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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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9449
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Jan
Bietenbeck
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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)
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I21, J24
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9448
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Jan
Feld
Ulf
Zölitz
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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)
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I21, I24, J24
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9447
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Julia
Debski
Michael
Jetter
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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 )
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C23, D73, J16
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9446
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Ernesto
Reuben
Paola
Sapienza
Luigi
Zingales
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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)
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J16, D81, D84, I21, C93
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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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