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9399: Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

9398: Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates

Timothy Halliday, John Lynham and Aureo de Paula

9397: Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Wang-Sheng Lee and Zhong Zhao

9396: A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being

Younghwan Song

9395: Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

9394: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia

Silvia Mendolia and Peter Siminski

9393: Labor Force Activity after 60: Recent Trends in the Scandinavian Countries with Germany as a Benchmark

Mona Larsen and Peder Pedersen

9392: Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Giovanni Russo

9391: The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective

Alexander Hijzen, Ryo Kambayashi, Hiroshi Teruyama and Yuji Genda

9390: Stemming the Tide: What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures?

Sarah Marchal and Ive Marx

9389: Labour Market Institutions and Inflation Differentials in the EU

Gaetano D'Adamo and Riccardo Rovelli

9388: The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

Eberhard Feess, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Markus Schramm and Ansgar Wohlschlegel

9387: Information Characteristics and Errors in Expectations: Experimental Evidence

Constantinos Antoniou, Glenn Harrison, Morten Lau and Daniel Read

9386: Procedures vs. Incentives: The Case of the University Promotion System in Italy

Carlo dal Maso, Enrico Rettore and Lorenzo Rocco

9385: Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Christian Grund and Kirsten Thommes

9384: Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis and Marie Claire Villeval

9383: The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Matthias Sutter, Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler and Philipp Lergetporer

9382: Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?

Thomas Buser, Lydia Geijtenbeek and Erik Plug

9381: An Alternative Estimator for Industrial Gender Wage Gaps: A Normalized Regression Approach

Myeong-Su Yun and Eric Lin

9380: Moving Up or Falling Behind? Gender, Promotions, and Wages in Canada

Mohsen Javdani and Andrew McGee

9379: Work-Life Balance Practices, Performance-Related Pay, and Gender Equality in the Workplace: Evidence from Japan

Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama

9378: Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States

Matteo Picchio and Giacomo Valletta

9377: Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms

Marc Chan and Kai Liu

9376: Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?

Jay Stewart and Mary Dorinda Allard

9375: Intra-Household Commuting Choices and Local Labour Markets

Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

9374: Education and Criminal Behavior: Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School

Olof Åslund, Hans Grönqvist, Caroline Hall and Jonas Vlachos

9373: Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold and Stephan Heblich

9372: Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment

Sari Pekkala Kerr, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki and Roope Uusitalo

9371: The Effects of State Merit Aid Programs on Attendance at Elite Colleges

David Sjoquist and John Winters

9370: Your Move: The Effect of Chess on Mathematics Test Scores

Kamilla Gumede and Michael Rosholm

9369: The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?

Michael Grossman

9368: The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany

Hannes Schwandt and Amelie Wuppermann

9367: Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Leo Kaas

9366: Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Melvyn Coles

9365: Are Public or Private Providers of Employment Services More Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

9364: Countercyclical Recruiting Rates and the Value of Jobs

Eran Yashiv

9363: Ten Facts You Need To Know About Hiring

Samuel Mühlemann and Mirjam Strupler Leiser

9362: The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills among Young Women in Madagascar

Catalina Herrera-Almanza and David Sahn

9361: Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia

Winnie Fung, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Nicole Mason and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

9360: Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Zeyuan Chen, Tommy Bengtsson and Jonas Helgertz

9359: Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

Aysıt Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin and Zeynel Ozdemir

9358: Entering and Leaving Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis for 12 Developing Countries

Yoon Y. Cho, David Robalino and Jose Romero

9357: Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments: Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Clive Bell and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

9356: Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration

Alexandra Avdeenko and Thomas Siedler

9355: Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction among Highly Educated Workers

Joni Hersch and Jean Xiao

9354: Discrimination against Migrants in Austria: An Experimental Study

Doris Weichselbaumer

9353: Wage Gaps between Native and Migrant Graduates of Higher Education Institutions in the Netherlands

Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld

9352: Occupational Attainment and Earnings among Immigrant Groups: Evidence from New Zealand

Sholeh Maani, Mengyu Dai and Kerr Inkson

9351: The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times

Osea Giuntella, Catia Nicodemo and Carlos Vargas-Silva

9350: The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents

Xiang Ao, Dawei Jiang and Zhong Zhao

9349: Environmental Disasters and Migration

Linguere Mbaye and Klaus Zimmermann

9348: The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design

Evren Ceritoğlu, Burcu Gürcihan, Huzeyfe Torun and Semih Tumen

9347: Risk Attitudes and Migration

Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu, Max Tani and Klaus Zimmermann

9346: Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables

Dan Black, Joonhwi Joo, Robert LaLonde, Jeffrey Smith and Evan J. Taylor

9345: A New View on Panel Econometrics: Is Probit Feasible After All?

