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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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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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4968
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121 - 139)
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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4967
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs
Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that predicted severance plan consequences depend critically on the precise structure of the ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec, eds., Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 159-176)
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J65, J41, J33
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4966
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
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Immigrant Selection and Short-Term Labour Market Outcomes by Visa Category
This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 451-475)
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J61, J68
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4964
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Vincenzo
Verardi
Joachim
Wagner
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export ...
(published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (6), 694-712)
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F14, C23, C81, C87
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4963
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Michalis
Drouvelis
Robert
Metcalfe
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 479-492)
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C92, D01, H41
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4961
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Brighita
Negrusa
Sonia
Oreffice
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Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while ...
(published as 'Sexual orientation and household financial decisions: evidence from couples in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (4), 445-463)
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D1, D12, J15, J16
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