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10299: Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes

Pablo Agnese and Jana Hromcová

10298: Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC

Franziska Hampf and Ludger Woessmann

10297: Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Saul Estrin and Adeline Pelletier

10296: A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jane Leer, Florencia Lopez Boo, Ana Perez Expósito and Christine Powell

10295: Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China

Liqiu Zhao, Fei Wang and Zhong Zhao

10294: Looking Back on the Lessons of "Higher Education and Developing Countries: Peril and Promise": Perspectives on China and India

David Bloom, Philip G. Altbach and Henry Rosovsky

10293: Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani and Agata Maida

10292: Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Francesco Devicienti, Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni

10291: A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market

Nicolas Salamanca and Jan Feld

10290: Understanding Wage Floor Setting in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France

Denis Fougere, Erwan Gautier and Sébastien Roux

10289: The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance

Pedro Martins

10288: Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

John Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi

10287: Early Childcare, Child Cognitive Outcomes and Inequalities in the UK

Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Piazzalunga and Chiara Pronzato

10286: Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important Is the Family?

Julia Bredtmann and Nina Smith

10285: Financial Literacy and Political Orientation in Great Britain

Alberto Montagnoli, Mirko Moro, Georgios Panos and Robert Wright

10284: Understanding the Response to Financial and Non-Financial Incentives in Education: Field Experimental Evidence Using High-Stakes Assessments

Simon Burgess, Robert Metcalfe and Sally Sadoff

10283: Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments

Damon Clark, David Gill, Victoria Prowse and Mark Rush

10282: Longer School Schedules and Early Reading Skills: Effects from a Full-Day School Reform in Chile

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger and Veronica Vienne

10281: Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 157 Countries Worldwide: Updated and New Measures from 1999 to 2013

Mai Hassan and Friedrich Schneider

10280: Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?

Katharina Grabrucker and Michael Grimm

10279: Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

10278: On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol, Mirjam Praag and Theodor Vladasel

10277: Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Elise de Vuijst and Merle Zwiers

10276: A Life Course Approach to Understanding Neighbourhood Effects

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans

10275: The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased Migration and Global Welfare

Costanza Biavaschi, Michał Burzyński, Benjamin Elsner and Joël Machado

10274: Diasporas and Conflict

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier and Thierry Verdier

10273: Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity

Michael P. Pflüger and Takatoshi Tabuchi

10272: Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition

Thu Hien Dao, Frédéric Docquier, Christopher Parsons and Giovanni Peri

10271: On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments

S Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra and Hiu Tam

10270: Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru

Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado and Alan Sanchez

10269: Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions

Bastien Chabé-Ferret

10268: Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks

Jan Kabátek and David Ribar

10267: Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples

Christian Bredemeier, Jan Gravert and Falko Juessen

10266: Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits

Nikolas Mittag

10265: Frictional Unemployment with Stochastic Bubbles

Guillaume Vuillemey and Etienne Wasmer

10264: Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Andreas Lichter

10263: Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review

Jochen Kluve, Olga Susana Puerto, David Robalino, Jose Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff and Marc J. Witte

10262: Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration

Pedro Martins

10261: Current Emotion Research in Economics

Klaus Wälde and Agnes Moors

10260: Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru

Marta Favara and Alan Sanchez

10259: In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance: An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution

David Bjerk

10258: Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics

Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher and Maik Schneider

10257: Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa

10256: Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia

Subha Mani, Sophie Mitra and Usha Sambamoorthi

10255: Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work

Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon

10254: What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention

Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

10253: Sibling Health, Schooling and Longer-Term Developmental Outcomes

Christopher Ryan and Anna Zhu

10252: Teacher Literacy and Numeracy Skills: International Evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Bart Golsteyn, Stan Vermeulen and Inge de Wolf

10251: Centralized Admission and the Student-College Match

Cecilia Machado and Christiane Szerman

10250: Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Maria A. Davia, Seamus McGuinness and Philip O'Connell

10249: Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Eric Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold and Ludger Woessmann

10248: Rebuttal of "On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models"

Jaap H. Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

10247: On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models

Per Johansson and Myoung-jae Lee

10246: Spousal and Survivor Benefits in Option Value Models of Retirement: An Application to Belgium

Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre

10245: Rotation Group Bias in Measures of Multiple Job Holding

Barry Hirsch and John Winters

10244: On Measuring Uncertainty: Snakes and Ladders

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

10243: The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering

Hayley Fisher and Anna Zhu

10242: Marital Matching, Economies of Scale and Intrahousehold Allocations

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Khushboo Surana and Frederic Vermeulen

10241: Labor Market Imperfections and the Firm's Wage Setting Policy

Sónia Félix and Pedro Portugal

10240: More Female Manager Hires through More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany

Mario Bossler, Alexander Mosthaf and Thorsten Schank

10239: Gender Quotas: Challenging the Boards, Performance, and the Stock Market

Giulia Ferrari, Valeria Ferraro, Paola Profeta and Chiara Pronzato

10238: Does Classroom Gender Composition Affect School Dropout?

