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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6329 Niaz Asadullah
Uma Kambhampati
Florencia López Bóo
Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004
This study documents the size and nature of "Hindu-Muslim" and "boy-girl" gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(4), 869-893)
I21, O15
6328 Oded Galor
Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While classical economists advanced ...
(published in: Handbook of Economics of Education, North Holland. 2014.)
O10
6327 Oded Galor
Stelios Michalopoulos
Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(2), 759-780)
O11, O14, O33, O40, J11, J13
6326 Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Alina Rusakova
Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after ...
(published in: DIW-Economic Bulletin, 2012, 3, 17-26.)
L26, D22
6325 Alan Barrett
Irene Mosca
Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?
In March of 2010, the Irish government announced that the age at which the state pension is paid would be raised to 66 in 2014, 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028. Also during 2010, the economic news became ...
(published as 'Increasing the State Pension Age, the Recession and Expected Retirement Ages' in: Economic and Social Review 2013, 44 (4), 447-472)
H55, J26, D84
6324 Alan Barrett
Irene Mosca
The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants
Within the economics literature, the "psychic costs" of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 483-506)
F22, J61, I10
6323 Chiara Criscuolo
Ralf Martin
Henry Overman
John Van Reenen
The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in ...
(pubished as 'Some Causal Effects pubished as 'Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (1), 48–85of an Industrial Policy' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (1), 48–85)
H25, L52, L53, O47
6322 Michael Gibbs
Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature ...
(published in: C. R. Thomas and W. F. Shughart II (eds.), Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013, 397-423)
M52, J33, M12, L81
6321 Richard Akresh
Damien de Walque
Harounan Kazianga
Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. ...
(published in: NBER African Successes: Human Capital, volume 2. 2016. Editors, S. Edwards, S. Johnson, D. Weil, University of Chicago Press.)
I15, I38, J13, O15
6320 Anne C. Gielen
Jan C. van Ours
Unhappiness and Job Finding
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 544–565)
I31, J64
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