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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2739 Yves Zenou
High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models: Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch
We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 534-546)
D83, J15, J64, R14
2738 Tobias J. Klein
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?
A fundamental identification problem in program evaluation arises when idiosyncratic gains from participation and the treatment decision depend on each other. Imbens and Angrist (1994) were the first ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 155 (2), 99-116)
C21
2737 David W. Johnston
Carol Propper
Michael A. Shields
Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (3), 540 - 552)
I10, I18, C42
2736 Kaushik Basu
Sanghamitra Das
Bhaskar Dutta
Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U
Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 8 - 14)
D13, J20, O12
2735 Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (3), 1238–1260)
C93, D01, D80, D90, J24, J62
2734 José Alberto Molina
Maria Navarro Paniagua
Ian Walker
Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries
We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Well-Being Mobility in Europe' in: Kyklos, 2011, 64 (2), 253-270)
D13, D60, D64, C33
2733 Erkki Koskela
Rune Stenbacka
Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 376-392)
E23, E24, J31, J51
2732 Emrah Arbak
Marie Claire Villeval
Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what ...
(revised version published as 'Voluntary leadership: motivation and influence' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 40 (3), 635-662.)
M54, J33, A13, C92, D63
2730 Alan B. Krueger
David A. Schkade
Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 859-883)
J0
2729 Alexandra Spitz-Oener
The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited
The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 502-517)
J31, C13
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