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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7566 Stephane Mahuteau
Kostas Mavromaras
An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life ...
(published in Education Economics, 2014, 22 (4), 389-411)
I24, I21
7565 Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602)
D13, H21, I13
7564 Christoph Rothe
Sergio Firpo
Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step, but retain a fully nonparametric specification in the first ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087)
C14, C21, C31, C51
7563 David E. Bloom
Elizabeth T. Cafiero
Mark E. McGovern
Klaus Prettner
Anderson Stanciole
Jonathan Weiss
Samuel Bakkila
Larry Rosenberg
The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic ...
(published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111)
E13, I15, O40
7562 Chunbing Xing
Junfu Zhang
The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90)
O15, R12, R23
7561 Massimo Bordignon
Tommaso Nannicini
Guido Tabellini
Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (8), 2349-70)
H72, D72, C14
7558 Lídia Farré
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain
Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:1)
J15, J24, J61, J62
7557 Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro
Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade ...
(published as 'Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program' in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (10), 2958–2989))
H4, I1, Q4, Q5, D1
7556 Tim Higgins
Mathias Sinning
Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans
This paper studies the importance of dynamic earnings modeling for the design of income contingent student loans (ICLs). ICLs have been shown to be theoretically optimal in terms of efficiency in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37 (1), 273-285)
H81, I22, C15
7555 Mary Gallagher
John T. Giles
Albert Park
Meiyan Wang
China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The ...
(revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235)
J08, J16, J28, J41, J52, J53, O15, O17
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