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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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10286
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Julia
Bredtmann
Nina
Smith
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Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important Is the Family?
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1117-1144)
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I21, I24, J13
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10283
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Damon
Clark
David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
Mark
Rush
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Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663)
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I23, C93
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10280
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Katharina
Grabrucker
Michael
Grimm
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Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?
An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (2), 413-435.)
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D22, J24, J46, K40, L26, O12
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10279
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swaziland
This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No.12198)
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L53, O12, C61
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10275
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Michal
Burzynski
Benjamin
Elsner
Joël
Machado
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The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased Migration and Global Welfare
High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration – often called brain drain – has been at the center of a heated debate about the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102317 )
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F22, O15, J61
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10274
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Fabio
Mariani
Marion
Mercier
Thierry
Verdier
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Diasporas and Conflict
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18(4), 761 -793)
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F22, D74, O1
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10273
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Takatoshi
Tabuchi
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Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity
The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 1-13)
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F12, F22, R11, R12, R13
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10272
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Thu Hien
Dao
Frédéric
Docquier
Christopher
Parsons
Giovanni
Peri
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Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition
Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 23(2), 223-258)
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F22, O15
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10271
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S
Anukriti
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Hiu
Tam
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, ...
(published as 'On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (651), 1 - 36)
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I15, J13, J16
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10270
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Marta
Favara
Pablo
Lavado
Alan
Sanchez
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Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (4), 1217-1236 )
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J13, J14, J24
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