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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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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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9434
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George
J.
Borjas
Ilpo
Kauppinen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Self?Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 143–171)
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F22, J61
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9433
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Marc
Piopiunik
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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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)
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I21, I24, Z13
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9431
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Antonio
Di Paolo
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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)
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J24, J31, I28
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9430
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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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)
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J14, J26
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9429
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Giulia
Canzian
Samuele
Poy
Simone
Schüller
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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. )
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O33, J24, L24, L26
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