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8152: Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar and Sanjukta Roy

8151: Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program

Carlo Devillanova, Francesco Fasani and Tommaso Frattini

8150: Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Bruno Decreuse, Morgane Laouenan and Alain Trannoy

8149: Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market

Raven Molloy, Christopher Smith and Abigail Wozniak

8148: Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Marco Vivarelli

8147: The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D

Tapio Palokangas

8146: Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia

Michael Grimm, Robert Sparrow and Luca Tasciotti

8145: A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies

Shahrouz Abolhosseini, Almas Heshmati and Jörn Altmann

8144: Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors

Deniz Ozabaci, Daniel Henderson and Liangjun Su

8143: Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns

Corrado Andini

8142: Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?

Charlene Kalenkoski and Sabrina Pabilonia

8141: Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Student Internships on Labor Market Outcomes

Nils Saniter and Thomas Siedler

8140: La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy

Paolo Naticchioni, Michele Raitano and Claudia Vittori

8139: The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Sarah C. Dahmann and Silke Anger

8138: A Theory of Price Adjustment under Loss Aversion

Steffen Ahrens, Inske Pirschel and Dennis J. Snower

8137: Tax Incidence in the Presence of Tax Evasion

Philipp Doerrenberg and Denvil Duncan

8136: Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Andrew Clark and Conchita D'Ambrosio

8135: Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Ghazala Azmat and Barbara Petrongolo

8134: Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

8133: Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Per Johansson, Arizo Karimi and Peter Nilsson

8132: Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply

Duygu Guner and Gokce Uysal

8131: Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Alois Stutzer

8130: The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce and Jose Rosero

8129: The Productivity of Working Hours

John Pencavel

8128: Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy Hatton and Kris Inwood

8127: What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Mark Wooden

8126: Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Naci Mocan and Christian Raschke

8125: Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data

John Addison, Pedro Portugal and Jose Varejao

8124: The Long-term Impact of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake on Wage Distribution

Fumio Ohtake, Naoko Okuyama, Masaru Sasaki and Kengo Yasui

8123: A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage

Eliav Danziger and Leif Danziger

8122: Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities

Ritashree Chakrabarti and Junfu Zhang

8121: Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

Amparo Nagore García and Arthur van Soest

8120: Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Mthuli Ncube, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Zorobabel Bicaba

8119: A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Almas Heshmati and Jungsuk Kim

8118: The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor

Orley Ashenfelter

8117: Divorcing Upon Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study

Elena Stancanelli

8116: Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan

Miki Kobayashi and Emiko Usui

8115: Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits

Jochen Kluve and Sebastian Schmitz

8114: Single Mothers and the Earned Income Tax Credit: Insurance Without Disincentives?

Kartik Athreya, Devin Reilly and Nicole Simpson

8113: Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings

Astrid Kunze

8112: Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter

Christian Grund

8111: Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Andrew Henley

8110: Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?

Joop Hartog and Luis Diaz-Serrano

8109: Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences

Tim Friehe and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

8108: Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior

Wendelin Schnedler and Christoph Vanberg

8107: Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala and Ian Levely

8106: Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal

Teresa Randazzo and Matloob Piracha

8105: Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies

Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa

8104: Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection

Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez and Matthias Sutter

8103: The Superstar Quest: Does Youth Talent Predict Professional Success for Female and Male Tennis Players?

Wayne Grove and Michael Jetter

8102: Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

Marco Alberto De Benedetto and Maria De Paola

8101: Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?

Katja Görlitz and Sylvi Rzepka

8100: The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Nils Saniter and Thomas Siedler

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