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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

8556: New Linked Data on Research Investments: Scientific Workforce, Productivity, and Public Value

Julia Lane, Jason Owen-Smith, Rebecca Rosen and Bruce Weinberg

8555: Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

Lucia Mytna Kurekova, Miroslav Beblavý and Anna Thum-Thysen

8554: Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities

Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

8553: Documentation IZA?MOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch and Eric Sommer

8552: Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India

Pushkar Maitra and Subha Mani

8551: Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?

Gilles Saint-Paul

8550: College Choice Allocation Mechanisms: Structural Estimates and Counterfactuals

José-Raimundo Carvalho, Thierry Magnac and Qizhou Xiong

8549: Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel and Teresa Romano

8548: Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Philipp Eisenhauer, James Heckman and Stefano Mosso

8547: Length of Stay in the Host Country and Educational Achievement of Immigrant Students: The Italian Case

Adriana Di Liberto

8546: Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Black South Africans

Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura and Tendai Gwatidzo

8545: Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus and Simone Schüller

8544: Allergy Test: Seasonal Allergens and Performance in School

Dave Marcotte

8543: Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio and Sami Miaari

8542: Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Sebastian Böhm, Volker Grossmann and Thomas Steger

8541: Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms

David Maré, Lynda Sanderson and Richard Fabling

8540: 30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions

Pedro Martins

8539: Workplace Democracy and Job Flows

Guillermo Alves, Gabriel Burdín and Andrés Dean

8538: Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance

Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Giné and Maria Guadalupe

8537: Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation

Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman

8536: House Price Expectations

Geng Niu and Arthur van Soest

8535: Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models

Tilman Drerup, Benjamin Enke and Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

8534: The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Julian Conrads and Tommaso Reggiani

8533: Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents

Sebastian Kube, Sebastian Schaube, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch and Elina Khachatryan

8532: Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz and Yossef Tobol

8531: Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France

Vincent Bignon, Eve Caroli and Roberto Galbiati

8530: Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects

Sarah Brown and Daniel Gray

8529: Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

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

8528: Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Xiaobo He

8527: Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research

Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

8526: Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature

Liu, Xing (Michelle) and Eva Sierminska

8525: Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Esther Gehrke and Michael Grimm

8524: Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Paula Nagler and Wim Naudé

8523: Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration

David McKenzie and Dean Yang

8522: Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa and Manuela Stranges

8521: Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind

Artjoms Ivlevs and Roswitha M. King

8520: In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries

Milena Nikolova and Carol Graham

8519: The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor