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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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746
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Andreas
Ammermüller
Hans
Heijke
Ludger
Woessmann
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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition
countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show
substantial effects of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599)
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I21, P36
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745
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Ludger
Woessmann
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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational
performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family
background and ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353)
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O15, I20, H52
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744
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Martin
R.
West
Ludger
Woessmann
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized
classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of
national school ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968)
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I28, H52, D73
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742
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective
well-being? First, that the psychologists’ setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the
nonpecuniary ...
(published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2006)
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D60, I10, I31, J12, Z13
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741
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Barry
Hirsch
David
A.
Macpherson
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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density
of black employees, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent
discrimination or as ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (1), 189-210)
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J3, J7
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740
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Barry
Hirsch
Stephen
L.
Mehay
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Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design
A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from
unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty
service are ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (3), 673-700)
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J3
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738
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Volker
Grossmann
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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium
This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible
assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms’ performance. Despite an ex
ante symmetry ...
(published as "Firm Size, Productivity, and Manager Wages: A Job Assignment Approach" in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Advances in Theoretical Economics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 8)
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D40, J31, L16
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737
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Alison
L.
Booth
Marco
Francesconi
Gylfi
Zoega
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors
investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training
link affects wages and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 57 (1), 68-91 )
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J24, J31, J41
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735
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Raphaël
Desmet
Alain
Jousten
Sergio
Perelman
Pierre
Pestieau
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Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium
The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the
Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et
alii (2002) ...
(published in: J. Gruber and D. Wise, (eds.), “Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications of Reform”, 2007, University of Chicago Press and NBER)
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J0, I3, H3
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734
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Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils
in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the
individual ...
(published together with Maja Coradi Vellacott as 'Sibling Rivalry for Parental Resources: A Problem for Equity in Education? A Six-Country Comparison with PISA Data' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Swiss Journal of Sociology /Revue suisse de sociologie , 2003, 29 (3), 377-398)
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D1, I2, J2
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12991Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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