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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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8740
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Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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Do NEETs Need Grit?
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market choices. In particular, we investigate the impact of grit (a tendency and ability to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:19)
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I10, I21
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8739
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Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Jonathan
H. W.
Tan
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Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving
This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Influence in the Face of Impunity' in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 119-121.)
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C78, C92
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8738
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Adrian
Bruhin
Lorenz
Götte
Simon
Haenni
Lingqing
Jiang
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Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors
Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102244. )
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D03, C31, C36
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8737
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Dalit
Gafni
Erez
Siniver
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Even Education and Experience Has Its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap
Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42, (5), 908 - 928 )
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J15, J24, J31
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8736
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Deniz
Ozabaci
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Additive Kernel Estimates of Returns to Schooling
In this paper, we employ a partially linear nonparametric additive regression estimator, with recent U.S. Current Population Survey data, to analyze returns to schooling. Similar to previous ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 227-251)
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C14, J24
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8734
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Joshua
Goodman
Takako
Nomi
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (1), 108-158)
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I20, I21, I24, J15, J24
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8733
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Sandra
E.
Black
Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Efficacy vs. Equity: What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016, 38 (2), 336-363)
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I21, I23, I24, J15, J18
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8732
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Rosario
Maria
Ballatore
Margherita
Fort
Andrea
Ichino
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (4), 885–921)
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C36, I20, I24, J15
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8731
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Peter
Glick
David
E.
Sahn
Thomas
F.
Walker
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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar
This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 792 - 813)
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I25, J22, D13, E24
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8730
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John
V.
Winters
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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments ...
(revised version published as 'Do higher college graduation rates increase local education levels?' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (3), 617 - 638)
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I25, J24, R23
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