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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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5531
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Jacopo
Mazza
Hans
van Ophem
Joop
Hartog
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. ...
(published as 'Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk?' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 323 - 338 )
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C01, C33, C34, J31
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5530
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Ernst
Fehr
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias
Sutter
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 369-383)
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C91, D03
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5529
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker’s commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish ...
(published as 'Commuting Time and Labor Supply in the Netherlands: A Time Use Study' in: Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2014, 48(3), 409-426)
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R23, J22, J24
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5528
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Monique
de Haan
Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across ...
(published as 'School Consolidation and Student Achievement' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2016, 32 (4), 816 - 139)
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I21, I22, H75, D40
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5527
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Exit Exams and High School Dropout
In this paper, I consider the impact of the expansion of exams students must pass in order to graduate high school on dropout rates. "Exit exams," as these tests are known, have become more common, ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 323-350)
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I2, I28
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5526
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Simon
Chang
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Seonghoon
Kim
Shi-yung
Liu
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria ...
(published in: Econmic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62 (3), 519-36.)
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I12, I18, I21, O15, O18
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5525
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Isaac
D.
Swensen
Glen
R.
Waddell
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Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (1), 22–32)
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I21, I18, K32
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5524
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Matt
Dickson
Sarah
Smith
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What Determines the Return to Education: An Extra Year or a Hurdle Cleared?
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years’ schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1167-1176)
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I21, I28, J24
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5523
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Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s ...
(published in: Handbook of the Economics of EducationErik Hanushek, F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, Elsevier Science, Vol. 4, 283 - 326)
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I2
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5522
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The ...
(published in: Journal of Forecasting, 2013, 32 (4), 299 - 306.)
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C82, E01, E32, E37, L92
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