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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7184 Roger Gordon
Gordon B. Dahl
Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 629-635)
A11, H0, J0, Z18
7183 Christine Binzel
Dietmar Fehr
Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106)
C72, C93, D82, O12
7182 Lex Borghans
Huub Meijers
Bas ter Weel
The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Measuring IQ
This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34 (1), 17-28)
J20, J24
7181 Nikolay Angelov
Per Johansson
Erica Lindahl
Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?
We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and ...
(published as 'Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 545–579)
J21, D13, C21
7180 Patrick Kline
Enrico Moretti
Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local ...
(shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 238-243)
J6
7179 Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker
Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious ...
(pubished in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (600), 330 - 362)
I0, I12, I15, I18, O10, O13, Q42, Q48, Q53
7178 David Autor
The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2013, 46 (3), 185-199)
J23, J24, J30, J31, O31, O33
7177 Reto Odermatt
Alois Stutzer
Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 176-194)
D03, D62, I18, K32
7176 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor
Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 528-533)
N30, O10, O50, Z10
7175 Kristian Behrens
Giordano Mion
Yasusada Murata
Jens Suedekum
Spatial Frictions
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97(1), 40-70.)
F12, R12
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