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9099: Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Alexandre Larouche and Mircea Trandafir

9098: Norwegian Rhapsody? The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration

Nauro Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli and Luigi Moretti

9097: The UK's Productivity Puzzle

Alex Bryson and John Forth

9096: Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

9095: Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Michael Burda, Katie R. Genadek and Daniel Hamermesh

9094: Insuring against Health Shocks: Health Insurance and Household Choices

Kai Liu

9093: The Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine

Seonghoon Kim, Belton Fleisher and Jessica Ya Sun

9092: The Effect of Changes in the Statutory Minimum Working Age on Educational, Labor and Health Outcomes

Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Judit Vall Castello and Elena Del Rey

9091: The Effect of Statutory Sick Pay Regulations on Workers' Health

Martin Halla, Susanne Pech and Martina Zweimüller

9090: Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed and Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner

9089: Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo and John van Reenen

9088: Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?

Lawrence Jin and Nicolas Ziebarth

9087: Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Bernard Fortin and Myra Yazbeck

9086: Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions

Sanni Breining, N. Meltem Daysal, Marianne Simonsen and Mircea Trandafir

9085: The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services

Loukas Balafoutas, Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

9084: A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

9083: Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?

Eric Lin and Shih-Yung Chiu

9082: Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Hartmut Esser and Ilona Relikowski

9081: Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Gabriele Marconi and Andries de Grip

9080: The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges

Eleanor Dillon and Jeffrey Smith

9079: Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

9078: The Occupational Feminization of Wages

John Addison, Orgul Ozturk and Si Wang

9077: Is There a Penalty for Becoming a Woman? Is There a Premium for Becoming a Man? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers

Lydia Geijtenbeek and Erik Plug

9076: Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility Decisions

Melanie Guldi and Chris M. Herbst

9075: Divorce: What Does Learning Have to Do with It?

Ioana Marinescu

9074: Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends

Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler

9073: Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave

Annette Bergemann and Regina Riphahn

9072: The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence

Chris M. Herbst

9071: Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words

Ioana Marinescu and Ronald Wolthoff

9070: Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes

Ana Rute Cardoso, Annalisa Loviglio and Lavinia Piemontese

9069: Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Henry S Farber

9068: Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price

9067: Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Jason Lindo and María Padilla-Romo

9066: The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country

Ioana Marinescu and Margaret Triyana

9065: The Inheritance of Educational Inequality among Young People in Developing Countries

Francesco Pastore and Federica Roccisano

9064: Global Poverty Goals and Prices: How Purchasing Power Parity Matters

Dean Jolliffe and Espen Prydz

9063: Who Is More Mobile in Response to Local Demand Shifts in China?

Dongdong Luo and Chunbing Xing

9062: How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK

Claudio Fassio, Fabio Montobbio and Alessandra Venturini

9061: Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Santiago Pinto

9060: Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Scott Fulford, Ivan Petkov and Fabio Schiantarelli

9059: Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited

Francesco Mariotti, Karen Mumford and Yolanda Pena-Boquete

9058: The Causal Impact of Migration on US Trade: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Walter Steingress

9057: Winners and Losers among Skilled Migrants: The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK

Pawel Kaczmarczyk and Joanna Tyrowicz

9056: On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'

Frédéric Gavrel and Therese Rebiere

9055: Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence

Christian Pfeifer and Inna Petrunyk

9054: What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches

Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kühnle, Anthony Scott, Terence Cheng and Sung-Hee Jeon

9053: Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl

Brian Duncan, Hani Mansour and Daniel I. Rees

9052: Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Susan Averett and Erin Fletcher

9051: Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke and Iris Pigeot

9050: Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy

Giovanni Bruno, Floro Caroleo and Orietta Dessy

9049: Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System

Floro Caroleo and Francesco Pastore

9048: Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Esther Hauk and Javier Ortega

9047: Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?

Anders Stenberg and Olle Westerlund

9046: Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery

Louis Christofides, Michael Hoy, Joniada Milla and Thanasis Stengos

9045: Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Marianne Simonsen

9044: Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Enric Meix-Llop

9043: Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

Francois Rycx, Yves Saks and Ilan Tojerow

9042: Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

9041: Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang and Martin Sefton

9040: Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Simon Jäger and Florian Zimmermann

9039: Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer and Matthias Sutter

9038: Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

Paul Bisschop, Stephen Kastoryano and Bas van der Klaauw

9037: Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census

Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell

9036: Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions

Tymon Słoczyński

9035: State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform

Regina Riphahn and Christoph Wunder

9034: Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Arash Nekoei and Andrea Weber

9033: Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Manuela Angelucci and Vincenzo Di Maro

9032: Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium

Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre

9031: Does Commuting Affect Health?

Annemarie Künn-Nelen

9030: Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control

Antonio Filippin and Paolo Crosetto

9029: The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin

9028: Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Cameron Murray and Paul Frijters

9027: How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Sebastian Fehrler and Niall Hughes

9026: Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country

Michael Berlemann, Max Steinhardt and Jascha Tutt

9025: The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

Nils May and Øivind Nilsen

9024: Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen

9023: Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders

S Anukriti and Abhishek Chakravarty

9022: Changing Income Inequality and Panel Income Changes

Robert Duval Hernández, Gary Fields and George H. Jakubson

9021: How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership

Oliver Krebs and Michael P. Pflüger

9020: The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny and Jens Suedekum

9019: Immigrant Student Performance in Math: Does It Matter Where You Come From?

Gianna Claudia Giannelli and Chiara Rapallini

9018: Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Xiuna Yang

9017: Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions

Artjoms Ivlevs

9016: On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies

Claudia Cigagna and Giovanni Sulis

9015: Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data

Boris Hirsch, Daniel S. J. Lechmann and Claus Schnabel

9014: Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market

Ga?ecka-Burdziak, Ewa and Marek Góra

9013: Tax Compliance and Information Provision: A Field Experiment with Small Firms

Philipp Doerrenberg and Jan Schmitz

9012: Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design

Ana Dammert, Jose Galdo and Virgilio Galdo

9011: Conspicuous Work: Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers

Marion Collewet, Andries de Grip and Jaap de Koning

9010: Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Cameron Murray, Paul Frijters and Melissa Vorster

9009: Overconfident People Are More Exposed to "Black Swan" Events: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk

Nicolao Bonini, Stefania Pighin, Enrico Rettore, Lucia Savadori, Federico Schena, Sara Tonini and Paolo Tosi

9008: Is Self-employment a Way to Escape from Skill Mismatches?

Judit Sanchez, Luis Diaz-Serrano and Graciela Teruel

9007: Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Wen Ci, Jose Galdo, Marcel Voia and Christopher Worswick

9006: Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer and Hanna Zwiener

9005: Inequality of Opportunities of Educational Achievement in Turkey over Time

Aysıt Tansel

9004: Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes

Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie

9003: Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Hans Fricke, Jeffrey Grogger and Andreas Steinmayr

9002: How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Anyck Dauphin, Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix

9001: A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

9000: The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal

Michael Clemens