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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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6591
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Santiago
Budrķa
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Are Relative-Income Effects Constant across the Well-being Distribution?
This paper challenges the common assumption made by economists to date that income comparisons are similarly important in different segments of the subjective well-being (SWB) distribution. The ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2013, 14 (4), 1379-1408)
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D62, I31
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6590
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Aldo
Rustichini
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 10-24.)
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D03, D63, C91, C7
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6588
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Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
Winfried
F. X.
Pohlmeier
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments ...
(published in: Review of Economic and Business Studies 2011, 4 (2), 29-41)
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J21, J24, J31
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6586
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Susan
L.
Averett
Sarah M.
Estelle
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Is it Necessary to Walk the Talk? The Effects of Maternal Experiences and Communication on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents
Numerous social marketing campaigns exhort parents to talk to their children about sexual abstinence and pregnancy/STD prevention while child-development experts advise parents to initiate ...
(published as 'Will Daughters Walk Mom's Talk? The Effects of Maternal Communication about Sex on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12(4), 613-639)
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I13, J12
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6585
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System
The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event ...
(revised version published as 'Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilizing Effects of a European Tax-Benefit System and Fiscal Equalization Mechanism' in: Economic Policy, 2013, 28 (75), 375-422)
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H2, H3, J22
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6584
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Julian
di Giovanni
Andrei
A.
Levchenko
Francesc
Ortega
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and destinations, using a quantitative multi-sector model of the global economy calibrated to ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 168-202)
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F12, F15, F22, F24
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6583
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Kazuhiko
Hayakawa
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Robust Standard Errors in Transformed Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models
This paper extends the transformed maximum likelihood approach for estimation of dynamic panel data models by Hsiao, Pesaran, and Tahmiscioglu (2002) to the case where the errors are crosssectionally ...
(published as 'Robust standard errors in transformed likelihood estimation of dynamic panel data models with cross-sectional heteroskedasticity' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2015, 188 (1), 111-134)
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C12, C13, C23
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6582
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Stephen
Machin
Olivier
Marie
Suncica
Vujic
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Youth Crime and Education Expansion
We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ...
(revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13(4), 366-384.)
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I2, K42
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6581
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Joanne
Lindley
Stephen
Machin
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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility
In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2012, 33 (2), 265 - 286)
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J24, J31
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6580
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James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 451-464)
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I20, D01
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