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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

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