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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

9152: A Tax Benefit Model for Policy Evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen

Nizamul Islam and Lennart Flood

9151: The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply

Charlotte Bartels and Nico Pestel

9150: The Ambiguity Triangle: Uncovering Fundamental Patterns of Behavior Under Uncertainty

Daniel Burghart, Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr

9149: Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Arindrajit Dube, Laura Giuliano and Jonathan Leonard

9148: Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting

Pietro Garibaldi and Gerard Pfann

9147: Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe

Vincent Van Roy, Daniel Vertesy and Marco Vivarelli

9146: The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits

David Neumark and Diego Grijalva

9145: Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs: Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Lucia Mytna Kurekova and Žilin?íková, Zuzana

9144: Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel I. Rees

9143: Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Pascal Geldsetzer, David Bloom, Salal Humair and Till Bärnighausen

9142: Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

9141: Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error

John Cawley and Anna Choi

9140: Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health

Italo Gutierrez and Pierre-Carl Michaud

9139: Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun and Andreas Peichl

9138: Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Anthony Strittmatter

9137: The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?

Dieter Verhaest and Stijn Baert

9136: Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Pablo Ibarraran, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani and David Rosas Shady

9135: Gender Differentials in Unemployment Ins and Outs during the Great Recession in Spain

Sara de la Rica and Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz

9134: How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany

Alexander Spermann

9133: Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China

Wen Fan, Yuanyuan Ma and Liming Wang

9132: Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh

Christophe Nordman, Leopold Sarr and Smriti Sharma

9131: "A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

9130: Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann

9129: Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo and Todd Pugatch

9128: The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation

Noemi Peter, Petter Lundborg and Dinand Webbink

9127: Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Robert Moffitt, Brian J. Phelan and Anne Winkler

9126: Children's Media Use and Homework Time

Sabrina Pabilonia

9125: Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach and Jacques Mairesse

9124: Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

9123: Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

9122: The Information Value of Central School Exams

Guido Schwerdt and Ludger Woessmann

9121: A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment

Benjamin Elsner and Ingo Isphording

9120: Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Jürg Schweri and Joop Hartog

9119: Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli and Giovanni Peri