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10352: Taxation of Temporary Jobs: Good Intentions with Bad Outcomes?

Pierre Cahuc, Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Helène Benghalem and Emeline Limon

10351: Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition

Michael Grimm

10350: Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo

Armando Meier, Lukas D. Schmid and Alois Stutzer

10349: Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?

Magnus Carlsson, Gordon Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth

10348: Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences

Christian Belzil and Modibo Sidibé

10347: Testing the Advantages of Conscious vs. Unconscious Thought for Complex Decisions in a Distraction Free Paradigm

Todd McElroy and David Dickinson

10346: Wheeling into School and Out of Crime: Evidence from Linking Driving Licenses to Minimum Academic Requirements

Rashmi Barua and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

10345: Sexual Violence, Title IX and Women's College Enrollment

Dave Marcotte and Jane E. Palmer

10344: Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

Johannes Kunz and Kevin Staub

10343: Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers' Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement

Camille Terrier

10342: Labor-Market Scars When Youth Unemployment Is Extremely High: Evidence from Macedonia

Marjan Petreski, Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski and Marcelo Bergolo

10341: Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man: Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung and Moritz Kuhn

10340: Impact of the Great Recession on Industry Unemployment: A 1976-2011 Comparison

Yelena F. Takhtamanova and Eva Sierminska

10339: Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Nina Schwarz

10338: Do Leaders' Characteristics and Regime Transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens' Health Status?

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Frank Gyimah Sackey

10337: Personality and Mental Health: The Role and Substitution Effect of Emotional Stability and Conscientiousness

Caroline Wehner, Trudie Schils and Lex Borghans

10336: Misalignment of Productivity and Wages across Regions? Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Francois Rycx, Yves Saks and Ilan Tojerow

10335: Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market

Laszlo Goerke

10334: The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany: A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns

Mario Reinhold and Stephan Thomsen

10333: The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking

Yuxin Yao and Jan van Ours

10332: How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Firm Investments in Fixed and Human Capital? Evidence from China

Tobias Haepp and Carl Lin

10331: What's in a Name in a War

Stepan Jurajda and Kova?, Dejan

10330: Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts

Richard Akresh, German Caruso and Harsha Thirumurthy

10329: The Gravity Model of Migration: The Successful Comeback of an Ageing Superstar in Regional Science

Jacques Poot, Omoniyi Alimi, Michael Cameron and David Maré

10328: Global Talent Flows

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Caglar Ozden and Christopher Parsons

10327: Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective

Graziella Bertocchi and Monica Bozzano

10326: Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh

M Asadullah

10325: Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa

Adel Ben-Youssef, Laurence Lannes, Christophe Rault and Agnes Soucat

10324: Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy

Semih Tumen

10323: Empowering the Vulnerable to Be Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Test on the Effectiveness of the Ghana Microfinance Policy 2006

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Frank Gyimah Sackey

10322: Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France

Elena Stancanelli

10321: Active Labor Market Policies

Bruno Crépon and Gerard van den Berg

10320: The Devil is in the Tails: Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable

Zhuan Pei and Yi Shen

10319: More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships

Luca Merlino, Max Steinhardt and Liam Wren-Lewis

10318: Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? A Response to Jaeger, Joyce, and Kaestner (2016)

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

10317: Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing

David Jaeger, Theodore J. Joyce and Robert Kaestner

10316: Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth

Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi

10315: Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-Emotional Skills: Evidence from Large Scale Studies of Very Young Children

Rosangela Bando and Florencia Lopez Boo

10314: Which Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni

10313: Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?

Anne Brenøe and Shelly Lundberg

10312: Marriage and Marriage Markets

Shoshana Grossbard

10311: Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks

Giulio Fella, Serafin Frache and Winfried Koeniger

10310: Intra-Household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Marcelo Bergolo and Estefanía Galván

10309: Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Change Time Preferences and Educational Aspirations?

Diana Contreras Suarez and Lisa Cameron

10308: Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011

Mehtabul Azam

10307: Reforming the Integration of Refugees: The Swedish Experience

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Alma W. Lanninger and Marianne Sundström

10306: Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization

Stefano Comino, Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Antonio Nicolo'

10305: Consumption and Leisure: The Welfare Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind

Elie Murard

10304: Immigration and the Reallocation of Work Health Risks

Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Catia Nicodemo and Carlos Vargas-Silva

10303: Moving Up or Down? Immigration and the Selection of Natives across Occupations and Locations

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

10302: Work-Related Learning and Skill Development in Europe: Does Initial Skill Mismatch Matter?

Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Annemarie Künn-Nelen and Andries de Grip

10301: Assessing the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes in the EU

Kari P Hadjivassiliou, Arianna Tassinari, Werner Eichhorst and Florian Wozny

10300: The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and Earnings in Contemporary Russia

Gleb V. Borisov and Christopher Pissarides

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