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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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3179
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David
McKenzie
Yaye
Seynabou
Sakho
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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes? The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91(1), 15-24)
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O17, O12, D21
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3177
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?
Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (2), 409-430)
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D31, C8
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3176
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Štepán
Jurajda
Katherine
Terrell
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (2), 241–274)
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E24, J0, J61
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3174
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Eric
V.
Edmonds
Philip
Salinger
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's ...
(published in: Indian Growth and Development Review, 2008, 1(1), 32-56)
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J82, O15
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3173
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David
McKenzie
Johan
Mistiaen
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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 339-360)
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C42, O12
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3172
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Lena
Nekby
Magnus
Rödin
Gülay
Özcan
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Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent educational attainment. Unique for this study ...
(updated version published as 'Acculturation Identity and Higher Education. Is There a Trade-off Between Ethnic Identity and Education? in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (4), 938 - 973)
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J15, J16, J21, Z13
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3170
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Andrew
E.
Clark
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Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age
The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish ...
(published in: Mariano Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed our Understanding of Well-being and Progress, New York: Springer, 2019)
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C23, I3, J11
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3169
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Erin
L.
Krupka
Roberto
A.
Weber
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The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior
This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (3), 307-320)
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D63, C91
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3168
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Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(6), 1179-1199)
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H25, J23
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3167
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Martin
Kahanec
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 205-229)
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J15, J24, J70, O15
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