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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

8429: Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Eszter Czibor, Sander Onderstal, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

8428: A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market: 2014-2015 Edition

John Cawley

8427: The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Oded Galor and Ömer Özak

8426: Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism

Harold E. Cuffe, Glen R. Waddell and Wesley Bignell

8425: Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment

Joyce Jacobsen, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

8424: Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker

James Heckman

8423: Long Workweeks and Strange Hours

Daniel Hamermesh and Elena Stancanelli

8422: Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Stéphane Auray, Samuel Danthine and Markus Poschke

8421: Career Wage Profiles and the Minimum Wage

Kerry Papps

8420: On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

8419: Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

8418: Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage

Tomer Blumkin and Leif Danziger

8417: How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Boris Hirsch and Thomas Zwick

8416: Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Emin Dinlersoz, Jeremy Greenwood and Henry Hyatt

8415: The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay

Joaquin Marandino and Phanindra Wunnava

8414: The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Mirco Tonin and Jackline Wahba

8413: Too Many Graduates? An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model to Young British Graduates between 2001-2010

Nigel C. O'Leary and Peter Sloane

8412: Grades and Rank: Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance

Nina Jalava, Juanna Joensen and Elin Pellas

8411: Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Sylke Schnepf, Gabriele B. Durrant and John Micklewright

8410: Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

8409: Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Beatrice Brunner and Andreas Kuhn

8408: Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Christer Gerdes and Eskil Wadensjö

8407: Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

8406: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Immigration Policy?

Harriet Duleep and Mark Regets

8405: Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Daniela Vuri

8404: Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Ernst Fehr, Michael Powell and Tom Wilkening

8403: The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Kristiina Huttunen, Sari Pekkala Kerr and Ville Mälkönen

8402: Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program

Richard Wright, Erdal Tekin, Volkan Topalli, Chandler McClellan, Timothy Dickinson and Richard Rosenfeld

8401: Changes in Labour Market Transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession

Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly and Seamus McGuinness

8400: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Youth Labour Markets

Pramod (Raja) Junankar

8399: Deriving the New Quantity Equation: An Approach for a Closed and an Open Economy

Paul Welfens

8398: The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Mthuli Ncube

8397: Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

8396: When Is the Best Time to Give Birth?

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Christoph Pamminger, Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

8395: Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot and Alice Mesnard

8394: One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Yaohui Zhao

8393: Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn and Matthew Wiswall

8392: Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim and John Micklewright

8391: Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children

Silvia Mendolia

8390: The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes

Charles L. Baum and Christopher Ruhm

8389: Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Elvira Andersson, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

8388: Who Cares – and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work

Barry Hirsch and Julia Manzella

8387: Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India

Elizabeth Kaletski and Nishith Prakash

8386: Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Pilar Garcia-Gomez and Anne Gielen

8385: Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique

Pramod (Raja) Junankar and Muhunthan Jayanthakumaran

8384: Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?

Willie Belton, Yameen Huq and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

8383: How Far Away Is a Single European Labor Market?

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

8382: Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

C. N. Teulings, Ioulia Ossokina and Henri de Groot

8381: Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment

Stephen Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt

8380: Social Mobility and the Importance of Networks: Evidence for Britain

Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez, John Micklewright and Anna Vignoles

8379: The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Almudena Sevilla

8378: Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts

Sarit Cohen Goldner and Gil Epstein

8377: Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Elif Acar and Aysıt Tansel

8376: Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion

Susan Murphy and Patrick Walsh

8375: Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy

Almas Heshmati and Shahrouz Abolhosseini

8374: The Role of Historical Resource Constraints in Modern Gender Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Gautam Hazarika, Chandan Jha and Sudipta Sarangi

8373: 'Phantom of the Opera' or 'Sex and the City' ? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation

Thomas Bauer, Philipp Breidenbach and Christoph Schmidt

8372: Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle

Patrick Puhani

8371: Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn and Ulf Zölitz

8370: Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs

Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish

8369: Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Jeffrey Carpenter, Peter Matthews and Benjamin Tabb

8368: Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests

Rudi Stracke and Uwe Sunde

8367: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Robert Fairlie, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

8366: Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India

Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen

8365: Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Maitreyi Das

8364: The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the UK

Filipa Sa

8363: Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Arnaud Chevalier

8362: Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios

Alexandre Janiak and Etienne Wasmer

8361: Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being

Getinet Haile, Alex Bryson and Michael White

8360: The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

8359: Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany: A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?

John Addison, Arnd Kölling and Paulino Teixeira

8358: Two-Tier Bargaining

Tito Boeri

8357: Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets

Benjamin Lester, Ludo Visschers and Ronald Wolthoff

8356: Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09

Jens Bonke and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen

8355: Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences

Didier Fouarge, Ben Kriechel and Thomas Dohmen

8354: New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Olga Skriabikova, Thomas Dohmen and Ben Kriechel

8353: Fast Times During Spring Breaks: Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?

Michael French and Gulcin Gumus