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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6281 Stephen Gibbons
Sandra McNally
Martina Viarengo
Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1618-1668 )
R0, I21, H52
6280 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Joseph J. Sabia
High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is ...
(published as 'Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicides by Gender and Age' in: American Journal of Public Health, 2014, 104 (12), 2369-2376)
I10, I18
6279 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1079-1114)
D23, J33, M52
6278 Katja Görlitz
Marcus Tamm
Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm ...
(revised version published as 'Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Job Tasks and Firm Effects' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24(3), 261-279)
I21, J24
6277 Christian Thöni
Simon Gächter
Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Substantial evidence suggests the behavioral relevance of social preferences and also the importance of social influence effects ("peer effects"). Yet, little is known about how peer effects and ...
(revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88)
C92, D03
6276 Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1146-1175)
J15, J61, J62
6275 Philipp Doerrenberg
Denvil Duncan
Clemens Fuest
Andreas Peichl
Nice Guys Finish Last: Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?
This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high ...
(substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (1), 29-53)
H2, H3, D7
6274 Joachim Wagner
Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 161-170)
C81, F14, J31
6273 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Daniel Rosenblum
The Indian Ultrasound Paradox
The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 15838)
J13, J16, O1
6272 Nick Drydakis
Men's Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction
This study investigates the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 901-917)
J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
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