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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9798 Govert Bijwaard
Andrew M. Jones
Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?
Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This association between mortality and education may partly be explained by ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175)
C41, I14, I24
9797 Maria Alejandra Cattaneo
Chantal Oggenfuss
Stefan C. Wolter
The More, the Better? The Impact of Instructional Time on Student Performance
Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25(5), 433-445)
C21, I21, I25
9796 Maria Caridad Araujo
Pedro Carneiro
Yyannu Cruz Aguayo
Norbert Schady
Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten
We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (3), 1415 - 1453)
I24, I25
9795 Silvia Mendolia
Alfredo R. Paloyo
Ian Walker
Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes
We investigate the relationship between peers' abilities and educational outcomes at the end of high school using data from the rich Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) matched to ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 613 - 634 )
I20, J24
9794 Michele Tuccio
Jackline Wahba
Bachir Hamdouch
International Migration: Driver of Political and Social Change?
This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and ...
(published as 'International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1171 - 120)
D72, F22, O15, O55
9792 Pedro Carneiro
Sokbae Lee
Hugo Reis
Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101778)
J15, N32
9791 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Does Bilingualism among the Native Born Pay?
This paper uses the pooled data from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey to analyze the economic benefits of bilingualism to adult men born in the United States. Bilingualism among the native ...
(published as 'Do native-born bilinguals in the US earn more?' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 563 -583)
J24, J31, F22
9790 Andreas Steinmayr
Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria
This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state ...
(published as 'Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far-Right' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (2), 310–327)
D72, J15, K37, P16
9789 Michael A. Clemens
Claudio Montenegro
Lant Pritchett
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 201–213.)
F22, J61, J71, O15
9788 Dany Bahar
Hillel Rapoport
Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations
Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F273-305)
F14, F22, F62, O33, D83
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