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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9458 Seokjin Woo
Soohyung Lee
Kyunghee Kim
Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137 195 - 199)
C5, I2
9455 Binnur Balkan
Semih Tumen
Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence
Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266)
C78, J21, J31, L11
9453 Elena Meschi
Erol Taymaz
Marco Vivarelli
Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand: A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey
This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2016, 152, 655-680)
O33
9452 Timothy M. Diette
David C. Ribar
A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity
Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56(3), 1602-21.)
J1, R2
9451 Massimiliano Tani
Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being
The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 47-61)
D19, H13, I31, J61, R20
9449 Jan Bietenbeck
The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426)
I21, J24
9448 Jan Feld
Ulf Zölitz
Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428)
I21, I24, J24
9447 Julia Debski
Michael Jetter
Gender and Corruption: A Reassessment
This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a panel framework. Using annual observations in a pooled setting (no ...
(revised version published as 'Gender and corruption: The neglected role of culture' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 526 - 537 )
C23, D73, J16
9446 Ernesto Reuben
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales
Competitiveness and the Gender Gap among Young Business Professionals
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2024, 79, 1087-1121)
J16, D81, D84, I21, C93
9445 Zachary Bleemer
Basit Zafar
Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost
Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the US have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 184-211)
D81, D83, D84, I21, I24, I28
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