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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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5056
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Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
Ayal
Kimhi
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Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, 41 (1), 18-25)
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J15, D71, P16
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5055
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Bas
van der Klaauw
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296)
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J64, C21, C41
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5054
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Lisa
B.
Kahn
Fabian
Lange
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Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The ...
(Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.)
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D21, D83, J24, J33
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5053
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 559-578)
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O17, D2, L26, P14
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5052
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Ruta
Aidis
Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2012, 39 (1), 119-139)
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L26, P14, P51, P37
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5051
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203)
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D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
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5050
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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Investing in Our Young People
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. ...
(published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414)
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J13, J24, D91
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5049
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Simon
Czermak
Francesco
Feri
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias
Sutter
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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games
We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 265-285.)
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C72, C91
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5048
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Catia
Batista
Aitor
Lacuesta
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45)
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F22, J24, O12, O15
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5047
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Glen
R.
Waddell
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Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 961- 969)
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I2, K42
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