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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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3557
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Tim
Callan
Timothy
M.
Smeeding
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries
Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2008, 16 (3), 275-288)
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I28, D31, H42
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3556
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Murat
Iyigun
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 693-730)
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C72, D74, N33, N43, O10
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3555
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Andrea
Bassanini
Luca
Nunziata
Danielle
Venn
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Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries
This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2009, 24 (58), 349-402)
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J08, J23, J24
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3554
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Kendra
N.
McLeish
Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (1), 172-178)
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C92, D64, M52
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3553
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Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
Cecilia
García-Peñalosa
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On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations: Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence
This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 51 (3), 1829-1848)
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J16, J18, J12, J22
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3552
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States
Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their “ethnicity” (or Hispanic origin) and their “ancestry.” We ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 31-66)
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J15, J12, J62
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3551
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Robert
Swidinsky
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The Economic Returns to a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada
Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the ...
(published as "The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada" in: Canadian Public Policy, 2010, 36(2), 137-158)
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J01, J24, J31
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3550
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John
Bennett
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Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare
An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, ...
(published as 'Informal Production and Labour Market Segmentation' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 686-707)
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O17, D2
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3549
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Sandra
Sookram
Eric
Strobl
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (1), 1-10)
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I21, J16, J24
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3548
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Keith
Chen
Fabian
Lange
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Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 43-54)
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I10, I12, I20, D83
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