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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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7148
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Wojtek
Przepiorka
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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts
It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection ...
(published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145)
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C72, C92, H41
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7147
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Lisa
B.
Kahn
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Asymmetric Information between Employers
Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205)
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D21, D83, J33
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7146
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Hans
K.
Hvide
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether ...
(published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185)
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D21, D24, J23, L11, L25, G39
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7145
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
Niels
Gheyle
Cora
Vandamme
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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour ...
(revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500)
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C93, J15, J21, J24, J42, J71
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7144
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
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Population Ageing and PAYG Pensions in the OLG Model
This paper shows the effects on a pay-as-you-go pension system of the demographic change in the standard overlapping generations model. Firstly, we consider a setting with exogenous fertility and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 251-256)
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J13, H55
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7143
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Jay
Stewart
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Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep
School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to diminished cognitive performance and that people who sleep less are more likely to be ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50)
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J22
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7142
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Qingjie
Xia
Lina
Song
Shi
Li
Simon
Appleton
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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression ...
(published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45)
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J31, J42, O15, P23
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7141
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Gary
S.
Fields
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2015, 27 (S1), 5 -16)
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I3, J2, O1, O19
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7140
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 251-256)
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J16, J22
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7139
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Felix
Weinhardt
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 82, 12-31)
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J18, I21, J24
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