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8099: Learning-by-Doing in a Highly Skilled Profession When Stakes Are High: Evidence from Advanced Cancer Surgery

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

8098: Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

John Budd, Aaron Sojourner and Jaewoo Jung

8097: Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Olivier Godart, Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

8096: A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Michael Gibbs, Susanne Neckermann and Christoph Siemroth

8095: Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Farzana Afridi and Vegard Iversen

8094: Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination

Arusha Cooray and Friedrich Schneider

8093: Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration

Junfu Zhang and Liang Zheng

8092: Immigrants and Religion

Carmel Chiswick

8091: Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Lidia Farre

8090: Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants

Ingo Isphording and Sebastian Otten

8089: Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba and Yves Zenou

8088: The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008

Gregory Verdugo

8087: Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour

Ugo Colombino

8086: An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade

James Lake and Daniel Millimet

8085: FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Randolph Bruno and Maria Cipollina

8084: A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Tymon Słoczyński and Jeffrey Wooldridge

8083: Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models

Gerard van den Berg and Georgios Effraimidis

8082: The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers

Edson Severnini

8081: Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Nabaz Khayyat and Almas Heshmati

8080: How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries

Nabaz Khayyat, Jongsu Lee and Almas Heshmati

8079: The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States

Christian Dreger and Teymur Rahmani

8078: An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Almas Heshmati

8077: Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction

Daniel Hamermesh, Daiji Kawaguchi and Jungmin Lee

8076: Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle

Jean-Olivier Hairault, Francois Langot and Thepthida Sopraseuth

8075: Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?

Robert Scholte, Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Dorly J. H. Deeg

8074: Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters

Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman and Pieter Serneels

8073: Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?

Osea Giuntella and Fabrizio Mazzonna

8072: The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile

Matias Berthelon and Diana Kruger

8071: Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement

Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Mario Padula

8070: Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

8069: Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

8068: The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio and Dandan Zhang

8067: Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew Young

8066: International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries

Anna De Paoli and Mariapia Mendola

8065: Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?

Nahikari Irastorza and Pieter Bevelander

8064: Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Christina Gathmann and Nicolas Keller

8063: Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France

Cristina Mitaritonna, Gianluca Orefice and Giovanni Peri

8062: Forty Years of Immigrant Segregation in France, 1968-2007: How Different Is the New Immigration?

Jean-Louis Pan Ké Shon and Gregory Verdugo

8061: The Two-Step Australian Immigration Policy and its Impact on Immigrant Employment Outcomes

Robert Gregory

8060: Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

Liam Delaney, Günther Fink and Colm Harmon

8059: The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Sarojini Hirshleifer, David McKenzie, Rita Almeida and Cristobal Ridao-Cano

8058: Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition

Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Filip Matejka

8057: Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery

Paul Bingley, Petter Lundborg and Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen

8056: Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance

Kyung-Gon Lee and Solomon Polachek

8055: Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition

Michael Kosfeld, Susanne Neckermann and Xiaolan Yang

8054: Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth

Ulla Lehmijoki and Tapio Palokangas

8053: Cities, Tasks and Skills

Suzanne Kok and Bas ter Weel

8052: UN Interventions: The Role of Geography

Juan Duque, Michael Jetter and Santiago Sosa

8051: Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta and Trudy Owens

8050: Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses

Charlene Kalenkoski and Donald J. Lacombe

8049: Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido Imbens

8048: Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective

Guido Imbens

8047: From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics

Bas van der Klaauw

8046: Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Christophe Nordman and Julia Vaillant

8045: Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece

Nick Drydakis

8044: The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives

S Anukriti

8043: Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

8042: Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India

Michael Grimm and Carole Treibich

8041: Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?

Maurice Schiff

8040: Modelling Exposure to Risk of Experiencing Discrimination in the Context of Endogenous Ethnic Identification

Boyd Hunter, Monica Howlett and Nicholas Biddle

8039: Ethnic Disparities in the Transition to Home Ownership

Aslan Zorlu, Clara H. Mulder and Ruben van Gaalen

8038: Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Kusum Mundra and Amarendra Sharma

8037: The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents

Irene Mosca and Alan Barrett

8036: Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

8035: Is a Policy of Free Movement of Workers Sustainable?

Pierre Picard and Timothy Worrall

8034: Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Alison Booth

8033: Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility

Marianna Marino, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

8032: Long-Term Effects of School Size on Students' Outcomes

Maria Humlum and Nina Smith

8031: Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?

Ainoa Aparicio and Libertad Gonzalez

8030: Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

8029: Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Jutta Viinikainen, Christian Hakulinen, Laura Pulkki-Raback and Olli Raitakari

8028: Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries

Sandra Nieto and Raul Ramos

8027: Education, Health and Wages

James Heckman, John Humphries, Gregory Veramendi and Sergio Urzua

8026: Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011

Ubarevi?ien?, R?ta, Maarten van Ham and Donatas Burneika

8025: Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success

Oded Galor and Marc Klemp

8024: The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Martin Halla, Alexandra Posekany, Gerald Pruckner and Thomas Schober

8023: Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program

Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon Polachek

8022: Scraping By: Income and Program Participation After the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits

Jesse Rothstein and Robert Valletta

8021: Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program

Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

8020: Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children

Silvia Angerer, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Philipp Lergetporer and Matthias Sutter

8019: Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek

8018: Gender Differences in Strategic Behaviour under Competitive Pressure: Evidence on Omission Patterns in University Entrance Examinations

Tuomas Pekkarinen

8017: Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Resul Cesur and Naci Mocan

8016: Education Promoted Secularization

Sascha Becker, Markus Nagler and Ludger Woessmann

8015: Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?

Sylke Schnepf

8014: Crime and Mental Wellbeing

Francesca Cornaglia, Naomi Feldman and Andrew Leigh

8013: Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment

Jerome Adda, Brendon McConnell and Imran Rasul

8012: Key Players in Co-Offending Networks

Matthew Lindquist and Yves Zenou

8011: Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?

Sophie-Charlotte Meyer and Annemarie Künn-Nelen

8010: How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election

Gordon G. Liu, Ohyun Kwon, Xindong Xue and Belton Fleisher

8009: Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart

8008: Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants

Paula Nagler and Wim Naudé

8007: Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Olivier Bargain and Delphine Boutin

8006: 'Can't Get Enough': Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US

Morgane Laouenan

8005: Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited

James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren and Susan Vroman

8004: Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

8003: Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?

Ilham Haouas and Almas Heshmati

8002: On the Relationship between Public and Private Investment in the Euro Area

Christian Dreger and Hans-Eggert Reimers

8001: Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy

Jo Ritzen, Klaus Zimmermann and Caroline Wehner

8000: The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

James Heckman and Stefano Mosso