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8899: The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

8898: GTL Regression: A Linear Model with Skewed and Thick-Tailed Disturbances

Wim Vijverberg and Takuya Hasebe

8897: Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets

Michael Savage and Tim Callan

8896: Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks

Vincent Boucher and Bernard Fortin

8895: The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Marta Lachowska and Michal Myck

8894: Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France

Juan Carluccio, Denis Fougere and Erwan Gautier

8893: Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants

Andreas Kostøl and Magne Mogstad

8892: Compulsory Military Service and Future Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Muhammad Asali

8891: The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession

Laura Hospido and Eva Moreno-Galbis

8890: Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke and Christian Merkl

8889: Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market

Bart Cockx and Corinna Ghirelli

8888: A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Austan D. Goolsbee and Alan Krueger

8887: Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee and Sarani Saha

8886: Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

Manuela Deidda, Adriana Di Liberto, Marta Foddi and Giovanni Sulis

8885: Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Guillaume Vermeylen

8884: Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment

Benedikt Herz and Thijs van Rens

8883: Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from M?ori in New Zealand

Isabelle Sin and Steven Stillman

8882: Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Merle Zwiers, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

8881: International Migration Opportunities and Occupational Choice: A Case Study of Philippine Nurses 2002 to 2014

Mary Arends-Kuenning, Alvaro Calara and Stella Go

8880: Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

Béatrice d'Hombres and Luca Nunziata

8879: The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms

Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer

8878: The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour

Alessandro Cigno, Giorgia Giovannetti and Laura Sabani

8877: The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation

Lanse Minkler and Nishith Prakash

8876: The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal

Francesca Marchetta and David Sahn

8875: The Effect of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM

David Sjoquist and John Winters

8874: Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Sonja de New, Stefanie Schurer and Felix Leung

8873: Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?

Stefanie Schurer, Sonja de New and Felix Leung

8872: Network Structure and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

8871: Risk-Sharing and Student Loan Policy: Consequences for Students and Institutions

Douglas Webber

8870: The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?

Yoichi Arai, Hidehiko Ichimura and Daiji Kawaguchi

8869: Subject Specific League Tables and Students' Application Decisions

Arnaud Chevalier and Xiaoxuan Jia

8868: Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries

Anis Omri, Saida Daly, Christophe Rault and Anissa Chaibi

8867: The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake

Giorgio Di Pietro

8866: Reciprocal Climate Negotiators

Karine Nyborg

8865: Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies

Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski and Maria Vagliasindi

8864: "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked": Population, Crime, and the 2013 Government Shutdown

Ricard Gil and Mario Macis

8863: Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

John Sessions and John D. Skåtun

8862: Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age

Raymond Montizaan, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

8861: Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Hans Bloemen, Stefan Hochguertel and Jochem Zweerink

8860: Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study

Shane Niall O'Higgins, Arturo Palomba and Patrizia Sbriglia

8859: Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification

Maria De Paola, Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa

8858: Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information

Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

8857: Referee Bias

Thomas Dohmen and Jan Sauermann

8856: Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio-Codina

8855: The Wage Return to Education: What Hides Behind the Least Squares Bias?

Corrado Andini

8854: How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact

Isabelle Lebon and Therese Rebiere

8853: Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities

Adam Lavecchia, Heidi Liu and Philip Oreopoulos

8852: Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries

David Johnston, Michael Shields and Peter Siminski

8851: Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Jan Michael Bauer and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

8850: The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Stefan Pichler and Nicolas Ziebarth

8849: The Cost of Binge Drinking

Marco Francesconi and Jonathan James

8848: Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs

Sónia Félix and Pedro Portugal

8847: What Explains Immigrant-Native Gaps in European Labor Markets: The Role of Institutions

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

8846: Language Barriers and Immigrant Health Production

Andrew Clarke and Ingo Isphording

8845: Pane e Cioccolata: The Impact of Native Attitudes on Return Migration

Augustin de Coulon, Dragos Radu and Max Steinhardt

8844: The Impact of Immigrants on Public Finances: A Forecast Analysis for Denmark

Marianne Frank Hansen, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen and Torben Tranaes

8843: Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants

Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong and Elaine Liu

8842: Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly and Ngoc-Han Thi Tran

8841: The Impact of Refugee Crises on Host Labor Markets: The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Marcel van den Berg and Wolter Hassink

8840: Economic Shocks and Internal Migration

Joan Monras

8839: Identification of the Timing-of-Events Model with Multiple Competing Exit Risks from Single-Spell Data

Bettina Drepper and Georgios Effraimidis

8838: The Welfare Effects of Asset Means-Testing Income Support

Felix Wellschmied

8837: Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality

Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini

8836: Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Andy Feng and Georg Graetz

8835: The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage

Stephen Jenkins

8834: Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel, Zeynel Ozdemir and Emre Aksoy

8833: A Centralized Approach to Modelling Collective Household Decisions: Some Preliminary Results

Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino and Federico Perali

8832: Shifting Taxes from Labour to Property: A Simulation under Labour Market Equilibrium

Flavia Coda Moscarola, Ugo Colombino, Francesco Figari and Marilena Locatelli

8831: Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos

8830: Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation

Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Darío Maldonado and Kerstin Roeder

8829: The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Andrew Oswald

8828: Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Daniel Hamermesh

8827: Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist

James Heckman

8826: A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Andy Feng and Georg Graetz

8825: The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates

Ronny Freier, Mathias Schumann and Thomas Siedler

8824: Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

Michael Jetter and Jay Walker

8823: Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes

Jannie Kristoffersen, Morten Krægpøth, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

8822: The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism

Angus Holford

8821: Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences

Stefanie Schurer

8820: Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Matthews and Andrea Robbett

8819: A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity

Corrado Andini and Monica Andini

8818: Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos and Alina Sorgner

8817: Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn and Frank Wießner

8816: Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment

Frank Fossen and Johannes König

8815: The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition

David Bardey, Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur

8814: The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach

Stefanie Schurer, Michael Alspach, Jayden MacRae and Greg L. Martin

8813: Unequal Bequests

Marco Francesconi, Robert Pollak and Domenico Tabasso

8812: Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription

Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott and Knut Røed

8811: Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?

Bernhard Boockmann and Tobias Brändle

8810: A Tacit Monetary Policy of the Gulf Countries: Is There a Remittances Channel?

Ali Termos, Ismail Genc and George Naufal

8809: The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market

Ilham Haouas and Almas Heshmati

8808: Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola and Colin Green

8807: Automatic Enrollment, Employer Match Rates and Employee Compensation in 401(k) Plans

Barbara Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva

8806: Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US

James Malcomson and Sophocles Mavroeidis

8805: The Recent Decline of Single Quarter Jobs

Henry Hyatt and James Spletzer

8804: Dual Labour Markets at Work: The Impact of Employers' Use of Temporary Agency Work on Regular Workers' Job Stability

Boris Hirsch

8803: Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?

Henna Busk, Elke Jahn and Christine Dauth

8802: The Impact of Temporary Agency Work on Trade Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis

Thomas Beissinger and Philipp Baudy

8801: Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios

Simon Chang

8800: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

Paul Heaton, Priscillia Hunt, John MacDonald and Jessica Saunders