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8256: Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Arnaud Maurel and Yichong Zhang

8255: Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Jan Kleibrink and Maren Michaelsen

8254: Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States

Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday and Raymond Robertson

8253: The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Thomas (Tim) Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad and Juan Diego Trejos

8252: The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

8251: How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model

Daniel Arribas-Bel, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

8250: Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?

Ainoa Aparicio and Zoe Kuehn

8249: Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

8248: Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Timothy Hatton

8247: Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Robert Valletta

8246: Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence

Claus Kreiner, Jakob Munch and Hans Jørgen Whitta-Jacobsen

8245: Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

8244: Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li and Hiroshi Sato

8243: Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Francisco Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo and Berk Özler

8242: Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Boris Hirsch, Christian Merkl, Steffen Müller and Claus Schnabel

8241: Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina and Haiyuan Wan

8240: Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes

Aaron Sojourner, Brigham R. Frandsen, Robert Town, David C. Grabowski and Michelle M. Chen

8239: Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Robert Dur and Robin Zoutenbier

8238: Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Mirco Tonin and Michael Vlassopoulos

8237: Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam Praag

8236: Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

8235: Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings

Miriam Gensowski

8234: Does Participation in 4-H Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Florida

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Troy Timko

8233: The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement

M Asadullah

8232: Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement

Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest and Aurélie Vermeir

8231: Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Francisca Antman

8230: Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China

Ang Sun and Yaohui Zhao

8229: Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Regina Riphahn

8228: Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences

Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D'Ignazio, Guido de Blasio and Paolo Naticchioni

8227: A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Li Hao, Daniel Houser, Lei Mao and Marie Claire Villeval

8226: Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

8225: The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

8224: The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers

David Bjerk and Caleb Mason

8223: Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview

Donald Parsons

8222: Educational Policies and Income Inequality

Daniele Checchi and Herman G. van de Werfhorst

8221: The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Robert Dixon, Guay Lim and Jan van Ours

8220: Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Wiemer Salverda and Daniele Checchi

8219: Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy

Joern Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller and Katrin Ullrich

8218: Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

David Dickinson, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

8217: Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

Haoran He and Marie Claire Villeval

8216: Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems

Matthias Wibral

8215: Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments

Alpaslan Akay, Lisa Andersson, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

8214: Measuring Ratchet Effects within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment Varying Contractual Commitment

Charles Bellemare and Bruce S. Shearer

8213: The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru

Noelia Bernal Lobato, Miguel Carpio and Tobias Klein

8212: Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India

Elizabeth Kaletski and Nishith Prakash

8211: Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market: Evidence from Chile

Clément Joubert

8210: Can Arts-Based Interventions Enhance Labor Market Outcomes among Youth? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rio de Janeiro

Carla Calero, Carlos Corseuil, Veronica Gonzales, Jochen Kluve and Yuri Soares

8209: Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso and Rita Ginja

8208: Consequences of ADHD Medication Use for Children's Outcomes

Søren Dalsgaard, Helena Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen

8207: Life Events and Subjective Well-being: The Case of Having Children

Peder Pedersen and Torben Schmidt

8206: The Length of Maternity Leave and Family Health

Louise Voldby Beuchert, Maria Humlum and Rune Vejlin

8205: A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence

Petri Böckerman, Ohto Kanninen and Ilpo Suoniemi

8204: The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use

Sabrina Pabilonia

8203: Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality

Stefanie Schurer

8202: The Illusion of School Choice: Empirical Evidence from Barcelona

Caterina Calsamiglia and Maia Güell

8201: Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors

Bart Golsteyn and Trudie Schils

8200: Private Notes on Gary Becker

James Heckman

8199: Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

David Wildasin

8198: Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension

Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces

8197: Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes

David Newhouse and Claudia Wolff

8196: Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Bhanu Gupta and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

8195: Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe Calder and Pedro Vicente

8194: Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders

Rachel Connelly, Michael Iannotti, Margaret Maurer-Fazio and Dandan Zhang

8193: Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Michael Grimm and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

8192: Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube and Zorobabel Bicaba

8191: Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India

Florencia Lopez Boo and Maria Eugenia Canon

8190: Availability of Family-Friendly Work Practices and Implicit Wage Costs: New Evidence from Canada

Ali Fakih

8189: Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan

Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama

8188: How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Marike Knoef and Jan van Ours

8187: The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply

Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire and Lindsey Leininger

8186: Entrepreneurial Couples

Michael Dahl, Mirjam Praag and Peter Thompson

8185: The Gender-Career Estimation Gap

Lutz C. Kaiser

8184: A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Antonio Filippin and Paolo Crosetto

8183: Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage

Ruohong Cai, Shuaizhang Feng, Mariola Pytlikova and Michael Oppenheimer

8182: The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development

Shahrouz Abolhosseini and Almas Heshmati

8181: Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

Ming-Jen Lin and Elaine Liu

8180: Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles

Hendrik Wolff

8179: Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests

Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Hendrik Wolff

8178: Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon and Marc Henry

8177: What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Alex Bryson and Arnaud Chevalier

8176: Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Jake Bradley and Linas Tarasonis

8175: Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System

Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren and Giorgio Topa

8174: Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes

Perihan Saygin, Andrea Weber and Michèle Weynandt

8173: Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions

Pierre Cahuc

8172: Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market

Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani and Katia Bazar-Rosen

8171: Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Angelo Mele

8170: Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences

Luca Corazzini, Antonio Filippin and Paolo Vanin

8169: Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime

Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce and Antonino Vaccaro

8168: Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior

David Akerlund, Bart Golsteyn, Hans Grönqvist and Lena Lindahl

8167: A Survey of the Economics of Fair Trade

Ana Dammert and Sarah Mohan

8166: The Impact of Chinese Import Penetration on Danish Firms and Workers

Damoun Ashournia, Jakob Munch and Daniel Nguyen

8165: Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Verena Dill, Uwe Jirjahn and Stephen Smith

8164: Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects

Pablo Agnese and Jana Hromcová

8163: Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati

8162: Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method

Nauro Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli and Luigi Moretti

8161: Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change

Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum

8160: Rent Seeking and the Excess Burden of Taxation

Nava Kahana and Doron Klunover

8159: The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe

Matt Dickson, Fabien Postel-Vinay and Hélène Turon

8158: Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain

Raul Ramos, Esteban Sanroma and Hipolito Simon

8157: Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth

Jesper Roine and Daniel Waldenström