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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

10118: Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools

Jacobus Cilliers, Ibrahim Kasirye, Clare Leaver, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin

10117: Service Sector Development and its Determinants in Rwanda

Eric Uwitonze and Almas Heshmati

10116: Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy

Semih Tumen

10115: Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Resul Cesur, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

10114: Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg and Jan Stuhler

10113: Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons and Ferdinand Rauch

10112: Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment

Christopher Parsons and Pierre-Louis Vézina

10111: Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior

Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Joël Machado and Jackline Wahba

10110: The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

10109: Migration and Globalization: What's in it for Developing Countries?

Hillel Rapoport

10108: Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs

Jeffrey Smith and Arthur Sweetman

10107: An Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Ellen Bendewald, Nicholas Maryns and Raymond Robertson

10106: Can't Work or Won't Work: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Work Search Requirements for Single Parents

Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer and Andrea Salvatori

10105: Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?

Matthias Sutter, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler and Matthias Stefan

10104: The "Entrepreneurial Boss" Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices: A Role Model Story?

Vera Rocha and Mirjam Praag

10103: Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours

John H. Pencavel

10102: Workplace Disability: Whose Wellbeing Does It Affect?

Getinet Haile

10101: Long-term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence

Tine Louise Eriksen, Annie Hogh and Åse Marie Hansen

10100: Deconstructing Informality: A Response to Vulnerability or an Optimal Choice?

Lina Song, Simon Appleton and Zhe Liang

10099: 'Even' After Access to Financial Services? Ricocheting Gender Equations

Shoba Arun, Samuel Annim and Thankom Gopinath Arun

10098: Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe

Karolina Goraus-Tańska and Piotr Lewandowski

10097: The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?

Julian Donaubauer and Christian Dreger

10096: Industrialization in China

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas Rawski

10095: The Long-lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium

Christoph Eder and Martin Halla

10094: Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor

Julie Christensen, Darius Onul and Prakarsh Singh

10093: "Face the Bullet, Spare the Rod?" Evidence from the Aftermath of the Shining Path Insurgency

Alvaro Morales and Prakarsh Singh

10092: Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam

Sutanuka Roy and Prakarsh Singh

10091: Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri

Seth Gershenson and Michael S. Hayes

10090: Inequality and Growth: The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills

Kirill Borissov, Stefano Bosi, Thai Ha-Huy and Leonor Modesto

10089: Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

10088: Happiness and Development

Milena Nikolova

10087: Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-being in Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs

10086: School Feeding and Learning Achievement: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program

Tanika Chakraborty and Rajshri Jayaraman

10085: Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information

Prakarsh Singh

10084: Performance Pay and Malnutrition

Prakarsh Singh and Sandip Mitra

10083: Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Prakarsh Singh and William Masters

10082: Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health

Kasey Buckles and Melanie Guldi

10081: Research Funding and Regional Economies

Nathan Goldschlag, Stefano Bianchini, Julia Lane, Joseba SanMartin Sola and Bruce Weinberg

10080: Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle

Daiji Kawaguchi, Ayako Kondo and Keiji Saito

10079: Teaching Accreditation Exams Reveal Grading Biases Favor Women in Male-Dominated Disciplines in France

Thomas Breda and Melina Hillion

10078: The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students

Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan and Douglas Webber

10077: In God We Learn? Religions' Universal Messages, Context-Specific Effects, and Minority Status

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Ilan Tojerow

10076: The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency

Daniel Henderson, Leopold Simar and Le Wang

10075: Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Dajun Lin, Randall Lutter and Christopher Ruhm

10074: The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Ryan Brown, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees

10073: How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?

Sai Ding, Xiao-yuan Dong and Margaret Maurer-Fazio

10072: The Demand for Season of Birth

Damian Clarke, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

10071: Booster Seats and Traffic Fatalities among Children

D. Mark Anderson and Sina Sandholt

10070: Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers

Effrosyni Adamopoulou and Ezgi Kaya

10069: Help Not Wanted: The Dismal Science of Youth Unemployment's Scarring Effect

Jordan Glatt and Phanindra Wunnava

10068: Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller

10067: On the Boundaries of the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Investigation

Eran Manes, Friedrich Schneider and Anat Tchetchik

10066: Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

10065: The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled

Kelvin Seah

10064: Returns to Schooling among Immigrants in Spain: A Quantile Regression Approach

Santiago Budria Rodriguez, Pablo Swedberg and Marlene Fonseca

10063: Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?

Asad Islam, Steven Stillman and Christopher Worswick

10062: Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans

Francisca Antman, Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

10061: Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Etienne Lalé

10060: On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Bravo and Robert Holzmann

10059: Commitment in the Household: Evidence from the Effect of Inheritances on the Labor Supply of Older Married Couples

David Blau and Ryan Goodstein

10058: Towards a Theory of Life Satisfaction Accounting for Stability, Change and Volatility in 25-Year Life Trajectories in Germany

Bruce Headey and Ruud Muffels

10057: Proxy Variables and Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects

Xavier de Luna, Philip Fowler and Per Johansson