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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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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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6770
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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School and Drugs: Closing the Gap - Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US
We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results ...
(substantially revised verion published in: Journal of Behavior & Economics, 2017, 139, 166-181 )
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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6769
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Cain
Polidano
Domenico
Tabasso
Yi-Ping
Tseng
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A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(3), 358-375)
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I20, J01
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6768
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Hong
Liu
Zhong
Zhao
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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the ...
(published as 'Does Health Insurance Matter? Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 1007-1020 )
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I13, G22, H43
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6766
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John
V.
Winters
Barry
Hirsch
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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings
Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 930-947)
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J15, J31
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6765
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Alan
de Brauw
John
T.
Giles
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32 (1), 1-18)
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O12, O15, J22, J24
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6764
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Seamus
McGuinness
Mark
Wooden
Markus
Hahn
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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45 (4), 329 - 347)
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J63
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6763
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Gigi
Foster
Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
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Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (18), 1847-1862)
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D13, C91
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6762
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment
Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I ...
(revised version published as 'Comment on "Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences": On the Elicitation of Time Preference under Conditions of Risk' in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (7), 2242-2260)
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C91, D03, D81, D90
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6761
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Sarah
Flèche
Claudia
Senik
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The Great Happiness Moderation
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed ...
(published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139)
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D31, D6, I3, O15
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