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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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8056
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Kyung-Gon
Lee
Solomon
Polachek
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Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school ...
(published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.)
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I20, I21, I22
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8055
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Michael
Kosfeld
Susanne
Neckermann
Xiaolan
Yang
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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. ...
(published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247)
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C93, J33, M12, M52
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8054
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Ulla
Lehmijoki
Tapio
K.
Palokangas
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Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that ...
(revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki))
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O41, J13, N33
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8053
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Suzanne
Kok
Bas
ter Weel
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Cities, Tasks and Skills
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54 (5), 856-892)
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J20, J30, O30
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8052
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Juan
Carlos
Duque
Michael
Jetter
Santiago
Sosa
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UN Interventions: The Role of Geography
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a ...
(revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95)
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D74, F52, F53, N40, R12
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8051
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Ronelle
Burger
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Trudy
Owens
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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31)
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I38, L31, L38
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8050
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Donald
J.
Lacombe
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Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (1), 67-77.)
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J22, D13
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8049
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Guido
W.
Imbens
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Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples
There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419)
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C01, C14, C21, C52
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8048
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Guido
W.
Imbens
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Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective
I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand ...
(published in: Statistical Science, 2014, 29 (3), 3232 - 358)
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C01
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8047
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Bas
van der Klaauw
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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97)
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C21, C26, C93, J68
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