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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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7452
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Felix
FitzRoy
Michael
A.
Nolan
Max
F.
Steinhardt
David
Ulph
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Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 24.)
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D10, I31, J10
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7451
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John
Roy
Stefanie
Schurer
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Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia
Do episodes of mental health problems cause future mental health problems, and if yes, how strong are these dynamics? We quantify the degree of persistence in mental health problems using ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(9), 1139-1157.)
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I14, C23
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7450
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Rulof
Burger
Servaas
van der Berg
Dieter
von Fintel
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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer ...
(published in: SAJE South African Journal of Economics, 2015, 83 (1), 74-100)
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J21, I25, J64
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7449
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Matthias
Doepke
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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation ...
(published in: Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013, 12(4), 375-391)
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D63, D64, J10, J47, J80
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7448
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Laurent
Gobillon
Peter
Rupert
Etienne
Wasmer
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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 108-120)
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J15, J61, R23
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7446
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study
This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 51(11), 207-220)
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C81, J13, J22, O15
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7445
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Andrew
Lilley
Robert
Slonim
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The Price of Warm Glow
This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 114, 58-74)
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D64, D78, H41, C91
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7444
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Daniele
Checchi
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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 249-271)
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I21, I24
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7443
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Tetsushi
Murao
Ryo
Kambayashi
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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards: Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?
This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57, 195-224)
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J44
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7440
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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The Scarring Effects of Unemployment, Low Pay and Skills Under-utilisation in Australia Compared
There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller one on the scarring effects of low pay, but the possibility that skills mismatch ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47(23), 2413-2429)
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J24, J31, I21
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