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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10613 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
Xingfei Liu
Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8 (3), 895-927 )
I2, J1, J3
10611 Jan Feld
Jan Sauermann
Andries de Grip
Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
The Dunning–Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance. Researchers usually interpret this empirical ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24)
D03, I23
10610 Sungjin Cho
Jihye Kam
Soohyung Lee
Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major
This study examines the extent to which changing the composition of college majors among working-age population may affect the supply of human capital or effective labor supply. We use the South ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2018, 63 (5), 1319-1343 )
I2, J2, J4
10609 Ronen Bar-El
Yossef Tobol
Honesty toward the Holy Day
We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and "day of the week", on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup experiment among religious and secular, female and male Jewish students. We show ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 13-17)
C91, D63, Z12
10608 Ritwik Banerjee
Arnab Mitra
On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption
The paper studies the relative effectiveness of extrinsic monetary disincentives and intrinsic non-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the ...
(published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 332 - 355)
C91, C92, D03, K42
10607 Lydia Mechtenberg
Gerd Muehlheusser
Andreas Roider
Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 126, 103447)
C91, D83, D73, K42, M59
10606 Armin Falk
Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of ...
(revised version available from the briq website)
D64, C91
10605 Giovanni Peri
Vasil Yasenov
The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift
We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into Miami in 1980, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on ...
(published online n: Jorunal of Human Resources, 30 Janurary 2018)
J3, J61
10604 Emanuele Bracco
Maria De Paola
Colin P. Green
Vincenzo Scoppa
The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 166, 12-26.)
J15, J61, D72
10603 Christian Dustmann
Francesco Fasani
Xin Meng
Luigi Minale
Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions
This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk attitudes of other household members when migration is a household decision. We develop a simple model that implies that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023 58 (1), 112-145)
J61, O15, R23, D81
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