Bernard van Praag

9344: Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework

Manuel Arellano, Richard Blundell and Stéphane Bonhomme

9343: Cultural and Ethnic Differences in the Transitions from Work to 'Retirement' of Rural Elders in China’s Minority Regions

Rachel Connelly and Margaret Maurer-Fazio

9342: Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China

Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang

9341: The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation

Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou

9340: Remittances and Credit Markets: Evidence from Senegal

Linguere Mbaye

9339: Migrant Networks and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from Displaced Workers

Tommaso Colussi

9338: A 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' or a 'Sick Immigrant Effect'? Selection and Policies Matter

Amelie Constant, Teresa M. García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman and Tzahi Neuman

9337: The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs

Matthew Kahn and Kyle Barron

9336: An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros and Michael Vlassopoulos

9335: Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão and Kerstin Roeder

9334: Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception

Hendrik Thiel and Stephan Thomsen

9333: Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Norberto Pignatti

9332: Natural Disasters and University Enrolment: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Augusto Cerqua and Giorgio Di Pietro

9331: Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Amanda H. Goodall and Margit Osterloh

9330: Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives

E. Dutcher, Loukas Balafoutas, Florian Lindner, Dmitry Ryvkin and Matthias Sutter

9329: The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey

Resul Cesur, Pinar Gunes, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

9328: Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Jane Greve, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen and Erdal Tekin

9327: The Long Lasting Influenza: The Impact of Fetal Stress during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Socioeconomic Attainment and Health in Sweden 1968-2012

Tommy Bengtsson and Jonas Helgertz

9326: Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data

Jerome Adda

9325: Are There Austerity?Related Policy Changes in Germany?

Werner Eichhorst and Anke Hassel

9324: The Affordable Care Act and the Growth of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

William Even and David Macpherson

9323: Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers and Lutz Bellmann

9322: Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries

Maria Ferreira Sequeda, Andries de Grip and Rolf Van der Velden

9321: A European Perspective on Long?Term Unemployment

Werner Eichhorst, Franziska Neder, Verena Tobsch and Florian Wozny

9320: The New Economics of Religion

Sriya Iyer

9319: Be a Good Samaritan to a Good Samaritan: Field Evidence of Interdependent Other-Regarding Preferences in China

Simon Chang, Thomas Dee, Chun-Wing Tse and Li Yu

9318: Charitable Behaviour and the Big Five Personality Traits: Evidence from UK Panel Data

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

9317: Unfair Wage Perceptions and Sleep: Evidence from German Survey Data

Christian Pfeifer

9316: Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Miriam Krüger and Nick Zubanov

9315: Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players

Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

9314: Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children

Matthias Sutter, Levent Yilmaz and Manuela Oberauer

9313: Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940

Volha Lazuka, Luciana Quaranta and Tommy Bengtsson

9312: Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?

Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and Xi Chen

9311: Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime

David Johnston, Michael Shields and Agne Suziedelyte

9310: Employee Health and Employer Incentives

Patrick Hullegie and Pierre Koning

9309: Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality

Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew Young

9308: Network Effects, Ethnic Capital and Immigrants' Earnings Assimilation: Evidence from a Spatial, Hausman-Taylor Estimation

Sholeh Maani, Xingang Wang and Alan Rogers

9307: The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants

Marie Hull

9306: The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and the Swedish Labour Market

Aycan Celikaksoy and Eskil Wadensjö

9305: What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains

Michael S. Hayes and Seth Gershenson

9304: Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults

Andrey Fradkin, Frédéric Panier and Ilan Tojerow

9303: The Cost-Effectiveness of Developmental Screenings: Evidence from a Nationwide Programme

Martin Halla, Gerald Pruckner and Thomas Schober

9302: Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?

Robert Fairlie

9301: The Great Expectations: Impact of One-Child Policy on Education of Girls

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Ang Sun

9300: From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment

Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches and Cyrus Samii