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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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2823
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Xiaojun
Wang
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Haizheng
Li
Shi
Li
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Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment
We apply a semi-parametric latent variable model to estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 42, 78-92)
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J31, J24, O15
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2822
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Vitaliy
S.
Kuzeyev
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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization
Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2007, 51(3), 620-639)
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O11, Z12, O55, H1
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2821
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Cécile
Wetzels
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Are Workers in the Cultural Industries Paid Differently?
This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data ...
(published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2008, 32(1), 59-77)
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J24, J31, L82, O12
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2818
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Chris
Shadforth
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Entrepreneurship in the UK
This paper examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence of entrepreneurship in the UK. Self-employment as a proportion of total employment is high by international standards in ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2007, 3 (4), 257–364)
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L26, J23
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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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