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9168: Parental Time Investments in Children: The Role of Competition for University Places in the UK

Almudena Sevilla and Cristina Borra

9167: Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice

Erica Blom, Brian Cadena and Benjamin Keys

9166: Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities

Pierre Picard and Yves Zenou

9165: Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes

Xin Meng and Chikako Yamauchi

9164: The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

Matthias Parey, Jens Ruhose, Fabian Waldinger and Nicolai Netz

9163: Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan David Robalino and Klaus Zimmermann

9162: Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

9161: May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program

Laura Zimmermann

9160: Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

Gaurav Khanna and Laura Zimmermann

9159: A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Dripto Bakshi and Indraneel Dasgupta

9158: Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Raphael Franck and Oded Galor

9157: Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Simon Baptist and Francis Teal

9156: Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis

Eric Bonsang and Arthur van Soest

9155: Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups

Boris F. Blumberg and Gerard Pfann

9154: Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto

9153: Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?

Marilyn Spencer, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers and Randall Bowden

9152: A Tax Benefit Model for Policy Evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen

Nizamul Islam and Lennart Flood

9151: The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply

Charlotte Bartels and Nico Pestel

9150: The Ambiguity Triangle: Uncovering Fundamental Patterns of Behavior Under Uncertainty

Daniel Burghart, Thomas Epper and Ernst Fehr

9149: Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Arindrajit Dube, Laura Giuliano and Jonathan Leonard

9148: Dismissal Disputes and Endogenous Sorting

Pietro Garibaldi and Gerard Pfann

9147: Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe

Vincent Van Roy, Daniel Vertesy and Marco Vivarelli

9146: The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits

David Neumark and Diego Grijalva

9145: Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs: Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Lucia Mytna Kurekova and Žilin?íková, Zuzana

9144: Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel I. Rees

9143: Increasing Coverage of Antiretroviral Therapy and Male Medical Circumcision in HIV Hyperendemic Countries: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Pascal Geldsetzer, David Bloom, Salal Humair and Till Bärnighausen

9142: Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

9141: Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error

John Cawley and Anna Choi

9140: Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health

Italo Gutierrez and Pierre-Carl Michaud

9139: Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun and Andreas Peichl

9138: Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed

Martin Huber, Michael Lechner and Anthony Strittmatter

9137: The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?

Dieter Verhaest and Stijn Baert

9136: Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Pablo Ibarraran, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani and David Rosas Shady

9135: Gender Differentials in Unemployment Ins and Outs during the Great Recession in Spain

Sara de la Rica and Yolanda F. Rebollo-Sanz

9134: How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany

Alexander Spermann

9133: Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China

Wen Fan, Yuanyuan Ma and Liming Wang

9132: Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh

Christophe Nordman, Leopold Sarr and Smriti Sharma

9131: "A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

9130: Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann

9129: Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia

Moussa Blimpo, Ousman Gajigo and Todd Pugatch

9128: The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation

Noemi Peter, Petter Lundborg and Dinand Webbink

9127: Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Robert Moffitt, Brian J. Phelan and Anne Winkler

9126: Children's Media Use and Homework Time

Sabrina Pabilonia

9125: Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach and Jacques Mairesse

9124: Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Three Different Approaches

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

9123: Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Sebastian Findeisen and Dominik Sachs

9122: The Information Value of Central School Exams

Guido Schwerdt and Ludger Woessmann

9121: A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment

Benjamin Elsner and Ingo Isphording

9120: Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Jürg Schweri and Joop Hartog

9119: Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Massimo Anelli and Giovanni Peri

9118: The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice

Monique De Haan, Pieter Gautier, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

9117: What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Regina Riphahn and Caroline Schwientek

9116: The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme

Lingguo Cheng, Hong Liu, Ye Zhang and Zhong Zhao

9115: Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation

Muriel Dejemeppe, Catherine Smith and Bruno Van der Linden

9114: Do Employment Protection Reforms Affect Well-Being?

Vanessa Dräger

9113: Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform

Andreas Bernecker, Pierre Boyer and Christina Gathmann

9112: Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers

Simonetta Longhi

9111: Mandatory Volunteer Work as Fair Reciprocity for Unemployment and Social Benefits?

Lex Veldboer, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

9110: Saving Face and Group Identity

Tor Eriksson, Lei Mao and Marie Claire Villeval

9109: The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis and Stephen Machin

9108: How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

9107: Explaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration

Eric Gould

9106: Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants

Dominique Meurs, Patrick Puhani and Friederike von Haaren

9105: The Legacies of Slavery in and out of Africa

Graziella Bertocchi

9104: Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Rainald Borck and Michael P. Pflüger

9103: Financial Literacy and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households

Daniel Millimet, Ian McDonough and Thomas Fomby

9102: The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa: The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior

Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

9101: Human Capital Persistence and Development

Rudi Rocha, Claudio Ferraz and Rodrigo Soares

9100: Misperceiving Inequality

Vladimir Gimpelson and Daniel Treisman

9099: Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Alexandre Larouche and Mircea Trandafir

9098: Norwegian Rhapsody? The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration

Nauro Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli and Luigi Moretti

9097: The UK's Productivity Puzzle

Alex Bryson and John Forth

9096: Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

9095: Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Michael Burda, Katie R. Genadek and Daniel Hamermesh

9094: Insuring against Health Shocks: Health Insurance and Household Choices

Kai Liu

9093: The Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine

Seonghoon Kim, Belton Fleisher and Jessica Ya Sun

9092: The Effect of Changes in the Statutory Minimum Working Age on Educational, Labor and Health Outcomes

Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Judit Vall Castello and Elena Del Rey

9091: The Effect of Statutory Sick Pay Regulations on Workers' Health

Martin Halla, Susanne Pech and Martina Zweimüller

9090: Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed and Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner

9089: Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo and John van Reenen

9088: Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?

Lawrence Jin and Nicolas Ziebarth

9087: Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain

Bernard Fortin and Myra Yazbeck

9086: Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions

Sanni Breining, N. Meltem Daysal, Marianne Simonsen and Mircea Trandafir

9085: The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services

Loukas Balafoutas, Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

9084: A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation

Alexander Koch and Julia Nafziger

9083: Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?

Eric Lin and Shih-Yung Chiu

9082: Is Ability Tracking (Really) Responsible for Educational Inequalities in Achievement? A Comparison between the Country States Bavaria and Hesse in Germany

Hartmut Esser and Ilona Relikowski

9081: Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Gabriele Marconi and Andries de Grip

9080: The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges

Eleanor Dillon and Jeffrey Smith

9079: Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

9078: The Occupational Feminization of Wages

John Addison, Orgul Ozturk and Si Wang

9077: Is There a Penalty for Becoming a Woman? Is There a Premium for Becoming a Man? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers

Lydia Geijtenbeek and Erik Plug

9076: Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility Decisions

Melanie Guldi and Chris M. Herbst

9075: Divorce: What Does Learning Have to Do with It?

Ioana Marinescu

9074: Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends

Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler

9073: Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave

Annette Bergemann and Regina Riphahn

9072: The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence

Chris M. Herbst

9071: Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words

Ioana Marinescu and Ronald Wolthoff

9070: Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes

Ana Rute Cardoso, Annalisa Loviglio and Lavinia Piemontese

9069: Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Henry S Farber