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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11802 Frédéric Docquier
Riccardo Turati
Jérôme Valette
Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
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)
F22, J61
11801 N. T. Khuong Truong
Arthur Sweetman
Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants
Male immigrants are observed to be disproportionately employed in ICT information and communication technology (ICT) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2018, 44 (S1), S91 - S112)
J24, J31
11800 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Colm P. Harmon
Anita Staneva
The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development
In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 10 (1) )
I20, J24, D10
11799 Elisabeth Grewenig
Philipp Lergetporer
Lisa Simon
Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?
A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in ...
(published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382)
C83, D91, I20
11798 Ellen Garbarino
Robert Slonim
Marie Claire Villeval
A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution
Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4 (2), 136-150.)
C91, C81, D03
11797 Olivier Deschenes
Kyle C. Meng
Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other ...
(published in: Handbook of Environmental Economics, 2018, Volume 4, 285-332)
C21, H23, H41, Q50, Q51, Q52, Q53, Q54
11796 Abel Brodeur
Nikolai Cook
Anthony Heyes
Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics
The economics 'credibility revolution' has promoted the identification of causal relationships using difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV), randomized control trials (RCT) and ...
(published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660)
A11, B41, C13, C44
11795 Mathias Huebener
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective
This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 10 November 2022)
I12, I24, I26
11794 Mathias Huebener
Daniel Kühnle
C. Katharina Spieß
Parental Leave Policies and Socio-Economic Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from a Substantial Benefit Reform Using Administrative Data
This paper examines the effects of substantial changes in paid parental leave on child development and socio-economic development gaps. We exploit a German reform from 2007 that both expanded paid ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101754)
J13, J18, J22, J24
11793 Ramon Caminal
Lorenzo Cappellari
Antonio Di Paolo
Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language
We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of ...
(published as 'Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101975)
I28, J13, J24, J62, Z13
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