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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8153 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan L. Averett
Cynthia Bansak
Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility
Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 757-779.)
J13, I38
8151 Carlo Devillanova
Francesco Fasani
Tommaso Frattini
Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (4), 853-881 )
F22, J61, K37
8150 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Bruno Decreuse
Morgane Laouénan
Alain Trannoy
Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 107 - 160)
J15, J61, R23
8149 Raven Molloy
Christopher L. Smith
Abigail Wozniak
Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (2), 631-653.)
J6, J1
8148 Marco Vivarelli
Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter ...
(published in: Economic Change and Restructuring , 2016, 49, 159-193)
O14, O33
8146 Michael Grimm
Robert Sparrow
Luca Tasciotti
Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, )
H43, H54, J13, J22, O18, Q40
8145 Shahrouz Abolhosseini
Almas Heshmati
Jörn Altmann
A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the ...
(published as 'Alternative Renewable Energy Production Technologies' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 31-64)
D61, D62, H23, N50, O13, Q52, Q55
8144 Deniz Ozabaci
Daniel J. Henderson
Liangjun Su
Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors
In this paper we consider nonparametric estimation of a structural equation model under full additivity constraint. We propose estimators for both the conditional mean and gradient which are ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32, 555-575)
C14, C36, I21, J13
8143 Corrado Andini
Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns
A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51 (2), 319-337)
C23, I21, J31
8142 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (1), 45-59 )
I2, J22, J24
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