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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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7899
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Sandra
E.
Black
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
Jenna
Cullinane
Rachel
Veron
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Can You Leave High School Behind?
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, June 2015)
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I20
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7898
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Verena
Wondratschek
Karin
Edmark
Markus
Frölich
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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102)
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I20, C21
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7897
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Christian
Dustmann
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Uta
Schönberg
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The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice
Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380)
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I21, J10
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7896
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Nikos
Askitas
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Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, ...
(published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485)
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C71, C73, C57, D87
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7895
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Georgi
Kocharkov
Cezar
Santos
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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 348-353)
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D31, J11, J12, J22
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7894
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Tim
Friehe
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality ...
(published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146)
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K42, D03, D81, D90, C21, C91
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7893
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Donal
O'Neill
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Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard
Reliable measures of body composition are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 17, 116-128.)
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I18, C38
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7892
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Based on local variations in vocational rehabilitation (VR) priorities, we examine the impacts of alternative VR programs on short- and long-term labor market outcomes for temporary disability ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.)
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C21, C26, H55, I38, J24
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7891
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Andrea
Bassanini
Eve
Caroli
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Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119-120, 13-37)
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I10, I31, J22, J28
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7890
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 66-69)
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D8, J2, J6
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