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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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7156
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 86-92)
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N30, P0, Z1
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7155
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Paolo
Brunori
Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international ...
(published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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D71, D91, I32
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7153
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Leonardo
Becchetti
Riccardo
Massari
Paolo
Naticchioni
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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442)
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I31, I28, J17, J21, J28
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7151
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544)
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Z12, N33
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7150
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2121-68)
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F16, H53, J23, J31
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7149
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Huu
Chi
Nguyen
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
François
Roubaud
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (12), 1694-1710)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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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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