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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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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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10269
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Bastien
Chabé-Ferret
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Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions
I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing decisions of second generation migrant women to France and the US. Only the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 162, 24 - 48)
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J13, J15, Z10, Z12
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10268
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Jan
Kabátek
David
C.
Ribar
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Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks
Characteristics of couples on or about their wedding day and characteristics of weddings have been shown to predict marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 31 (4), 1067 - 1095)
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J1
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