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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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8768
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Eva
Feron
Trudie
Schils
Bas
ter Weel
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Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Additional Value of Teacher Assessment in Predicting Student Ability
This research investigates to what extent subjective teacher assessment of children's ability adds to the use of test scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164 (4), 391-418)
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I21, I28, J24
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8767
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Are College Costs Worth It? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions
This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 296-310.)
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I21, I22, I23
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8766
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Katja
Görlitz
Christina
Gravert
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The Effects of Increasing the Standards of the High School Curriculum on School Dropout
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (54), 5314-5328)
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D04, I21, I28
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8765
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Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they ...
(published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367)
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Z10, Z11, L15, L80, M30, D12, J44
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8764
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Voluntary Activities and Daily Happiness in the US
This paper analyzes differences in daily happiness between those individuals in the United States who perform voluntary activities during the day, and those who do not. Using the Well-Being Module of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (4), 1735-1750)
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D13, J16, J22
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8763
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Jan
Marcus
Thomas
Siedler
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Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany
Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 55-77)
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I12, I18, D04
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8761
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
Kirsten
Thommes
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Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership
In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a ...
(considerably shortened version published as 'Public Good Provision in Blended Groups of Partners and Strangers' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 41-44)
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C9, M5
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8758
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Christoph
Rothe
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Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap
Estimators of average treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignment are known to become rather imprecise if there is limited overlap in the covariate distributions between the treatment ...
(published in: Econometrica; 2017, 85 (2), 645 - 660)
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C12, C14, C25, C31
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8757
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David
Card
David S.
Lee
Zhuan
Pei
Andrea
Weber
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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of interest is a known, deterministic, but kinked function of an observed assignment ...
(revised version published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83(6), 2453–2483)
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C13, C14, C31
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8755
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Jyotsna
Puri
Anastasia
Aladysheva
Vegard
Iversen
Yashodhan
Ghorpade
Tilman
Brück
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to ...
(published as: 'Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?' in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017, 9 (4), 519 - 542. )
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H84, C93, O12, Q54
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13003Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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