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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

9452: A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity

Timothy Diette and David Ribar

9451: Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being

Max Tani

9450: Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well?Being?

Marc Fleurbaey and Hannes Schwandt

9449: The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR

Jan Bietenbeck

9448: Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects

Jan Feld and Ulf Zölitz

9447: Gender and Corruption: A Reassessment

Julia Debski and Michael Jetter

9446: Competitiveness and the Gender Gap among Young Business Professionals

Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

9445: Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Zachary Bleemer and Basit Zafar

9444: Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes

Theresa Kuchler and Basit Zafar

9443: Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Francesco Drago, Friederike Mengel and Christian Traxler

9442: A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results

Francisco Ferreira, Shaohua Chen, Andrew Dabalen, Yuri Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, Dean Jolliffe, Ambar Narayan, Espen Prydz, Ana Revenga, Prem Sangraula, Umar Serajuddin and Nobuo Yoshida

9441: Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India

Amparo Castello-Climent, Latika Chaudhary and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

9440: Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital

Manisha Shah and Bryce Steinberg

9439: Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production

Nekeisha Spencer and Solomon Polachek

9438: The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China

Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson and Carl Lin

9437: Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence

Martyn J. Andrews, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

9436: The Association between Immigration and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States

Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri

9435: The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan

Eric Lin and Yu-Lung Lu

9434: Self?Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

George Borjas, Ilpo Kauppinen and Panu Poutvaara

9433: Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants

Ingo Isphording, Marc Piopiunik and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

9432: Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

George Bulman and Robert Fairlie

9431: Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform

Lorenzo Cappellari and Antonio Di Paolo

9430: Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Raymond Montizaan

9429: Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Giulia Canzian, Samuele Poy and Simone Schüller

9428: Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Hans Fricke, Markus Frölich, Martin Huber and Michael Lechner

9427: Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Nikos Askitas

9426: Brain Types and Wages

Nick Drydakis

9425: Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees

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

9424: Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James and Patrick Nolen

9423: Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy

Gilles Saint-Paul

9422: Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Claudio Fassio, Sona Kalantaryan and Alessandra Venturini

9421: Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy

Daniele Vignoli, Alessandra Venturini and Elena Pirani

9420: Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?

Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

9419: Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Language Skills

Matthias Lücke and Tobias Heidland