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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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1056
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Janet
Currie
Matthew
Neidell
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Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 120 (3), 1003-1030)
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Q53, I12, I18
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1055
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Giorgio
Brunello
Francesca
Gambarotto
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Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as
the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average
productivity. In this ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22)
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J24, R12
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1054
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter
This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997)
which has been proposed in the context of my seasonal adjustment method (Schlicht 1981,
1984). A ...
(published in: Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, 2005, 35 (1), 99-119)
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C22
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1053
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Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
Randy
A.
Ehrenberg
Christopher
L.
Smith
Liang
Zhang
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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board
budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual
school districts ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004, 26 (1), 111-125)
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I22, H71
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1052
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Winfried
Koeniger
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Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Smoother labor incomes alleviate credit constraints by reducing workers' desire to borrow,
and prospects of upward income mobility have smaller beneficial effects for currently poor
workers when ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1941-1958)
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E21, E24, E61
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1049
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Jan
Goebel
Edna
Schechtman
Gert
G.
Wagner
Shlomo
Yitzhaki
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Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
A particular shortcoming of panel surveys is potential bias arising from selective attrition.
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential
artifacts (level, ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2006, 34 (4), 427-468)
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C81, D31, D63
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1046
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Samuel
Bentolila
Ana
Fernandes
Andrea
Ichino
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Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We
present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job
security of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071)
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J1, J2
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1045
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Stephan
Meier
Alois
Stutzer
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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam
Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the
selfish ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (297), 39-59)
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D64, I31, J22, Z13
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1043
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Friedrich
Schneider
Robert
Klinglmair
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Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110
developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow
economy (in ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (3), 598-642)
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O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
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1041
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Claudio
Lucifora
Dominique
Meurs
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The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata.
While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap,
in this ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 52(1), 43-59)
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J31, J45, C14
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