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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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2202
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Alberto
Chong
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive ...
(updated version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 970-986 )
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I38, H43, C13, C14
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2201
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Harry
A.
Krashinsky
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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship as providing evidence of liquidity constraints. Recently, however, the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (2), 279-306)
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J01
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2200
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Rafael
Lalive
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How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 142 (2), 785-806)
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C41, J64, J65
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2199
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Gil
S.
Epstein
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Extremism within the Family
This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 707-715)
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F22, J1, D1
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2198
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Fixed and Mixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis
The last three decades the accumulation of quantitative research evidence has led to the development of systematic methods for combining information across samples of related studies. Although a few ...
(published in: J. Osborne (ed.), Best Practices in Quantitative Methods. Sage, 2007)
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C02
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2196
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Allan
Timmermann
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Testing Dependence among Serially Correlated Multi-Category Variables
The contingency table literature on tests for dependence among discrete multi-category variables is extensive. Existing tests assume, however, that draws are independent, and there are no tests that ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2009, 104 (485), 325-337)
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C12, C22, C42, C52
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2194
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Etienne
Lehmann
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A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation
In this paper, I introduce money in the standard labor-matching model (Mortensen and Pissarides 1999, Pissarides 2000). A double coincidence problem makes Fiat Money necessary as a medium of ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 245-266.)
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E24, E52, J64
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2193
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Karsten
Kohn
Qingwei
Wang
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 141-165)
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J51
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2192
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Pablo
Brañas-Garza
Shoshana
Neuman
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Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain
The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in ...
(revised version published as 'Is Fertility Indeed Related to Religiosity? A Note on: 'Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999' ' in: Population Studies, 2007, 60 (2), 219-224)
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Z12, J12, J13, D13
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2191
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Jérôme
Adda
Francesca
Cornaglia
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The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking
This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 1-32)
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I1
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