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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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2576
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Kenneth
D.
Boyer
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237)
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L92, D24, C43
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2575
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says
A critical period for language learning is often defined as a sharp decline in learning outcomes with age. This study examines the relevance of the critical period to English proficiency among ...
(published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29)
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F22, J15
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2574
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Gary
Charness
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
The population of most developed societies is ‘graying’. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (3), 956–978)
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A13, B49, C91, C93, J14, J18, J38, J70
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2573
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Thomas
Siedler
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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the ...
(revised version published as 'Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Postwar Germany' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (2), 315-338)
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I2, H4, H23
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2571
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David
Autor
William
Kerr
Adriana
Kugler
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F189 - F217)
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J11, J21, J31, J61
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2570
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David
Neumark
William
Wascher
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Minimum Wages and Employment
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in the United States and other countries – that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2007, 3 (1+2), 1-182)
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J23, J38
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2569
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Veneta
Andonova
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political ...
(published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83)
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O1, O3
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2568
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68)
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B21, B41, D63, I31, I38
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2567
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Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427)
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D63, D83, J64, J70
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2566
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Alicia
Robb
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 827-858)
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J15, L26
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