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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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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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6209
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Nidhiya
Menon
Yana
van der Meulen Rodgers
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War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (1), 51-73)
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J21, O12, D74
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6208
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Guido
Schwerdt
Martin
R.
West
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The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based on an ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97 (C), 308-326)
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H52, I21, I28
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6207
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Joachim
Wagner
John Philipp
Weche Gelübcke
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys ...
(published in: International Economics / Economie Internationale, 2012, 132 (Q4), 117-139)
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F23, L60
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6206
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Jérôme
Adda
Valerie
Lechene
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Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 902-931)
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I12
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6205
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime
There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with various studies finding positive, negative or insubstantial effects. In this ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 118–141)
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F22, J15, K42
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6203
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Konstanze
Albrecht
Emma
von Essen
Juliane
Parys
Nora
Szech
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Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination
In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of individuals. Individuals from on average worse performing groups receive lower ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 144-169)
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J16, C91, D81
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6202
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Jo
Blanden
Paul
Gregg
Lindsey
Macmillan
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 541–563)
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J13, J31, Z13
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