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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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6442
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50)
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O17, O12, C93, D21, L26
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6441
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Olaf
Hübler
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Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?
This paper examines the question of whether risk aversion of prime-age workers is negatively correlated with human height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2013, 133 (1), 23-42)
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D90, J13, J24
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6440
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Christina
Gathmann
Björn
Sass
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709)
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J13, J22, J18
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6438
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Ioana
E.
Marinescu
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HIV, Wages, and the Skill Premium
The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 181-197)
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J22, I15, J31
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6437
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Nicole
B.
Simpson
Chad
Sparber
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2013, 80(2), 414-438)
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J61, E01
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6436
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework
The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 606-611)
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D13, J22
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6435
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Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, ...
(published as 'Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1 (6))
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J31, J71
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6434
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Niall
O'Higgins
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This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'
This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people's ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (2), 395-412)
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I28, J13, J23, J24
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6433
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
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Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection ...
(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 23, 432-452)
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J61, J68
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6432
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Testing Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panels
This paper considers testing the hypothesis that errors in a panel data model are weakly cross sectionally dependent, using the exponent of cross-sectional dependence ?, introduced recently in ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (6-10), 1089-1117 )
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C12, C13, C33
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