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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

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