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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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6784
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Robert
M.
Sauer
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 537-564)
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C35, C53, C61, D91, J12, J13, J22, J24, J31, J64
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6783
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Jay
Bhattacharya
Christina
Gathmann
Grant
Miller
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 232-60)
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I18, I15, P35, P36, P37
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6781
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
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A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models
A simple graphical approach to presenting results from nonlinear regression models is described. In the face of multiple covariates, 'partial mean' plots may be unattractive. The approach here is ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 578-581)
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C1, C13, C14
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6780
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Rolf
Ketzler
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes
The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2013, 95 (3), 1095-1112)
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A11, C53, I23, L31
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6777
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 13–25)
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I18, J51, J22
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6775
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Lukas
Vogel
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2015, 12 (3), 375-392)
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D78, E52, E61, F36
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6774
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Diego
Ubfal
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How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates
This paper tests the broadly adopted assumption that people apply a single discount rate to the utility from different sources of consumption. Using unique data from two surveys conducted in rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 118: 150-170.)
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D01, D91, O1
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6773
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Rudi
Rocha
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 112, 72–91)
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I15, I18, H51, Q54
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6772
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Mehtabul
Azam
Céline
Ferré
Mohamed
Ihsan
Ajwad
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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that ...
(revised version published as 'Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? The case of Latvia' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:10)
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I38, J64, J68
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6771
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Christian
Bayer
Falko
Juessen
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Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks
We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (4), 160–187)
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E21, D12, D60
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13014Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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