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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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6463
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Mikael
Lindahl
Mårten
Palme
Sofia
Sandgren Massih
Anna
Sjögren
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The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations
Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link ...
(split into two papers and published as 'A test of the Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission using microdata on four generation' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 7(1), 80-96 and as 'Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 1-33. )
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D31, J62
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6462
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Costas
Meghir
Mårten
Palme
Emilia
Simeonova
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Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 234–256)
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I12, I18, I21
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6461
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Susanto
Basu
Luigi
Pascali
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Luis
Serven
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1647–1682)
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D24, D90, E20, O47
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6460
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Michael
Kosfeld
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 99-110)
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C92, J33, M52
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6459
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Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Aniruddha
Mitra
Robert E.
Prasch
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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our ...
(published as 'Globalization and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence' in: Social Science Quarterly, 2015, 96 (5), 1475-1492 )
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O47, O43, P14
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6458
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Soohyung
Lee
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Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.)
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A12, J12, J61
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6457
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Claudio
Lucifora
Simone
Moriconi
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Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions
This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 39, 2015, 201–221)
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J64, J88, H11
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6456
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Pavel
Yakovlev
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
William P.
Lewis
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Legislative Term Limits and State Aid to Local Governments
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, ...
(published as 'The Fiscal Consequences of State Legislative Term Limits' in: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2018, 48 (3), 1-19)
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H7, H3
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6455
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Stephen
Gibbons
Shqiponja
Telhaj
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Peer Effects: Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England
We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (4), 548-575)
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I2
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6454
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Susan
L.
Averett
Laura
M.
Argys
Jennifer L.
Kohn
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Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:2)
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I10, J15, J31
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