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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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6759
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Sarah
Hamersma
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Peter
R.
Mueser
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Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding
Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers, and in importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 72 - 100)
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J3, J4
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6758
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Christopher
Jepsen
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
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Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
We evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for ...
(revision published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (3), 621-649)
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J24, I21
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6757
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Fernando
Rios-Avila
Barry
Hirsch
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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas
Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 1-27.)
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J31, J51
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6756
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Manisha
Shah
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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 484-515)
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Q54, O12, D81
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6755
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Jee-Yeon
K.
Lehmann
Ana
Nuevo-Chiquero
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments
The critical role of prenatal and early childhood conditions on adult outcomes has been the focus of a rich body of research. In this paper, we examine various pre- and postnatal investments as ...
(published as 'The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children's Outcomes and Parental Behavior' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, 123 - 156)
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J10, J13, I24
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6754
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Miriam
Jorgensen
Uwe
Sunde
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Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects ...
(revised version published as 'Critical junctures and economic development – Evidence from the adoption of constitutions among American Indian Nations' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (4), 844 - 861)
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D72, N12, O11, O43, P16
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6753
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Ronald
Bachmann
Daniel
Baumgarten
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How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey
Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search behaviour of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:22)
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J20, J64, C38
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6752
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María
Cervini-Plá
José
I.
Silva
Judit
Vall Castello
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Estimating the Income Loss of Disabled Individuals: The Case of Spain
In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51, 809–829)
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I10, J24, J31
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6751
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Luc
Behaghel
Bruno
Crépon
Marc
Gurgand
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models
We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit" and of the bounding approach of Lee (2009). As a substitute for the instrument ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (5), 1070 - 1080)
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C31, C93, J6
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6750
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Aldo
Rustichini
Colin
G.
DeYoung
Jon
E.
Anderson
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior
Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of ...
(revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137)
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D83, C72, C93
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