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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

8756: The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber and Manuel Wiesenfarth

8755: What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?

Jyotsna Puri, Anastasia Aladysheva, Vegard Iversen, Yashodhan Ghorpade and Tilman Brück

8754: Micro and Macro Determinants of Health: Older Immigrants in Europe

Amelie Constant, Teresa M. García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman and Tzahi Neuman

8753: Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action

Francisca Antman and Brian Duncan

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