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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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11812
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Patricia
Yanez-Pagans
Daniel
Martinez
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
Lynn
Scholl
Antonia
Vazquez
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Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Lessons Learned
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system ...
(revised version published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28, 5 (2019) )
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O18, R15, R42
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11811
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Catia
Nicodemo
Josep
M.
Raya
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Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?
Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. ...
(published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2020, 56 (5), 1581–1604)
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R1, R3, J7
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11810
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Agustín
Indaco
Francesc
Ortega
Süleyman
Taspinar
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The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets
We analyze the role of flood insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel-level dataset including the universe of residential sales for three coastal urban ...
(published in: Cityscape, 2019, 21 (2), 129-156.)
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H56, K42, R33
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11809
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Niaz
Asadullah
Saizi
Xiao
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Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China: An Update
We re-examine the economic returns to education in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using data from the China General Social Survey 2010. We find that the conventional ordinary least squares ...
(published in: Asian Development Review, 2019, 36(1), 80–111)
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I26, J30
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11808
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Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Richard
J.
Murphy
Felix
Weinhardt
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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics 2023, 105 (6), 1426–1441.)
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I20, I23, I28
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11806
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Slobodan
Djajic
Frédéric
Docquier
Michael S.
Michael
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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (4), 271-303.)
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F22, J24, O15
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11805
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Brian
Bell
Rui
Costa
Stephen
Machin
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Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school leaving age. This paper studies how crime reductions occurred in a sequence of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65 )
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I2, K42
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11804
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Michal
Burzynski
Christoph
Deuster
Frédéric
Docquier
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Geography of Skills and Global Inequality
This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102333)
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E24, J24, O15
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11803
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi
Iyer
Joseph
Vecci
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Leader Identity and Coordination
This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.)
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P16, D70, D91, J78
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11802
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Frédéric
Docquier
Riccardo
Turati
Jérôme
Valette
Chrysovalantis
Vasilakis
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period
This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20 (2), 321 -354)
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F22, J61
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