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9899: Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, Ivan Png, Tien Foo Sing and Wei-Kang Wong

9898: Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference

Stephen Cheung

9897: Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?

Christian Catalini, Christian Fons-Rosen and Patrick Gaulé

9896: Perceptions and Practices of Replication by Social and Behavioral Scientists: Making Replications a Mandatory Element of Curricula Would Be Useful

Benedikt Fecher, Mathis Fräßdorf and Gert Wagner

9895: Research Parasites Are Beneficial for the Organism as a Whole: Competition between Researchers Creates a Symbiotic Relationship

Benedikt Fecher and Gert Wagner

9894: Improving the Peer Review Process: A Proposed Market System

Paul Frijters and Benno Torgler

9893: Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five: A Decompositional Analysis

Peng Nie, Anu Rammohan, Wencke Gwozdz and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

9892: Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition

Mehtabul Azam and Vipul Bhatt

9891: Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards

Miguel Delgado Helleseter, Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

9890: Regulation and Firm Value: Curious Case of Transparency and Disclosure Laws in Russia

Suman Banerjee, Ronald Masulis and Sarmistha Pal

9889: School Entry, Compulsory Schooling, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Michigan

Steven W. Hemelt and Rachel B. Rosen

9888: Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina

Charles T. Clotfelter, Steven W. Hemelt and Helen Ladd

9887: High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use

Yu-Wei Chu and Seth Gershenson

9886: Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz and Torun Österberg

9885: Human Capital and Education: The State of the Art in the Economics of Education

Simon Burgess

9884: Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

9883: Mining in Arctic and Non-Arctic Regions: A Socioeconomic Assessment

Anders Frederiksen and Maja Due Kadenic

9882: Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing

Andrew Clark and Elena Stancanelli

9881: Smoking Behaviour and Early Retirement Due to Chronic Disability

Tommy Bengtsson and Anton Nilsson

9880: Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood

Sophie Cetre, Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik

9879: Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mark Wooden

9878: Rising Work Complexity but Decreasing Returns

Anna Katharina Pikos and Stephan Thomsen

9877: Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen and Trygve Gulbrandsen

9876: Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes

Michael White and Alex Bryson

9875: The Unanimity Rule and Extremely Asymmetric Committees

Ruth Ben-Yashar and Leif Danziger

9874: Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born

Matthew Roskruge, Jacques Poot and Laura King

9873: The Survival of Unique Corporate Cultures

Gil Epstein and Renana Lindner Pomerantz

9872: On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs

Ritwik Banerjee

9871: Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field

Luis Artavia-Mora, Arjun Bedi and Matthias Rieger

9870: The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

9869: Labor Market Risk in Germany

Tom Krebs and Yao Yao

9868: Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers

Johannes Schmieder and Simon Trenkle

9867: Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Stefan Pichler and Nicolas Ziebarth

9866: The Value of Social Security: Are Formal Jobs Better?

Lucia Madrigal, Carmen Pages and Agustina Suaya

9865: Job Displacement Insurance: A Policy Typology

Donald Parsons

9864: Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment: The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited

Stephen Bazen and Velayoudom Marimoutou

9863: Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx and Caroline Wehner

9862: How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo

9861: The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Armin Falk

9860: Clever Enough to Tell the Truth

Bradley Ruffle and Yossef Tobol

9859: Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital

Ritwik Banerjee

9858: Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets

Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

9857: Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences

David Freeman, Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti and Luigi Mittone

9856: Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy

Amalia Di Girolamo, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau and J. Todd Swarthout

9855: How Do Agents React to Dynamic Wage Increases? An Experimental Study

Dirk Sliwka and Peter Werner

9854: The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa

9853: What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education

Ghazala Azmat, Manuel Bagues, Antonio Cabrales and Nagore Iriberri

9852: Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs Before, During, and After the Great Recession

Judith K. Hellerstein, Mark Kutzbach and David Neumark

9851: Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?

Petri Böckerman, Seppo Laaksonen and Jari Vainiomäki

9850: Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Jörg Heining and Patrick Kline

9849: Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution

Pedro Martins, Andy Snell, Heiko Stüber and Jonathan Thomas

9848: Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee

Robert Fairlie and Javier Miranda

9847: Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins and Etienne Lalé

9846: When Time Binds: Returns to Working Long Hours and the Gender Wage Gap among the Highly Skilled

Patricia Cortes and Jessica Pan

9845: Psychological Momentum and Gender

Danny Cohen-Zada, Alex Krumer and Zeev Shtudiner

9844: Field-of-Study Homogamy

Alena Bičáková and Stepan Jurajda

9843: Where Did It Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Selma Walther and Frederic Vermeulen

9842: The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations

José Alberto Molina, Alfredo Ferrer, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Carlos Gracia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno and Angel Sanchez

9841: Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms

Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Manacorda

9840: Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress

Paul Anand, Laurence Roope and Andreas Peichl

9839: Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Mikael Elinder, Oscar Erixson and Daniel Waldenström

9838: Sorting around the Discontinuity Threshold: The Case of a Neighbourhood Investment Programme

Sander Gerritsen, Dinand Webbink and Bas ter Weel

9837: Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz and Torun Österberg

9836: Education as a Tool for the Economic Integration of Migrants

Maria De Paola and Giorgio Brunello

9835: Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence

Irene Mosca and Robert Wright

9834: Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Gianluca Mazzarella

9833: Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia

Zemzem Shigute, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

9832: Beyond Job Lock: Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility

Ammar Farooq and Adriana Kugler

9831: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Labor Market Outcomes

Joseph J. Sabia and Thanh Tam Nguyen

9830: Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings

D. Mark Anderson and Joseph J. Sabia

9829: Sleepwalking through School: New Evidence on Sleep and Academic Performance

Kurt Wang, Joseph J. Sabia and Resul Cesur

9828: Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr

9827: Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?

Robert Hart, Mirko Moro and J Roberts

9826: The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain

Nick Drydakis

9825: The Market for Paid Sick Leave

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

9824: Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance

Donald Parsons

9823: The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance

Donald Parsons

9822: Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations

Karina Doorley and Nico Pestel

9821: Taxing Pensions

Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau

9820: Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions

Friedrich Schneider and Andreas Buehn

9819: Old?Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends: Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries

Arjeta Aliaj, Xavier Flawinne, Alain Jousten, Sergio Perelman and Lin Shi

9818: Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health

Steffen Otterbach, Mark Wooden and King Fok

9817: Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?

Wim Naudé

9816: Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market

Britta Kohlbrecher and Christian Merkl

9815: Revisiting Okun's Relationship

Robert Dixon, Guay Lim and Jan van Ours

9814: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: What's Trade Got To Do With It?

James Lake and Daniel Millimet

9813: Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Renate Neubäumer

9812: Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality

Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

9811: Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being

Karen Maguire and John Winters

9810: Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir and Reyn Van Ewijk

9809: Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes

Grant Miller and Christine Valente

9808: Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma

9807: A Comparison of Panel Data Models in Estimating Technical Efficiency

Masoomeh Rashidghalam, Almas Heshmati, Ghader Dashti and Esmail Pishbahar

9806: Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers

Steffen Müller and Renate Neubäumer

9805: Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood

Jutta Viinikainen, Guido Heineck, Petri Böckerman, Mirka Hintsanen, Olli Raitakari and Jaakko Pehkonen

9804: The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'

Giorgio Di Pietro

9803: Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann

9802: Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

9801: The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar and Bill Martin

9800: The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children

Yuxin Yao, Asako Ohinata and Jan van Ours