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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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8017
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Resul
Cesur
Naci
Mocan
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as ...
(published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44)
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I2, Z12, D72
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8016
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Markus
Nagler
Ludger
Woessmann
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Education Promoted Secularization
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source ...
(published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311)
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Z12, N33, I20
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8015
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?
Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a growing distinctive group in future labour markets. University dropout is ...
(revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96)
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I21
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8014
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Naomi
E.
Feldman
Andrew
Leigh
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Crime and Mental Wellbeing
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (1), 110-140)
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I31, R28
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8013
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Jérôme
Adda
Brendon
McConnell
Imran
Rasul
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Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment
We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. Such a policy can: (i) impact the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(5), 1130-1202)
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H75, J18, K42
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8010
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Gordon
G.
Liu
Ohyun
Kwon
Xindong
Xue
Belton
M.
Fleisher
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a ...
(published as 'How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?-Evidence from China's Academician Election' in: Health Economics, 2017, 26, 292-304.)
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I12
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8009
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Charles
Courtemanche
Joshua
C.
Pinkston
Jay
Stewart
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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not weigh and measure respondents. The standard correction from prior research ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293)
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C18, I1
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8008
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Paula
Nagler
Wim
Naudé
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the ...
(published as 'Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence' in: Food Policy, 2017, 67, 175-191)
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Q12, O13, O55, M13, J43
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8007
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Delphine
Boutin
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Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. ...
(published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938)
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F24, I25, J22
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8005
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James
Albrecht
Aico
van Vuuren
Susan
Vroman
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Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited
Derek Neal (JPE 2004) used the NLSY79 to show that the observed median log wage gap between young white and young black women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 66-71)
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J15, J16, J31, J71
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