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10452: The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee and Amanda Cabacungan

10451: Wage Risk, Employment Risk and the Rise in Wage Inequality

Ariel Mecikovsky and Felix Wellschmied

10450: Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11

Martin Biewen, Martin Ungerer and Max Löffler

10449: Estimating Matching Affinity Matrix under Low-Rank Constraints

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon and Yifei Sun

10448: Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters

Almas Heshmati and Masoomeh Rashidghalam

10447: A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Nikolas Mittag

10446: The Effects of International Migration on Native Workers' Unionisation in Austria

José Ignacio Antón, René Böheim and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

10445: International Migration, Return Migration, and their Effects: A Comprehensive Review on the Romanian Case

Remus Gabriel Anghel, Co?ciug, Anatolie, Ioana Manafi and Monica Roman

10444: The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil

Garance Genicot, Anna Maria Mayda and Mariapia Mendola

10443: How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession

Martin Kahanec and Martin Guzi

10442: Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions

Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel

10441: End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

Bernd Fitzenberger, Marina Furdas and Christoph Sajons

10440: Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country

Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan and Maka Chitanava

10439: Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment

Christopher Boone, Arindrajit Dube, Lucas Goodman and Ethan Kaplan

10438: Men, Women and Unions

Getinet Haile

10437: Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time

Gabriel Burdín and Virginie Pérotin

10436: Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014: Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects

Alexander Muravyev

10435: Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Kristine Nergaard

10434: Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha and Mathias Sinning

10433: Computer Gaming and Test Scores: Cross-Country Gender Differences among Teenagers

Yann Algan and Nicole M. Fortin

10432: The Effect of One Laptop per Child on Teachers' Pedagogical Practices and Students' Use of Time at Home

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado and Guadalupe Montenegro

10431: The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Pablo Lavado, Santiago Cueto, Gustavo Yamada and Micaela Wensjoe

10430: The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden

Martin Fischer, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Nina Schwarz

10429: Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita and Parag Pathak

10428: Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood

10427: Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

Michael Grimm, Luciane Lenz, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

10426: The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption

Gautam Hazarika

10425: The Power of Social Pensions

Wei Huang and Chuanchuan Zhang

10424: Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007

Zhaopeng Qu and Zhong Zhao

10423: Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes and Torun Österberg

10422: The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Michael M. H. Tse and Sholeh Maani

10421: Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity

Mariacristina Piva, Max Tani and Marco Vivarelli

10420: Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns

Giovanni Facchini, Yotam Margalit and Hiroyuki Nakata

10419: Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth and Diego Ubfal

10418: Is There a Preferential Treatment for Locals in the Labor Market? Evidence from Takeovers

Tommaso Colussi and Livio Romano

10417: Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Tommaso Colussi, Ingo Isphording and Nico Pestel

10416: Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada

Randall Akee and Donna Feir

10415: Free Childcare and Parents' Labour Supply: Is More Better?

Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford and Birgitta Rabe

10414: Lone Parents, Time-Limited In-Work Credits and the Dynamics of Work and Welfare

Mike Brewer and Jonathan Cribb

10413: Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased

Rania Gihleb and Kevin Lang

10412: Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing

Emily McDool, Philip Powell, Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

10411: Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?

Milena Nikolova and Sinem Ayhan

10410: Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Guido Friebel, Michael Kosfeld and Gerd Thielmann

10409: Avoiding Convictions: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals for First-Time Drug Offenders

Michael Mueller-Smith and Kevin Schnepel

10408: Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk

Sarah Brown, Daniel Gray, Mark Harris and Christopher Spencer

10407: Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets

Nicolas Salamanca, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Raymond Montizaan

10406: Locus of Control and Investment in Training

Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz and Arne Uhlendorff

10405: The Twin Instrument

Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

10404: Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data

Garry Barrett and Daniel Hamermesh

10403: Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests

Daniel Hamermesh

10402: Missing Data, Imputation, and Endogeneity

Ian McDonough and Daniel Millimet

10401: Career Choice and the Strength of Weak Ties

Semih Tumen

10400: A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2016–2017 Edition

John Cawley

10399: Who Is Your Perfect Match? Educational Norms, Educational Mismatch and Firm Profitability

Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Guillaume Vermeylen

10398: The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Robert Fairlie and Ariel Kalil

10397: On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters

John Humphries and Fabian Kosse

10396: Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon and Eilon Solan

10395: Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior: Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence

Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim and Marie Claire Villeval

10394: The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior

Ritwik Banerjee, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marie Claire Villeval

10393: Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu and Michael Vlassopoulos

10392: Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt and Brian McCaig

10391: Estimation of Joint Income? Wealth Poverty: A Sensitivity Analysis

Sarah Kuypers and Ive Marx

10390: Economics of Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency

Prakarsh Singh

10389: The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru

Juan Gabriel Delgado Montes, Javier Corrales and Prakarsh Singh

10388: The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on Victorian Labour Markets

Andrew Seltzer and Jeff Borland

10387: Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility: Evidence from Ethiopia

Luke Chicoine

10386: Biology and Gender in the Labor Market

Deborah Cobb-Clark

10385: Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia

Emily Beam and Slesh Shrestha

10384: Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

Alison Booth and Eiji Yamamura

10383: The Impact of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems on Families' Child Care Choices and the Supply of Child Care Labor

Chris M. Herbst

10382: My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households

Anthony Lepinteur, Sarah Flèche and Nattavudh Powdthavee

10381: The Economic Impact of East?West Migration on the European Union

Martin Kahanec and Mariola Pytlikova

10380: Population Growth and Carbon Emissions

Gregory Casey and Oded Galor

10379: Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Oded Galor, Ömer Özak and Assaf Sarid

10378: Addressing Longevity Heterogeneity in Pension Scheme Design and Reform

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Bravo and Robert Holzmann

10377: Small-Scale Farming and Food Security: The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands

Dieter von Fintel and Louw Pienaar

10376: Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda

Daniela Campus and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

10375: Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition: Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial

Prakarsh Singh and William Masters

10374: Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Francesc Ortega and Suleyman Taspinar

10373: The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon

10372: The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

Laura Gee

10371: Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence

Holger Görg, Philipp Henze, Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol, Daniel Kopasker, Hassan Molana, Catia Montagna and Fredrik Sjöholm

10370: Management Practices and Productivity in Germany

Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg and Marie-Christine Laible

10369: Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times

Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan and Arne Uhlendorff

10368: Scholarship, the Law and Immigration Policy

Don DeVoretz

10367: Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa

Julia Bredtmann, Fernanda Martínez Flores and Sebastian Otten

10366: The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis

Ryan Edwards and Francesc Ortega

10365: The Rise of the Free Movements: How Posting Shapes a Hybrid Single European Labour Market

Ninke Mussche, Vincent Corluy and Ive Marx

10364: Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

Alison Booth, Elliott Fan, Xin Meng and Dandan Zhang

10363: The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Long-term Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Savings of European Households

Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Luca Stella and Christoph Weiss

10362: Family Economics Writ Large

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

10361: How Does Pension Eligibility Affect Labor Supply in Couples?

Rafael Lalive and Pierpaolo Parrotta

10360: Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Matteo Bobba and Veronica Frisancho

10359: Labor Outcomes during the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Role of Personality, Cognition, and Shocks in Madagascar

David Sahn and Kira M. Villa

10358: Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 South African National Matric Cohort

Hendrik van Broekhuizen, Servaas van der Berg and Heleen Hofmeyr

10357: How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer and Katharina Werner

10356: What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn, James Heckman and John Humphries

10355: The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market: The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows

Etienne Lalé

10354: R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Laura Barbieri, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

10353: Strengthening Enforcement in Unemployment Insurance: A Natural Experiment

Patrick Arni and Amelie Schiprowski