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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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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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6579
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:2)
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J71, J78
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6578
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Gavin
Chan
Christopher
Heaton
Massimiliano
Tani
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia
We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression ...
(published in Australian Economic Review, 2013, 46(4), 395-404 )
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C34, J24, J61
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6577
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D. Mark
Anderson
Resul
Cesur
Erdal
Tekin
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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior
While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 294-317)
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I10, K42
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6575
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Martin
Halla
Alexander
F.
Wagner
Josef
Zweimüller
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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case ...
(revised version published as 'Immigration and Voting for the Far Right' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (6), 1341-1385, )
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P16, J61
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6574
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Harounan
Kazianga
Dan
Levy
Leigh
L.
Linden
Matt
Sloan
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The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 41-62)
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I24, I25, I28, O15
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6573
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Barbara
Hanel
Guyonne
Kalb
Anthony
Scott
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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities: The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 94-112.)
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J22, J24, I10, I11
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6572
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Maarten
van Ham
Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
Rory
Coulter
John
Östh
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Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories
The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether ...
(published as 'Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty. An analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals' in: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2014, 39, 402-417)
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I30, J60, R23
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