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8752: Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland and Sanders Korenman

8751: Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives

Abebe Abebe

8750: Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case

Shoshana Neuman

8749: Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis

Merle Zwiers, Gideon Bolt, Maarten van Ham and Ronald van Kempen

8748: The Impact of Multilingualism on Spanish Language Acquisition among Immigrants in Spain

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pablo Swedberg

8747: On the Economic Geography of International Migration

Caglar Ozden and Christopher Parsons

8746: A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Erhan Artuc, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden and Christopher Parsons

8745: Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer

Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison and Caglar Ozden

8744: The Impact of Temporary Protected Status on Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

8743: Migration and the Demographic Shift

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

8742: The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013: A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis

Nick Drydakis

8741: Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the United Kingdom's Labour Market: A Field Experiment

Nick Drydakis

8740: Do NEETs Need Grit?

Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker

8739: Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving

Alexander Kritikos and Jonathan Tan

8738: Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors

Adrian Bruhin, Lorenz Götte, Simon Haenni and Lingqing Jiang

8737: Even Education and Experience Has Its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap

Gil Epstein, Dalit Gafni and Erez Siniver

8736: Additive Kernel Estimates of Returns to Schooling

Deniz Ozabaci and Daniel Henderson

8735: College Expansion and the Marginal Returns to Education: Evidence from Russia

Olga Belskaya, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Christian Posso Suarez

8734: Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Kalena E. Cortes, Joshua Goodman and Takako Nomi

8733: Efficacy vs. Equity: What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Sandra Black, Kalena E. Cortes and Jane Arnold Lincove

8732: The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Rosario Ballatore, Margherita Fort and Andrea Ichino

8731: Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Peter Glick, David Sahn and Thomas F. Walker

8730: The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States

John Winters

8729: Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?

Dmytro Hryshko, Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue

8728: Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach

Shoshana Grossbard

8727: Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia

8726: Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility

Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann

8725: Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies

Astrid Kunze and Amalia Miller

8724: Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew Clark, Richard Freeman and Colin Green

8723: The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Irene Mosca and Alan Barrett

8722: Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being

Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova

8721: Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia

John Giles and Elan Satriawan

8720: The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control

Christopher S. Carpenter, Carlos Dobkin and Casey Warman

8719: Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Michael Grimm and Jörg Peters

8718: Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Violent Crime

D. Mark Anderson, Benjamin Crost and Daniel I. Rees

8717: Matthew Runs Amok: The Belgian Service Voucher Scheme

Ive Marx and Dieter Vandelannoote

8716: The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Incapacitation and Program Effects

Peter Fallesen, Lars Geerdsen, Susumu Imai and Torben Tranaes

8715: Financial Work Incentives for Disability Benefit Recipients: Lessons from a Randomised Field Experiment

Monika Bütler, Eva Deuchert, Michael Lechner, Stefan Staubli and Petra Thiemann

8714: Following the Crowd: Leisure Complementarities Beyond the Household

Simon Georges-Kot, Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

8713: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sibling Effects in Household Formation

Ainoa Aparicio and Veruska Oppedisano

8712: The Effect of Family Disruption on Children's Personality Development: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data

Tyas Prevoo and Bas ter Weel

8711: Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Junjian Yi, James Heckman, Junsen Zhang and Gabriella Conti

8710: Pour Some Sugar in Me: Does Glucose Enrichment Improve Decision Making?

Todd McElroy, David Dickinson and Nathan Stroh

8709: Sleepiness, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences

Marco Castillo, David Dickinson and Ragan Petrie

8708: Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment

Maria De Paola and Francesca Gioia

8707: Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring and Bernd Irlenbusch

8706: When Is Voting Optimal?

Ruth Ben-Yashar and Leif Danziger

8705: Field Experiments in Strategy Research

Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan Jensen, Stephan Meier and Daniel Nielson

8704: Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu and Brian Roe

8703: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Match Stability

Mario Centeno, Cláudia Duarte and Alvaro A. Novo

8702: Paying for Others' Protection: Causal Evidence on Wages in a Two-Tier System

Mario Centeno and Alvaro A. Novo

8701: Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Corrado Andini

8700: The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Johannes Schmieder, Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender

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