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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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2982
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David
Bishai
Shoshana
Grossbard
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Far Above Rubies: The Association Between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in ...
(published as 'Far above rubies: Bride price and extramarital sexual relations in Uganda' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1177 - 1187)
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D13, I12, J13, O15
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2981
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full ...
(revised version published as "What Determines the Part-Time and Gender Earnings Gaps in Britain: Evidence from the Workplace" in: Oxford Economics Papers, 2009, 61(1), 56-75)
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J3, J7
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2980
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Marco
Francesconi
Helmut
Rainer
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines the effects of the Working Families’ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 119 (535), 2009, F66 - F100)
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C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
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2977
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Pieter
Bevelander
Jonas
Otterbeck
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Young People’s Attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
Since the 1950’s, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2010, 33 (3), 404 - 425 )
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Z12, F22
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2976
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Ariel
R.
Belasen
Solomon
Polachek
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How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (1), 251 - 276)
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J23, J49, Q54, R11
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2975
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Richard
W.
Evans
Yingyao
Hu
Zhong
Zhao
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36)
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J13, C23
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2974
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128)
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F22, J15, J24, J40
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2973
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often place employees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second, ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2012, 21 (4), 1029-1059)
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D82, J31, J33, M12
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2972
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
John
Schirm
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Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 504-517)
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C92, J33, J41
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2971
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Jean-Pierre
Florens
Denis
Fougère
Michel
Mouchart
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Duration Models and Point Processes
This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and point processes. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions for single-spell duration models. Section two ...
(published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd edition, Springer, 2008, 547-601)
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C41, C33, C44, C51
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