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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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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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5520
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3-4), 653-676)
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D72, H11, H83, J31, J45
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5519
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Cristina
Terra
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, ...
(published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
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5516
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Alan
Barrett
Corona
Joyce
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 142-154)
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I38, J61
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5515
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Alan
Barrett
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt across Europe
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 8-23)
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I38, J61
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