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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7445 Andrew Lilley
Robert Slonim
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)
D64, D78, H41, C91
7444 Giuseppe Bertola
Daniele Checchi
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)
I21, I24
7443 Daiji Kawaguchi
Tetsushi Murao
Ryo Kambayashi
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)
J44
7440 Kostas Mavromaras
Peter J. Sloane
Zhang Wei
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)
J24, J31, I21
7439 Manuela Angelucci
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
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)
D12, D22, G21, O12
7438 Bernd Fitzenberger
Katrin Sommerfeld
Susanne Steffes
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)
C14, J13, J22
7437 Erich Battistin
Elena Claudia Meroni
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)
C31, I28
7436 Francesco Quatraro
Marco Vivarelli
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30, 277–305)
L26, O12
7435 Christian Grund
Tanja Walter
Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector
Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2015, 9, 751-777)
M52, M12, J33
7434 Jason J. Delaney
John V. Winters
Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors
This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2014, 35 (4), 464-476)
I19, J13, K42, Z12
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