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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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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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7439
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Manuela
Angelucci
Dean
Karlan
Jonathan
Zinman
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Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of ...
(substantially revised version published as "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (1), 151-182)
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D12, D22, G21, O12
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7438
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Katrin
Sommerfeld
Susanne
Steffes
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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach
The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 49-62)
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C14, J13, J22
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7437
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Erich
Battistin
Elena Claudia
Meroni
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Should We Increase Instruction Time in Low Achieving Schools? Evidence from Southern Italy
This paper investigates the short term effects of a large scale intervention, funded by the European Social Fund, that provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 39-56)
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C31, I28
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13018Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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