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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

10199: Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India

Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Subha Mani

10198: Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India

Deepti Goel and Ashwini Deshpande

10197: The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High

Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces

10196: Remittances and Informal Work

Artjoms Ivlevs

10195: The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement: Evidence of Disruption?

Louise Voldby Beuchert, Maria Humlum, Helena Nielsen and Nina Smith

10194: Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?

Robert Valletta

10193: The Changing Occupational Distribution by College Major

Michael Ransom and Aaron Phipps

10192: The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis

Massimo Anelli

10191: Lost in Transition: The Influence of Locus of Control on Delaying Educational Decisions

Katharina Jaik and Stefan Wolter

10190: Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality

Jenny Bartuli, Behnud Mir Djawadi and René Fahr

10189: Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests

Vittorio Pelligra, Tommaso Reggiani and Daniel Zizzo

10188: Preferences for Truth-Telling

Johannes Abeler, Daniele Nosenzo and Collin Raymond

10187: Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment

Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

10186: Residential Choices of Young Americans

Eleonora Patacchini and Tiziano Arduini

10185: The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers

Susan Averett, Julie Smith and Yang Wang

10184: Do Men Matter to Female Competition Even When They Don't?

Erica G. Birk, Logan M. Lee and Glen R. Waddell

10183: Do Women Ask?

Benjamin Artz, Amanda H. Goodall and Andrew Oswald

10182: Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment

Matthew Webb, Casey Warman and Arthur Sweetman

10181: Well-Being, Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the U.S

Francois Maniquet and Dirk Neumann

10180: Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials

Mette Foged

10179: Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

10178: Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Aysıt Tansel, Zeynel Ozdemir and Emre Aksoy

10177: Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Arne Uhlendorff

10176: Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country

M Asadullah

10175: The Tragedy of Corruption

Yefeng Chen, Shuguang Jiang and Marie Claire Villeval

10174: Effects of a Red Card on Goal-Scoring in World Cup Football Matches

Jakub Cerveny, Jan van Ours and Martin A. van Tuijl

10173: Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions

Clara Welteke and Katharina Wrohlich

10172: Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann

10171: The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior

John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee

10170: Estimating Indirect Benefits: Fracking, Coal and Air Pollution

Reid Johnsen, Jacob LaRiviere and Hendrik Wolff

10169: How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective

Nekeisha Spencer, Solomon Polachek and Eric Strobl

10168: The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment: Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09

Sarah Khan and Andrew Seltzer

10167: The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez

10166: Settling for Academia? H-1B Visas and the Career Choices of International Students in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Delia Furtado

10165: Teacher Expectations Matter

Nicholas Papageorge, Seth Gershenson and Kyungmin Kang

10164: Demography of Global Aging

David Bloom, Elizabeth Mitgang and Benjamin Osher

10163: The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future

David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca

10162: Population Aging in India: Facts, Issues, and Options

Arunika Agarwal, Alyssa Lubet, Elizabeth Mitgang, Sanjay Mohanty and David Bloom

10161: Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

David Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

10160: Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?

Ubarevi?ien?, R?ta and Maarten van Ham

10159: Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

10158: Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada

Bernard Fortin and Safa Ragued

10157: Wage Decompositions Using Panel Data Sample Selection Correction

Ronald Oaxaca and Chung Choe

10156: Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico

Timothy Halliday, Daniel Lederman and Raymond Robertson

10155: Income Inequality and Well-Being in the U.S.: Evidence of Geographic-Scale- and Measure-Dependence

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee and Carol Graham

10154: The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions

Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

10153: How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?

Katharina Dyballa and Kornelius Kraft