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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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10199
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Tarun
Jain
Pushkar
Maitra
Subha
Mani
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Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India
Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 114, 314-325)
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I25, J24, J44
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10198
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Deepti
Goel
Ashwini
Deshpande
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Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India
Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste ...
(published as 'Social identity and perceived income adequacy' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 339-361)
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J15, O15, P16
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10196
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Remittances and Informal Work
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1172-1190)
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F24, J46, J61, R23, O17
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10195
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Louise
Voldby
Beuchert
Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Nina
Smith
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The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement: Evidence of Disruption?
We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 65, 31-47.)
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I21, J24
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10194
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Robert
G.
Valletta
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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage ...
(published in: C. R. Hulten and V. A. Ramey (eds.), Education, Skills, and Technical Change, Oxford University Press, 2018)
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J31, J24, I23
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10193
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Michael
R.
Ransom
Aaron
Phipps
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The Changing Occupational Distribution by College Major
In this paper we examine the occupational distribution of individuals who hold bachelor degrees in particular fields in the United States using data from the various waves of the National Survey of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 129-171)
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I23, J24
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10192
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Massimo
Anelli
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The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2824 - 2868)
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I21, I22, I23, I28, J24, J31
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10189
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Vittorio
Pelligra
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Daniel
John
Zizzo
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Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests
We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to ...
(revised version published as 'Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 287-311)
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C91, D01, D03, D63
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10188
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Johannes
Abeler
Daniele
Nosenzo
Collin
Raymond
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Preferences for Truth-Telling
Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material ...
(published in: Econometrics, 2019, 87 (4), 1115–1153)
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D03, D82, H26, I13, J31
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10187
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Julio
Elias
Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and ...
(revised version published as 'Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (8), 2855 - 2888)
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C91, D01, D63, D64, I11
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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