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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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1454
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Ricardo
Alonso
Niko
Matouschek
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Relational Delegation
We explore the optimal delegation of decision rights by a principal to a better informed but biased agent. In an infinitely repeated game a long lived principal faces a series of short lived agents. ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, 38 (4), 1070 - 1089)
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D23, D82, L23
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1453
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 48(1), 1-39)
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J31
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1452
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Xin
Meng
Bob
Gregory
Youjuan
Wang
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (4), 710-729)
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I31, D31, O40, O15
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1451
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Nicolas
Moreau
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Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within-household distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2007 (14), 317-344)
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C71, D11, D12, H31, J22
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1450
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118(531), 1354-1384)
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H10, O20, N10
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1448
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Xin
Meng
Xiaodong
Gong
Youjuan
Wang
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Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income ...
(published as 'Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Availability in Urban China: 1986–2000' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (2), 261-295)
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I31, D31, O40, O15
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1447
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Andreas
Schaal
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might ...
(published in: Keuschnigg, Christian / Kanniainen, Vesa (eds.), Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press, Cambridge/MA, 2004, 97-126)
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E22, E24, E44, G24, G32
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1445
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Kristian
Orsini
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In-Work Policies in Europe: Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (6), 667-693)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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1444
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James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Skill Policies for Scotland
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful ...
(published in: D. Coyle, W. Alexander and B. Ashcroft, eds., New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects, Princeton University Press: 2005)
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J31, I21, I22, I28
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1443
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Michael
Lechner
Ruth
Miquel
Conny
Wunsch
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Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784)
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J68
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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