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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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9130
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Jens
Ruhose
Ludger
Woessmann
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224)
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I25, O47, J24
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9129
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Moussa
Blimpo
Ousman
Gajigo
Todd
Pugatch
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Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33 (1), 185-208)
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O15, I21, C93
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9128
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Noemi
Peter
Petter
Lundborg
Dinand
Webbink
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The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 54, 61-78)
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J00, J24, J16
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9127
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Robert
A.
Moffitt
Brian
J.
Phelan
Anne
E.
Winkler
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Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on the AFDC and TANF programs, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 1 - 42)
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I3, J1
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9126
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Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Children's Media Use and Homework Time
Homework is an important part of the academic production function, but often students are studying while doing another activity. Using the nationally representative Panel Study of Income ...
(published in: Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, 2015, New York, 91-107)
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J24
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9125
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Rodolfo
Lauterbach
Jacques
Mairesse
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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France
Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252)
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C23, D21, J51, L13
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9123
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Sebastian
Findeisen
Dominik
Sachs
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 58-78)
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H21, H23
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9122
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Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79)
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I20, J24, J31
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9121
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Benjamin
Elsner
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828 )
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I21, I23, J24
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9120
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Jürg
Schweri
Joop
Hartog
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Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis ...
(published as 'Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? Evidence from healthcare' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 141, 135 - 150 )
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I11, I21, J24, J31, D84
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