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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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4955
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Matthias
Sutter
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, ...
(shortened version published as 'Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab' in: Science, 2012, 335 (6068), 579-582)
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C91, D03
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4954
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Manisha
Chakrabarty
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Mother or Motherland: Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India
In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government ...
(published as 'Educational Attainment in India: What Drives Transition' in: ICRA's Bulletin: Money & Finance, February 2013, 95 -112)
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I21, I28
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4952
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Identification of the Covariance Structure of Earnings Using the GMM Estimator
In this paper we study the performance of the GMM estimator in the context of the covariance structure of earnings. Using analytical and Monte Carlo techniques we examine the sensitivity of parameter ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, 11 (3), 343-372)
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J31, D31
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4951
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Takao
Kato
Chad
Sparber
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Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 109-126)
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F22, I20, O15, I28, J61
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4950
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Peter
Kooreman
Adriaan
R.
Soetevent
Arie
Kapteyn
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The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2226-2247)
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D12, C21
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4949
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Ryo
Kambayashi
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Ken
Yamada
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The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 264-276)
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J23, J31, J38
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4948
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Tim
Callan
Brian
Nolan
John
R.
Walsh
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The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution
An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds – in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 32, 207-225)
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D63, J38, J45
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4947
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Alison
L.
Booth
Andrew
Leigh
Elena
Varganova
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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia – a country where one quarter of the population was born ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (4), 547-573)
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J71, C93
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4946
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 31 (1) 2013, 119-153)
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I2
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4945
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Shelly
Lundberg
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Personality and Marital Surplus
This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the relationship between psychological traits, in particular personality, and the formation and dissolution of marital and ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:3)
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J12
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