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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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8280
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Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
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Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables
This paper discusses the nonparametric identification of causal direct and indirect effects of a binary treatment based on instrumental variables. We identify the indirect effect, which operates ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 79 (5), 1645 - 1666)
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C14, C21
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8279
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal ...
(published in: S.Oxenstierna (ed.), The Challenges for Russia's Politicized Economic System: Routledge, 2015 )
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J31, J40, P2
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8277
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
Marc
Sangnier
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Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve
We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861-883)
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H1, Z1
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8276
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Etienne
Lehmann
Claudio
Lucifora
Simone
Moriconi
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule increases employment. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 1-36.)
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E24, H22, J68
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8275
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Yuri
Andrienko
Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003)
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H21, H24, D31, D63
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8274
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Carol
Corrado
Jonathan
Haskel
Cecilia
Jona-Lasinio
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (4), 592 - 618)
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O47, E22, E01
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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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13006Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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