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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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7008
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Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes
This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3)
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C13, C26, I14
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7007
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Patricia
Apps
Jan
Kabátek
Ray
Rees
Arthur
van Soest
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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51, 1641-1677)
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J22, J13, H24
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7006
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Julian
V.
Johnsen
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
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Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking and Birth Outcomes
An important externality of smoking is the harm it might cause to those who do not smoke. This paper examines the impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 72-93)
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D62, J13, I38
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7005
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Cecilia
Machado
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Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap
Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation, those assumptions are specially tenuous because of high female ...
(published as 'Unobserved selection heterogeneity and the gender wage gap' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (7), 1348 - 1366)
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J31, J16, J24
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7004
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview
This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 24, 453-469)
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F22, F55, J61
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7002
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Robert
G.
Valletta
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House Lock and Structural Unemployment
A recent decline in geographic mobility in the United States may have been caused in part by falling house prices, through the "lock in" effects of financial constraints faced by households whose ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 86–97)
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J6, R31
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7001
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Dina
Shatnawi
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Movin' on Up: Hierarchical Occupational Segmentation and Gender Wage Gaps
Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12(3), 315-338.)
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J71
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7000
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Esteban
Aucejo
Patrick
Coate
V. Joseph
Hotz
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Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209
Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California's public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3, 7 (2014))
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I23, J15
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6998
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Ernesto
Reuben
Matthew
Stephenson
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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies
We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 384-391)
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D03, K42, M42, M14, C92
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6997
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Alison
L.
Booth
Pamela
Katic
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Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences
In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30)
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D01, D80, J16, J24
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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