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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8343 Giray Berberoglu
Aysit Tansel
Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey
This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three ...
( Published in: International Review of Education, 2015, 60 (5), 683-701. )
120, 121, 122
8342 Ryuichi Tanaka
Lídia Farré
Francesc Ortega
Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and ...
(published as 'Immigration, assimilation, and the future of public education' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 52 (C), 141-165)
D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
8339 Gerard J. van den Berg
Lena Janys
Enno Mammen
Jens P. Nielsen
A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models
We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 221, 43-67)
C41, C14, I12, J13
8338 Gabriella Conti
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
James J. Heckman
Rémi Piatek
Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis
This paper develops and applies a Bayesian approach to Exploratory Factor Analysis that improves on ad hoc classical approaches. Our framework relies on dedicated factor models and simultaneously ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 183(1), 31–57)
C11, C38, C63
8337 Marco Caliendo
Robert Mahlstedt
Oscar A. Mitnik
Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.)
C21, D04, J68
8336 Nynke De Groot
Bas van der Klaauw
The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits
This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job finding and subsequent labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208)
J64, J65, C21, C41
8335 Nezih Guner
Martin Lopez-Daneri
Gustavo Ventura
Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?
We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, 80, 69-85.)
E6, H2
8334 Horst Entorf
Philip Sieger
Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach
Two alternative hypotheses – referred to as opportunity- and stigma-based behavior – suggest that the relationship between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In ...
(published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283)
C21, E24, C33
8333 Nadia Campaniello
Theodoros Diasakos
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (2), 388 - 428)
I1, D1, K4
8332 Brian Bell
Anna Bindler
Stephen Machin
Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals
Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100, 392-404)
J64, K42
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