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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9903 Janet Currie
Hannes Schwandt
Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy at age 40 to 50. However, we show that among infants, children, and young ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 29-52)
I14, I32, J11, J13
9902 Jacob Lundberg
Daniel Waldenström
Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?
This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000–2012, linking wealth register data up to 2007 and individually capitalized wealth based on income and property tax ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541)
D31, H2, N32
9901 Annamaria Nese
Niall O'Higgins
Patrizia Sbriglia
Maurizio Scudiero
Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98)
A13, D63, D23, C92, K42, Z13
9900 Lauren E. Jones
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
US Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?
This paper assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws. These laws progressively increased the mandatory age up to which children must be restrained in safety seats in cars. We use US ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017, 36 (3), 584–607)
I18, K32, R41
9898 Stephen L. Cheung
Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference
This methodological survey reviews recent developments in the design of experiments to elicit individuals' time preferences, with a focus on the measurement or control for potentially non-linear ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2016, 11, 1-8)
C91, D03, D90
9897 Christian Catalini
Christian Fons-Rosen
Patrick Gaule
Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?
We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest ...
(published as 'How Do Travel Costs Shape Collaboration?' in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (2), 3340-3360)
O3, R4, L93
9895 Benedikt Fecher
Gert G. Wagner
Research Parasites Are Beneficial for the Organism as a Whole: Competition between Researchers Creates a Symbiotic Relationship
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which ...
(published as 'A research symbiont' in: Science, 2016, 351(6280), 1405–1406)
B40, C80, Z11
9893 Peng Nie
Anu Rammohan
Wencke Gwozdz
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five: A Decompositional Analysis
This study uses two waves (2004–2005 and 2011–2012) of the nationally representative Indian Human Development Survey to conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and ...
(published as 'Changes in Child Nutrition in India: A Decomposition Approach' in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (10), 1815)
I15, I31, C21
9892 Mehtabul Azam
Vipul Bhatt
Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (2), 505 - 522)
I30, I32
9891 Miguel Delgado Helleseter
Peter J. Kuhn
Kailing Shen
Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that ...
(published as 'The Age Twist in Employers' Gender Requests: Evidence from Four Job Boards' in :Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 428-469)
J16, J63, J71
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