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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

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