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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

10152: Marketmaking Middlemen

Pieter Gautier, Bo Hu and Makoto Watanabe

10151: Anchoring in Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

10150: Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students

Jane Arnold Lincove and Kalena E. Cortes

10149: Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic

Alena Bičáková and Klara Kaliskova

10148: Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

Esra Kose, Elira Kuka and Na'ama Shenhav

10147: Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Özek and Paola Sapienza

10146: EthniCity of Leisure: A Domains Approach to Ethnic Integration During Free Time Activities

Kristiina Kamenik, Tiit Tammaru and Maarten van Ham

10145: Can Authorization Reduce Poverty among Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Francisca Antman

10144: Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Temporary Authorization: Evidence from DACA

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Francisca Antman

10143: Mapping Experiences and Research about Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Sweden and Other Countries

Aycan Celikaksoy and Eskil Wadensjö

10142: How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore

Eric Fesselmeyer and Haoming Liu

10141: Neoliberalization and the Changing Roles of Stakeholders in State-Led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China

Xin Li, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

10140: Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees During Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring

Xin Li, Maarten van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans

10139: Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry

Zhe Liang, Simon Appleton and Lina Song

10138: Is There a Role for Higher Education Institutions in Improving the Quality of First Employment?

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Whelan and Adele Bergin

10137: Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius and Finn Rasmussen

10136: Money or Fun? Why Students Want to Pursue Further Education

Chris Belfield, Teodora Boneva, Christopher Rauh and Jonathan Shaw

10135: Does Private Schooling Increase Adult Earnings? Cohort-Level Evidence for U.S. States

Reilee L. Berger and John Winters

10134: Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

10133: The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro and Valerie Lechene

10132: Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis

SeEun Jung, Chung Choe and Ronald Oaxaca

10131: Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda

Abdou Musonera and Almas Heshmati

10130: The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia

Elizabeth Brainerd

10129: Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Grace Lordan and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

10128: Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Stefano Gagliarducci and M. Daniele Paserman

10127: Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Gang Shuge and Dai Jianzhong

10126: Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations

Adrian Adermon, Mikael Lindahl and Daniel Waldenström

10125: (In)Equality and (In)Justice

Guillermina Jasso

10124: Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality

Stephen Jenkins

10123: The Impact of Diabetes on Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico: A Panel Data and Biomarker Analysis

Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels and Marc Suhrcke

10122: Health Insurance and Child Health: Evidence from Mexico

Gabriella Conti and Rita Ginja

10121: Temporary Jobs and the Severity of Workplace Accidents

Matteo Picchio and Jan van Ours

10120: Delving into the Demand Side: Changes in Workplace Specialization and Job Polarization

Guido Matias Cortes and Andrea Salvatori

10119: Migration Experience and Access to a First Job in Uganda

Delphine Boutin