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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

10599: Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market

David Dickinson, David Masclet and Emmanuel Peterle

10598: Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Russell Weinstein

10597: The Perfect Storm: Graduating in a Recession in a Segmented Labor Market

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

10596: Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts

Elizabeth Cascio

10595: Where's the Teacher? How Teacher Workplace Segregation Impedes Teacher Allocation in India

Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen

10594: Long Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School

Edwin Leuven and Sturla Løkken

10593: Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg

10592: Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health among Young Mothers?

Albert Young-Il Kim and Jungmin Lee

10591: Zika Virus Prevalence, Correlates and Preventive Behaviors: New Evidence from Survey Data

José-Raimundo Carvalho, Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Climent Quintana-Domeque

10590: Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares and Daniel I. Rees

10589: The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-Utero Exposure and Labor Market Outcomes

Hannes Schwandt

10588: Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Julie Beugnot, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix and Marie Claire Villeval

10587: Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer, Mosi Rosenboim and Offer Moshe Shapir

10586: Girls Helping Girls: The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices

Pål Schøne, Kristine von Simson and Marte Strøm

10585: Gender Differences in the Link between Income and Trust Levels: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Jessica R. Bilson, Michael Jetter and Ingebjørg Kristoffersen

10584: Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market

Eric Mak and Aloysius Siow

10583: A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

10582: The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance

Alberto Martini, Enrico Rettore and Gian Paolo Barbetta

10581: Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

10580: Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Samuel Bentolila, J. Ignacio García Pérez and Marcel Jansen

10579: Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors

Romina Giuliano, Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy and Francois Rycx

10578: State Health Insurance Mandates and Labor Market Outcomes: New Evidence on Old Questions

Yaa Akosa Antwi and Johanna Maclean

10577: I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover

Deniz Gevrek, Marilyn Spencer, David Hudgins and Valrie Chambers

10576: Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

10575: Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

10574: On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013

Rolf Aaberge, Anthony Atkinson and Jørgen Modalsli

10573: An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis

Charlotte Bartels and Maria Metzing

10572: Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes

Arindrajit Dube

10571: Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence

Barry Hirsch, David Macpherson and Anne E. Preston

10570: The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

10569: Religious Pluralism and the Transmission of Religious Values through Education

Danny Cohen-Zada and Todd Elder

10568: The Effect of School Entrance Age on Educational Outcomes: Evidence Using Multiple Cutoff Dates and Exact Date of Birth

Itay Attar and Danny Cohen-Zada

10567: Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Nicholas Papageorge and Kevin Thom

10566: Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China

Paul Glewwe, Qiuqiong Huang and Albert Park

10565: Money Counts, but So Does Timing: Public Investment and Adult Competencies

Alison Cathles and Jo Ritzen

10564: Equal Opportunity through Higher Education: Theory and Evidence on Privilege and Ability

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El and Yossef Tobol

10563: Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?

Bart Golsteyn and Cécile A. J. Magnée

10562: Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Bart Golsteyn and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

10561: Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits

Silke Anger, Georg Camehl and Frauke Peter

10560: Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities

Sandra Black, Erik Grönqvist and Björn Öckert

10559: The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries

Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii and Karl Schulze

10558: The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data

Christian Neumeier, Todd Sorensen and Douglas Webber

10557: Household Bargaining, Spouses' Consumption Patterns and the Design of Commodity Taxes

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Kerstin Roeder