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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8533 Sebastian Kube
Sebastian Schaube
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Elina Khachatryan
Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents
Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.)
C90, D02, D62, D63, H41
8531 Vincent Bignon
Eve Caroli
Roberto Galbiati
Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification ...
(published as 'Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in Nineteenth Century France in: Economic Journal, 2016, 127 (595), 19 - 49)
K42, N33, R11
8530 Sarah Brown
Daniel Gray
Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects
This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well-being. Initially, the empirical analysis, based on a large nationally representative panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 17–36)
D14, I31, J28
8528 Peng Nie
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Xiaobo He
Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69)
I10, I15, J13, C14
8527 Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a ...
(revised version published as 'Beauty, Body Size and Wages: Evidence from a Unique Data Set ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 22, 24-34.)
D1, J1
8526 Xing (Michelle) Liu
Eva Sierminska
Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 6)
J71, J31, J2, J16
8525 Esther Gehrke
Michael Grimm
Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, 66 (4): 673 - 707.)
D24, O12, Q12
8523 David McKenzie
Dean Yang
Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30(2), 155-92)
O15, F22
8522 Vincenzo Scoppa
Manuela Stranges
Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using ...
(published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.)
Z10, Z13, J10, J15, J16, J20
8521 Artjoms Ivlevs
Roswitha M. King
Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind
We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on ...
(published as "Does emigration reduce corruption?" in: Public Choice, 2017, 171 (3-4), 389–408)
F22, F24, D73
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