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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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2794
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Lena
Nekby
Peter
Skogman
Thoursie
Lars
Vahtrik
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Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100(3), 405-407)
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J2, J16, J71
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2792
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Dimitris
Georgarakos
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and their Descendants
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 161-170)
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F22, J15, J82, C41
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2791
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Jan
Svejnar
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China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy ...
(published in: L. Brandt and T. Rawski (eds), China’s Great Economic Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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O1, P2, N1
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2790
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Joshua
Angrist
Adriana
Kugler
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 191-215)
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Q34, O13
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2789
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Kristen
Monaco
Kay
Porter
Aldo
Rustichini
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to ...
(published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106)
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C81, C93, L92, J63
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2788
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David
McKenzie
John
Gibson
Steven
Stillman
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A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?
Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 116 - 127)
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D84, F22, J61
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2787
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Dolores
Messer
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle
When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration of their studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2010, 18(1), 111-123)
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C81, E32, I2, I23
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2784
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Vincenzo
Caponi
Miana
Plesca
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (3), 1100-1131)
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J24, J31, I2, C31
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2783
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Javier
A.
Birchenall
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (1-2), 280-295)
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J17, J13, I10
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2782
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Helmut
Fryges
Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2008, 144 (4), 695-722)
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F14, F23, L60
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