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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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5536
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Eric
Bonsang
Tobias
J.
Klein
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 311-329)
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J26, J14
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5535
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Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada
No previous study has attempted to estimate the effect of intrauterine exposure to armed conflict, a potential source of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian ...
(published as 'Armed Conflict and Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (1),190-199)
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I10, I12
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5534
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Gabriele
Doblhammer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Lambert
H.
Lumey
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Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long-term consequences of the fetal or childhood environment. Results are inconsistent and ...
(published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322)
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I12, J11, C41
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5532
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Bruce
Chapman
Mathias
Sinning
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2014, 22 (6), 569-588)
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H52, I22, I28
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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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