: Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians Are Paid?

Duha Altindag, Elif Filiz and Erdal Tekin

10922: Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences

Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon Polachek

10921: Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Armin Falk

10920: The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services: Evidence from Texas

Stefanie Fischer, Heather Royer and Corey White

10919: Positively Aware? Conflicting Expert Reviews and Demand for Medical Treatment

Jorge Balat, Nicholas Papageorge and Shaiza Qayyum

10918: Social Insurance and Health

Nicolas Ziebarth

10917: Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?

Susan Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi and Yang Wang

10916: Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

Susan Averett, Julie Smith and Yang Wang

10915: Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

10914: The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill

Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom and Björn Öckert

10913: Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints

Jeffrey Denning

10912: Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

10911: University Selectivity, Initial Job Quality, and Longer-Run Salary

Russell Weinstein

10910: Financial Hardship and Saving Behaviour: Bayesian Analysis of British Panel Data

Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh, Bhuvanesh Pareek and Karl Taylor

10909: The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea

Seyoung Chae and Almas Heshmati

10908: 'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and H. Xavier Jara

10907: Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and H. Xavier Jara

10906: Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Renate Strobl and Conny Wunsch

10905: Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Robert Hartley and Carlos Lamarche

10904: Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch: Evidence from a Reform

Fabio Berton, Francesco Devicienti and Sara Grubanov-Boskovic

10903: Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

Admasu Shiferaw, Arjun Bedi, Mans Soderbom and Getnet Alemu

10902: Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar

Bhaskar Chakravorty and Arjun Bedi

10901: Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany

Albrecht Glitz and Daniel Wissmann

10900: A Note on the Estimation of Job Amenities and Labor Productivity

Arnaud Dupuy and Alfred Galichon

10899: Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

10898: The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution

Hector Sala and Pedro Trivin

10897: Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited

Haeyeon Yoon and Almas Heshmati

10896: The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea

David Bloom, Simiao Chen, Michael Kuhn, Mark McGovern, Les Oxley and Klaus Prettner

10895: Going after the Addiction, Not the Addicted: The Impact of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal

Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal and Ana Tavares

10894: The Role of the Housing Market in Workers' Resilience to Job Displacement after Firm Bankruptcy

Jordy Meekes and Wolter Hassink

10893: The Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base Mystery

Donald Parsons

10892: Towards an East German Wage Curve: NUTS Boundaries, Labour Market Regions and Unemployment Spillovers

Reinhold Kosfeld and Christian Dreger

10891: Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives

Apoorva Jain and Klara Sabirianova Peter

10890: Patrilocal Residence and Female Labour Supply

Andreas Landmann, Helke Seitz and Susan Steiner

10889: The Timing of Puberty and Gender Differences in Educational Achievement

Kristian Koerselman and Tuomas Pekkarinen

10888: Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Manuel Bagues and Pamela Campa

10887: A Joint Hazard-Longitudinal Model of the Timing of Migration, Immigrant Quality, and Labor Market Assimilation

Apoorva Jain and Klara Sabirianova Peter

10886: One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes

Marie Hull and Katherine Duch

10885: Using Tax Deductions to Promote Lifelong Learning: Real and Shifting Responses

Wiljan van den Berge, Egbert L. W. Jongen and Karen van der Wiel

10884: The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions

Jorge Agüero, Carlos Balcazar, Stanislao Maldonado and Hugo Ñopo

10883: Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefanie Licklederer

10882: Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Dmitri Koustas

10881: Between-Group Contests over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation

Indraneel Dasgupta and Ranajoy Guha Neogi

10880: The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change

Almas Heshmati and Nam-Seok Kim

10879: Secular Satiation

Gilles Saint-Paul

10878: Take a Chance on ABBA

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer and Offer Moshe Shapir

10877: Too Lucky to Be True: Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Stefania Bortolotti, Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter and Claudia Zoller

10876: Why Is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?

Eva Van Belle, Ralf Caers, Marijke De Couck, Valentina Di Stasio and Stijn Baert

10875: Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute

Duco de Vos, Evert J. Meijers and Maarten van Ham

10874: Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members

Mariana Carrera, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr and Justin Syndor

10873: The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values

Stephen Billings and Kevin Schnepel

10872: Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead

Stephen Billings and Kevin Schnepel

10871: Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Juan Pablo Atal, Hanming Fang, Martin Karlsson and Nicolas Ziebarth

10870: Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany

Adam Pilny, Ansgar Wübker and Nicolas Ziebarth

10869: Tony Atkinson and His Legacy

Andrea Brandolini, Stephen Jenkins and John Micklewright

10868: Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins

10867: Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country

Sara de la Rica and Lucía Gorjón

10866: If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment

Marlon R. Tracey and Solomon Polachek

10865: The Effects of Paternity Leave on Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes

Lidia Farre and Libertad Gonzalez

10864: Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany

Julia Bredtmann and Christina Vonnahme

10863: The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples

Wang-Sheng Lee and Terra McKinnish

10862: Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

10861: Worries across Time and Age in Germany: Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions

Julia Rohrer, Martin Bruemmer, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

10860: Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China

Xi Chen

10859: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade

Cong Pham and Chris Doucouliagos

10858: The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati and Francesco Sobbrio

10857: Drivers of the Underground Economy around the Millienium: A Long Term Look for the United States

Rajeev Goel, James Saunoris and Friedrich Schneider

10856: Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Farzana Afridi

10855: Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa

Wim Naudé

10854: Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America

Esther Hauk, Mónica Oviedo and Xavi Ramos

10853: Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan

Joyce Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller