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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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5500
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Mathilde
Almlund
Angela
Lee
Duckworth
James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Personality Psychology and Economics
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2011)
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I2, J24
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5499
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits ...
(revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594. )
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J22, J33, P36, O17
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5497
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Jürgen
Meckl
Benjamin
Weigert
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558)
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F12, F16, J24
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5496
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Frédéric
Docquier
Elisabetta
Lodigiani
Hillel
Rapoport
Maurice
Schiff
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Emigration and Democracy
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel ...
(strongly revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223)
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O1, F22
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5495
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James
J.
Heckman
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The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality
In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality ...
(published in: Daedalus, 2011, 140 (2): 70-89)
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J15, J24
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5494
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Emmanuelle
Walkowiak
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (3), 490-517.)
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J23, J24, J41
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5493
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Bernard
van den Berg
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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1032 - 1043 )
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H8, I18, I31
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5490
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Werner
Eichhorst
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The Transition from Work to Retirement
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2011, 7 (1), 107-133)
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J14, J26
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5489
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Silke
Anger
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market
This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 786-797)
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E32, J31
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5488
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Blair
L.
Cleave
Nikos
Nikiforakis
Robert
Slonim
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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences
Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382)
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C90, D03
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13003Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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