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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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7189
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Leandro
Carvalho
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs
We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to characterize drug-trafficking jobs and study the selection into gangs, analyzing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 121, 77-98)
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J4, K42, O15, O17
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7188
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel
Economic analysis is used to compare different paradigms for understanding the marketplace for religions and religious ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to ...
(published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), The Economics of Religion, World Scientific, 2023, 147-155)
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Z12, Y80, L00
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7187
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed ...
(published in W. Glatzer, L. Camfield, V. Møller, and M. Rojas (eds.): Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents, 2015, 283-299)
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I31, D60, O10, O5
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7186
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Corrado
Andini
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Persistence Bias and the Wage-Schooling Model
This paper provides an expression for the bias of the OLS estimator of the schooling coefficient in a simple static wage-schooling model where earnings persistence is not accounted for. It is argued ...
(revised version circulated as: IZA DP No. 8143)
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C23, I21, J31
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7185
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Govert
Bijwaard
Qi
Wang
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Return Migration of Foreign Students
Using unique administrative micro panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in The Netherlands. The life course experiences of these ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 31-54)
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F22, J64, J12, C41
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7184
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Roger
Gordon
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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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)
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A11, H0, J0, Z18
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7183
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Christine
Binzel
Dietmar
Fehr
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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)
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C72, C93, D82, O12
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7182
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Lex
Borghans
Huub
Meijers
Bas
ter Weel
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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)
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J20, J24
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7181
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Nikolay
Angelov
Per
Johansson
Erica
Lindahl
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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)
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J21, D13, C21
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7180
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Patrick
Kline
Enrico
Moretti
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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)
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J6
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13082Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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