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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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7307
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Ronen
Bar-El
Yossef
Tobol
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Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis
We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to ...
(published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel))
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C72, C92, H41
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7306
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Daniel
Parent
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Transactions Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy
In this paper we adapt the model of MacLeod (2007) to provide one way to formally implement some of Williamson's ideas regarding the effect of transactions costs upon employment relationship. We then ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2015, 31 (S1), i40–i76,)
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J33
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7305
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Shelly
Lundberg
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The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality
I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 421-441 )
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I24
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7304
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Vincenzo
Caponi
Miana
Plesca
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Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on legal and illegal immigrants to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 923-960)
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J15, F22
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7303
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Arnaud
Dupuy
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82 (325), 24-45.)
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D3, J21, J23, J31
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7302
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Luca
Colombo
Herbert
Dawid
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the formation of start-ups – proxied by the ease of access to financial resources – ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49, 513-531.)
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O31, L26
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7301
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Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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The Effect of Non-Cognitive Traits on Health Behaviours in Adolescence
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23 (9), 1146-1158)
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I18, I28
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7300
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Redzo
Mujcic
Paul
Frijters
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Still Not Allowed on the Bus: It Matters If You're Black or White!
We employ a natural field experiment to study the extent and nature of racial discrimination in Queensland, Australia. Mimicking the historical case of Rosa Parks who was denied seating in a bus ...
(published as 'The Colour of a Free Ride' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (634), 970–999)
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C93, J15, J71, D03
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7299
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Mark
W.
Nichols
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime
We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 66, 1-15.)
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H71, L83
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7298
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Aaron
K.
Chatterji
Kenneth
Y.
Chay
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 507-561 )
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J15, L26
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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