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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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8498
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Federica
Liberini
Michela
Redoano
Eugenio
Proto
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Happy Voters
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 41-57)
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H11, H2, H77, H87, D7, N12
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8497
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Michael
Jetter
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Terrorism and the Media
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions ...
(updated version published as 'Journal of Policy Analysis and Management' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 32-48)
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F52, L82, N40, Z12
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8496
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Guido
Heineck
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44(7), 869 - 883)
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D64, Z12, Z13
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8495
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nicolas
Herault
Rosanna
Scutella
Yi-Ping
Tseng
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A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?
This paper uses survival analysis to model exits over time from two alternative notions of homelessness. We are unique in being able to account for time-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity. We find ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 57-72.)
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I3, R2, C4
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8494
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Xi
Chen
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Fetus, Fasting, and Festival: The Persistent Effects of in Utero Social Shocks
The fetal origins hypothesis (hereafter FOH), put forward in the epidemiological literature and later flourished in the economics literature, suggests that the time in utero is a critical period for ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014, 3, 165-169)
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I14, I18, Z12
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8493
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Valentina
Corradi
Daniel
Gutknecht
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Modelling Heaped Duration Data: An Application to Neonatal Mortality
In 2005, the Indian Government launched a conditional cash-incentive program to encourage institutional delivery. This paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200, (2), 363-377.)
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C12, C21, C24, C41
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8491
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Ashley
C
Craig
Ellen
Garbarino
Stephanie
A.
Heger
Robert
Slonim
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Waiting To Give
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes ...
(published as 'Wating to Give: Stated and Revealed Preferences' in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (11), 3672 - 3690)
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D04, D12, D61, D64, I18
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8488
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Marina
Gindelsky
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Determinants of Bilingualism among Children
This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of ...
(published as 'Determinants of bilingualism among children: an econometric analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (3), 489 - 506)
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J15, J24, I21, Z13
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8487
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Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
Francesca
Cornaglia
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Nele
Warrinnier
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Locus of Control and Its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation
We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128(608), 298-329)
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J01, I31
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8486
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
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Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden
Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been ...
(revised version published as 'Are mothers of young children more likely to be self-employed? The case of Sweden' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 307 - 333)
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J22, L26, J13
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