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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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1951
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
Dennis
M.
O'Toole
James
N.
Wetzel
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Are the Factors Affecting Dropout Behavior Related to Initial Enrollment Intensity for College Undergraduates?
We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey to determine whether the factors associated with long-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2007, 48 (4), 453-486. )
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I21
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1949
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John
J.
Donohue III
Justin
Wolfers
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of ...
(published in: Stanford Law Review, 2005, 58(3), 791-845)
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K14, K42
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1948
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples
This paper analyzes the portfolio allocations of couple-headed, Hispanic families using Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data. Our results reveal that Hispanic couples as a group are ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2006, 87 (5), 1344-1363)
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J61, G11, J10
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1947
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Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
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Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions
Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(2), 199-213)
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A22, A23, I21, J31, R1
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1946
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Monique
Ebell
Christian
Haefke
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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, 12, 479 - 504.)
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E24, J63, L16, O00
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1944
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Justin
Wolfers
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Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (2-3), 531-541)
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G14, G3, J16, J4, J7, K31, M5
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1943
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Mats
Hammarstedt
Mĺrten
Palme
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Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden
We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:4)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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1942
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Benoit
Dostie
Pierre
Thomas
Léger
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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills
Several papers have tested the empirical validity of the migration models proposed by Borjas (1987) and Borjas, Bronars, and Trejo (1992). However, to our knowledge, none has been able to disentangle ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22(4), 1005-1024)
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J24, J61, C23, C35
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1941
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Claudia
Olivetti
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 621 - 654 )
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E24, J16, J31
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1940
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Francis
Kramarz
David
Thesmar
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Social Networks in the Boardroom
This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(4), 780-807 )
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J40, L20, Z13
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13011Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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