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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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9930
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Abhishek
Chakravarty
Dilip
Mookherjee
Francisco
J.
Pino
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Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237)
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I14, I24, J71, O15
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9929
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Miles
Corak
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Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison
To understand the degree of intergenerational mobility in the United States, and the differences between Americans and others, it is important to appreciate the workings and interaction of three ...
(published in: Robert Rycroft (editor). The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 )
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J62, J68
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9928
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Martin
Halla
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105201)
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J12, D13, J13, J24
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9927
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Cheti
Nicoletti
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply
The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first ...
(published in: American Economics Journal: Applied Economics; 2018, 10 (3), 206 - 234)
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D85, C21, C26
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9926
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Edgar
Silva Quintero
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How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia
In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent ...
(published as 'On the relationship between violent conflict and wages in Colombia' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (4), 473-489)
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J15, J31, R23
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9925
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Salvatore
Di Falco
Brice
Magdalou
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
Marc
Willinger
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Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and ...
(revised version published as 'Embezzlement: Does transparency of information matter?' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2020, 7 (2), 103-143)
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C91, D83
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9924
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Farzana
Afridi
Bidisha
Barooah
Rohini
Somanathan
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The Mixture as Before? Student Responses to the Changing Content of School Meals in India
We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India's school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from ...
(published as 'Designing Effective Transfers: Lessons from India's School Meal Program' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (1), 45-61)
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D1, E31, F01
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9920
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Tyler
Ransom
John
V.
Winters
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Do Foreigners Crowd Natives out of STEM Degrees and Occupations? Evidence from the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990
This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (2), 321–351)
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J24, J61
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9918
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Silke
Anger
Daniel D.
Schnitzlein
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Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 591-620)
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J24, J62
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9917
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Silvia
Mendolia
Peter
Siminski
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Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis
We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end, we propose a generalisation of statistical 'mediation analysis'. In our ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 59, 1-12)
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I24, C49, J62
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