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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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8270
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Sarmistha
Pal
Bibhas
Saha
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In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we ...
(published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785)
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H44, I22
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8269
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Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 43 , 47-65)
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I10, I21
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8268
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
Zoë
Kuehn
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Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms
Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the ...
(Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 26 , pp. 164-179. )
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J24, J45, E24, H30, O11
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8266
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Marianne
Bertrand
Sandra
E.
Black
Sissel
Jensen
Adriana
Lleras-Muney
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 191-239)
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J1, J3
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8265
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Andreas
Ravndal
Kostøl
Magne
Mogstad
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Family Welfare Cultures
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1711-1752)
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I38, J62, H53
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8264
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124, 392-395)
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Dl, D7, D9
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8263
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Thomas
Dohmen
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Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions
In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 71-85)
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J00, J01, D03
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8262
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Aysit
Tansel
Deniz
Karao?lan
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Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are ...
(revised version is published as 'Determinants of Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2020, 27 (41), 11–40.)
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I10, I12, I19
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8261
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Jacob
LaRiviere
Hendrik
Wolff
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The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population
The launch of Viagra in April 1998 led to a historically unprecedented high usage of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs. We test whether Viagra's introduction significantly influenced outcomes for its ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 540-556)
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I1, J1, O33, J31
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8260
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Daniel
Hallberg
Per
Johansson
Malin
Josephson
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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the ...
(published as 'Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 274–285)
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J22, J26, I18
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