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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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6560
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Pedro
Carneiro
Andrea
Locatelli
Tewolde
Ghebremeskel
Joseph
Keating
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program ...
(substantially revised version pubished in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 107 - 115)
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D12, D83, H42, I10, I12
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6559
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
Nidhiya
Menon
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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India
This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 49-64.)
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O12, I15, Q53, Q56
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6558
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Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
Catia
Nicodemo
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?
We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381)
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J3, J7
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6557
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future ...
(published as 'Would You Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in the Folly of Predictions' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (2), 257 - 272)
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C91, D03
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6556
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Aysit
Tansel
Elif
Öznur
Acar
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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 ...
(published in: John A. Bishop and Juan Gabriel Rodrigue (eds.), Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality Book 24) ,2016, 123-156)
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J21, J31, J40, O17
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6555
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Carlo
Dell’Aringa
Claudio
Lucifora
Laura
Pagani
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A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 ...
(published as: 'Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: the role of occupational attainment' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (8), 2015)
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J31, J24, J61, F22
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6554
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Hans
Grönqvist
Per
Johansson
Susan
Niknami
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Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics 2012, 31 (4), 617-629 )
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I10, J15
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6553
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Per
Engström
Pathric
Hägglund
Per
Johansson
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Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017,127 (600), 363 - 392)
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C93, H51, H55, I18, J22
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6551
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Shareen
Joshi
T. Paul
Schultz
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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 149-180)
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O12, J13, I12, J16
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6550
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James
J.
Heckman
Junjian
Yi
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the ...
(published in: S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, and X. Zhang (eds)., The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China on Human Capital, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
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I25, J24, O15
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