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9799: The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies

Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan and Douglas Webber

9798: Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?

Govert Bijwaard and Andrew Jones

9797: The More, the Better? The Impact of Instructional Time on Student Performance

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Chantal Oggenfuss and Stefan Wolter

9796: Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

Maria Caridad Araujo, Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz Aguayo and Norbert Schady

9795: Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes

Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo Paloyo and Ian Walker

9794: International Migration: Driver of Political and Social Change?

Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba and Bachir Hamdouch

9793: Disentangling Neighborhood Effects in Person-Context Research: An Application of a Neighborhood-Based Group Decomposition

Matt Vogel and Maarten van Ham

9792: Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee and Hugo Reis

9791: Does Bilingualism among the Native Born Pay?

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

9790: Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria

Andreas Steinmayr

9789: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers

Michael Clemens, Claudio Montenegro and Lant Pritchett

9788: Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar and Hillel Rapoport

9787: Structural Reform in Germany

Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel

9786: Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

9785: Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt

Manudeep Bhuller, Christian Brinch and Sebastian Königs

9784: Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

María Laura Alzúa, Guillermo Cruces and Carolina Lopez

9783: Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporšek and Milan Vodopivec

9782: Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation

Gerard van den Berg, Petyo Bonev and Enno Mammen

9781: Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?

Wiji Arulampalam, Anjor Bhaskar and Nisha Srivastava

9780: Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation

Dhaval Dave, Hope Corman and Nancy E. Reichman

9779: Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers

Ingvild Almås, Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio and Pedro Carneiro

9778: The Labor Supply of Fixed-Wage Workers: Estimates from a Real Effort Experiment

Jeffrey Carpenter

9777: Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

J. Ignacio García Pérez, Ioana Marinescu and Judit Vall Castello

9776: The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution

Henry Hyatt and James Spletzer

9775: How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins and Etienne Lalé

9774: Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from an Unsleeping Giant

Osea Giuntella, Wei Han and Fabrizio Mazzonna

9773: If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight

Osea Giuntella and Fabrizio Mazzonna

9772: Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa

9771: Does Activating Sick-Listed Workers Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm and Bénédicte Rouland

9770: Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces: Where are They and Who Controls Them?

Alex Bryson

9769: Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence

Giovanni Mastrobuoni and David Rivers

9768: Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse and Nora Szech

9767: Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Stephen Burks, Daniele Nosenzo, Jon E. Anderson, Matthew Bombyk, Derek Ganzhorn, Lorenz Götte and Aldo Rustichini

9766: Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence

Nicolas Houy, Jean-Philippe Nicolaï and Marie Claire Villeval

9765: Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

9764: Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination

Guilherme Hirata and Rodrigo Soares

9763: Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?

Stijn Baert and Sunčica Vujić

9762: The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia

9761: Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession

Kenneth Couch, Robert Fairlie and Huanan Xu

9760: Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands: A Longitudinal Study

Barry Chiswick and Zhiling Wang

9759: Open Borders, Transport Links and Local Labor Markets

Olof Åslund and Mattias Engdahl

9758: Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization

Raphael Franck and Oded Galor

9757: Enriching Students Pays Off: Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan and Erik Plug

9756: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girls

Margherita Fort, Andrea Ichino and Giulio Zanella

9755: Education Policies and Migration across European Countries

Ainoa Aparicio and Zoe Kuehn

9754: Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series

Julien Champagne, André Kurmann and Jay Stewart

9753: More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries

Andrea Garnero, Alexander Hijzen and Sébastien Martin

9752: The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway over the 20th Century

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G Salvanes and Matti Sarvimäki

9751: Chronic Material Deprivation and Long?Term Poverty in Europe in the Pre?Crisis Period

Fotis Papadopoulos and Panos Tsakloglou

9750: Mobility into and out of Poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the Pre?Crisis Period: The Role of Income, Demographic and Labour Market Events

Eirini Andriopoulou and Panos Tsakloglou

9749: Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program: Evidence Using Household Panel Data

M Asadullah and Jinnat Ara

9748: The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

9747: China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?

