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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5375 Lina Dunnzlaff
Dirk Neumann
Judith Niehues
Andreas Peichl
Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe
The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while ...
(revised version published in: Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (Research on Economic Inequality, 19), Bingley, 2011, 99-129)
D31, H24, I38
5374 Joël van der Weele
Julija Kulisa
Michael Kosfeld
Guido Friebel
Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust is Reciprocity?
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, 6 (3), 256-264)
C72, C9
5373 Knut Røed
Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
Creative Unemployment
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. ...
(revised version published as 'Job loss and Entrepreneurship' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (5), 727-744)
L26, J65, M13
5372 Massimiliano Bratti
Alfonso Miranda
Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation
In this paper we propose an estimator for models in which an endogenous dichotomous treatment affects a count outcome in the presence of either sample selection or endogenous participation using ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (9), 1090-1109)
C35, I12, I21
5371 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Samantha Rawlings
Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational ...
(Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299)
I10, J11, O57
5370 Marco Caliendo
Frank M. Fossen
Alexander S. Kritikos
Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 394-409)
D81, J23, M13, L26
5368 Clair Brown
Julia Lane
Timothy Sturgeon
Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (1), 1 - 21)
J21, J08
5367 Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Paul Pieper
The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall and by gender and major discipline. The effects of the explanatory variables ...
(published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958)
I21, J24
5366 Dean Jolliffe
Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2011, 9 (3), 342-355)
I1, I18, I32
5365 Alexander Muravyev
Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
This paper presents and discusses new data on employment protection legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR – the CIS and Baltic states – over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use ...
(revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294)
J68, K31, P20
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