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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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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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6994
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1), 331-354)
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J17, R41, I18, K32, L62, D12, D61, H40
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6992
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Mario
Centeno
Alvaro
A.
Novo
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Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
The fact that unemployed workers have different abilities to smooth consumption entails heterogeneous responses to extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(2), 185–207)
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J65, J64, J22
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6990
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Jihui
Susan
Chen
Qihong
Liu
Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
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Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34, 312 - 338)
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A11, A23, J44
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6989
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Margherita
Fort
Francesco
Manaresi
Serena
Trucchi
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Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth
We investigate the causal effect of financial literacy on financial assets, exploiting banks information policies for identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2016, 31 (88), 743-782 )
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D14, G11
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6988
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904
This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content of these diets with modern measures of adequacy. We find a fairly steep gradient ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (1), 101-122)
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I14, I32, N34
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6987
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Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings
We model the correlations of brothers' life-cycle earnings separating for the first time the effect of paternal earnings from additional residual sibling effects. We identify the two effects by ...
(revised version circulated as IZA DP 10761)
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D31, J62
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