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9999: The Chips Are Down: The Influence of Family on Children's Trust Formation

Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore and Sara Tonini

9998: Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler and Wojtek Przepiorka

9997: Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel and Tamar Mitts

9996: Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict? Understanding the Decision of an Opposition Group

Michael Jetter

9995: Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico

Miriam Bruhn

9994: Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India

Subhasish Dey and Kunal Sen

9993: Evaluating the Impact of the Post-2008 Employment Subsidy Program in Turkey

Binnur Balkan, Yusuf Baskaya and Semih Tumen

9992: How Successful Are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India

Sumon Bhaumik, Ali Kutan and Sudipa Majumdar

9991: Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy

Samuele Poy and Simone Schüller

9990: Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable

Michal Kolesár and Christoph Rothe

9989: The Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Christoph Rothe

9988: Big Data Is a Big Deal But How Much Data Do We Need?

Nikos Askitas

9987: Management as a Technology?

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

9986: Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?

Abel Brodeur and Kerry Nield

9985: Neighborhood Effects, Peer Classification, and the Decision of Women to Work

Nuno Mota, Eleonora Patacchini and Stuart Rosenthal

9984: Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

9983: Consumption Network Effects

Giacomo De Giorgi, Anders Frederiksen and Luigi Pistaferri

9982: Group (Re-)formation in Public Good Games: The Tale of the Bad Apple

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring and Kirsten Thommes

9981: Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task

Eric Cardella and Briggs Depew

9980: No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested

Stijn Baert and Simon Amez

9979: Grandparental Availability for Child Care and Maternal Employment: Pension Reform Evidence from Italy

Massimiliano Bratti, Tommaso Frattini and Francesco Scervini

9978: Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?

Seth Gershenson

9977: Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

Marco Francesconi and James Heckman

9976: Child Labor in China

Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

9975: Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market

Christopher Taber and Rune Vejlin

9974: Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012

Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel and René Morissette

9973: Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Devashish Mitra

9972: Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau, Gary Fields and Ravi Kanbur

9971: Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Alexander Danzer and Robert Grundke

9970: Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar

Christophe Nordman, Faly Rakotomanana and François Roubaud

9969: Aging, Retirement and Pay-As-You-Go Pensions

Giam Pietro Cipriani

9968: Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner and Ludger Woessmann

9967: Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger and Eran Yashiv

9966: Evaluating Labour Market Policy

Werner Eichhorst and Regina Konle-Seidl

9965: Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas

Claire A. Boeing-Reicher and Vincenzo Caponi

9964: Co-movements between Public and Private Wages in the EU: Which Factors Play a Role?

Benedicta Marzinotto and Alessandro Turrini

9963: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation

John Forth, Alex Bryson and Anitha George

9962: Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis

Ronald Bachmann and Hanna Frings

9961: Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content

Lawrence Kahn

9960: The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan

Pedro Carneiro, Jishnu Das and Hugo Reis

9959: Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation

Anica Kramer and Marcus Tamm

9958: Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply

Rania Gihleb and Osnat Lifshitz

9957: Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

James Heckman, John Humphries and Gregory Veramendi

9956: LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success

Jimmy R. Ellis and Seth Gershenson

9955: "Teaching to Teach" Literacy

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

9954: Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy

Rodrigo Fernandez, Herwig Immervoll, Daniele Pacifico and Céline Thévenot

9953: From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State

Juan Dolado, Etienne Lalé and Nawid Siassi

9952: Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?

Atanu Ghoshray, Javier Ordóñez and Hector Sala

9951: Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality

Daniel Haanwinckel and Rodrigo Soares

9950: Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff

9949: Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up

Guoqian Xi, Joern Block, Frank Lasch, Frank Robert and Roy Thurik

9948: Insurance in Human Capital Models with Limited Enforcement

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn and Mark Wright

9947: Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

S. Nageeb Ali and Roland Benabou

9946: Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Jeffrey Carpenter, Andrea Robbett and Prottoy Akbar

9945: The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France

Guillaume Daudin, Raphael Franck and Hillel Rapoport

9944: Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State

Vibeke Jakobsen and Peder Pedersen

9943: Explaining the Male Native-Immigrant Employment Gap in Sweden: The Role of Human Capital and Migrant Categories

Marc-André Luik, Henrik Emilsson and Pieter Bevelander

9942: Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Deepti Goel and Kevin Lang

9941: Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries

Froilan T. Malit and George Naufal

9940: Migrant Workers and the Welfare State

Torben M. Andersen and Silvia Migali

9939: When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Chris Riddell and W. Craig Riddell

9938: Resampling and Bootstrap to Assess the Relevance of Variables: A New Algorithmic Approach with Applications to Entrepreneurship Data

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Miguel Lafuente, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

9937: The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US

Davide Castellani, Mariacristina Piva, Torben Schubert and Marco Vivarelli

9936: Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms

Alexander Danzer, Peter Dolton and Chiara Rosazza Bondibene

9935: Single and Investing: Homeownership Trends among the Never Married

Kusum Mundra and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

9934: Local Neighbors as Positives, Regional Neighbors as Negatives: Competing Channels in the Relationship between Others' Income, Health, and Happiness

John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee and Carol Graham

9933: Commuting Time and Sex Ratios in the US

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla

9932: Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing

Sharat Ganapati, Joseph Shapiro and Reed Walker

9931: The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis

Daniela Piazzalunga and Maria Di Tommaso

9930: Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino

9929: Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison

Miles Corak

9928: How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

9927: The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply

Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G Salvanes and Emma Tominey

9926: How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Edgar Silva Quintero

9925: Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Salvatore Di Falco, Brice Magdalou, David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval and Marc Willinger

9924: The Mixture as Before? Student Responses to the Changing Content of School Meals in India

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan

9923: Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries

Almas Heshmati and Masoomeh Rashidghalam

9922: Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa: Evidence from Rwanda

Andinet Woldemichael, Daniel Zerfu Gurara and Abebe Abebe

9921: What is the Value of Foreign Work Experience? Analysing Online CV Data in Slovakia

Lucia Mytna Kurekova and Žilin?íková, Zuzana

9920: Do Foreigners Crowd Natives out of STEM Degrees and Occupations? Evidence from the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990

Tyler Ransom and John Winters

9919: Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success

Vera Rocha, Mirjam Praag, Timothy B. Folta and Anabela Carneiro

9918: Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

Silke Anger and Daniel Schnitzlein

9917: Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis

Silvia Mendolia and Peter Siminski

9916: Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia

Luke Chicoine

9915: Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique De Haan and Edwin Leuven

9914: Minimum Wages and Firm Value

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

9913: Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession

Daniel Baumgarten and Michael Kvasnicka

9912: Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case

Joachim Merz and Tim Rathjen

9911: Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

9910: Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Jinhu Li and Anthony Scott

9909: An Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Models

Stephen Bazen, Xavier Joutard and Brice Magdalou

9908: Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee and Daniel Wilhelm

9907: The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

Petri Böckerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen and Olli Raitakari

9906: Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns

Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

9905: Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply

Martin Halla, Harald Mayr, Gerald Pruckner and Pilar Garcia-Gomez

9904: Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies?

Heather Antecol, Kelly Bedard and Jenna Stearns

9903: Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach

Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

9902: Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?

Jacob Lundberg and Daniel Waldenström

9901: Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Shane Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia and Maurizio Scudiero

9900: US Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?

Lauren E. Jones and Nicolas Ziebarth