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8699: A Theory of Wage Adjustment under Loss Aversion

Steffen Ahrens, Inske Pirschel and Dennis J. Snower

8698: Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition

Naci Mocan and Luiza Pogorelova

8697: Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants

Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek and Cahit Guven

8696: Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Tim Kautz, James Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel and Lex Borghans

8695: Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Tanika Chakraborty, Olga Nottmeyer, Simone Schüller and Klaus Zimmermann

8694: The Impact of Age of Entry on Academic Progression

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

8693: School Inputs and Skills: Complementarity and Self-Productivity

Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

8692: Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Rolf Aaberge, Kai Liu and Yu Zhu

8691: Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Stepan Jurajda and Daniel Münich

8690: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements

Daniela Andrén and Monica Roman

8689: Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Mehtap Akgüç, Xingfei Liu and Max Tani

8688: Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia

Vladimir Gimpelson and Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

8687: Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Hartmut Lehmann

8686: Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam

Ngan Dinh, Conor Hughes, James W. Hughes and Margaret Maurer-Fazio

8685: Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants: A U.S.-Canada Comparison

Xingfei Liu

8684: The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms

Anirban Ghosh, Anna Maria Mayda and Francesc Ortega

8683: Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport

8682: New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Ana Ferrer, Garnett Picot and W. Craig Riddell

8681: Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006

Ekrame Boubtane, Jean-Christophe Dumont and Christophe Rault

8680: Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Paul Heidhues and Rajshri Jayaraman

8679: Are Pornography and Marriage Substitutes for Young Men?

Michael Malcolm and George Naufal

8678: Locus of Control and the Labor Market

Deborah Cobb-Clark

8677: Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk

Martin Salm and Ben Vollaard

8676: Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

8675: The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform

Karin Halldén and Anders Stenberg

8674: Intergenerational Mobility of Housework Time in the United Kingdom

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Yu Zhu

8673: Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin and Jane Greve

8672: An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models

Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder

8671: Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain

Climent Quintana-Domeque and Pedro Ródenas-Serrano

8670: Welfare Reform and Children's Health

Badi Baltagi and Yin-Fang Yen

8669: Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel, Başak Dalgıç and Aytekin Güven

8668: The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed

Anders Stenberg and Olle Westerlund

8667: Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance

Alice Fabre, Stephane Pallage and Christian Zimmermann

8666: Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Winfried Koeniger and Julien Prat

8665: Two-way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research: Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation

Bruce Headey and Ruud Muffels

8664: Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data: Are Transfers Mutually Beneficial?

Margherita Comola and Marcel Fafchamps

8663: Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Fabian Lange and Marianna Kudlyak

8662: Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK

Max Nathan, Anna Rosso and Francois Bouet

8661: Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination

Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Anoop Chaturvedi and Guy Lacroix

8660: Ageing in a Long-term Regeneration Neighbourhood: A Disruptive Experience or Successful Ageing in Place?

Reinout Kleinhans, Lex Veldboer, Sylvia Jansen and Maarten van Ham

8659: Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement

Dayanand Manoli, Kathleen Mullen and Mathis Wagner

8658: Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks

Luc Bissonnette, Michael Hurd and Pierre-Carl Michaud

8657: Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from Zambia

Günther Fink, B. Kelsey Jack and Felix Masiye

8656: Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Simone Ghislandi

8655: How Darwinian Should an Economy Be?

Gilles Saint-Paul

8654: From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Nauro Campos, Menelaos G. Karanasos and Bin Tan

8653: Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

8652: The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Zoltan Acs, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and László Szerb

8651: Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch and Alexander Kritikos

8650: Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?

Saul Estrin, Ute Stephan and Sunčica Vujić

8649: Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries

Antonio Cabrales, Juan Dolado and Ricardo Mora Villarrubia

8648: Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time

Werner Eichhorst and Michael Jan Kendzia

8647: The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Stefano Gagliarducci and M. Daniele Paserman

8646: Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality

Lisa Kahn and Erika McEntarfer

8645: All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tingting Zhang

8644: Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration

János Köllő and Bence Czafit

8643: Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Gregory Jolivet and Hélène Turon

8642: Gift-giving and Network Structure in Rural China: Utilizing Long-term Spontaneous Gift Records

Xi Chen

8641: Do Interventions Change the Network? A Panel Peer-Effect Model Accounting for Endogenous Network Changes

Margherita Comola and Silvia Prina

8640: The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions

Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli and Gerhard Riener

8639: Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

Lorenz Götte, Annette Cerulli-Harms and Charles Sprenger

8638: Dishonesty under Scrutiny

Jeroen van de Ven and Marie Claire Villeval

8637: Is the BMI a Relic of the Past?

Wang-Sheng Lee

8636: Do Market Incentives in the Hospital Industry Affect Subjective Health Perceptions? Evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG Reform

Lorenzo Cappellari, Anna De Paoli and Gilberto Turati

8635: The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Dimitris Christelis, Dimitris Georgarakos and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

8634: Health Status and the Allocation of Time: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

8633: Does Marriage Make You Healthier?

Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova and Joan Llull

8632: Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Luca Nunziata

8631: In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine

Johannes Koettl, Olga Kupets, Anna Olefir and Indhira Santos

8630: Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China

John Giles and Ren Mu

8629: Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices

Gregory Verdugo

8628: Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000: A Human Capital Investment Perspective

Harriet Duleep, Xingfei Liu and Mark Regets

8627: Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration

Govert Bijwaard and Jackline Wahba

8626: Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives

Delia Furtado and Tao Song

8625: Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia

8624: Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Alisher Aldashev and Alexander Danzer

8623: Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Stephan Thomsen and Friederike von Haaren

8622: Assessing Teacher Quality in India

Mehtabul Azam and Geeta Kingdon

8621: Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Todd Pugatch and Elizabeth Schroeder

8620: Does Management Matter in Schools?

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

8619: More Schooling, Less Youth Crime? Learning from an Earthquake in Japan

Yu Aoki

8618: Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined

Audrey Light and Andrew McGee

8617: The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Damon Clark and Emilia Del Bono

8616: Estimating the Returns to Schooling Using Cohort-Level Maternal Education as an Instrument

John Winters

8615: Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement

Cheti Nicoletti and Birgitta Rabe

8614: Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Delia Furtado

8613: Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries

Javier García-Manglano, Natalia Nollenberger and Almudena Sevilla

8612: Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data

Wolfgang Auer and Natalia Danzer

8611: But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage

Elaina Rose and Wong, Crystal (Ho Po)

8610: Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children

Matthias Doepke

8609: Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

8608: Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes

Emilia Del Bono, Marco Francesconi, Yvonne Kelly and Amanda Sacker

8607: Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Delia Furtado

8606: Big and Tall: Is there a Height Premium or Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?

Wang-Sheng Lee

8605: "As Rare as a Panda": How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms

Margaret Maurer-Fazio and Lei Lei

8604: Socio-demographic Model of Gender Gap in Expected and Actual Wages in Estonia

Kristjan Vassil, Raul Eamets and Pille Mõtsmees

8603: The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach

Solomon Polachek and Jun Xiang

8602: Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance

Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis, Andrea Moro and Fabiano Schivardi

8601: Divided Opinion on The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013: Random or Systematic Differences

Donal O'Neill

8600: Reemployment and Substitution Effects from Increased Activation: Evidence from Times of Crisis

Pedro Martins and Sofia Pessoa e Costa