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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6467 Lisa A. Cameron
Nisvan Erkal
Lata Gangadharan
Marina Zhang
Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences
Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals ...
(published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111, 38-58.)
C91, J15, D64, D03
6466 Mario Macis
Fabiano Schivardi
Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?
We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34(4), 945 - 978)
F16, J31
6464 Rashmi Barua
Marian Vidal-Fernandez
No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time
Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4), 399-431)
J08, J22, I2
6463 Mikael Lindahl
Mårten Palme
Sofia Sandgren Massih
Anna Sjögren
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. )
D31, J62
6462 Costas Meghir
Mårten Palme
Emilia Simeonova
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)
I12, I18, I21
6461 Susanto Basu
Luigi Pascali
Fabio Schiantarelli
Luis Serven
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)
D24, D90, E20, O47
6460 Sebastian Fehrler
Michael Kosfeld
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)
C92, J33, M52
6459 Phanindra V. Wunnava
Aniruddha Mitra
Robert E. Prasch
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 )
O47, O43, P14
6458 Daiji Kawaguchi
Soohyung Lee
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.)
A12, J12, J61
6457 Claudio Lucifora
Simone Moriconi
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)
J64, J88, H11
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