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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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2969
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Sarinda
Taengnoi
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Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States
This paper explores the impact of English language proficiency and country of origin on the occupational choice of high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. using the 2000 Census. The findings reveal that ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (5), 3 - 34)
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J15, J24, J61
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2968
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Dan
Ariely
Anat
Bracha
Stephan
Meier
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
This paper experimentally examines image motivation – the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others – as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 544–555)
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D64, C90, H41
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2967
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David
de la Croix
Matthias
Doepke
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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76(2), 597-628)
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D72, I21, H42, O10
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2966
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Mathias
Sinning
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Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 45-67)
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F22, C34, D12, D91
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2965
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
Andrea M.
Weber
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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use ...
(published under revised title in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 407-438)
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I21, I28, J24
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2964
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Junfu
Zhang
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The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(2), 187-208)
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M13, G24
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2963
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Miguel
Urquiola
Eric
Verhoogen
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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which ...
(revised version published as "Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design" in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (1), 179–215)
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I2, O1, C2, L1
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2961
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Simon
Gächter
Eric
J.
Johnson
Andreas
Herrmann
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Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices
Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure ...
(revised verson published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 599–624. [Online])
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C91, C93, D81
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2960
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Jens
Suedekum
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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43 (1), 204-231)
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F12, F23, L13, L52
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2958
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Elena
Meschi
Marco
Vivarelli
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Globalization and Income Inequality
This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (2), 287-302)
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F16, O15, O33
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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