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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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5701
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Arnab
K.
Basu
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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, 11 (1), 1-34, )
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J3, Q38, Q12
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5700
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment ...
(revised and extended version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 876-891)
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C93, D82
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5699
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Guillermo
Cruces
Ricardo
Perez Truglia
Martin
Tetaz
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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112 )
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D31, D83, H24, H53, I30
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5698
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Fernanda
Brollo
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2012, 106 (4), 742-761)
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C21, D72, H77
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5697
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Martin
Nybom
Jan
Stuhler
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Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 239-268 )
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J62, D3, D31
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5694
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Liam
Graham
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013,17 (3), 591-620.)
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E20, E40, E50
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5693
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Yigal
Attali
Zvika
Neeman
Analia
Schlosser
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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real ...
(published as 'Differential Performance in High Versus Low Stakes Tests: Evidence from the Gre Test" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (623), 2916–2948)
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J16, J24, I24, M52
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5691
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Ann-Kathrine
Ejsing
Ulrich
Kaiser
Hans Christian
Kongsted
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of ...
(new version 'The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' published as: IZA DP 7470; published as 'Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39(7), 1935-1958)
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O33, O34, C23
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5690
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Joshua
Angrist
Susan
Dynarski
Thomas J.
Kane
Parag A.
Pathak
Christopher R.
Walters
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Who Benefits from KIPP?
The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (4), 837 - 860)
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I21, I24, I28
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5689
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 129-153)
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C72, C91, D70, H41
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12998Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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