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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

8799: Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

8798: Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities

Marina Furdas, Katerina Homolkova and Krisztina Kis-Katos

8797: Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment

Anders Frederiksen and Timothy Halliday

8796: Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources

Francisca Antman

8795: Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar

Peter Glick, Christopher Handy and David Sahn

8794: Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities: Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

8793: The Stress Cost of Children

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel Hamermesh and Mark Wooden

8792: Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Javier Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Mateo Salazar

8791: Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress

Stephen Broadberry, Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto

8790: Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Junghee Han and Almas Heshmati

8789: Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences

Joseph Shapiro and Reed Walker

8788: Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

David Autor, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

8787: Effects of Changes in Pensions on the Age of First Benefit Receipt: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Repatriated Ethnic Germans

Patrick Puhani and Falko Tabbert

8786: Are Recipients of Social Assistance 'Benefit Dependent'? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries

Herwig Immervoll, Stephen Jenkins and Sebastian Königs

8785: Seriously Strengthening the Tax-Benefit Link

Pedro Portugal and Pedro Raposo

8784: The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Evidence from the 2012-2013 Phase-Out

Henry S Farber, Jesse Rothstein and Robert Valletta

8783: Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance

Donald Parsons, Torben Tranaes and Helene Lilleør

8782: Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement

Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

8781: Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?

Jan Eeckhout and Nezih Guner

8780: Job Loss and Regional Mobility

Kristiina Huttunen, Jarle Møen and Kjell G Salvanes

8779: Burden or Relief? Fiscal Impacts of Recent Ukrainian Migration to Poland

Pawel Kaczmarczyk

8778: Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives

Francesc Ortega and Ryuichi Tanaka

8777: Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

8776: Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Adriana Di Liberto and Marco Sideri

8775: Training Funds and the Incidence of Training: The Case of Mauritius

Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter Orazem, Sawkut Rojid and Milan Vodopivec

8774: Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions

Zorobabel Bicaba, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Mthuli Ncube

8773: Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Aysıt Tansel and Zeynel Ozdemir

8772: Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Mahmoud Arayssi and Ali Fakih

8771: The Inequality-Growth Plateau

Daniel Henderson, Junhui Qian and Le Wang

8770: Private Tutoring: Evidence from India

Mehtabul Azam

8769: Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Adam S. Booij, Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

8768: Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Additional Value of Teacher Assessment in Predicting Student Ability

Eva Feron, Trudie Schils and Bas ter Weel

8767: Are College Costs Worth It? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions

Douglas Webber

8766: The Effects of Increasing the Standards of the High School Curriculum on School Dropout

Katja Görlitz and Christina Gravert

8765: Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa

8764: Voluntary Activities and Daily Happiness in the US

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

8763: Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Jan Marcus and Thomas Siedler

8762: Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Marco Kleine and Sebastian Kube

8761: Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring and Kirsten Thommes

8760: Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis

Angus Holford and Stephen Pudney

8759: How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform

Ulrich Kaiser and Susan Mendez

8758: Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap

Christoph Rothe

8757: Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei and Andrea Weber