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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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2382
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Simon
C.
Parker
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2011, 27 (1), 31-46)
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J24, L26, M13
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2381
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John
T.
Addison
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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition
This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust ...
(published in: R. Vaubel and P. Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge 2007)
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H70, J28, J38, J41, J48, J58, J65, J80, K31
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2380
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making – willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (2), 645-677)
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D1, D8, J12, J13, J62, Z13
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2378
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Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Estimating a Class of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Exclusion Restrictions
This paper provides a control function estimator to adjust for endogeneity in the triangular simultaneous equations model where there are no available exclusion restrictions to generate suitable ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 154 (2), 154-164)
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C14, C30
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2377
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Michèle
Belot
Marco
Francesconi
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Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of ...
(revised version published as 'Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 48 (2), 474-507)
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D1, J1
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2376
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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Pension Investments in Employer Stock
This study examines the consequences of a pension fund investing in the stock of the sponsoring firm. Using a merger of data on pension asset holdings from IRS Form 5500 filings and financial data on ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2008, 7 (1), 67-93)
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J30, G20
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2374
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Thomas
Liebig
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates
We investigate the relationship between income tax rate variation and internal migration for the unique case of Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2007, 47 (4), 807-836)
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J61, H73
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2373
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Grow Rich While You Sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation
We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of ...
(published as 'Selection in a field experiment with voluntary participation' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27, 63-84)
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C93
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2372
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C.
Katharina
Spieß
Katharina
Wrohlich
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The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Scandinavian Model
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Leave Bene t Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Nordic Model' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2008, 27 (5), 575-591)
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J22, H31, I38
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2371
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
Larry
Hedges
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How Large an Effect Can We Expect from School Reforms?
Judging the success of school reform requires an interpretative context in which to judge whether effects obtained are large enough to be important or so small as to be a disappointment. The logic of ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2008, 110, 1613-1640)
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I20
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