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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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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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6453
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Heather
Antecol
Ozkan
Eren
Serkan
Ozbeklik
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The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory results found in the economics literature and the educational psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(1), 63-89)
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I21, J24
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6452
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Elena
Crivellaro
Sandra
McNally
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Mental Health and Education Decisions
Mental health problems – and depression in particular – have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, Vol. 33, 1–12.)
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I1, I2
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6451
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Charlotte
Geay
Sandra
McNally
Shqiponja
Telhaj
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Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What Are the Effects on Pupil Performance?
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F281-F307. )
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I2, J15
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6450
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Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
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Welfare Migration
This chapter reviews and discusses major theories and empirical studies about the welfare magnet hypothesis, i.e. whether immigrants are more likely to move to countries with generous welfare ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 26, 489-504)
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H53, J61, J68
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6449
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Sebastian
G.
Kessing
Chiara
Strozzi
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an ...
(revised and updated version published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51 (7), 1100-1114)
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H11, J45, R12
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6448
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Florian
Englmaier
Andreas
Roider
Uwe
Sunde
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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment' in: Management Science, 2017, 63(12), 4061-4080)
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M52, J30, D03, D80
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6447
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Daniel
Pollmann
Thomas
Dohmen
Franz
C.
Palm
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540)
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C14, C21, C24, J24, J31, D01, D81
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