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7999: A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting

Gerard van den Berg and Pia Pinger

7998: Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods

Helmuth Cremer and Kerstin Roeder

7997: Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples

Sonia Oreffice

7996: Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment

Susan Averett and Yang Wang

7995: Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding

Victor Naroditskiy, Sebastian Stein, Mirco Tonin, Long Tran-Thanh, Michael Vlassopoulos and Nicholas R. Jennings

7994: Crowdfunding, Cascades and Informed Investors

Simon Parker

7993: The Miracle Drugs: Hormone Replacement Therapy and Labor Market Behavior of Middle-Aged Women

N. Meltem Daysal and Chiara Orsini

7992: How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

7991: The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

7990: Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing

Yu Aoki

7989: The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries

Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati and Jörn Altmann

7988: When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Chia Chiun Ko and Paul Frijters

7987: Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Alan Barreca, Karen Clay and Joel Tarr

7986: Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002

Tim A. Bruckner, Gerard van den Berg, Kirk R. Smith and Ralph A. Catalano

7985: The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe

Timothy Hatton

7984: Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista and Janis Umblijs

7983: When Do Remittances Facilitate Asset Accumulation? The Importance of Remittance Income Uncertainty

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

7982: Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility

Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer

7981: The Formation of Migrant Networks

Margherita Comola and Mariapia Mendola

7980: The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Toman Omar Mahmoud, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Trebesch

7979: The Effect of Economic Change and Elite Framing on Economic Preferences: A Survey Experiment

Paul Marx and Gijs Schumacher

7978: Market vs. Residence Principle: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of a Financial Transaction Tax

Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Daniel Kleinlercher and Matthias Sutter

7977: The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'

Sebastian Königs

7976: A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco

7975: Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments

Alberto Chong, Carlos Machicado Salas and Monica Yanez-Pagans

7974: Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation

Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Brian Stacy and Jeffrey Wooldridge

7973: A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance

Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase, Brian Stacy and Jeffrey Wooldridge

7972: Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition

Markus Frölich and Martin Huber

7971: The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File

Patrick Arni, Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Klaus Zimmermann

7970: Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Ding Sai

7969: Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

S Anukriti and Todd J. Kumler

7968: Parental Response to Early Human Capital Shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident

Martin Halla and Martina Zweimüller

7967: The Impact of Eliminating a Child Benefit on Birth Timing and Infant Health

Cristina Borra, Libertad Gonzalez and Almudena Sevilla

7966: The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010

Tarja Viitanen

7965: The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns

Alena Bičáková and Stepan Jurajda

7964: Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Henry S Farber

7963: On the Optimal Composition of Committees

Ruth Ben-Yashar and Leif Danziger

7962: Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards: An Analysis of UK Firms

Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera and Charlie Weir

7961: Dynamic Contracts and Learning by Doing

Julien Prat

7960: Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Gabriel Felbermayr, Giammario Impullitti and Julien Prat

7959: Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting

Simon Janssen, Simone Tuor Sartore and Uschi Backes-Gellner

7958: The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Andreas Lichter, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

7957: A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

7956: Education and Cancer Risk

Edwin Leuven, Erik Plug and Marte Rønning

7955: Brain Drain, Educational Quality and Immigration Policy: Impact on Productive Human Capital in Source and Host Countries, with Canada as a Case Study

Maurice Schiff

7954: The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students Digital Skills in Peru

German Bet, Julian Cristia and Pablo Ibarraran

7953: The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom

Nicky Hoogveld and Nick Zubanov

7952: Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success

Stephen Burks, Connor Lewis, Paul Kivi, Amanda Wiener, Jon E. Anderson, Lorenz Götte, Colin G. DeYoung and Aldo Rustichini

7951: Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device

Nadine Ketel, Jona Linde, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

7950: Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice

Frank Fossen and Daniela Glocker

7949: How School Principals Influence Student Learning

Elizabeth Dhuey and Justin Smith

7948: Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour

Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin

7947: Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty

Marco Caliendo and Markus Gehrsitz

7946: The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Erez Siniver and Yossef (Yossi) Tobol

7945: Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Devin Pope, Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers

7944: Happy in the Hood? The Impact of Residential Segregation on Self-Reported Happiness

Chris M. Herbst and Joanna Lucio

7943: Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Richard Dorsett and Andrew Oswald

7942: Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets

Terence Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew Oswald

7941: Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance

Braz Camargo, Rafael Camelo, Sergio Firpo and Vladimir Ponczek

7940: "I wish I knew..." - Misperceived Ability, School Track Counseling Services and Performances in Upper Secondary Education

Martino Bernardi, Massimiliano Bratti and Gianfranco De Simone

7939: Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?

Murat Kırdar, Meltem Dayioglu and Ismet Koc

7938: Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Marco Casari and Maurizio Lisciandra

7937: Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use

Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon

7936: Family Employees and Absenteeism

Joern Block, Laszlo Goerke, Jose Maria Millan and Concepción Román

7935: Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation

Lutz C. Kaiser

7934: Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew Oswald

7933: An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity

Takao Asano, Hiroko Okudaira and Masaru Sasaki

7932: Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Zhixin Dai, Robin Hogarth and Marie Claire Villeval

7931: Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Michael Lechner and Nazmi Sari

7930: Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales

Jason Lindo, Peter Siminski and Oleg Yerokhin

7929: Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson and Peter Nilsson

7928: Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Isaac Ehrlich and Yong Yin

7927: The Effect of Wealth and Earned Income on the Decision to Retire: A Dynamic Probit Examination of Retirement

Keith Bender, Kostas Mavromaras, Ioannis Theodossiou and Zhang Wei

7926: Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe

Laura Hospido and Gema Zamarro

7925: The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

7924: Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict

Indraneel Dasgupta and Diganta Mukherjee

7923: Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli and Davide Sala

7922: The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Massimiliano Bratti and Chiara Conti

7921: Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John Martin and Patrick Puhani

7920: From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants

Pieter Bevelander and Mikael Spång

7919: Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?

Arthur Sweetman and Jan van Ours

7918: The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power

Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek and Viviane Sanfelice

7917: Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure

Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan and Christopher Zeppenfeld

7916: Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family

Richard Blundell, Michael Graber and Magne Mogstad

7915: A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market

Konstantinos Pouliakas

7914: How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions

Yasuhiro Sato and Yves Zenou

7913: Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment

Anna Godoy and Knut Røed

7912: Can Active Labour Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment?

Jonas Maibom, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

7911: Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?

Ximena Del Carpio, Julian Messina and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

7910: Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marianna Kudlyak and John Mondragon

7909: The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On

Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds and Rebecca Searle

7908: Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Catherine Co and Ralitza Dimova

7907: Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Sumon Bhaumik, Ralitza Dimova and Ira Gang

7906: Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price

7905: Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions

Maria Humlum, Jannie Kristoffersen and Rune Vejlin

7904: Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Matthias Krapf, Heinrich Ursprung and Christian Zimmermann

7903: Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Amanda Goodall, John McDowell and Larry D. Singell

7902: The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors

Michela Braga, Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari

7901: Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh L. Linden

7900: Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Mabel Andalón, Jenny Williams and Michael Grossman