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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

10056: From Late to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute and Uta Schönberg

10055: Estimating More Precise Treatment Effects in Natural and Actual Experiments

Harriet Duleep and Xingfei Liu

10054: Work versus School? The Effect of Work on Educational Expenditures for Children in Mexico

Elizabeth Kaletski

10053: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data

Maria Di Tommaso, Silvia Mendolia and Dalit Contini

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