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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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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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9916
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Luke
Chicoine
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Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia
Increasing enrollment in primary education has been at the center of international education policy for well over a decade. In developing parts of the world, significant increases in primary ...
(published as 'Schooling with Learning: The Effect of Free Primary Education and Mother Tongue Instruction Reforms in Ethiopia' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 94-107)
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I25, I28, O55
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9915
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Monique
de Haan
Edwin
Leuven
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Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2020, 38 (3), 727–765)
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H52, I21, J13, J24, J31
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9914
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
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Minimum Wages and Firm Value
How does the value of a firm change in response to a minimum wage hike? The evidence we have to date is not well-suited to answer this question, principally because events that have been studied are ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36, 159-95)
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J23, L25
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9913
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Daniel
Baumgarten
Michael
Kvasnicka
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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession
We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 29-44)
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E32, J23, L23, J68
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9911
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148)
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I22, D83, H52
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9910
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Barbara
Broadway
Guyonne
Kalb
Jinhu
Li
Anthony
Scott
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Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model
This paper analyses doctors' supply of after-hours care, and how it is affected by personal and family circumstances as well as the earnings structure. We use detailed survey data from a large sample ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e52-e66 )
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I11, J22, J44, J21
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9909
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Stephen
Bazen
Xavier
Joutard
Brice
Magdalou
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An Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Models
The widely used Oaxaca decomposition applies to linear models. Extending it to commonly used nonlinear models such as duration models is not straightforward. This paper shows that the original ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Social Measurement, 2017, 42 (2), 101-121)
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C10, C18, C21
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9908
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Pedro
Carneiro
Sokbae
Lee
Daniel
Wilhelm
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Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials
In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator can be improved either by collecting data on additional individuals, or by collecting additional covariates that ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2020, 23 (1), 1 - 31)
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C55, C81
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