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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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6221
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Ronelle
Burger
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Trudy
Owens
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A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 64 (1), 71-111)
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G18, L31
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6220
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Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case
The purpose in this paper is to summarize existing evidence on welfare dependence among immigrants in Denmark and to supply new evidence with focus on the most recent years. Focus is on immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 113-125)
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H53, I38, J61
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6219
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Takao
Kato
Pian
Shu
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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an ...
(revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 37–50 )
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M5, J24, L2
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6217
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Helmut
Fryges
Karsten
Kohn
Katrin
Ullrich
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53 (S1), 251-277)
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G32, O32, L26
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6216
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97)
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H41, I18, O15
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6215
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Matthias
Doepke
Michèle
Tertilt
Alessandra
Voena
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 339-372)
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J10, N30, O10
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6214
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Kerry
L.
Papps
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The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey
Worker-level panel data are used to analyse the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (3), 686-707)
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J32
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6213
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (1), 96 - 102)
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B10, B30
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6212
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Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F308-F331)
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I21, J15
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6210
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Cahit
Guven
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?
Previous research has found that height is correlated with cognitive functioning at older ages. It therefore makes sense to ask a related question: do people from countries where the average person ...
(revised version published as 'Height, Ageing and Cognitive Abilities across Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 16, 16-29.)
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C21, J24, N3
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