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Title
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JEL Class.
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6797
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Ren
Mu
Yang
Du
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31(2), 483-503.)
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J26, J24, O15, D13
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6796
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Erez
Siniver
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Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32(3), 2414-2441)
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J15, J24, J31
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6795
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Costanza
Biavaschi
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Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In particular, it recovers the counterfactual wage distribution if all Mexican ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38 (1), 59-80)
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J61, F22
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6794
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Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
John
Östh
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Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects
Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely ...
(published as 'Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2015, 15 (1), 195-215)
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I30, J60, R23
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6793
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research
Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2012, 44 (12), 2787-2793)
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I30, R23
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6792
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Claus
Schnabel
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Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges
Surveying some recent data and the empirical literature from various disciplines, this paper attempts to shed some light on what we know and don't know about (trends in) unionization and its ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 19 (3), 255-272)
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J51
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6790
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Atila
Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua
Angrist
Parag A.
Pathak
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The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools
Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (1), 137 - 196)
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I21, I28, C21
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6789
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sonja
C.
de New
Stefanie
Schurer
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Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control
This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their decisions to exercise regularly, eat well, drink moderately, and avoid tobacco. Our primary goal is to assess the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 1-28)
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I14, J3, C18
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6788
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Hendrik
Wolff
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Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices
Do drivers reduce speeds when gasoline prices are high? Previous research investigating this energy conservation hypothesis produced mixed results. We take a fresh look at the data and estimate a ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2014, 67(1), 71-88.)
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D70, J17, K32, Q26, R41
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6786
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Christoph
Wunder
Guido
Heineck
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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 244-252.)
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I31, J21, J22
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