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10731: The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China

Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston and Ang Sun

10730: Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany

Gerard van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff and Joachim Wolff

10729: The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan Dolado, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Linas Tarasonis

10728: Explaining Non-Employment Magnitude and Duration: The Case of Italy

Bruno Contini and Roberto Quaranta

10727: Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

10726: Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs and Sébastien Roux

10725: Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Lisa Kahn and Fabian Lange

10724: What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John van Reenen

10723: How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes

Archontis L. Pantsios and Solomon Polachek

10722: Working Hours and Productivity

Marion Collewet and Jan Sauermann

10721: Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness

Ravi Kanbur and Andy Snell

10720: The Hukou Impact on the Chinese Wage Structure

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

10719: Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia

Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas Mavromaras, Sue Richardson and Rong Zhu

10718: Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America

Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Julian Messina

10717: Female Babies and Risk-Aversion

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew Oswald and David Haig

10716: Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany Than Men?

Anne Busch-Heizmann and Elke Holst

10715: Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

Malte Sandner, Thomas Cornelissen, Tanja Jungmann and Peggy Herrmann

10714: Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)

Kasey Buckles

10713: Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender

Benedikt Gerst and Christian Grund

10712: Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Ulrike Unterhofer and Katharina Wrohlich

10711: Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias

Teresa Molina Millan and Karen Macours

10710: Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment

Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra and Tommaso Reggiani

10709: Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating

Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol and Gideon Yaniv

10708: Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks

Michael Jetter

10707: Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Markus Gehrsitz

10706: Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

10705: Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century

Rajeev Goel, James Saunoris and Friedrich Schneider

10704: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Balázs Égert

10703: The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change

Murat Iyigun and Jared Rubin

10702: The Demand for Teacher Characteristics in the Market for Child Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Casey Boyd-Swan and Chris M. Herbst

10701: Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

10700: The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations

Luis Diaz-Serrano and William Nilsson

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