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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8510 John S. Earle
Scott Gehlbach
The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723)
H32, D72, P26
8509 Sourafel Girma
Yundan Gong
Holger Görg
Sandra Lancheros
Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 95 (1), 157-169)
F23
8508 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Laurent Gobillon
The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and ...
(published in: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, volume 5A, Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson and Will Strange (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 247-348)
R12, R23, J31
8506 Benoit Dostie
Innovation, Productivity, and Training
The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test ...
(published as 'The Impact of Training on Innovation' in: ILR Review, 2018, 71(1): 64-87.)
J24, L22, M53, O32
8505 Simon Burgess
Matt Dickson
Lindsey Macmillan
Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to ...
(revised version published as 'Do selective schooling systems increase inequality? ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 1 - 24 )
I24, J31
8504 Simon Gächter
Friederike Mengel
Elias Tsakas
Alexander Vostroknutov
Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting ...
(revised version published in Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 1-13)
C92, H41, D63
8503 Francesco Andreoli
Tarjei Havnes
Arnaud Lefranc
Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation
This paper develops a criterion to assess equalization of opportunity that is consistent with theoretical views of equality of opportunity. We characterize inequality of opportunity as a situation ...
(published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369)
D63, J62, C14, I24
8502 Climent Quintana-Domeque
Johannes Wohlfart
Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
This paper investigates whether the consumption of rich households provides a reference point in the consumption choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 172-194.)
D12, D91
8501 Stephen P. Jenkins
World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 629 - 671)
C81, C82, D31
8500 Andrew Hussey
Michael Jetter
Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49(12): 1147-1163)
D31, D63, J31
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