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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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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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9119
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Massimo
Anelli
Giovanni
Peri
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Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602)
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I21, J16, J24, J31, Z13
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9118
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Monique
de Haan
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Bas
van der Klaauw
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The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice
Theory points to a potential trade-off between two main school assignment mechanisms; Boston and Deferred Acceptance (DA). While DA is strategy-proof and gives a stable matching, Boston might ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 388 - 455)
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C83, D47, I20
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9117
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Caroline
Schwientek
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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (53), 5748-5775)
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I21, J16
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