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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

10999: Educational Attainment and Neighbourhood Outcomes: Differences between Highly-Educated Natives and Non-Western Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands

Elise de Vuijst and Maarten van Ham

10998: Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Indraneel Dasgupta and Ranajoy Guha Neogi

10997: Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students

Peter Bergman, Jeffrey Denning and Dayanand Manoli

10996: Up in STEM, Down in Business: Changing College Major Decisions with the Great Recession

Shimeng Liu, Weizeng Sun and John Winters

10995: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden

Sarah Cattan, Daniel Kamhofer, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson

10994: Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement

Hendrik Jürges, Luca Stella, Sameh Hallaq and Alexandra Schwarz

10993: The Response of Parental Time Investments to the Child's Skills and Health

Cheti Nicoletti and Valentina Tonei

10992: Child Schooling and Child Work in the Presence of a Partial Education Subsidy

Jacobus de Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Furio Rosati

10991: Activation against Absenteeism: Evidence from a Sickness Insurance Reform in Norway

Øystein Hernæs

10990: The Mitigating Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs

Erica G. Birk and Glen R. Waddell

10989: The Accident Externality from Trucking

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli and Ziyan Chu

10988: Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Bruce Hollingsworth, Asako Ohinata, Matteo Picchio and Ian Walker

10987: What Determines Preferences for an Electoral System? Evidence from a Binding Referendum

Guillem Riambau, Steven Stillman and Geua Boe-Gibson

10986: Insurance and Solidarity: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cambodia

Friederike Lenel and Susan Steiner

10985: Bayesian versus Heuristic-Based Choice under Sleep Restriction and Suboptimal Times of Day

David Dickinson and Todd McElroy

10984: Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market

David Dickinson, Ananish Chaudhuri and Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy

10983: Does Reminding of Behavioural Biases Increase Returns from Financial Trading? A Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Fabio Piluso

10982: The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine

Sinem Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova and Hartmut Lehmann

10981: Measuring Labour Differences between Natives, Non-Natives, and Natives with an Ethnic-Minority Background

Nick Drydakis

10980: Inequalities and Segregation across the Long-Term Economic Cycle: An Analysis of South and North European Cities

Tiit Tammaru, Marci?czak, Szymon, Raivo Aunap and Maarten van Ham

10979: Women in Top Incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974–2013

Anne Boschini, Kristin Gunnarsson and Jesper Roine

10978: Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient

John Hatgioannides, Marika Karanassou and Hector Sala

10977: Performance and Risk Taking under Threat of Elimination

Nathan R. Adams and Glen R. Waddell

10976: Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter and Stefan Wolter

10975: What Drives the Gender Wage Gap? Examining the Roles of Sorting, Productivity Differences, and Discrimination

Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman and Richard Fabling

10974: The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials: Evidence from Establishment Data

Erling Barth, Sari Pekkala Kerr and Claudia Olivetti

10973: The Tragedy of Clientelism: Opting Children Out

Lucas Ronconi and Rodrigo Zarazaga

10972: Smarter through Social Protection? Evaluating the Impact of Ethiopia's Safety-Net on Child Cognitive Abilities

Marta Favara, Catherine Porter and Tassew Woldehanna

10971: Improving Learning Outcomes through Information Provision: Evidence from Indian Villages

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan

10970: Excluded Generation: The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

10969: Economic Origins of Cultural Norms: The Case of Animal Husbandry and Bastardy

Christoph Eder and Martin Halla

10968: Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System

Achmad Tohari, Christopher Parsons and Anu Rammohan

10967: Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment

Felipe Dunsch, David Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku and Mario Macis

10966: The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria

Ali Souag and Ragui Assaad

10965: Returns to Islamic Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan

Maazullah, and Arjun Bedi

10964: Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data

Petri Böckerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas

10963: What Chinese Workers Value: An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Expectations, and Labor Turnover in China

Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

10962: The Effect of Job Displacement on Subjective Well-being

Younghwan Song

10961: Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach

Michael Knaus, Michael Lechner and Anthony Strittmatter

10960: Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed

Jason Faberman, Andreas Mueller, Aysegul Sahin and Giorgio Topa

10959: Antidepressants for Economists and Business-School Researchers: An Introduction and Review

Aleksandra Katolik and Andrew Oswald

10958: Do Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

10957: Inclusive Recruitment? Hiring Discrimination against Older Workers

Nick Drydakis, Peter MacDonald, Vasiliki Bozani and Vangelis Chiotis

10956: Do Beliefs about Peers Matter for Donation Matching? Experiments in the Field and Laboratory

Laura Gee and Michael J. Schreck

10955: Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

10954: 'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World: Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic

Trenton Smith, Steven Stillman and Stuart Craig

10953: Smoking and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Germany

Micha Kaiser, Mirjam Reutter, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Kristina Strohmaier

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