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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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2237
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Claudia
Senik
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Is Man Doomed to Progress?
This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (1), 140-152)
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D31, D9, I31, Z13
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2236
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Simon
Gächter
Benedikt
Herrmann
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The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia
We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (2), 193-210)
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H41, C91, D23, C72
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2235
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John
H.
Pencavel
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Earnings Inequality and Market Work in Husband-Wife Families
Constructing pseudo-panel data from successive Current Population Surveys, this paper analyzes earnings inequality in husband and wife families over the life cycle and over time. Particular attention ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 1-37)
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J31, J22, D63
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2234
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Stephen
Machin
Sandra
McNally
Olmo
Silva
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New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?
Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (522), 1145-1167)
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H52, I20, I28, J24
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2233
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Jonathan
Gardner
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Money and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study of Medium-Sized Lottery Wins
One of the famous questions in social science is whether money makes people happy. We offer new evidence by using longitudinal data on a random sample of Britons who receive medium-sized lottery wins ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (1), 49-60)
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D1, I3
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2232
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Earnings-Related Severance Pay
In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (4), 651-672)
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J32, J41, J65
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2230
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Brian
Krogh
Graversen
Peter
Jensen
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A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes
In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (3), 546-569)
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I38, J64, J68
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2229
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Paola
Giuliano
Antonio
Spilimbergo
Giovanni
Tonon
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Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation ...
(published as 'Genetic Distance, Transportation Costs, and Trade' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 179-198)
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Z10, F10
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2228
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Ken
Clark
Joanne
Lindley
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Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter ...
(revised version published as 'Immigrant assimilation pre and post labour market entry: evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 175-198)
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J23, J7
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2227
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Charles
Bellemare
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of ...
( published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (3), 345-348)
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J33, M52, C93
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