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9656: The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

9655: Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care

Nicolai Kristensen and Henrik Lindegaard Andersen

9654: Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?

Dieter Verhaest, Elene Bogaert, Jeroen Dereymaeker, Laura Mestdagh and Stijn Baert

9653: How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments

Uttara Balakrishnan, Johannes Haushofer and Pamela Jakiela

9652: Religion and Depression in Adolescence

Jane Fruehwirth, Sriya Iyer and Anwen Zhang

9651: Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

9650: Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab

Robert Slonim and Carmen Wang

9649: Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities

Stijn Baert and Sunčica Vujić

9648: The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a Restaurant's Menu

Pia Pinger, Isabel Ruhmer-Krell and Heiner Schumacher

9647: Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?

Dan Rickman, Hongbo Wang and John Winters

9646: Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System

Mirjam Strupler Leiser and Stefan Wolter

9645: Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion

Øystein Hernæs, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

9644: Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?

Øystein Hernæs, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

9643: Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates

Dongshu Ou and Zhong Zhao

9642: Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Binnur Balkan and Semih Tumen

9641: Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting

Nancy Chau, Yu Qin and Weiwen Zhang

9640: Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China

Sylvie Démurger and Xiaoqian Wang

9639: Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics

Joyce Chen, Katrina Kosec and Valerie Mueller

9638: Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo Soares and Gabriel Ulyssea

9637: Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

M Asadullah, Saizi Xiao and Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh

9636: Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Milena Nikolova and Boris Nikolaev

9635: The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Michael Oberfichtner

9634: A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers

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

9633: Low Paid Employment in Britain: Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects

Lixin Cai, Kostas Mavromaras and Peter Sloane

9632: Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger and Roope Uusitalo

9631: The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad Husain and John Winters

9630: Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle

Barry Hirsch, Muhammad Husain and John Winters

9629: Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle

Christina Patterson, Aysegul Sahin, Giorgio Topa and Giovanni L. Violante

9628: Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Martin Weißenberger

9627: Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Bert Van Landeghem, Frank Cörvers and Andries de Grip

9626: The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions

Gerard van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann and Arne Uhlendorff

9625: The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands

Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

9624: Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers

Pierre Koning and Jan-Maarten Van Sonsbeek

9623: Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Frederico S. Finan and Maurizio Mazzocco

9622: Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households

Wenhua Di and Daniel Millimet

9621: The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang and Zhong Zhao

9620: Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?

Emiko Usui, Satoshi Shimizutani and Takashi Oshio

9619: Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx and Yannick Thuy

9618: Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries

Mathias Dolls, Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider, Sebastian Siegloch and Eric Sommer

9617: Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment

Patrick Arni

9616: Religion, Discrimination and Trust

Swee-Hoon Chuah, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann and Jonathan Tan

9615: The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Simon Gächter, Leonie Gerhards and Daniele Nosenzo

9614: Same Process, Different Outcomes: Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment

Marco Casari, Jingjing Zhang and Christine Jackson

9613: Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?

Holger Gerhardt, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Jana Willrodt

9612: Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Jörg Claussen, Eszter Czibor and Mirjam Praag

9611: A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation

Almas Heshmati

9610: Effects of Unionization on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence

Aaron Sojourner and Jooyoung Yang

9609: The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia

Melanie K. Jones, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei

9608: The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity

Susan Averett and Erin Fletcher

9607: Capital Income Taxation and Household Production

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

9606: Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages?

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

9605: Lower Bounds and the Linearity Assumption in Parametric Estimations of Inequality of Opportunity

Paul Hufe and Andreas Peichl

9604: Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable

Francois Gerard, Miikka Rokkanen and Christoph Rothe

9603: Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich

Sako Musterd, Marci?czak, Szymon, Maarten van Ham and Tiit Tammaru

9602: Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Kadi Mägi, Kadri Leetmaa, Tiit Tammaru and Maarten van Ham

9601: Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources

Marco Casari and Maurizio Lisciandra

9600: Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration

Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Juliane Hennecke and Arne Uhlendorff

9599: Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Isaac Ehrlich and Jinyoung Kim

9598: Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?

Kalena E. Cortes and Jane Arnold Lincove

9597: Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education

Max Tani

9596: The Wage Returns to Education over the Life-Cycle: Heterogeneity and the Role of Experience

Franz Buscha and Matt Dickson

9595: Changing Faculty Employment at Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States

Liang Zhang, Ronald Ehrenberg and Xiangmin Liu

9594: Connections in Scientific Committees and Applicants' Self-Selection: Evidence from a Natural Randomized Experiment

Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva

9593: Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts

Daniel Hamermesh

9592: Fear of Labor Rigidities: The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru

Pablo Lavado and Gustavo Yamada

9591: An Unfulfilled Promise? Higher Education Quality and Professional Underemployment in Peru

Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado and Joan Martinez

9590: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

9589: The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment: Evidence from Russia

Alexander Muravyev and Aleksey Oshchepkov

9588: Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock

Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini and Anzelika Zaiceva

9587: Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

John Addison

9586: Managers and Productivity Differences

Nezih Guner, Andrii Parkhomenko and Gustavo Ventura

9585: Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

9584: Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances

Stijn Baert

9583: Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?

Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

9582: Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals

Dirk Van de gaer and Xavi Ramos

9581: Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run

Erik Bengtsson and Daniel Waldenström

9580: The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust

Niamh Holton and Donal O'Neill

9579: The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Andreas Kuhn

9578: Are Starting Wages Reduced by an Insurance Premium for Preventing Wage Decline? Testing the Prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982)

Joop Hartog and Pedro Raposo

9577: Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve: A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions

Reinhold Kosfeld and Christian Dreger

9576: The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty

John Bennett and Ioana Chioveanu

9575: The Effectiveness of Early Vacancy Information in the Presence of Monitoring and ALMP

Ricarda Schmidl

9574: New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Amparo Nagore García and Arthur van Soest

9573: Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?

Semih Tumen

9572: Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective

Philip Du Caju, Francois Rycx and Ilan Tojerow

9571: Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests

Naceur Khraief, Muhammad Shahbaz, Almas Heshmati and Muhammad Azam

9570: Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum

Nikos Askitas

9569: Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends

Nikos Askitas

9568: The Caregiving Responsibilities of Retirees: What Are They and How Do They Affect Retirees' Well-being?

Charlene Kalenkoski and Eakamon Oumtrakool

9567: Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption

Thomas Kniesner and Galib Rustamov

9566: "Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" Auctions: Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms

Tim Grebe, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Sabine Kröger

9565: Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment

Charles Cadsby, Jim Engle-Warnick, Tony Fang and Fei Song

9564: Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field

Mario Lackner, Rudi Stracke, Uwe Sunde and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

9563: Initial Conditions Matter: Social Capital and Participatory Development

Lisa Cameron, Susan Olivia and Manisha Shah

9562: Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan

Hugo Reis

9561: Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut

9560: Informal Fee Elimination and Student Performance: Evidence from The Gambia

Leanne Giordono and Todd Pugatch

9559: Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth

Pau Balart, Matthijs Oosterveen and Dinand Webbink

9558: Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?

Seth Gershenson, Alison Jacknowitz and Andrew Brannegan

9557: The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality

Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans