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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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3287
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Pablo
Brañas-Garza
Teresa
García-Muñoz
Shoshana
Neuman
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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited
This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, ...
(published in: Behavioral Decision Making, 2010, 23, 288-313)
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C91, D64, Z13
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3286
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T. H.
Gindling
Luis
Oviedo
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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica
Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa ...
(published in: CEPAL Review, 2008, 94 (April), 121-132)
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I32, J12, J38
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3285
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Carlos
Alós-Ferrer
Julien
Prat
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Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning
This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, [In Press / Corrected Proof])
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I20, C70, D82, D83
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3284
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Manisha
Chakrabarty
Zhong
Zhao
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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent period. While both economies have grown considerably, we illustrate significant ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (1), 562-587)
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O15, J24, O53, P52
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3283
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Yves
Zenou
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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with ...
(revised version published as 'A Dynamic Model of Weak and Strong Ties in the Labor Market' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 891-932)
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D85, J60, R14
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3282
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Yegor
Grygorenko
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Are Oligarchs Productive? Theory and Evidence
This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 17-42 )
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C21, C25, D24, O17, P26, P31
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3281
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Alwine
Mohnen
Kathrin
Pokorny
Dirk
Sliwka
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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence
We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 26 (4), 2008, 693 - 720)
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D23, M12
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3280
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Monica
Costa Dias
Hidehiko
Ichimura
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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The Matching Method for Treatment Evaluation with Selective Participation and Ineligibles
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that ...
(revised version published as 'Treatment Evaluation With Selective Participation and Ineligibles' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108(502) 2013, 441-455)
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C21, C14, C31, J64
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3279
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T. H.
Gindling
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South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica
More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 116-126)
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J61, O15
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3278
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Daniel
Rondeau
John
A.
List
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Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2008, 11(3), 253-267)
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C93, H41
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