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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9048 Esther Hauk
Javier Ortega
Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach
We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166)
D02, I2, N00, O14
9047 Anders Stenberg
Olle Westerlund
Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86)
H30, H52, I20, J24, O30
9046 Louis N. Christofides
Michael Hoy
Joniada Milla
Thanasis Stengos
Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery
It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children in many, if not most, populations. This relationship may form an ...
(published as 'Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 593-616)
I0
9045 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Marianne Simonsen
Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care
This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use ...
(published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 217-229 )
J13
9044 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Enric Meix-Llop
Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment
The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.)
H41, I20, K36
9043 François Rycx
Yves Saks
Ilan Tojerow
Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either ...
(published as 'Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ? The Moderating Role of Age and Gender' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7 (1), 1-37)
C33, I21, J24, J31
9042 Timo Hener
Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement
Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children's civic engagement, since they undermine, and in some cases prevent, the processes ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2016, 179 (3), 633–656)
J12, C23
9041 Simon Gächter
Lingbo Huang
Martin Sefton
Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712)
C91, C92, J41
9040 Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Simon Jäger
Florian Zimmermann
Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49)
C93, D04, D83, J64, J68
9039 Silvia Angerer
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
Matthias Sutter
Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264)
C91, C93, D03
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