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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

9418: Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport

9417: Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers

Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer

9416: Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data

John Winters

9415: Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?

Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu and Marius Osterfeld

9414: Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure

Tommaso Colussi

9413: State and Local Sales Taxes and Business Activity in the United States

Nicholas Saxon, Mehmet Tosun and Jingjing Yang

9412: The Welfare Effects of Globalization with Labor Market Regulation

Tapio Palokangas

9411: Identifying Sorting in Practice

Cristian Bartolucci, Francesco Devicienti and Ignacio Monzon

9410: Temporary Employment, Demand Volatility and Unions: Firm-Level Evidence

Francesco Devicienti, Paolo Naticchioni and Andrea Ricci

9409: Household Debt and Crises of Confidence

Thomas Hintermaier and Winfried Koeniger

9408: Wealth-Income Ratios in a Small, Late-Industrializing, Welfare-State Economy: Sweden, 1810–2014

Daniel Waldenström

9407: Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons

Marc Fleurbaey, Vito Peragine and Xavi Ramos

9406: The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality

Andreas Kuhn

9405: The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?

G. Karolyi, David T. Ng and Eswar Prasad

9404: What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?

Ali Fakih and Pascal Ghazalian

9403: Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Pablo Acosta, Noel Muller and Miguel Sarzosa

9402: Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty

Tony Castleman, James Foster and Stephen Smith

9401: National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings

Gus O'Donnell and Andrew Oswald

9400: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health

Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus and Klaus Zimmermann

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