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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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8354
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Olga
Skriabikova
Thomas
Dohmen
Ben
Kriechel
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New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184)
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J24, D81, P3
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8353
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Michael
French
Gulcin
Gumus
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Fast Times During Spring Breaks: Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 745 - 757)
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I12, I18, H73
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8351
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Kailing
Shen
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Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the ...
(published as 'Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China' in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2016, 11 (4), 548-580)
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J61, J11
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8350
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data ...
(published: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 175, 135 - 142)
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D1, I1, I3, J14, J26
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8349
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Laure
Pasquier-Doumer
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Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks
This paper sheds light on the role of family networks in the dynamics of a West African labour market, i.e. in the transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85)
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D13, J24, L14
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8347
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Monica
Bozzano
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, Special Issue on the Determinants of Gender Gaps, 2015, 61, 263-300)
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E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15
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8345
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Daniele
Checchi
Gianni
De Fraja
Stefano
Verzillo
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of ...
(published in Review of Economics and Statistics 2021, 103 (4), 786-802)
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D44, I23, I21, M51
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8344
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Daniele
Checchi
Gianni
De Fraja
Stefano
Verzillo
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And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set
We study here the problem of evaluating whether the selection from a set is close to the ranking determined by a measurable criterion. We propose a number of natural axioms and show that an index ...
(published as 'Selections from ordered sets' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 50 (4), 677-703)
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I23, I30
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8343
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Giray
Berberoglu
Aysit
Tansel
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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. )
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120, 121, 122
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8342
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Ryuichi
Tanaka
Lídia
Farré
Francesc
Ortega
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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)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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13085Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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