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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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3192
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Madeline
Zavodny
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Is There a ‘Marriage Premium’ for Gay Men?
It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage premium in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Some research also finds that cohabiting ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (4), 369-389)
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J12, J16
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3191
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Marcos
Chamon
Eswar
Prasad
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Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130)
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D12, E21, O16
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3188
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marianne
Simonsen
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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 30-43)
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J13, J18
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3187
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Carmen
Pagés
Marco
Stampini
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37(3), 387-401)
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J21, J24, J31, J63
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3186
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Eswar
Prasad
Raghuram
G.
Rajan
Arvind
Subramanian
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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
We document the recent phenomenon of “uphill” flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2007 (1), 153-230)
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F3, F4, E2, O4
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3185
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Danuta
Biterman
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Torun
Österberg
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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas
This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2008, 128 (1), 121 - 152)
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D31, J13, J15
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3184
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Gary
S.
Fields
Robert
Duval Hernández
Samuel
Freije-Rodriguez
Maria
Laura
Sanchez Puerta
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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, 103-128.)
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D31, J3, J6, O54
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3183
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Giovanni
Facchini
Anna Maria
Mayda
Prachi
Mishra
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Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2011, 85, 114-128)
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F22, J61
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3182
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Damon
Clark
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Selective Schools and Academic Achievement
In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10 (1))
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C21, I21
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3181
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Solomon
Polachek
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Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2008, 4 (3), 165-272)
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J1, J3, J7
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