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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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8858
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Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information
We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 186 - 2020)
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D03, C83, D84
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8857
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Thomas
Dohmen
Jan
Sauermann
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Referee Bias
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, 30 (4), 679-695)
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D8, L83
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8856
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Orazio
Attanasio
Sarah
Cattan
Emla
Fitzsimons
Costas
Meghir
Marta
Rubio-Codina
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (1), 48–85)
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J13, J24, I24, I25, I32, O15
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8855
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Corrado
Andini
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The Wage Return to Education: What Hides Behind the Least Squares Bias?
This paper combines the approach by Guimarães and Portugal (2010) with the methodology of Gelbach (2015) to investigate the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45 (7), 1409-1425)
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I21, J31
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8854
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Isabelle
Lebon
Therese
Rebiere
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How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets – ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2018, 17 (1), 1 - 44 )
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H21, H52, J21, J64
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8852
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
Peter
Siminski
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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.)
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H56, I10, I13
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8851
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Jan
Michael
Bauer
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145)
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E26, J14, J46
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8850
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Stefan
Pichler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into ...
(revised version published as 'The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior' in:Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156, 14-33)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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8849
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Marco
Francesconi
Jonathan
James
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a ...
(revised version published as "Liquid Assets? The Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129(621), 2090-2136)
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I12, I18, K42
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8848
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Sónia
Félix
Pedro
Portugal
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Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of ...
(published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129 )
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C21, D04
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13084Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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