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10699: The Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students: Evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey

Zong Jia Chen and Mikal Skuterud

10698: Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?

Adele Whelan and Seamus McGuinness

10697: The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans

10696: The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15

Tom Kleinepier and Maarten van Ham

10695: Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach

Tal Modai-Snir and Maarten van Ham

10694: Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income

Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman and Matt Vogel

10693: The City as a Self-Help Book: The Psychology of Urban Promises

Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham, Martijn Burger and Duco de Vos

10692: Cities, Towns, and Poverty: Migration Equilibrium and Income Distribution in a Todaro-type Model with Multiple Destinations

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

10691: The Lifelong Costs of Urban Smogs

Alastair Ball

10690: More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

Omoniyi Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

10689: Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Canadian Cities

Joel Blit, Mikal Skuterud and Jue Zhang

10688: Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Zhengyu Cai and John Winters

10687: Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants

Joan Monras, Javier Vázquez-Grenno and Ferran Elias Moreno

10686: War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry

Abel Brodeur, Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu and Yanos Zylberberg

10685: Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Fernando Lozano

10684: Digital and Competing Information Sources: Impact on Environmental Concern and Prospects for Cooperation

Vladimir Udalov and Paul Welfens

10683: Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?

Cameron Murray, Paul Frijters and Markus Schaffner

10682: Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Abu Siddique and Michael Vlassopoulos

10681: Closing Routes to Retirement: How Do People Respond?

Johannes Geyer and Clara Welteke

10680: How Do Unemployed Workers Behave Prior to Retirement? A Multi-State Multiple-Spell Approach

Ga?ecka-Burdziak, Ewa and Marek Góra

10679: Moving On Up for High School Graduates in Russia: The Consequences of the Unified State Exam Reform

Fabian Slonimczyk, Marco Francesconi and Anna Yurko

10678: Overeducation in Europe: Trends, Convergence and Drivers

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin and Adele Whelan

10677: The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education

Luna Bellani and Michela Bia

10676: Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?

Andre Almeida, Hugo Figueiredo, João Cerejeira, Miguel Portela, Carla Sa and Pedro Teixeira

10675: Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages

Shyamal Chowdhury, Debdulal Mallick and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

10674: Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?

Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

10673: Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Katie Meara, Francesco Pastore and Allan Webster

10672: Occupation and Gender

Patricia Cortes and Jessica Pan

10671: Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives

Michael Gibbs

10670: The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data

Inga Laß and Mark Wooden

10669: Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications

Sonia Agudelo Ayala and Hector Sala

10668: Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages

Axel Gottfries and Coen Teulings

10667: Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900–2014

Enrico Rubolino and Daniel Waldenström

10666: Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms

Enrico Rubolino and Daniel Waldenström

10665: Income Support Policies for the Working Poor

Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx and Gerlinde Verbist

10664: Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy?

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

10663: A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

10662: Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China

Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

10661: Does Early Child Care Attendance Influence Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skill Development?

Daniel Kühnle and Michael Oberfichtner

10660: Working Time Accounts and Turnover

Andrey Launov

10659: The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality: A Comparative Study for Britain and France

Alex Bryson, Christine Erhel and Zinaïda Salibekyan

10658: Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices

Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

10657: Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America

Luca Gambetti and Julian Messina

10656: Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Julian Messina

10655: How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

David McKenzie

10654: Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil

Fernanda Brollo, Katja Kaufmann and Eliana La Ferrara

10653: The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark and David Ribar

10652: Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health: Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries

Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Daniel Kühnle and Michael Oberfichtner

10651: The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam

Silvia Mendolia, Thi Nguyen and Oleg Yerokhin

10650: Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin Lee and Wilfredo Lim

10649: Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz and Daniela Zapata

10648: A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects

Martin Huber and Andreas Steinmayr

10647: Poorly Measured Confounders Are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right

Zhuan Pei, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Hannes Schwandt

10646: Bounds with Imperfect Instruments: Leveraging the Implicit Assumption of Intransitivity in Correlations

Nathan Wiseman and Todd Sorensen

10645: Equality of Opportunity, Moral Hazard and the Timing of Luck

Arnaud Lefranc and Alain Trannoy

10644: The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim and Thomas T. Kim

10643: Performance Pay and Applicant Screening

Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser

10642: The Dispersion of Bonus Payments within and between Firms

Christian Grund and Tanja Hofmann

10641: How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda

Ram Fishman, Stephen Smith, Vida Bobic and Munshi Sulaiman

10640: Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China

Shuang Ma and Ren Mu

10639: Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data

Laura B. Nolan, David Bloom and Ramnath Subbaraman

10638: In-Work Poverty in the United States

Lane Kenworthy and Ive Marx

10637: Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur

10636: Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond

Ravi Kanbur

10635: The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

10634: On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Irina Dubova

10633: Financial Literacy and Attitudes to Redistribution

Alberto Montagnoli, Mirko Moro, Georgios Panos and Robert Wright

10632: Welfare: Savings not Taxation

Roger Douglas and Robert MacCulloch

10631: Using a Ratio Test to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates

David Bjerk and Eric Helland

10630: The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers

Seth Gershenson, Cassandra M. D. Hart, Constance A. Lindsay and Nicholas Papageorge

10629: Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States: Differences by Race and Ethnicity

Evelyn Lehrer and Yeon Jeong Son

10628: Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang

10627: Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Subha Mani, Utteeyo Dasgupta, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

10626: Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior

Jeffrey Carpenter, Rachel Frank and Emiliano Huet-Vaughn

10625: Let the Girls Learn! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm

Natalia Nollenberger and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

10624: What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China

Sor Tho Ng, Nai Peng Tey and M Asadullah

10623: What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?

Gary Solon

10622: The Intergenerational Transmission of Math Culture

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Chiara Rapallini

10621: Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks

Benjamin Hansen, Tuan Nguyen and Glen R. Waddell

10620: Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Olaf Hübler

10619: Scaling Up Sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron and Manisha Shah

10618: Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda and Atheendar Venkataramani

10617: Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?

Soohyung Lee and Chiara Orsini

10616: Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents: Evidence from Sweden

Lina Aldén, Anders Bjorklund and Mats Hammarstedt

10615: Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya

David McKenzie and Olga Susana Puerto

10614: Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies

Guy Johnson, David Ribar and Anna Zhu

10613: Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil, Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

10612: The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review

Geeta Kingdon

10611: Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann and Andries de Grip

10610: Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major

Sungjin Cho, Jihye Kam and Soohyung Lee

10609: Honesty toward the Holy Day

Ronen Bar-El and Yossef Tobol

10608: On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Ritwik Banerjee and Arnab Mitra

10607: Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser and Andreas Roider

10606: Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

10605: The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift

Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov

10604: The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin Green and Vincenzo Scoppa

10603: Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Xin Meng and Luigi Minale

10602: On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carlos Gratereaux Hernández and Susan Pozo

10601: Job-to-Job Transitions, Sorting, and Wage Growth

David Carson Jinkins and Annaïg Morin

10600: Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football

Babatunde Buraimo, Alex Bryson and Rob Simmons