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10788: Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence

Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama

10787: Sir! I'd Rather Go to School, Sir!

Mahdi Majbouri

10786: How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas and Paul Redmond

10785: The Dynamics of Study-Work Choice and Its Effect on Intended and Actual University Attainment

Xiaodong Gong

10784: Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

Nicholas Wilson and Todd Pugatch

10783: How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking

Erik Kimbrough, Andrew McGee and Hitoshi Shigeoka

10782: High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions

Philipp Vom Berge and Hanna Frings

10781: Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Florian Engl, Arno Riedl and Roberto Weber

10780: Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Santosh Kumar and Nishith Prakash

10779: Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians

Mark Borgschulte and Jacob Vogler

10778: Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye and Mutlu Yuksel

10777: The Hedonic Approach to Vineyard Site Selection: Adaptation to Climate Change and Grape Growing in Emerging Markets

Orley Ashenfelter

10776: Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors

Olena Nizalova and Edward Norton

10775: Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter

Shoshana Grossbard and Sankar Mukhopadhyay

10774: Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency

Milena Nikolova and Olga Popova

10773: Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?

Terhi Maczulskij and Petri Böckerman

10772: The Education Motive for Migrant Remittances: Theory and Evidence from India

Matthieu Delpierre, Arnaud Dupuy, Michel Tenikue and Bertrand Verheyden

10771: U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration

Khulan Altangerel and Jan van Ours

10770: Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Tomi Kyyrä, Jose Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano

10769: Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Stephen Jones and W. Craig Riddell

10768: Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways: Bridge or Trap?

Duncan McVicar, Mark Wooden and King Fok

10767: Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy

Francesco Pastore

10766: The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships

Andrea Albanese, Lorenzo Cappellari and Marco Leonardi

10765: The 'Soda Tax' is Unlikely to Make Mexicans Lighter: New Evidence on Biases in Elasticities of Demand for Soda

Mabel Andalón and John Gibson

10764: Displacement and Debt: The Role of Debt in Returning to Work in the Period Following the Great Recession

Robert W. Bednarzik, Andreas Kern and John Hisnanick

10763: Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics

Martin Biewen and Matthias Seckler

10762: Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015

Olle Hammar and Daniel Waldenström

10761: Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Paul Bingley and Lorenzo Cappellari

10760: Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Keigo Inukai, Keisuke Kawata and Masaru Sasaki

10759: Female Suicide and the Concept of the Midlife Crisis

Andrew Oswald and Ahmed Tohamy

10758: Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis Garcia, James Heckman and Anna Ziff

10757: Fertility Effects of Child Benefits

Regina Riphahn and Frederik Wiynck

10756: The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John van Reenen

10755: Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?

Michael Babington, Sebastian Goerg and Carl Kitchens

10754: Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang and Martin Sefton

10753: Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals

Nikos Askitas

10752: Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Nattavudh Powdthavee, Yohanes Riyanto and Jack Knetsch

10751: Consumer Loan Response to Permanent Labor Income Shocks: Evidence from a Major Minimum Wage Increase

Ibrahim Ethem Guney, Yavuz Selim Hacihasanoglu and Semih Tumen

10750: The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments

Christian Grund and Johannes Martin

10749: Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China

Belton Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang and Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao

10748: Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study

Rafael de Balanzó and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

10747: The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities

Daniel Henderson, Andrew Houtenville and Le Wang

10746: The Effects of Health Insurance Parity Laws for Substance Use Disorder Treatment on Traffic Fatalities: Evidence of Unintended Benefits

Ioana Popovici, Johanna Maclean and Michael French

10745: The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

Johanna Maclean and Brendan Saloner

10744: Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig and Nathalie Zongo

10743: Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Massimo Anelli, Kevin Shih and Kevin Williams

10742: Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Pietro Biroli, Daniela Del Boca, James Heckman, Lynne Pettler Heckman, Yu Kyung Koh, Sylvi Kuperman, Sidharth Moktan, Chiara Pronzato and Anna Ziff

10741: Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type

Leslie Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta, David Reimer and Anders Holm

10740: Marriage and Housework

Cristina Borra, Martin Browning and Almudena Sevilla

10739: Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility

Charles Courtemanche, Rusty Tchernis and Xilin Zhou

10738: Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005

Stijn Baert

10737: HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession

Alex Bryson and Michael White

10736: The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Jeffrey Carpenter

10735: Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable

Benedicte Carlsen and Karine Nyborg

10734: Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity

Thomas Graaff, Daniel Arribas-Bel and Ceren Ozgen

10733: Does Delayed Retirement Affect Youth Employment? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets

Marco Bertoni and Giorgio Brunello

10732: Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe

Piotr Lewandowski, Roma Keister, Wojciech Hardy and Szymon Górka

10731: The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China

Xi Chen, Karen Eggleston and Ang Sun

10730: Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany

Gerard van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff and Joachim Wolff

10729: The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession

Juan Dolado, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa and Linas Tarasonis

10728: Explaining Non-Employment Magnitude and Duration: The Case of Italy

Bruno Contini and Roberto Quaranta

10727: Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance

Aedín Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

10726: Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs and Sébastien Roux

10725: Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Lisa Kahn and Fabian Lange

10724: What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John van Reenen

10723: How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes

Archontis L. Pantsios and Solomon Polachek

10722: Working Hours and Productivity

Marion Collewet and Jan Sauermann

10721: Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness

Ravi Kanbur and Andy Snell

10720: The Hukou Impact on the Chinese Wage Structure

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

10719: Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia

Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas Mavromaras, Sue Richardson and Rong Zhu

10718: Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America

Manuel Fernandez Sierra and Julian Messina

10717: Female Babies and Risk-Aversion

Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew Oswald and David Haig

10716: Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany Than Men?

Anne Busch-Heizmann and Elke Holst

10715: Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

Malte Sandner, Thomas Cornelissen, Tanja Jungmann and Peggy Herrmann

10714: Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)

Kasey Buckles

10713: Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender

Benedikt Gerst and Christian Grund

10712: Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Ulrike Unterhofer and Katharina Wrohlich

10711: Attrition in Randomized Control Trials: Using Tracking Information to Correct Bias

Teresa Molina Millan and Karen Macours

10710: Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment

Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra and Tommaso Reggiani

10709: Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating

Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol and Gideon Yaniv

10708: Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks

Michael Jetter

10707: Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Markus Gehrsitz

10706: Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

10705: Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century

Rajeev Goel, James Saunoris and Friedrich Schneider

10704: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Balázs Égert

10703: The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change

Murat Iyigun and Jared Rubin

10702: The Demand for Teacher Characteristics in the Market for Child Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Casey Boyd-Swan and Chris M. Herbst

10701: Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

10700: The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations

Luis Diaz-Serrano and William Nilsson

10699: The Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students: Evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey

Zong Jia Chen and Mikal Skuterud

10698: Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?

Adele Whelan and Seamus McGuinness

10697: The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham and Reinout Kleinhans

10696: The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15

Tom Kleinepier and Maarten van Ham

10695: Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach

Tal Modai-Snir and Maarten van Ham

10694: Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income

Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman and Matt Vogel

10693: The City as a Self-Help Book: The Psychology of Urban Promises

Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham, Martijn Burger and Duco de Vos

10692: Cities, Towns, and Poverty: Migration Equilibrium and Income Distribution in a Todaro-type Model with Multiple Destinations

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

10691: The Lifelong Costs of Urban Smogs

Alastair Ball

10690: More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere

Omoniyi Alimi, David Maré and Jacques Poot

10689: Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Canadian Cities

Joel Blit, Mikal Skuterud and Jue Zhang