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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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9445
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Zachary
Bleemer
Basit
Zafar
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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)
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D81, D83, D84, I21, I24, I28
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9444
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Theresa
Kuchler
Basit
Zafar
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Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic outcomes in housing and labor markets. We exploit variation in locally experienced ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2019, 74 (5), 2491-2542)
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D83, D84
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9443
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Francesco
Drago
Friederike
Mengel
Christian
Traxler
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Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 96 - 133)
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D8, H26, Z13
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9442
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Shaohua
Chen
Andrew
Dabalen
Yuri
Dikhanov
Nada
Hamadeh
Dean
Jolliffe
Ambar
Narayan
Espen
Beer
Prydz
Ana
Revenga
Prem
Sangraula
Umar
Serajuddin
Nobuo
Yoshida
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A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14 (2), 141-172)
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I3, I32, E31, F01
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9441
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Amparo
Castelló-Climent
Latika
Chaudhary
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
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Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic ...
(published as 'Higher Education and Prosperity: From Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 3039-3075)
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I25, N35, O15
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9440
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Manisha
Shah
Bryce
Millett Steinberg
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Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 527-561)
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O12, I2, J1
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9439
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Nekeisha
Spencer
Solomon
Polachek
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Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production
This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015, 120, 234-240. )
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O13, O54, Q1
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9438
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Tony
Fang
Morley
Gunderson
Carl
Lin
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The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China
Job search procedures are a form of human capital investment in that they involve current investments to enhance future returns, analogous to human capital investments in areas such as education, ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37(0), 154-165)
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J31, J61, J64
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9437
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Martyn
J.
Andrews
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence
This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic ...
(published in World Economy, 2017, 40(9), 1750-1774 )
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F16, F22
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9435
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Eric
S.
Lin
Yu-Lung
Lu
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The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan
This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are ...
(published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016, 36 (1), 48-72)
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A2, I2
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