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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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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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6874
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Esfandiar
Maasoumi
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Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment
This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially ...
(published in: Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
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C14
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6873
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
Si
Wang
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317)
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J16, J31, J51, J62
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6872
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Javier
E.
Baez
Dorothy
Kronick
Andrew D.
Mason
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 267–289)
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Q12, Q54, O13
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6871
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Steven
Stillman
John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 79-93)
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I31, J61
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6869
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John
V.
Winters
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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (5), 799-822)
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J21, J24, R23
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6868
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Daniela
Del Boca
Chiara
Monfardini
Cheti
Nicoletti
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Self Investments of Adolescents and their Cognitive Development
While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children ...
(published as 'Parental and child time and cognitive development of adolescents' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 565-608)
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J13, D1
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6867
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Joniada
Milla
Thanasis
Stengos
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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes
We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45 (1), 48-82 )
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I20, J00
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6866
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Kristin
Göbel
Michael
Grimm
Jann
Lay
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Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110)
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D13, D61, O12
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6865
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Robert
Slonim
Carmen
Wang
Ellen
Garbarino
Danielle
Merrett
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Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 43-70)
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C9
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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