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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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4978
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences
Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 100–114)
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J13, H40, I28, D31
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4977
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Robert
A.
Hart
J. Elizabeth
Roberts
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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great ...
(published as 'Real wage cyclicality in the Great Depression: evidence from British engineering and metal working firms' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 197-218)
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E32, J31, J33, N64
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4976
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Henrik
Ohlsson
Per
Broomé
Pieter
Bevelander
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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the "market" for self-employment or entrepreneurs consists of a supply and demand side as ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2012, 24 (5-6), 405-423)
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J15, J21, L26
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4975
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James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
Nicholas
S.
Mader
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The GED
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, Chapter 9, 423-483)
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I21, J24, J31
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4974
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Shi
Li
Chunbing
Xing
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China's Higher Education Expansion and its Labor Market Consequences
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this ...
(published with S. Li and J. Whalley as'`China’s Higher Education Expansion and Unemployment of College Graduates' in: China Economic Review, 2014, 30: 567–582)
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I2, J2
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4973
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Rosholm
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Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 65 (1) 108-125)
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C41, J64, J30, J40
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4972
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Laura
E.
Hill
Joseph
Hayes
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Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization
Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking ...
(revised version published as 'Wage and Mobility Effects of Legalization: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 171–197)
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J8, J15, J18, J31, J61
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4971
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Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
Matthew
Wiswall
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What Linear Estimators Miss: Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes
This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (2), 1–35)
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J13, C21, C23
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4970
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Martin
A.
van Tuijl
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the "Dying Seconds" of International Football Matches
This paper investigates whether there are country-specific characteristics in goal-scoring in the final stage of important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in ...
(published in: International Journal of Sport Finance, 2011, 6 (2), 138-154)
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J44
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4969
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Pierre
Koning
Karen
van der Wiel
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School Responsiveness to Quality Rankings: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education in the Netherlands
This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 339-355)
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H75, I20, D83
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