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9252: (Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events

Reto Odermatt and Alois Stutzer

9251: Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity

Gabriel Burdín, Simon Halliday and Fabio Landini

9250: Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Anna Zhu

9249: Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK

Gianluigi Coppola, Shane Niall O'Higgins and Claudio Pinto

9248: Bad Behavior: Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving

Shannon Ward, Jenny Williams and Jan van Ours

9247: The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Gabriella Conti, James Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto

9246: Culture and Institutions

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

9245: The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler and Sebastian Siegloch

9244: Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Justina A. V. Fischer and Francesco Pastore

9243: Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Sara Martinez-de-Morentin

9242: The Power of (Non) Positive Thinking: Self-Employed Pessimists Earn More than Optimists

Chris Dawson, David de Meza, Andrew Henley and Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani

9241: Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion

Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter and Simone Quercia

9240: Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Bernd Irlenbusch and David Saxler

9239: Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata

Luigi Benfratello, Tiziano Razzolini and Alessandro Sembenelli

9238: Early Impacts of College Aid

Julio Caceres-Delpiano, Eugenio Giolito and Sebastián Castillo Ramos

9237: The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

Asako Ohinata and Matteo Picchio

9236: What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations

David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber

9235: Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession

Lidia Farre, Francesco Fasani and Hannes Mueller

9234: Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession

Lidia Farre, Francesc Ortega and Ryuichi Tanaka

9233: Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession: Evidence from Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara (née David), Anica Kramer and Sylvi Rzepka

9232: The Post Crisis Growth in the Self-Employed: Volunteers or Reluctant Recruits?

Andrew Henley

9231: Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

9230: Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-term Solution of the Euro Crisis

Justina A. V. Fischer and Francesco Pastore

9229: Do Hospitals Respond to Increasing Prices by Supplying Fewer Services?

Martin Salm and Ansgar Wübker

9228: Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn and Mark Wright

9227: Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

9226: Do Social Networks Improve Chinese Adults' Subjective Well-being?

Xiaoyan Lei, Yan Shen, James Smith and Guangsu Zhou

9225: Understanding the Effects of Education on Health: Evidence from China

Wei Huang

9224: Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Sarah Flèche and Richard Layard

9223: Ownership and Pay in Britain

Andrew Pendleton, Alex Bryson and Howard Gospel

9222: Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal and Eric Verhoogen

9221: Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models

John Addison, Pedro Portugal and Hugo de Almeida Vilares

9220: Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles

Pedro Raposo, Pedro Portugal and Anabela Carneiro

9219: What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?

Rahul Anand, Eswar Prasad and Boyang Zhang

9218: Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development

Michael Clemens

9217: People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks

Jeanne Lafortune, José Tessada and Ethan Gatewood Lewis

9216: Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms

Michele Tuccio and Jackline Wahba

9215: Trade, FDI, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States

Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday and Raymond Robertson

9214: The Competitive Earning Incentive for Sons: Evidence from Migration in China

Wenchao Li and Junjian Yi

9213: Left Behind, At Risk, and Vulnerable Elders in Rural China: What the RUMIC Data Reveal about the Extent, Causes, and Consequences of Being Left Behind

Rachel Connelly and Margaret Maurer-Fazio

9212: The Effects of Longer School Days on Mothers' Labor Force Participation

Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger and Melanie Oyarzún

9211: Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Marco Manacorda

9210: Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador: Different Reasons

María Aristizábal-Ramírez, Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza and Michael Jetter

9209: Crime and Establishment Size: Evidence from South America

Umut Oguzoglu and Ashantha Ranasinghe

9208: Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling: Evidence from Tanzania

Christine Valente

9207: Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Tanguy Bernard, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann, Pia Naima Unte, Angelino Viceisza and Fleur Wouterse

9206: Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda

Yao Pan, Stephen Smith and Munshi Sulaiman

9205: Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Qingwei Meng and Mthuli Ncube

9204: Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Benjamin Stanwix

9203: Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences

Seth Gershenson

9202: Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations

Seth Gershenson, Stephen Holt and Nicholas Papageorge

9201: Do Anti-Bullying Laws Reduce Youth Violence?

Joseph J. Sabia and Brittany Bass

9200: School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn and Ulf Zölitz

9199: Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva

9198: Common Law Marriage and Teen Births

Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon

9197: Family Shocks and Academic Achievement

Marie Hull

9196: The Effect of Family Size on Education: New Evidence from China's One Child Policy

Laura M. Argys and Susan Averett

9195: Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

9194: The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure

Deborah Goldschmidt and Johannes Schmieder

9193: The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK

Andrea Salvatori

9192: Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement

Wolfgang Frimmel, Gerard Horvath, Mario Schnalzenberger and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

9191: Means Testing versus Basic Income: The (Lack of) Political Support for a Universal Allowance

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

9190: Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

Markus Jantti, Eva Sierminska and Philippe Van Kerm

9189: When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons

Andrew Clark, Claudia Senik and Katsunori Yamada

9188: The French Productivity Puzzle

Philippe Askenazy and Christine Erhel

9187: A Bitter Medicine? Short-term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries

Andrea Bassanini

9186: Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Richard Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly and Nicolas Ziebarth

9185: The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

9184: Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan Moritz Kuhn

9183: The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Robert Mahlstedt

9182: Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?

John Pencavel

9181: Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?

Wolter Hassink, Pierre Koning and Wim Zwinkels

9180: Susceptibility to Default Training Options Across the Population

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

9179: Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Jan Sauermann

9178: On the Origins of Risk-Taking

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

9177: Christianity and Infant Health in India

Nidhiya Menon and Kathleen McQueeney

9176: The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link

Alexander Ahammer, Gerard Horvath and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

9175: Birth Weight in the Long-Run

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

9174: Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

9173: The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills

Susan Averett and Yang Wang

9172: Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

9171: Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

9170: A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances

Stijn Baert, Olivier Rotsaert, Dieter Verhaest and Eddy Omey

9169: Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Sandra Black, Kalena E. Cortes and Jane Arnold Lincove

9168: Parental Time Investments in Children: The Role of Competition for University Places in the UK

Almudena Sevilla and Cristina Borra

9167: Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice

Erica Blom, Brian Cadena and Benjamin Keys

9166: Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities

Pierre Picard and Yves Zenou

9165: Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes

Xin Meng and Chikako Yamauchi

9164: The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

Matthias Parey, Jens Ruhose, Fabian Waldinger and Nicolai Netz

9163: Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino and Klaus Zimmermann

9162: Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

9161: May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program

Laura Zimmermann

9160: Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

Gaurav Khanna and Laura Zimmermann

9159: A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Dripto Bakshi and Indraneel Dasgupta

9158: Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Raphael Franck and Oded Galor

9157: Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Simon Baptist and Francis J. Teal

9156: Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis

Eric Bonsang and Arthur van Soest

9155: Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups

Boris F. Blumberg and Gerard Pfann

9154: Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto

9153: Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?

Marilyn Spencer, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers and Randall Bowden