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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

9299: Short and Long-Term Effects of Unemployment on Fertility

Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

9298: The Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimuli for Working Parents

Henk-Wim de Boer, Egbert L. W. Jongen and Jan Kabátek

9297: The Effectiveness of Policies that Promote Labor Force Participation of Women with Children: A Collection of National Studies

Elizabeth Cascio, Steven Haider and Helena Nielsen

9296: Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective

Anders Frederiksen

9295: Dismissal Laws in Australia: Reforms and Enforcement by Labour Courts

Benoit Freyens and Xiaodong Gong

9294: The Role of Establishments and the Concentration of Occupations in Wage Inequality

Elizabeth Handwerker and James Spletzer

9293: Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

Björn Brügemann, Pieter Gautier and Guido Menzio

9292: Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution

James Bailey and Douglas Webber

9291: Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection

Sanjay Chugh and Christian Merkl

9290: Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US

Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

9289: Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination

Stijn Baert, Jennifer Norga, Yannick Thuy and Marieke Van Hecke

9288: When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice

Manuela Angelucci, Silvia Prina, Heather Royer and Anya Samek

9287: What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples

Simon Chang, Rachel Connelly and Ping Ma

9286: First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision

David Gill, Zdenka Kissová, Jaesun Lee and Victoria Prowse

9285: The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations

Patrick Kampkötter and Dirk Sliwka

9284: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review

Wim Naudé, Melissa Siegel and Katrin Marchand

9283: Short-term Migration and Intergenerational Persistence of Industry in Rural India

Tushar Nandi and Saibal Kar

9282: Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture

Devrim Dumludag, Ozge Gokdemir and Maarten Vendrik

9281: Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Naci Mocan and Luiza Pogorelova

9280: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street?

Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

9279: School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile

Rasmus Landersø, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

9278: Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts

Seamus McGuinness and Luis Ortiz

9277: High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation

Michael Strain and Douglas Webber

9276: The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education

Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

9275: The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts

Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

9274: Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey

Abdurrahman Aydemir and Murat Kırdar

9273: Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

9272: Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Eswar Prasad and Boyang Zhang

9271: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of the Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in South Africa

Prudence Magejo and Miracle Benhura

9270: Corruption in the Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh

Wahid Abdallah, Shyamal Chowdhury and Kazi Iqbal

9269: Hard to Forget: The Long-Lasting Impact of War on Mental Health

Massimiliano Bratti, Mariapia Mendola and Alfonso Miranda

9268: The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

David Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

9267: Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans

J. David Brown and John Earle

9266: Can Policy Facilitate Partial Retirement? Evidence from Germany

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

9265: Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia

Xiaodong Gong and Jiti Gao

9264: A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs

Christer Gerdes

9263: Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey

Derya Findik and Aysıt Tansel

9262: Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Derya Findik and Aysıt Tansel

9261: Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

J. David Brown, John Earle, Solomiya Shpak and Volodymyr Vakhitov

9260: Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan and Thomas Kniesner

9259: Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

9258: New Evidence on Mobility and Wages of the Young and the Old

Jorgen Hansen and Damba Lkhagvasuren

9257: An Analysis of Wage Differentials between Full- and Part-Time Workers in Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipolito Simon

9256: Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers

Kai Liu

9255: Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: Estimates from a Dynamic Model of Job Changes and Hours Changes

Kai Liu

9254: Wage Compression within the Firm

Marco Leonardi, Michele Pellizzari and Domenico Tabasso

9253: Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia

Stephane Mahuteau and Rong Zhu