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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6864 Prashant Bharadwaj
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Christopher A. Neilson
Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1862-91)
I38, J13, J24
6863 Raymond Montizaan
Maarten C.M. Vendrik
Misery Loves Company: Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being
This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 1-26)
D63, D1, I3, J26
6862 M. Shahe Emran
Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka
Stephen C. Smith
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2014, 50 (4), 481-501)
I2, O12, D1, J12
6861 Yoichi Hizen
Keisuke Kawata
Masaru Sasaki
An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76)
C91, D83
6860 Stefan Bauernschuster
Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Jens Suedekum
Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69)
J61, R23, D81
6859 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106)
L82, L33, L10
6857 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Chad Sparber
In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and its Impact on College Enrollment, Tuition Costs, Student Financial Aid, and Indebtedness
The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 49, 11-24.)
F22, J15, I23, I28
6854 Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2015, 35 (3), 191 - 209)
F22, J61, J31, J24
6853 Yuanyuan Chen
Shuaizhang Feng
Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2013, 26, 75-88)
I28, J15, O15
6852 Govert Bijwaard
Stijn van Doeselaar
The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997 )
J12, F22, C41
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