Lisa Cameron, Xin Meng and Dandan Zhang

9746: China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences

Fei Wang, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

9745: The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China

Shihe Fu, Yu Liao and Junfu Zhang

9744: The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve

Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut and Wim Naudé

9743: Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity

Nora Stel and Wim Naudé

9742: Assessing the Effects of Disability Insurance Experience Rating: The Case of the Netherlands

Nynke De Groot and Pierre Koning

9741: Offshoring and Labor Markets

David Hummels, Jakob Munch and Chong Xiang

9740: Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

9739: The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz and Nick Zubanov

9738: Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Robert Valletta, Leila Bengali and Catherine van der List

9737: What If Your Boss Is a Woman? Work Organization, Work-Life Balance and Gender Discrimination at the Workplace

Claudio Lucifora and Daria Vigani

9736: Differences in Job De-Routinization in OECD Countries: Evidence from PIAAC

Sara de la Rica and Lucas Gortazar

9735: Work Hour Mismatch and Job Mobility: Adjustment Channels and Resolution Rates

Michael Knaus and Steffen Otterbach

9734: The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?

Julian Baumann and Alexander Kritikos

9733: To Be Born Is Not Enough: The Key Role of Innovative Startups

Alessandra Colombelli, Jackie Krafft and Marco Vivarelli

9732: The Prodigal Son: Does the Younger Brother Always Care for His Parents in Old Age?

Mizuki Komura and Hikaru Ogawa

9731: Identity Conflict with Cross-Border Spillovers

Dripto Bakshi and Indraneel Dasgupta

9730: The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment

Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett

9729: Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

9728: Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Adriana Kugler

9727: Integration of Ethnic Minorities: Do They Divorce as Natives Do?

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen and Jens Bonke

9726: Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being

Alpaslan Akay, Amelie Constant, Corrado Giulietti and Martin Guzi

9725: The Causal Effects of World War II Military Service

Alex Cousley, Peter Siminski and Simon Ville

9724: Integrated Macroeconomic Production Function for Open Economies: A New Schumpeterian Solow Model for Globalization

Paul Welfens

9723: Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees around the World

Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad and David Newhouse

9722: Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades

Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman and Kanika Mahajan

9721: Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth: Theory and Evidence from India

Pranab Das and Saibal Kar

9720: Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting

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

9719: Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kory Kroft, Kavan Kucko, Etienne Lehmann and Johannes Schmieder

9718: What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins

9717: Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Felix Koenig, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

9716: Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?

Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld and Yanqun Zhang

9715: The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China

Carl Lin and Myeong-Su Yun

9714: Smoking Peer Effects among Adolescents: Are Popular Teens More Influential?

Juan David Robalino

9713: The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China

Almas Heshmati

9712: Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dhaval Dave, Robert Kaestner and George Wehby

9711: Causal Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Education Outcomes for Youth in the Justice System

Alison Evans Cuellar and Dhaval Dave

9710: It's About Time: Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Time Use

Gregory Colman and Dhaval Dave

9709: Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape

Philip Susser and Nicolas Ziebarth

9708: Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima

Ayako Kondo and Masahiro Shoji

9707: Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies

Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Buechs and Sylke Schnepf

9706: The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators

Hugo Bodory, Lorenzo Camponovo, Martin Huber and Michael Lechner

9705: Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition

Dennis J. Snower and Steven Bosworth

9704: Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Dietmar Fehr and Matthias Sutter

9703: Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance

Steven Bosworth, Tania Singer and Dennis J. Snower

9702: Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations

Zhixin Dai, Fabio Galeotti and Marie Claire Villeval

9701: Bread and Bullets

George Akerlof and Dennis J. Snower

9700: College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

Jason Lindo, Peter Siminski and Isaac D. Swensen