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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

8599: Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes: Micro versus Macro Performances

Julie Beugnot, Guy Lacroix and Olivier Charlot

8598: An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann and Andreas Peichl

8597: Welfare Effects of Short-Time Compensation

Helge Braun and Björn Brügemann

8596: Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure

Martin McGuigan, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness

8595: Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

8594: A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda

Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

8593: The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables

Joachim Möller and Marcus Zierer

8592: Does Development Reduce Migration?

Michael Clemens

8591: Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China

Xi Chen

8590: Successful Scientific Replication and Extension of Levitt (2008): Child Seats Are Still No Safer than Seat Belts

Lauren Jones and Nicolas Ziebarth

8589: Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

Koen Decancq and Dirk Neumann

8588: A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mark Wooden

8587: The Effect of Job Loss on Health: Evidence from Biomarkers

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Eileen Crimmins and Michael Hurd

8586: Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics

Rodrigo Soares

8585: Turf Wars

Helios Herrera, Ernesto Reuben and Michael M. Ting

8584: What Do Field Experiments of Discrimination in Markets Tell Us? A Meta Analysis of Studies Conducted since 2000

Judith Rich

8583: Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Charles Bellemare, Luc Bissonnette and Sabine Kröger

8582: "Making It Count": Evidence from a Field Study on Assessment Rules, Study Incentives and Student Performance

Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton and Melanie Lührmann

8581: Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani and Samyukta Subramanian

8580: Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Simon Gächter and Elke Renner

8579: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: An Experimental Investigation

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra and Subha Mani

8578: The Perception of Lethal Risks: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Manuel Schubert and Tilman Brück

8577: Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

8576: Understanding the Role of Immigrants' Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments

Francesco Fasani

8575: Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

John Winters

8574: Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri and Panu Poutvaara

8573: Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework: Evidence from Poland

Mikolaj Herbst, Pawel Kaczmarczyk and Piotr Wójcik

8572: Language and Labor Market Success

Ingo Isphording

8571: Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie Constant

8570: A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Solomon Polachek, Xu Zhang and Xing Zhou

8569: Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity

Katrin Auspurg, Maria Iacovou and Cheti Nicoletti

8568: How Did the Housing and Labor Market Crises Affect Young Adults' Living Arrangements?

William Rogers and Anne Winkler

8567: Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour

Delphine Boutin

8566: Domestic Abuse and Child Health

Samantha Rawlings and Zahra Siddique

8565: Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents

Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Piazzalunga and Chiara Pronzato

8564: Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Paula Nagler and Wim Naudé

8563: Performance Pay, Competitiveness, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the United States

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee and Jessica Pan

8562: Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers

Henry S Farber

8561: The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-ops

John Pencavel

8560: The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer

Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser and Dirk Sliwka

8559: Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Benjamin Artz, Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald

8558: The Cyclicality of Labor Market Flows: A Multiple-Shock Approach

Jean-Olivier Hairault and Anastasia Zhutova

8557: Using Twins to Resolve the Twin Problem of Having a Bad Job and a Low Wage

Petri Böckerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Jari Vainiomäki