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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

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