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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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5484
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Robert
Dur
Joël
van der Weele
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15 (1), 77-93)
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K14, K42
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5483
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Mabel
Andalón
Gary
S.
Fields
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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production ...
(published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48)
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I11, J01, J08
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5482
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G.
Brant
Morefield
David
C.
Ribar
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11 (3), Article 8)
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I12, J24
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5481
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Saul
Estrin
Julia
Korosteleva
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2013, 28 (4), 564–580)
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L26, D23, D84, J24, P11
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5480
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441)
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C90, D63
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5479
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 234-246)
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J15, I28
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5478
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Alexander
Chudik
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, Part 2, 273-285)
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C43, E31
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5477
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Coen
Teulings
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Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) ...
(published in: Journal of the European Association, 2015, 13 (6), 1136 - 1166 )
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E24, J62, J63, J64
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5475
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Armin
Falk
Stephan
Meier
Christian
Zehnder
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments ...
(revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852)
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C90, D03
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5474
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Barbara
Mueller
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. ...
(published as 'The Role of Hard-to-Obtain Information on Ability for the School-to-Work Transition' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46(4), 1447-1471)
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I2, J24, J71
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