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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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2217
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Cheng
Hsiao
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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Crises, What Crises?
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types ...
(published as 'Crises, What Crises? New Evidence on the Relative Roles of Political and Economic Crises in Begetting Reforms' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (10), 1670-1691)
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H11, K20, E32, O40
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2214
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Stephen
Gibbons
Stephen
Machin
Olmo
Silva
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Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (4), 912-947)
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I20, H70, R5
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2213
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Jens
Ludwig
Jeffrey
R.
Kling
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Is Crime Contagious?
Understanding whether criminal behavior is “contagious” is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2007, 50 (3), 491-518 )
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H43, I18, J23
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2212
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation
Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 859 - 880)
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J11, J15, J24, Z13
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2211
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Marcel
Kerkhofs
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity
This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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2210
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Robert
A.
Hart
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Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay over the Cycle
This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1006-1022)
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E32, J31, J33
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2209
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Michèle
Belot
John
Ermisch
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Friendship Ties and Geographical Mobility: Evidence from the BHPS
A common finding in analyses of geographic mobility is a strong association between past movement and current mobility, a phenomenon that has given rise to the so called ‘mover-stayer model’. We ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2009, 172 (2), 427-442)
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J61, Z13
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2208
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1061-1077)
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D1, I3, I31, K0
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2207
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Andrea
Ichino
Enrico
Moretti
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(1), 183-218)
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J7, M5
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2206
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Menzie
D.
Chinn
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (1), 153 - 167)
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O30, L96
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