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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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6809
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Isis
Gaddis
Janneke
Pieters
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(2), 457-490)
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F13, F16, J16, J21, O15
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6808
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Guyonne
Kalb
Trinh
Le
Boyd
Hunter
Felix
Leung
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Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes ...
(published as 'Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians' in: Economic Record, 2014, 90(291), 536–550)
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J15, J21
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6807
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John
Cawley
David
E.
Frisvold
Chad
D.
Meyerhoefer
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755)
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I12, I18, I21, H75, K32
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6806
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Alejandra
Mizala
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
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J31, J44, J8, O54
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6804
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Abel
Brodeur
Marie
Connolly
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 1-16)
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I31, J20, J28
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6803
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Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Comparing Quasi-Experimental Designs and Structural Models for Policy Evaluation: The Case of a Reform of Lone Parental Welfare
This paper compares two different ways of doing policy evaluation: on the one hand, quasi-experimental methods (or "ex-post" evaluations) which exploit the introduction of a reform and identify its ...
(published as 'Fighting Lone Mothers’ Poverty Through In-Work Benefits: Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 95 - 122)
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I38, J22, C25
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6802
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Matthew
Harding
Carlos
Lamarche
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Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, 101-113)
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C23, C33, I21, I28
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6801
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment
We examine the effects of recently adopted state merit-based financial aid programs on college attendance and degree completion. Our primary analysis uses microdata from the 2000 Census and 2001-2010 ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2015, 55(3), 364-390)
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H75, I23, J24
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6800
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Robert
Holzmann
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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide ...
(published in: International Social Security Review 2013, 66 (2), 1-29)
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G23, H55, I3, J21, J26
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6799
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Matthias
Strifler
Thomas
Beissinger
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Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis
We consider a theoretical model in which unions not only take the outside option into account, but also base their wage-setting decisions on an internal reference, called the fairness reference. Wage ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 63 (3), 303-330)
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J51, J64, E24
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13016Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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