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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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10084
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Prakarsh
Singh
Sandip
Mitra
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Performance Pay and Malnutrition
We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child ...
(published as 'Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 93, 24-46.)
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M52, I12, I38, J38
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10083
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Prakarsh
Singh
William
A.
Masters
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Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231)
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O1, I1, M5
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10082
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Kasey
Buckles
Melanie
Guldi
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Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health
Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017, 36 (4), 748 - 772)
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J13, I18
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10080
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Ayako
Kondo
Keiji
Saito
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Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle
Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over the life cycle. The decrease in total hours worked and the increase in time ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 190 (3), 1435-1454.)
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J22, J24, J44
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10079
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Thomas
Breda
Melina
Hillion
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Teaching Accreditation Exams Reveal Grading Biases Favor Women in Male-Dominated Disciplines in France
Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. We show that this is ...
(published in: Science Magazine, 2016, 353 (6298), 474 - 478)
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I23, J16
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10078
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Ben
Ost
Weixiang
Pan
Douglas
A.
Webber
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The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students
Analyzing how working students weather personal economic shocks is increasingly important as the fraction of college students working substantial hours has increased dramatically over the past few ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 1-12)
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I21, I23, J63
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10077
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Pierre-Guillaume
Meon
Ilan
Tojerow
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In God We Learn? Religions' Universal Messages, Context-Specific Effects, and Minority Status
We study the relationship between major religious denominations and individuals' levels of education, using the World Values Survey. In a first step, running country-by-country regressions, we report ...
(published as "The minority ethic: Rethinking religious denominations, minority status, and educational achievement across the globe" in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 47(1), 196-214 )
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I2, O5, Z1
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10076
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Léopold
Simar
Le
Wang
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The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency
We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using nonparametric kernel methods, we find that most traditional schooling inputs are irrelevant ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(12), 1164-1184)
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C14, C44, I21
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10075
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Dajun
Lin
Randall
Lutter
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 121 - 135)
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J23, J24, J31, J38
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10074
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D. Mark
Anderson
Ryan
Brown
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality
Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details ...
(published as ' Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 4337-4383.)
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J08, I18
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13084Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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