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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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8503
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Francesco
Andreoli
Tarjei
Havnes
Arnaud
Lefranc
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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)
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D63, J62, C14, I24
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8502
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Climent
Quintana-Domeque
Johannes
Wohlfart
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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.)
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D12, D91
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8501
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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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)
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C81, C82, D31
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8500
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Andrew
Hussey
Michael
Jetter
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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)
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D31, D63, J31
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8499
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Eugenio
Proto
Aldo
Rustichini
Andis
Sofianos
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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Intelligence affects social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two groups of subjects with different levels of intelligence, but otherwise similar, ...
(Extended version published as 'Intelligence Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1351-1390)
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C73, C92
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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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