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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3648 Joop Hartog
Mirjam C. van Praag
Justin van der Sluis
If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2010, 19 (4), 947-989)
J23, J24, J31, J44, M13
3647 Ansgar H. Belke
Julia Spies
Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. ...
(published in: Empirica, 2008, 35 (4), 369-389)
F15, F41
3646 Martin Salm
Daniel Schunk
The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data
We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive ...
(revised version published as 'The Relationship between Child Health, Developmental Gaps, and Parental Education: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (6), 1425-1449)
J13, I20, I12
3645 W. Stanley Siebert
Nick Zubanov
Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of ...
(published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414)
D21, J24, M20, J33, M52
3644 Amelie F. Constant
Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 145-162)
M13, J23, J15, J61, J31
3643 Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours
We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 218-228)
J22, J38
3641 Hessel Oosterbeek
Mirjam C. van Praag
Auke IJsselstein
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a ...
(published as "The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 442-454)
A20, C31, H43, H75, 120, J24, L26
3640 Guido W. Imbens
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2009, 47(1), 1-81)
C14, C21, C52
3639 Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Martin Sefton
The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x)
A13, C92, J31
3638 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and proposes simple estimators. Quantile treatment effects are a very ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395)
C13, C14, C21
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