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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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6885
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (1), 199-22)
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J16, J44
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6884
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Sandra
Hentschel
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016)
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D22, J44, J63
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6883
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Niaz
Asadullah
Rupa
Chakrabarti
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, 67(2), 186–207)
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D04, I21, O15
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6881
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system ...
(published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.)
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J41, J65, J33, K31, O21
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6880
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Johannes
Koettl
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Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:12)
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J08, J22, J23, J38, E24
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6879
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Mircea
Trandafir
Reyn
van Ewijk
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Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7(3), 28-50)
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I11, I12, I18, J13
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6878
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
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Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and ...
(revised version published as 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (1), 29-45)
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J14, J15
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6877
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Denis
Conniffe
Donal
O'Neill
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An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
There is a large literature estimating Arrow-Pratt coefficients of absolute and relative risk aversion. A striking feature of this literature is the very wide variation in the reported estimates of ...
(published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102)
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C91, D81, G11
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6876
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Teresa
Lloyd-Braga
Leonor
Modesto
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Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?
Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of ...
(published in K. Nishimura et al. (eds.), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics, Studies in Economic Theory 31, Springer 2017.)
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E32, E62
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6875
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 55-59)
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C33, J16, J31, J41, L25
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