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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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13071
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Ashani
Amarasinghe
Roland
Hodler
Paul
A.
Raschky
Yves
Zenou
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Key Players in Economic Development
This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 223, 40-56)
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O13, O55, R12
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13070
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Gabriel
Burdin
Mauricio
De Rosa
Andrea
Vigorito
Joan
Vilá
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Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016
To contribute to the debate on the recent inequality fall in Latin America, we provide evidence on the primary income distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing ...
(revised version published as 'Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data' in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105783)
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D31, H24, O54
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13069
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Kerstin
Unfried
Krisztina
Kis-Katos
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this paper, we identify under which conditions and to what extent armed conflicts harm the long-run educational attainment of children in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining 66 rounds of DHS ...
(published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2023, 60 (6), 968-984.)
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I25, D74, O12
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13067
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Giorgio
Brunello
Áron
Gereben
Christoph T.
Weiss
Patricia
Wruuck
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Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on ...
(published as 'Do investments in human and physical capital respond differently to financing constraints?' in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 158, 10(2022))
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J24
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13066
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Niaz
Asadullah
Liyanage
Devangi
Perera
Saizi
Xiao
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Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment: A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox
This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – consistently high student achievement despite being the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2020, 42 (5), 913-932.)
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A20, I21, I28
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13065
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Simon
Chang
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nicolás
Salamanca
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Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications
We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to ...
(publisehd in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 419 - 446)
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D10, I21, I24
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13064
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
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Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 119-141)
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I10, J13, I28, C93
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13063
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Fabrice
Etilé
Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
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Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we ...
(published as 'Measuring resilience to major life events' in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 598-619)
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I10, C2, C5
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13062
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David
Neumark
Maysen
Yen
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Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying out analyses of the impacts of these city minimum wages, as specified in a ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61 (2), 228-255 )
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J23, J38
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13061
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Scott
M.
Delhommer
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Same-sex couples' marital surplus, their excess total income over that predicted by their work times and predicted wages, increases little as the duration of their relationship lengthens. When/where ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40, 1120-1139.)
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J12, J16, K30
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