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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

8156: Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment

Daiji Kawaguchi and Tetsushi Murao

8155: Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany

Werner Eichhorst and Verena Tobsch

8154: The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries

Ive Marx, Brian Nolan and Javier Olivera

8153: Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Averett and Cynthia Bansak

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