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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

9699: Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts

Martin Biewen and Madalina Tapalaga

9698: Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach

Seamus McGuinness and Konstantinos Pouliakas

9697: The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships

Anika Jansen, Andries de Grip and Ben Kriechel

9696: The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance: An Encouragement Design Experiment

Alfredo Paloyo, Sally Rogan and Peter Siminski

9695: The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Daniel Parisian

9694: Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?

Cain Polidano and Domenico Tabasso

9693: Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets

Emin Dinlersoz, Henry Hyatt and Hubert Janicki

9692: The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers

Stijn Baert, Bas van der Klaauw and Gijsbert van Lomwel

9691: Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining

Sabien Dobbelaere and Roland Iwan Luttens

9690: When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?

Michael White and Alex Bryson

9689: Something in the Air? Pollution, Allergens and Children's Cognitive Functioning

Dave Marcotte

9688: Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Mikael Lindahl, Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

9687: Can Parental Migration Reduce Petty Corruption in Education?

Lisa Sofie Höckel, Manuel Santos Silva and Tobias Heidland

9686: Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Salamanca and Anna Zhu

9685: Employment Adjustments around Childbirth

Barbara Pertold-Gębicka, Filip Pertold and Nabanita Datta Gupta

9684: Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang

Julia Tanndal and Daniel Waldenström

9683: Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan and Max Löffler

9682: Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico

Jeffrey Grogger

9681: Greying the Budget: Ageing and Preferences over Public Policies

Luiz de Mello, Simone Schotte, Erwin R. Tiongson and Hernan Winkler

9680: Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment

Mark Borgschulte and Paco Martorell

9679: The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India

Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty and Selim Gulesci

9678: Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Paolo Masella

9677: Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World

Richard Burkhauser, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nattavudh Powdthavee

9676: Paradox Lost?

Richard Easterlin

9675: Tattoos, Life Style and the Labor Market

Rik Dillingh, Peter Kooreman and Jan Potters

9674: The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

9673: Sleep Restriction and Time?of?Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction

David Dickinson and Todd McElroy

9672: Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

9671: Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles

Murat Iyigun and Jeanne Lafortune

9670: Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms

Eve Caroli and Lexane Weber-Baghdiguian

9669: Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

9668: Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP

Peter Norlander and Todd Sorensen

9667: The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries: Empirical Evidence from Jordan

Ali Fakih and May Ibrahim

9666: What Drives the Legalization of Immigrants? Evidence from IRCA

Alessandra Casarico, Giovanni Facchini and Tommaso Frattini

9665: Australia Farewell: Predictors of Emigration in the 2000s

Richard Burkhauser, Markus Hahn, Matthew Hall and Nicole Watson

9664: The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation

Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella

9663: New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation over Time and Space: A Domains Approach

Maarten van Ham and Tiit Tammaru

9662: Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

9661: Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

9660: When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Nistha Sinha and Erwin R. Tiongson

9659: The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

9658: Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia

Maria De Paola, Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa

9657: Gender Differences in Altruism: Responses to a Natural Disaster

Matthew Lilley and Robert Slonim

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