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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5983 Robert W. Fairlie
Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos
A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (8), 2567-2591)
I23, I24
5982 Zvi Eckstein
Esther Gal-Or
Thorvaldur Gylfason
Jürgen von Hagen
Gerard A. Pfann
A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we ...
(published in: Michael Szenberg and Lall.Ram (eds.): Secrets of Economics Editors, MIT Press, 2014)
A11, A14
5981 Joanne Lindley
Stephen Machin
Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by ...
(published as 'The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium' in: Economica, 2016, 83, 281-306 )
J24, J31
5980 Stephen Gibbons
Olmo Silva
Felix Weinhardt
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 831-874)
C21, I20, H75, R23
5978 Saibal Kar
Sugata Marjit
Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 527-539)
J21, J31, J50
5977 Divya Balasubramaniam
Santanu Chatterjee
David B. Mustard
Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 140-160)
H4, O2
5976 Andries de Grip
Jan Sauermann
The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 376-399)
J24, M53, C93
5975 Raquel Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222)
O33, L25
5974 Spyros Konstantopoulos
Min Sun
Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?
We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned ...
(published in: American Journal of Education, 2012, 118 (3), 309-339)
I20
5972 António M. S. Pimenta
Francisco J. F. Silva
José António Cabral Vieira
Duration of Low Wage Employment: A Study Based on a Survival Model
This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker remains in a low wage situation. Explanatory variables take into account the ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2018, 45 (2), 286-299 )
J31, J42
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