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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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5204
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Martin
G.
Kocher
Louis
Putterman
Matthias
Sutter
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 32-51)
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C91, C92, D31, D63, H41
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5203
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Kanika
Kapur
Susan
Gates
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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 146-162)
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L26, I1
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5202
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Markus
Poschke
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in ...
(superseded by DP 7991.)
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E24, J24, L11, L26, O30
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5200
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Tor
Eriksson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Respect as an Incentive
Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect as a non-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment ...
(revised version published as 'Respect and relational contracts' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (1), 286–298)
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C91, J32, J64, M52
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5199
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Martyna
Marczak
Thomas
Beissinger
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (2), 469-490)
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E32, C22, C32, J30
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5198
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Danny
Cohen-Zada
William
Sander
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Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?
In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54 (4), 889-906)
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K10, J16
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5197
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Guido
Heineck
Oliver
Wölfel
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 727–743)
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I21, J24
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5195
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 287-336)
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J71
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5194
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Seonghoon
Kim
Deng
Quheng
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Shi
Li
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The ...
(published in: Word Development, 2014, 54, 232-242)
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I12, J16, P36
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5193
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Lina
Bergström
Maarten
van Ham
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Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 4), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 79-99)
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I30, J60, R23
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