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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6026 Michal Bauer
Julie Chytilová
Barbara Pertold-Gebicka
Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Background and Other-regarding Preferences in Children' in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17(1), 24-46)
C91, D03, D64, I24
6025 Chris M. Herbst
Erdal Tekin
The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 71 (1), 37-52)
I12, I18, J13, R53
6024 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Sajal Lahiri
Javed Younas
Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. ...
(revised version published as 'Financing Growth Through Foreign Aid and Private Foreign Loans: Nonlinearities and Complementarities' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2015, 56, 75-96)
F34, F35, O11, O16
6023 Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélčne Turon
Severance Packages
Job-to-job turnover provides a way for employers to escape statutory firing costs, as unprofitable workers may willfully quit their job on receiving an outside offer, thus sparing their incumbent ...
(published as 'The Impact of Firing Restrictions on Labour Market Equilibrium in the Presence of On-the-job Search' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (575), 31-61. )
J33, J64, E24
6021 Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Francesco Pastore
Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 27-50)
H52, I23, I24, J13, J24
6020 Timm Bönke
Giacomo Corneo
Holger Lüthen
Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (1), 171-208)
D31, D33, H24
6018 Almas Heshmati
Nabaz T. Khayyat
Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan
This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use ...
(published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.)
C23, C42, H56, J15, N45
6017 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at ...
(revised version published as 'De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi' in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345)
E25, H52, J15, N31, O11, P16
6016 Octávio Figueiredo
Paulo Guimaraes
Douglas Woodward
Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 1 - 19)
R12, R39, J31
6015 Margherita Fort
Nicole Schneeweis
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823 - 1855 )
I2, J13
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