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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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7123
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Matt
Dickson
Paul
Gregg
Harriet
Robinson
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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?
We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F184-F231)
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I20, J62, J24
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7122
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
Ole
J.
Røgeberg
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The Changing of the Guards: Can Physicians Contain Social Insurance Costs?
Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on ...
(revised version published as 'The Changing of the Guards: Can Family Doctors Contain Worker Absenteeism?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1230–1239)
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H55, I13
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7121
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Knut
Røed
Jens
Fredrik
Skogstrøm
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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship
Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment ...
(revised version published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2014, 26 (4), 430-448)
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L26, J65, M13
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7120
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Economic Science and Political Influence
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1004 - 1031)
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A11, E6
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7119
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Shoshana
Grossbard
Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (3), 447-467)
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J13, D10
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7117
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health
Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(4), 833-861)
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I18, C14, J64, J65
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7116
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Pierre
Koning
Arthur
van de Meerendonk
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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71, 1–14)
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D44, I38
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7115
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Niaz
Asadullah
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (2), 223-237)
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I21, Z12, O12, O15
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7114
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David
Neumark
Matthew
Thompson
Leslie
Koyle
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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?
We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:11)
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J23, J38
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7113
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David
Neumark
Matthew
Thompson
Francesco
Brindisi
Leslie
Koyle
Clayton
Reck
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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no ...
(pubished in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2013, 27 (4), 271 - 283)
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J23, J38, R51
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