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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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8371
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Ulf
Zölitz
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Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics
Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2015, 15(1), 85–117)
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I2, I24, J24
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8370
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs
Married individuals match with spouses who share their occupation more frequently than predicted by chance, suggesting either a preference for same-occupation matches or lower search costs within ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1005-1033)
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J12, J24
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8369
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
Benjamin
Tabb
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 65 - 72)
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H20, H41, J22, J33, C91
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8367
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Dean
Karlan
Jonathan
Zinman
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (2), 125 - 161)
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L26, J24
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8365
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Maitreyi
Bordia
Das
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2015, 32, 183-218.)
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D19, I29, J12, J16, J24
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8364
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Filipa
Sa
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The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the UK
This article uses variation in university tuition fees over time and across countries in the UK to examine the effect of fees on university applications and attendance. It focuses on two policy ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 607 - 634)
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I21, J24
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8363
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 257-292)
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I22, J31
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8361
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
Alex
Bryson
Michael
White
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122)
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J5, J51, J28, J82
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8360
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
Lucy
Stokes
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The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (2), 139 - 154)
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J33
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8357
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Benjamin
R.
Lester
Ludo
Visschers
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets
In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15)
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C78, D44, D83
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