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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5697 Martin Nybom
Jan Stuhler
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 )
J62, D3, D31
5694 Liam Graham
Dennis J. Snower
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.)
E20, E40, E50
5693 Yigal Attali
Zvika Neeman
Analia Schlosser
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)
J16, J24, I24, M52
5691 Ann-Kathrine Ejsing
Ulrich Kaiser
Hans Christian Kongsted
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)
O33, O34, C23
5690 Joshua Angrist
Susan Dynarski
Thomas J. Kane
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters
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)
I21, I24, I28
5689 Stephen L. Cheung
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)
C72, C91, D70, H41
5688 Jan Boone
Jan C. van Ours
Jean-Philippe Wuellrich
Josef Zweimüller
Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety
Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 764-773)
I10, J60, J81
5687 Laura V Zimmermann
Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India
Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (1), 151-163)
I24, I25, J16, O15
5686 David C. Maré
Richard Fabling
Steven Stillman
Immigration and Innovation
We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the ...
(published as 'Innovation and the Local Workforce' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2014, 93(1), 183–201)
O31, R30
5685 Katrine Vellesen Loken
Kjell Erik Lommerud
Shelly Lundberg
Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway
Norwegian registry data is used to investigate the location decisions of a full population cohort of young adults as they complete their education, establish separate households and form their own ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 285-310)
J12, J16, J61
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