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9552: Same Program, Different Outcomes: Understanding Differential Effects from Access to Free, High-Quality Early Care

Juan Chaparro and Aaron Sojourner

9551: State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context

Sinem Ayhan and Selin Pelek

9550: The Impact of Family Friendly Policies in Spain and their Use throughout the Business Cycle

Sara de la Rica and Lucía Gorjón

9549: Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Kathleen Mullen and Stefan Staubli

9548: The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporšek, Primož Dolenc and Milan Vodopivec

9547: Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hans Hansen and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

9546: Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-Child Visits

Aline Bütikofer, Katrine Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

9545: Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy

Carmen Camacho, Fabio Mariani and Luca Pensieroso

9544: Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data

Silvia Mendolia, Alex Tosh and Oleg Yerokhin

9543: Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?

Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri and Walter Steingress

9542: Ability Drain

Maurice Schiff

9541: The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Evans Jadotte and Xavi Ramos

9540: Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries

Milena Nikolova, Monica Roman and Klaus Zimmermann

9539: Self?Employment amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

9538: Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?

Simone Bertoli, Vianney Dequiedt and Yves Zenou

9537: Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Khalid Sekkat, Ariane Szafarz and Ilan Tojerow

9536: Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Stijn Baert

9535: Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Julie Moschion

9534: Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture

Francine Blau

9533: Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden

Karin Hederos Eriksson and Anders Stenberg

9532: One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss

Wei Huang and Yi Zhou

9531: Making Work Pay: Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck and Katharina Wrohlich

9530: Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households

Ann P. Bartel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher Ruhm, Jenna Stearns and Jane Waldfogel

9529: Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession

David Neumark

9528: Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands

Jan Kabátek

9527: Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior

Robert Hall and Andreas Mueller

9526: Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Abel Brodeur

9525: Unemployment and Vacancy Dynamics with Imperfect Financial Markets

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Michael Graber and Klaus Wälde

9524: The Long Walk: Considering the Enduring Spatial and Racial Dimensions of Deprivation Two Decades after the Fall of Apartheid

Ronelle Burger, Servaas van der Berg, Sarel van der Walt and Derek Yu

9523: The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country

Ronelle Burger, Camren McAravey and Servaas van der Berg

9522: Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Sriya Iyer and Anand Shrivastava

9521: Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Wim Naudé

9520: Determinants of Trade Margins: Insights Using State Export Data

Cletus Coughlin and Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

9519: Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications

Xi Chen

9518: Intergenerational Educational Persistence among Daughters: Evidence from India

Mehtabul Azam

9517: Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows

Laurent Gobillon and Matthieu Solignac

9516: Migrants' Remittances: Channelling Globalization

Remus Gabriel Anghel, Matloob Piracha and Teresa Randazzo

9515: Emigration, Remittances and the Education of Children Staying Behind: Evidence from Tajikistan

Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova and Artjoms Ivlevs

9514: Colombian Emigration by Administrative Regions

Mariana Saenz and Joshua J. Lewer

9513: Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales

Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

9512: Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?

John Winters

9511: Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training

Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

9510: Firm Productivity Growth and Skill

David Maré, Dean Hyslop and Richard Fabling

9509: Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?

Michael Coelli and Domenico Tabasso

9508: The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany

Peter B. Berg, Mary K. Hamman, Matthew Piszczek and Christopher Ruhm

9507: New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Tobias Meyer, Stephan Thomsen and Heidrun Schneider

9506: On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Robert Feicht, Veronika Grimm, Holger A. Rau and Gesine Stephan

9505: Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction

Semih Tumen and Tugba Zeydanli

9504: The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

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

9503: Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search

Nikos Askitas

9502: Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado and Maria Micaela Sviatschi

9501: Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner and Akhmed Umyarov

9500: The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants

Nicholas Larsen and Barry Chiswick

9499: The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

9498: Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills

Yu Aoki and Lualhati Santiago

9497: The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice

Michaela Slotwinski and Alois Stutzer

9496: Improving the Integration of Refugees: An Early Evaluation of a Swedish Reform

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Alma W. Lanninger and Marianne Sundström

9495: Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Neeraj Kaushal, Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang and Stephen Trejo

9494: Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua

Teresa Molina Millan

9493: Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch

Eleni Kalfa and Matloob Piracha

9492: The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua and Steven Stillman

9491: New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Tymon Słoczyński

9490: Difference?in?Difference Estimation by FE and OLS when there is Panel Non?Response

Michael Lechner, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Daniel Fernández-Kranz

9489: Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA

J. David Brown, John Earle and Yana Morgulis

9488: Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe

Marco Caliendo and Ricarda Schmidl

9487: The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen

David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf and Ana Paula Cusolito

9486: Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India

Manisha Shah and Bryce Steinberg

9485: Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India

Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Goel and Shantanu Khanna

9484: Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition

Milena Nikolova

9483: Job Loss, Firm?Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink

9482: Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements

Xi Chen

9481: Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation among the Elderly

Wei Huang and Mi Luo

9480: Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates

Alan Barreca, Olivier Deschenes and Melanie Guldi

9479: Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income

Pedro Carneiro, Italo Lopez Garcia, Kjell G Salvanes and Emma Tominey

9478: Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Benjamin Elsner and Ingo Isphording

9477: Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo

Mathias Kuepie and Christophe Nordman

9476: Early Childhood Education

Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia, James Heckman and Andrés Hojman

9475: Educational Mismatches and Earnings in the New Zealand Labor Market

Jian Z. Yeo and Sholeh Maani

9474: Education Research and Administrative Data

David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik and Kjell G Salvanes

9473: A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design

Semih Tumen

9472: Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery

Matteo Picchio, Sigrid Suetens and Jan van Ours

9471: Gender Identity and Women's Supply of Labor and Non-Market Work: Panel Data Evidence for Germany

Anna Wieber and Elke Holst

9470: Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

Matteo Picchio and Jan van Ours

9469: Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession: Evidence from Micro Data

Gregory Verdugo

9468: Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction

Francisco Ferreira, Nora Lustig and Daniel Teles

9467: The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh and Christophe Rault

9466: What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis

9465: Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study

Henry S Farber, Dan Silverman and Till von Wachter

9464: Collective Labour Supply, Taxes, and Intrahousehold Allocation: An Empirical Approach

Hans Bloemen

9463: The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza and Davide Vannoni

9462: Demanding Occupations and the Retirement Age

Niels Vermeer, Mauro Mastrogiacomo and Arthur van Soest

9461: What Is a Good Job?

Werner Eichhorst, Florian Wozny and Erno Mähönen

9460: Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

Joan Monras

9459: Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?

Bart Cockx and Stijn Baert

9458: Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement

Seokjin Woo, Soohyung Lee and Kyunghee Kim

9457: Treatment versus Regime Effects of Carrots and Sticks

Patrick Arni, Gerard van den Berg and Rafael Lalive

9456: Pathways from School to Work in the Developing World

Marco Manacorda, Furio Rosati, Marco Ranzani and Giuseppe Dachille

9455: Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence

Binnur Balkan and Semih Tumen

9454: Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay

Parantap Basu and Kunal Sen

9453: Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand: A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey

Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz and Marco Vivarelli