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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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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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6864
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Christopher
A.
Neilson
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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)
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I38, J13, J24
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6863
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Raymond
Montizaan
Maarten
C.M.
Vendrik
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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)
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D63, D1, I3, J26
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6862
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M. Shahe
Emran
Fenohasina
Maret-Rakotondrazaka
Stephen
C.
Smith
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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)
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I2, O12, D1, J12
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6861
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Yoichi
Hizen
Keisuke
Kawata
Masaru
Sasaki
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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)
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C91, D83
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6860
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Oliver
Falck
Stephan
Heblich
Jens
Suedekum
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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)
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J61, R23, D81
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6859
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Guido
Friebel
Matthias
Heinz
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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)
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L82, L33, L10
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