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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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2817
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Guillermina
Jasso
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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes
This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining ...
(published in: Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss (eds.), Rational Choice: Theoretische Analyse und Empirische Resultate. Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2008)
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C02, C65, D31, D6, I3
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2816
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Olivia
Ekert-Jaffe
Shoshana
Grossbard
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Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?
This paper investigates the likelihood of an unpartnered birth as a function of laws regulating the division of joint property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (1), 25-40)
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J12, J18, K3
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2815
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T. Paul
Schultz
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Population Policies, Fertility, Women’s Human Capital, and Child Quality
Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced ...
(published in: T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier, 2008)
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J13, J24, O15
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2814
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
John
Micklewright
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New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty
Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the ...
(published in: Stephen P. Jenkins and John Micklewright (eds.), Inequality and Poverty Re-Examined, Oxford: OUP, 2007)
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D31, I32
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2812
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Panu
Poutvaara
Mikael
Priks
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Hooliganism and Police Tactics: Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (3), 441-453)
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D71, D74
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2811
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Devashish
Mitra
Priya
Ranjan
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87 (1), 76-84)
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F12, F23, O19
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2810
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
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East-West Migration and Gender: Is there a “Double Disadvantage” vis-à-vis Stayers?
This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel ...
(substantially revised version published as "East-West Migration and Gender: Is There a Differential Effect for Migrant Women?" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (2), 443-454)
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J16, J61, R23
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2809
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Carlos
Gradín
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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap
This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45 (9), 1-38)
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D31, D63, J15, J82, O15
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2808
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Marian
Rizov
Patrick
Paul
Walsh
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Productivity and Trade Orientation in UK Manufacturing
Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (6), 821-849)
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F14, D24
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2807
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Javier
Ortega
Laurence
Rioux
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On the Extent of Re-Entitlement Effects in Unemployment Compensation
A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees are either eligible for UI ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17(2), 368-382)
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J41, J65
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