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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
858 Carmel U. Chiswick
History of Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in 1949 as a ...
(published as 'Appendix 3' in: Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 5-819 - 5-824)
C1, C8
857 Marco Francesconi
Abhinay Muthoo
An Economic Model of Child Custody
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic ...
(revised version published as 'Control Rights in Complex Partnerships' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(3), 551-589)
C78, D23, D64, J12, J13, K10
856 Dirk Sliwka
Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration
The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to buy certain ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2004, 74 (1), 27-52)
C22, L22, M55
855 Bernd Irlenbusch
Dirk Sliwka
Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market
We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström’s career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents’ unknown ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (1), 147-170)
C72, C91, J33
854 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard M. S. van Praag
Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio- Economic Panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1 (2), 107-127)
D63, I32
853 Ivar Ekeland
James J. Heckman
Lars Nesheim
Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models
This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that in an additive version of the hedonic model, technology and preferences are generically identified up to ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S60-S109)
C31
852 Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler
The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980’s and 1990’s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57(2), 335-358.)
J31, J32, H23
851 Joshua Angrist
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Instrumental Variables (IV) methods identify internally valid causal effects for individuals whose treatment status is manipulable by the instrument at hand. Inference for other populations ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C52-C83)
C31, J12, J13
850 Stephen P. Jenkins
Lars Osberg
Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination
We hypothesize that an individual’s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable ...
(published in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds), The Economics of Time Use, Contributions to Economic Analysis, No. 271, Chapter 5, 113–145, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005)
D13, I31, J22
847 Barry R. Chiswick
Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer’s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361 )
B21, J24, J31, D31
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