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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1247 Milan Vodopivec
A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448)
I28, C15, J24
1246 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the “distance” between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have ...
(published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11)
I29, J15, J24
1245 Fernando Galindo-Rueda
Anna Vignoles
The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability
Previous work by the authors suggested that during the 1970s and 1980s, a person’s early cognitive ability became a less important determinant of his or her eventual educational achievement. ...
(published in: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press: 2007)
I2
1244 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others’ choices or plans, particularly if the “other people”, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (4), 652 - 665)
F22, J61
1242 Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2005, 10 (3), 229-270)
O10, N10, N16, F43, H50
1241 Marloes Zijl
Gerard J. van den Berg
Arjan Heyma
Stepping Stones for the Unemployed: The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work
Transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. This paper investigates whether temporary work increases the transition rate ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 107-139)
J64, C41
1240 M. Hashem Pesaran
General Diagnostic Tests for Cross Section Dependence in Panels
This paper proposes simple tests of error cross section dependence which are applicable to a variety of panel data models, including stationary and unit root dynamic heterogeneous panels with short ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 13–50)
C12, C13, C33
1239 Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Rationalizing Boundedly Rational Choice: Sequential Rationalizability and Rational Shortlist Methods
A sequentially rationalizable choice function is a choice function which can be obtained by applying sequentially a fixed set of asymmetric binary relations (rationales). A Rational ShortlistMethod ...
(published as "Sequentially Rationalizable Choice" in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (5), 1824-1839)
D0
1237 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Who Is the Enemy?
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people ...
(published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2007, 18 (6), 469–484)
D71, D72, D74
1236 Cheng Hsiao
M. Hashem Pesaran
Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
This paper provides a review of linear panel data models with slope heterogeneity, introduces various types of random coefficients models and suggest a common framework for dealing with them. It ...
(published in: L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data, Springer 2008 (3rd ed.))
C12, C13, C33
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