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6115 Joachim Wagner
The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1663-1665)
E32
6113 Martin Biewen
Constantin Weiser
A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginal products. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify production functions and to ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (9), 996-1020)
D33, D22, D40
6112 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, 56 (2), 333-369)
I00, I1
6111 Benjamin Elsner
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
The enlargement of the European Union provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of the lifting of migration restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163)
F22, J31, O15, R23
6110 Gerard J. van den Berg
Pia Pinger
Johannes Schoch
Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3), 465–506)
I12, J11, C21, C26
6109 Michael P. Pflüger
Stephan Russek
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory ...
(published in revised form in: S. Beugelsdijk , S. Brakman, H. van Ees and H. Garretsen (eds.), Firms in the International Economy - Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business, MIT-Press 2013)
F12, F13, F15, L25
6108 Etienne Lehmann
François Marical
Laurence Rioux
Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms
We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 99 (1), 66-84.)
H24, H31, J22, J38
6107 Seth D. Zimmerman
The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students
I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on ...
(published as 'The Returns to College Admission for Academically Marginal Students' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 711-754)
I20, J30
6106 Christopher A. Neilson
Seth D. Zimmerman
The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 18-31)
I21, I22, H75, R30
6105 Christina Felfe
Michael Lechner
Andreas Steinmayr
Sports and Child Development
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2016, 11(5), e0151729)
J24, J13, I12
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