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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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8880
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Beatrice
d'Hombres
Luca
Nunziata
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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in ...
(revised version publishd in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 201 - 224)
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I20, J61, J15
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8879
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Ulrich
Matter
Alois
Stutzer
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (2), 357-384)
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D72, K13
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8878
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Alessandro
Cigno
Giorgia
Giovannetti
Laura
Sabani
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2018, 27, 267 - 292.)
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D13, D33, F16, J13, J24
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8877
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Lanse
Minkler
Nishith
Prakash
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The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 563-581)
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I24, I32, I38, O1, O38
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8876
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Francesca
Marchetta
David
E.
Sahn
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The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple-equation framework ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403)
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O12, I25, J12, J13
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8875
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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The Effect of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM
There is growing concern in the U.S. that the nation is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and there is a desire to understand how ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:15)
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I23, J24
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8873
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Stefanie
Schurer
Sonja
C.
de New
Felix
Leung
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Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?
We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human capital investment model. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian ...
(published as 'University education and non-cognitive skill development' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70(2), 538–562 )
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I12, J24
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8871
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Risk-Sharing and Student Loan Policy: Consequences for Students and Institutions
This paper examines the potential costs and benefits associated with a risk-sharing policy imposed on all higher education institutions. Under such a program, institutions would be required to pay ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 1-9)
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I22
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8870
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Yoichi
Arai
Hidehiko
Ichimura
Daiji
Kawaguchi
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The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 37, 100-126)
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I23, J21
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8869
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Xiaoxuan
Jia
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Subject Specific League Tables and Students' Application Decisions
Do applicants to higher education rely on expert judgement about the quality of the course when applying? Using application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2016, 84, 600-620)
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I23
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