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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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7428
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José
R.
Guardado
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages
In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In ...
(revised version published as 'Worker Investment in Safety, Workplace Accidents, and Compensating Wage Differentials' in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (1), 133-155)
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I10, I12, J24, J31, J62, J71
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7427
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Neeraj
Kaushal
Ce
Shang
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Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional Destinations
We study the earnings of Mexican immigrants in their traditional and newer destinations in the US. Analysis based on longitudinal data suggests that during 2001-2009, the real wage of Mexican ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:11)
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J61, J15
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7425
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Testing for Discrimination against Lesbians of Different Marital Status: A Field Experiment
In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (1), 131-161)
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C93, J15, J71
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7424
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Petri
Böckerman
Jari
Vainiomäki
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24 (1), 86-96)
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I10, J23, J31
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7422
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Markus
Brückner
Hannes
Schwandt
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Income and Population Growth
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 124 (589), 1653-1676)
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O1, Q56
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7421
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José Alberto
Molina
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José A.
Cuesta
Carlos
Garcia-Lazaro
Yamir
Moreno
Angel
Sanchez
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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students
Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2013, 8(12): e83700.)
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C72, C73, C93, D03, J16
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7419
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia
Bansak
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2014, 32(3), 671 - 680. )
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J2, J3, J6
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7417
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Philippe
Bracke
Christian
Hilber
Olmo
Silva
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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt
We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure where homeowners commit a fixed budget to mortgage payments. Our model predicts ...
(heavily revised version published as 'Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103, 52 - 66)
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L26, D14, G11, R21
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7416
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Guyonne
Kalb
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 1-24)
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C26, I21, J24
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7415
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James
J.
Heckman
Lakshmi
K.
Raut
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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 191 (1), 164 - 175)
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J24, J62, O15, I21
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