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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9003 Hans Fricke
Jeffrey Grogger
Andreas Steinmayr
Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the ...
(published as 'Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 199-213)
A20, I20, I23
9002 Anyck Dauphin
Bernard Fortin
Guy Lacroix
How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors ...
(published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766 )
D1, D7, J12
9001 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model
The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 187-190)
D11, D12, D13
9000 Michael A. Clemens
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (1), 326-342)
B40, C18, C80
8999 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Frank Gyimah Sackey
Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium ...
(published as "Microfinance and credit rationing: does the microfinance type matter?" Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 8(2), 114–131.)
G21
8997 Sourafel Girma
Yundan Gong
Holger Görg
Sandra Lancheros
Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269)
F23
8995 Mark L. Bryan
Alex Bryson
Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161 )
J31, J33
8994 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Vito Peragine
Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016)
D63, I32
8991 Torben M. Andersen
Mark Strom Kristoffersen
Michael Svarer
Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 27-39)
E32, H3, J65
8990 Katja Görlitz
Marcus Tamm
The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training
This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62 )
I22, I26, J24, M53
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