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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5919 Ernst Fehr
Karla Hoff
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 396-412)
A12, A13, D01, K0
5918 Ylenia Brilli
Daniela Del Boca
Chiara D. Pronzato
Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual ...
(published as 'Does Child Care Availability Play a Role in Maternal Employment and Children's Development? Evidence from Italy' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016 ,14(1), 27-51)
J13, D1, H75
5917 Guilherme Lichand
Rodrigo R. Soares
Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 459-499)
K1, K41, K42, H41, O12, O17, O54
5916 Joachim Wagner
International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006
The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 148 (2), 235-267)
F14
5915 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 57-93)
J31, J24
5914 Niaz Asadullah
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48(9), 1193-1208 )
D63, O53
5913 Diane J. Macunovich
Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women's Labor Force Participation 1968-2010
Relative cohort size – the ratio of young to prime-age adults – and relative income – the income of young adults relative to their material aspirations, as instrumented using the income of older ...
(published as 'Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968–2010' in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (4), 631-648)
J22
5911 Daniel L. Millimet
Jayjit Roy
Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement ...
(published as 'Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (4), 652-677)
C31, F21, Q52
5910 Olivier B. Bargain
Mathias Dolls
Herwig Immervoll
Dirk Neumann
Andreas Peichl
Nico Pestel
Sebastian Siegloch
Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct ...
(elements published in "Connecting People with Jobs: Australia", https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264269637-en)
H23, H31, H53, P16
5909 Luca Bossi
Gulcin Gumus
Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model
In this paper, we set up a three-period stochastic overlapping generations model to analyze the implications of income inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We ...
(revised version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, 17 (6), 1198-1226)
D72, H53, H55
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