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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9433 Ingo E. Isphording
Marc Piopiunik
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139, 52-56)
I21, I24, Z13
9431 Lorenzo Cappellari
Antonio Di Paolo
Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 90–101)
J24, J31, I28
9430 Ahmed Elsayed
Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Raymond Montizaan
Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis
Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing full-time pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 150, 277-294)
J14, J26
9429 Giulia Canzian
Samuele Poy
Simone Schüller
Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 87–103. )
O33, J24, L24, L26
9428 Hans Fricke
Markus Frölich
Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504)
C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
9427 Nikos Askitas
Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or ...
(published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198)
C81, E65, G21, R31
9426 Nick Drydakis
Brain Types and Wages
We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2017, 85 (2), 183 - 211)
J24, J31
9425 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees
In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework ...
(published as "The commuting behavior of workers in the United States: differences between the employed and the self-employed" in: Journal of Transport Geography, 2018, 66, 19-29)
R20, R41, J64
9424 Michčle Belot
Jonathan James
Patrick J. Nolen
Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 213-229)
J13, I18, I28, H51, H52
9423 Gilles Saint-Paul
Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohčme" (bobos). This takeover ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056)
H7, R3, R4, R5
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