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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1797 Alessandro Cigno
A Constitutional Theory of the Family
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 259-289)
C72, D02, D13, D71, D74, D91, H55, J13, J14
1795 Thomas K. Bauer
Mathias Sinning
Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models
In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by ...
(published in: Applied Economics , 2010, 42 (12), 1569-1575)
C24, J31
1794 Dorothea Kübler
Wieland Müller
Hans-Theo Normann
Job Market Signaling and Screening: An Experimental Comparison
We analyze the Spence education game in experimental markets. We compare a signaling and a screening variant, and we analyze the effect of increasing the number of competing employers from two to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 64 (1), 219-236)
C35, I2, J24, P3, P52
1793 Francesco Pastore
To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland
This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2012, 50 (3), 49-78)
C35, I2, J24, P3, P52
1791 Fabio Schiantarelli
Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a ...
(published in: N. Loayza and L. Serven (eds): The Microeconomic Underpinning of Growth, The World Bank, 2010)
D24, K20, L10, L51, O31, O40, O57
1790 James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro
Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects
This paper considers semiparametric identification of structural dynamic discrete choice models and models for dynamic treatment effects. Time to treatment and counterfactual outcomes associated with ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 341-396)
C31
1789 Jasmin Kantarevic
Stéphane Mechoulan
Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID
Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(4), 755-777)
I2, J1
1788 Jonathan Gardner
Andrew J. Oswald
Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up?
Divorce is a leap in the dark. This paper investigates whether people who split up actually become happier. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we are able to observe an individual's level of ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (2), 319-336)
J12, I3
1786 Francois Fontaine
Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? The Role of Social Networks
We provide a matching model where identical workers are embedded in ex-ante identical social networks. Job arrival rate is endogenous and wages are bargained. We study the evolution of networks over ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32(12), 3960-3977)
E24, J64, J68
1785 Richard Blundell
Pierre-André Chiappori
Thierry Magnac
Costas Meghir
Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 417-445)
D11, D12, D13, D70, J22
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