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10052: Like Father, Like Daughter (Unless There Is a Son): Sibling Sex Composition and Women's STEM Major Choice in College

Umut Oguzoglu and Serkan Ozbeklik

10051: Much Ado About Nothing? The Wage Effect of Holding a Ph.D. Degree But Not a Ph.D. Job Position

Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera and Francesco Pastore

10050: Potential Parenthood and Career Progression of Men and Women: A Simultaneous Hazards Approach

Martin Biewen and Stefanie Seifert

10049: Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Ira Gang, Kseniia Gatskova, John Landon-Lane and Myeong-Su Yun

10048: Searching for Religious Discrimination among Anganwadi Workers in India: An Experimental Investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani and Prakarsh Singh

10047: Intergenerational Mobility in Income and Economic Status in Ethiopia

Getinet Haile

10046: The Impact of Micro-Credit on Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Azhar Kahn, Twyeafur Rahman and Robert Wright

10045: Chinese Returnees and High-tech Sector Outward FDI: The Case of Changzhou

Zhao Chen and Tony Fang

10044: When the Going Gets Tough... Financial Incentives, Duration of Unemployment and Job-Match Quality

Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

10043: UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action

Paul Willman, Alex Bryson and John Forth

10042: What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Alex Bryson and John Forth

10041: Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

10040: Do Parents Tax Their Children? Teenage Labour Supply and Financial Support

Angus Holford

10039: Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

George Wehby, Dhaval Dave and Robert Kaestner

10038: Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction

Christian Grund and Maike Rubin

10037: Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China

Xi Chen, Tianyu Wang and Susan Busch

10036: No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness

David Hummels, Jakob Munch and Chong Xiang

10035: Trade Induced Skill Upgrading: Lessons from the Danish and Portuguese Experiences

Grace Gu, Samreen Malik, Dario Pozzoli and Vera Rocha

10034: Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation

Selva Bahar Baziki, Rita Ginja and Teodora Borota Milicevic

10033: Worker-Level Consequences of Import Shocks

Katariina Nilsson Hakkala and Kristiina Huttunen

10032: Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement

Kelvin Seah

10031: The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Sekou Keita

10030: Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Almudena Sevilla

10029: Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani and Biagio Speciale

10028: Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China

Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen

10027: The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China

Tom Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell

10026: Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia

Raymond Robertson, Drusilla Brown and Rajeev Dehejia

10025: Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning: Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia and Raymond Robertson

10024: How to Help Poor Informal Workers to Save a Bit: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Merve Akbas, Dan Ariely, David Robalino and Michael Weber

10023: Intensive Mothering and Well-being: The Role of Education and Child Care Activity

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

10022: Is Childcare Bad for the Mental Health of Grandparents? Evidence from SHARE

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

10021: Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China

Janneke Pieters and Samantha Rawlings

10020: The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Karao?lan, Deniz

10019: Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment

Yonas Alem, Hannah Behrendt, Michèle Belot and Anikó Bíró

10018: Does Social Health Insurance Reduce Financial Burden? Panel Data Evidence from India

Mehtabul Azam

10017: Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Garry Barrett and W. Craig Riddell

10016: Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?

Xi Chen

10015: The Intimate Link between Income Levels and Life Expectancy: Global Evidence from 213 Years

Michael Jetter, Sabine Laudage and David Stadelmann

10014: Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Umut Oguzoglu, Cain Polidano and Ha Vu

10013: Pension Incentives and the Retirement Decisions of Couples

Kadir Atalay and Garry Barrett

10012: Gender Performance Gaps: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender Differences in Sleep Cycles

Lester Lusher and Vasil Yasenov

10011: Gender Differences in Risk-Taking: Evidence from Professional Basketball

René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler and Mario Lackner

10010: Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

Cassandra Guarino and Victor M. H. Borden

10009: Youth Employment and Academic Performance: Production Functions and Policy Effects

Angus Holford

10008: Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach

José Alberto Molina, Alberto Alcolea, Alfredo Ferrer, David Iñiguez, Alejandro Rivero, Gonzalo Ruiz and Alfonso Tarancón

10007: The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to Proprietary Schooling

Christopher Jepsen, Peter Mueser and Kyung-Seong Jeon

10006: Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Elias Dinopoulos and Bulent Unel

10005: Capabilities and Skills

James Heckman and Chase O. Corbin

10004: The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Huzeyfe Torun and Semih Tumen

10003: Returns to Office in National and Local Politics

Kaisa Kotakorpi, Panu Poutvaara and Marko Terviö

10002: Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?

Pieter Serneels, Kathleen Beegle and Andrew Dillon

10001: The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Ludger Woessmann

10000: The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S

Rasmus Landersø and James Heckman

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