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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

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