Bulent Anil, Duygu Guner, Tuba Toru Delibaşı and Gokce Uysal

10237: Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants: An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act

David Bjerk

10236: The Decision to Carry: The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications

Briggs Depew and Isaac D. Swensen

10235: Immigrant Crime and Legal Status: Evidence from Repeated Amnesty Programs

Francesco Fasani

10234: On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale and Uta Schönberg

10233: Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession

Kusum Mundra and Fernando Rios-Avila

10232: Understanding the Effects of Homeownership and Regional Unemployment Levels on Migration during the Economic Crisis in Spain

Isabel Palomares-Linares and Maarten van Ham

10231: Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Leo Feler and Mine Zeynep Senses

10230: Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Xiuna Yang

10229: Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality: Insights from Studies on Transition

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Jan Svejnar

10228: Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda

Luke Chicoine and Juan Carlos Guzman

10227: Are Labor Supply Decisions Consistent with Neoclassical Preferences? Evidence from Indian Boat Owners

Xavier Gine, Monica Martinez-Bravo and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

10226: Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia

Elena Nikolova and Milena Nikolova

10225: Prevalence of Long Hours and Skilled Women's Occupational Choices

Patricia Cortes and Jessica Pan

10224: The Skill Content of Occupations across Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Harmonized Data

Emanuele Dicarlo, Salvatore Lo Bello, Sebastian Monroy-Taborda, Ana Maria Oviedo, Maria Sanchez Puerta and Indhira Santos

10223: The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Katharine Abraham, John Haltiwanger, L. Kristin Sandusky and James Spletzer

10222: The Third Worker: Assessing the Trade-off between Employees and Contractors

Pedro Martins

10221: Waiting Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth: No Point?

Bart Cockx and Eva Van Belle

10220: Being Poorer than the Rest of the Neighbourhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behaviour of Youth

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Maarten van Ham, Rongqin Yu, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus and Pieter Hooimeijer

10219: Single Mothers and Their Children: Evaluating a Work-Encouraging Welfare Reform

Katrine Løken, Kjell Lommerud and Katrine Holm Reiso

10218: The Development and Happiness of Very Young Children

Paul Anand and Laurence Roope

10217: Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves

Doris Weichselbaumer

10216: Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham and David Manley

10215: By the Time I Get to Arizona: Estimating the Impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act on Migrant Outflows

Wayne Liou and Timothy Halliday

10214: Linguistic and Economic Adjustment among Immigrants in Israel

Barry Chiswick, Uzi Rebhun and Nadia Beider

10213: Networks and Migrants' Intended Destination

Simone Bertoli and Ilse Ruyssen

10212: The Labor Market Consequences of Refugee Supply Shocks

George Borjas and Joan Monras

10211: Weighing the Military Option: The Effects of Wartime Conditions on Investments in Human Capital

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour and Bryson Rintala

10210: If Life Throws You Lemons, Try To Make Lemonade: Does Locus of Control Help People Cope with Unexpected Shocks?

Steven Stillman and Malathi Velamuri

10209: The Analysis of Prison-Prisoner Data Using Cluster-Sample Econometrics: Prison Conditions and Prisoners' Assessments of the Future

Horst Entorf and Liliya Sattarova

10208: Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime

Samuel R. Bondurant, Jason Lindo and Isaac D. Swensen

10207: Job Design and Skill Developments in the Workplace

Giovanni Russo

10206: Should the Maximum Duration of Fixed-Term Contracts Increase in Recessions? Evidence from a Law Reform

Pedro Martins

10205: Can Overtime Premium Flexibility Promote Employment? Firm- and Worker-Level Evidence from a Labour Law Reform

Pedro Martins

10204: No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining

Alexander Hijzen and Pedro Martins

10203: The Empirical Content of Season-of-Birth Effects: An Investigation with Turkish Data

Huzeyfe Torun and Semih Tumen

10202: The Returns to Education at Community Colleges: New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey

Dave Marcotte

10201: Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes: Micro Evidence from Germany

Sabrina Hahm and Jochen Kluve

10200: Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Nicholas Papageorge and Kevin Thom