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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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8122
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Ritashree
Chakrabarti
Junfu
Zhang
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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to ...
(shorter version published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52(6), 1134-1151)
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R11, R12, R13
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8120
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Mthuli
Ncube
Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Zorobabel
Bicaba
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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030
With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank ...
(revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110)
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I32, E21, J11, C63
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8118
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
This paper contains a review of the early history of program evaluation research at the US Department of Labor. Some broad lessons for successful evaluation research are summarized.
(published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577)
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B4, C21, J8
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8116
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Miki
Kobayashi
Emiko
Usui
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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan
Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 579–596)
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J13
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8115
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Jochen
Kluve
Sebastian
Schmitz
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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after ...
(revised version published as 'Back to Work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium-run' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2018, 71 (1), 143 - 173 )
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H31, J13, J22
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8113
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Astrid
Kunze
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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of children on male earnings and inequality' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 18, 683 - 710, 2020)
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J22, J24, J31, J13, J16
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8112
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Christian
Grund
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Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter
Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126)
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M52, J31, J33
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8111
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Andrew
Henley
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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the strength of the potential relationship between entrepreneurial activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and ...
(published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617)
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L26, M13, O43, Z12
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8110
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Joop
Hartog
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 125-153)
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I21, J22, J24, J31
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8109
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Tim
Friehe
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.)
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K42, H23, C91
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