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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

8518: Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Nour Shammout and Tara Vishwanath

8517: Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Thomas Le Barbanchon

8516: Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size

Stijn Baert and Eddy Omey

8515: Revisiting the Matching Function

Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl and Daniela Nordmeier

8514: Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Jae Song

8513: Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons

Miriam Mäder, Steffen Müller, Regina Riphahn and Caroline Schwientek

8512: The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?

Alan Krueger, Alexandre Mas and Xiaotong Niu

8511: Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences

Vincenzo Caponi

8510: The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

John Earle and Scott Gehlbach

8509: Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms

Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg and Sandra Lancheros

8508: The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Laurent Gobillon

8507: European Innovation Dynamics and US Economic Impact: Theory and Empirical Analysis

Paul Welfens and Tony Irawan

8506: Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Benoit Dostie

8505: Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality

Simon Burgess, Matt Dickson and Lindsey Macmillan

8504: Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games

Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas and Alexander Vostroknutov

8503: Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Francesco Andreoli, Tarjei Havnes and Arnaud Lefranc

8502: Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK

Climent Quintana-Domeque and Johannes Wohlfart

8501: World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID

Stephen Jenkins

8500: Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States

Andrew Hussey and Michael Jetter

8499: Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini and Andis Sofianos

8498: Happy Voters

Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano and Eugenio Proto

8497: Terrorism and the Media

Michael Jetter

8496: Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Guido Heineck

8495: A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Nicolas Hérault, Rosanna Scutella and Yi-Ping Tseng

8494: Fetus, Fasting, and Festival: The Persistent Effects of in Utero Social Shocks

Xi Chen

8493: Modelling Heaped Duration Data: An Application to Neonatal Mortality

Wiji Arulampalam, Valentina Corradi and Daniel Gutknecht

8492: Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Jesse Margolis, Jason Hockenberry, Michael Grossman and Shin-Yi Chou

8491: Waiting To Give

Ashley Craig, Ellen Garbarino, Stephanie Heger and Robert Slonim

8490: When the Baby Cries at Night: Inelastic Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets

Giacomo Calzolari, Andrea Ichino, Francesco Manaresi and Viki Nellas

8489: The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay

Gioia de Melo, Alina Machado and Alfonso Miranda

8488: Determinants of Bilingualism among Children

Barry Chiswick and Marina Gindelsky

8487: Locus of Control and Its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu, Francesca Cornaglia, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Nele Warrinnier

8486: Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden

Pernilla Andersson Joona

8485: Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Disadvantaged Children? Evidence from Age-of-Youngest-Child Exemptions

Chris M. Herbst

8484: Does Early Child Care Help or Hurt Children's Development?

Christina Felfe and Rafael Lalive

8483: Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Rachel Heath and Ahmed Mobarak

8482: Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Nico Pestel

8481: Intermarriage and the Unhealthy Assimilation of Immigrant Descendants

Osea Giuntella

8480: Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation

Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon

8479: Pension and the Family

Mizuki Komura and Hikaru Ogawa

8478: The Family Gap in Career Progression

Astrid Kunze

8477: Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers' Academic Achievement

Carlos Balcazar and Hugo Ñopo

8476: Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices

Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek and Vitor Possebom

8475: Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Adriana Di Liberto, Fabiano Schivardi and Giovanni Sulis

8474: Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged

Benjamin Backes, Harry Holzer and Erin Dunlop Velez

8473: Returns to University Quality in Australia: A Two-Stage Analysis

David Carroll, Chris Heaton and Max Tani

8472: Does Diploma Type Matter for Subsequent Academic Achievement? A UAE Case Study

Samer Kherfi and George Naufal

8471: Student Scores in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from PISA 2009

Stephane Mahuteau and Kostas Mavromaras

8470: Behavioral Economics of Education

Alexander Koch, Julia Nafziger and Helena Nielsen

8469: Vacation Leave, Work Hours and Wages: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Ali Fakih

8468: The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey

Badi Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki and Kênia de Souza

8467: Do Wages Continue Increasing at Older Ages? Evidence on the Wage Cushion in the Netherlands

Anja Deelen and Rob Euwals

8466: Early Retirement and Financial Incentives: Differences Between High and Low Wage Earners

Rob Euwals and Elisabetta Trevisan

8465: Unconditional and Conditional Wage Polarization in Europe

Paolo Naticchioni, Giuseppe Ragusa and Riccardo Massari

8464: Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan

Ira Gang and Achim Schmillen

8463: Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-overs in Firms

René Böheim, Gerard Horvath and Karin Mayr-Dorn

8462: Top Team Diversity and Business Performance: Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities

Max Nathan

8461: Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood

Sanne Boschman, Reinout Kleinhans and Maarten van Ham

8460: Immigrants' 'Ability' and Welfare as a Function of Cultural Diversity: Effect of Cultural Capital at Individual and Local Level

Annie Tubadji, Masood Gheasi and Peter Nijkamp

8459: Ireland's Recession and the Immigrant/Native Earnings Gap

Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly and Seamus McGuinness

8458: On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Border and Interior Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from Deportees

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

8457: The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa

8456: The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Martin Kahanec, Mariola Pytlikova and Klaus Zimmermann

8455: Testing for Selection Bias

Joonhwi Joo and Robert LaLonde

8454: Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

Annabelle Doerr, Bernd Fitzenberger, Thomas Kruppe, Marie Paul and Anthony Strittmatter

8453: Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Timo Baas and Ansgar Belke

8452: Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore and Yogesh Uppal

8451: Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation

Tilman Brück and Neil Ferguson

8450: Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

Gerard van den Berg, Antoine Bozio and Monica Costa Dias

8449: Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave

E Curtis, Barry Hirsch and Mary C. Schroeder

8448: Tax Morale

Erzo Luttmer and Monica Singhal

8447: Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw and Nick Deschacht

8446: Awareness Programs and Change in Taste-based Caste Prejudice

Ritwik Banerjee and Nabanita Datta Gupta

8445: The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games

Glen R. Waddell and Logan M. Lee

8444: Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams

David Gill and Rebecca Stone

8443: Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals

Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider and Niklas Wallmeier

8442: Concern for Relative Standing and Deception

Spyros Galanis and Michael Vlassopoulos

8441: Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change: Evidence from Ireland

Hugh Cronin and Seamus McGuinness

8440: Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Immigrant Graduates in Europe

Seamus McGuinness and Delma Byrne

8439: Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching

John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sebastien Perez-Duarte and Ian Schmutte

8438: Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations

Steffen Otterbach and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

8437: It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James Davis and Richard Freeman

8436: Temporal and Locational Flexibility of Work, Working-Time Fit, and Job Satisfaction

Daniel Possenriede and Janneke Plantenga

8435: Happiness and Work

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus

8434: Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?

Vanessa Dräger

8433: The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation

Oded Galor and Marc Klemp

8432: Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US

Richard Freeman and Wei Huang

8431: The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience

Charles L. Baum and Christopher Ruhm

8430: The Extent and Cyclicality of Career Changes: Evidence for the U.K

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Bart Hobijn, Powen She and Ludo Visschers