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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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5331
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Marcos
Chamon
Kai
Liu
Eswar
Prasad
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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177)
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D91, J3, E21
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5330
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Tom
McKenzie
Dirk
Sliwka
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Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742)
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H42, H52, I22, M52
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5329
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 197-209)
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E02, D02, H52, J15, O11
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5328
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
Michael
D.
Steinberger
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Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration
In this chapter we provide a brief overview of the main empirical tools used by economists to study international migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012)
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F22
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5327
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom
This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.)
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E24, J60
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5326
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Richard
Akresh
Emilie
Bagby
Damien
de Walque
Harounan
Kazianga
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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186)
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O15, J12, I21, J13
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5325
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this ...
(improved version is available here)
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D86, M52, J33, D82, M41
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5324
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Tsunao
Okumura
Emiko
Usui
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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116)
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J24, J62
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5323
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Julien
Prat
Boyan
Jovanovic
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Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914)
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D82, D83, E24, J41
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5322
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António
Afonso
Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.)
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E24, E62, H50
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