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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

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