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8999: Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana

Luis Diaz-Serrano and Frank Gyimah Sackey

8998: Market Distortions and Political Rent: The Case of Fertilizer Price Divergence in Africa

Abebe Abebe, Daniel Zerfu Gurara and Dawit Birhanu Tessema

8997: Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?

Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg and Sandra Lancheros

8996: Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector

Paul Welfens

8995: Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Mark Bryan and Alex Bryson

8994: Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence

Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine

8993: Fiscal Policy, Interest Rate Spreads, and the Zero Lower Bound

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen and Andreas Schabert

8992: Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?

Christer Gerdes

8991: Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes

Torben M. Andersen, Mark Strom Kristoffersen and Michael Svarer

8990: The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

8989: Is There a Link Between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility? Evidence from Recent Micro Data

Benjamin W. Chute and Phanindra Wunnava

8988: Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?

Andrea Albanese and Bart Cockx

8987: Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports

Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille and Michael Lechner

8986: IC Technology and Learning: An Impact Evaluation of Cl@ssi2.0

Daniele Checchi, Enrico Rettore and Silvia Girardi

8985: Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull and Parag Pathak

8984: Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach

Dan Rickman, Hongbo Wang and John Winters

8983: The Effects of a High School Curriculum Reform on University Enrollment and the Choice of College Major

Katja Görlitz and Christina Gravert

8982: Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in the Crime Market

Evelina Gavrilova and Nadia Campaniello

8981: The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints

Robert Sauer and Tanya Wilson

8980: Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

8979: Partial Insurance and Investments in Children

Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja

8978: The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Daniel Kühnle and Miriam Mäder

8977: How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

8976: Improving the Allocation of Spots in Child Care Facilities for Toddlers in Germany: A Mechanism Design Approach

Sissa Carlsson and Stephan Thomsen

8975: Religion and Innovation

Roland Benabou, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni

8974: Culture of Trust and Division of Labor

Stephan Meier and Matthew Stephenson

8973: Market Design and Moral Behavior

Michael Kirchler, Jürgen Huber, Matthias Stefan and Matthias Sutter

8972: Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes

Marco Caliendo, Anne Gielen and Robert Mahlstedt

8971: The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation: An Empirical Investigation

Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, Richard Holden and Tom Wilkening

8970: Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh

Sarmistha Pal

8969: Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden

Sonia Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson

8968: The Hidden Cost of Labor Market Entry During Recession: Unemployment Rate at Entry and Occupational Injury Risk of Young Workers

Roberto Leombruni, Tiziano Razzolini and Francesco Serti

8967: Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Davide Dragone and Nicolas Ziebarth

8966: Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

John Winters and Yu Li

8965: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Benjamin Crost, Claire Duquennois, Joseph Felter and Daniel I. Rees

8964: Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer

Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel and Eric Sommer

8963: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden: An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment

Aycan Celikaksoy and Eskil Wadensjö

8962: Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Marc Piopiunik and Jens Ruhose

8961: Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri

8960: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouèdé, Nathalie Lahire, Costas Meghir and Corina Mommaerts

8959: In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno

Joshua Angrist, Erich Battistin and Daniela Vuri

8958: The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Seth Gershenson and Erdal Tekin

8957: Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?

Bente Jensen, Peter Jensen and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

8956: Neighborhood Effects in Education

Carlo Leone Del Bello, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

8955: Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money

Joseph Deutsch, Gil Epstein and Alon Nir

8954: Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools

Benjamin Beranek, Robin Cubitt and Simon Gächter

8953: Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Tjaša Bjedov, Thierry Madies and Marie Claire Villeval

8952: Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

8951: The Effects of Binding and Non-Binding Job Search Requirements

Patrick Arni and Amelie Schiprowski

8950: Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules

Colin Green, Fernando Lozano and Rob Simmons

8949: Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU

Klara Kaliskova

8948: Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen and Roland Winkler

8947: Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

8946: Employment and Hours over the Business Cycle in a Model with Search Frictions

Noritaka Kudoh, Hiroaki Miyamoto and Masaru Sasaki

8945: Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry

Sonia Agudelo Ayala and Hector Sala

8944: Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies

Arindrajit Dube and Ben Zipperer

8943: Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession

John Addison, Pedro Portugal and Hugo de Almeida Vilares

8942: Bubble Economics and Structural Change: The Cases of Spain and France Compared

Pablo Agnese and Jana Hromcová

8941: Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Long and Markus Poschke

8940: Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Ngo Long and Markus Poschke

8939: Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Oliver Falck, Constantin Mang and Ludger Woessmann

8938: Robots at Work

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels

8937: Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis

Sinem Ayhan

8936: Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models

Jason Fletcher and Norma Padrón

8935: Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia

Joseph J. Sabia and Mark Wooden

8934: Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

8933: Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms

Juan Campaña, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

8932: Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants

Tiit Tammaru, Magnus Strömgren, Maarten van Ham and Alexander Danzer

8931: Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China

Chunbing Xing and Jianwei Xu

8930: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

8929: Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga, Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Nabanita Datta Gupta

8928: Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru

Rosamaria Dasso Arana, Fernando Fernandez and Hugo Ñopo

8927: Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda

Lucia Ferrone and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

8926: The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi

8925: Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance: An Analysis of Immigrants in France

Mehtap Akgüç and Ana Ferrer

8924: Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Joan Monras

8923: Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li

8922: Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs

Oliver Falck, Alfred Lameli and Jens Ruhose

8921: The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy

Francesco Pastore

8920: Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience

Thomas Beissinger, Nathalie Chusseau and Joel Hellier

8919: United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Claus Schnabel

8918: How the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor: A Preliminary Exploration with Historical Data

Harriet Duleep and Xingfei Liu

8917: The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010

Jean-Yves Duclos and Mathieu Pellerin

8916: Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo

8915: Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro

8914: The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos and Michael I. Norton

8913: The Earnings and Employment Losses Before Entering the Disability System

María Cervini-Plá and Judit Vall Castello

8912: The Effects of Over-Indebtedness on Individual Health

Maite Blázquez Cuesta and Santiago Budria Rodriguez

8911: Long Work Hours and Health in China

Peng Nie, Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

8910: Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello and Eve Caroli

8909: Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?

Wolter Hassink and Roberto M. Fernandez

8908: Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Terence Cheng, Joan Costa-Font and Nattavudh Powdthavee

8907: Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up

Kyle Rozema and Nicolas Ziebarth

8906: On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children

Daniel Houser, John List, Marco Piovesan, Anya Samek and Joachim Winter

8905: Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

8904: Child Care Before Age Two and the Development of Language and Numeracy: Evidence from a Lottery

Nina Drange and Tarjei Havnes

8903: Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Jens Ruhose and Guido Schwerdt

8902: Finance for All: The Impact of Financial Literacy Training in Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain

Laura Hospido, Ernesto Villanueva and Gema Zamarro

8901: Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany

Regina Riphahn and Michael Zibrowius

8900: 'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz