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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4941 Gary Charness
Peter J. Kuhn
Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
This paper surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion of methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
C9, J0
4940 Pierre Koning
Dinand Webbink
Suncica Vujic
Nicholas G. Martin
The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital
This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics , 2012, 21(8), 928-945.)
I1, I2, K42
4939 Decio Coviello
Stefano Gagliarducci
Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and ...
(published as "Tenure in Office and Public Procurement" in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (3), 59-105)
D44, D72, D73, H57, H70
4938 Maurice Schiff
Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage ...
(published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449)
F15, F16, F22
4937 Tony Atkinson
Andrew Leigh
The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual ...
(published as 'The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Long Run' in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (51), 31 - 74)
D31, H23, N30
4936 Carol McAusland
Peter J. Kuhn
Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 77-87)
F22, J6, O34
4935 Lídia Farré
Roger Klein
Francis Vella
A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY
An innovation which bypasses the need for instruments when estimating endogenous treatment effects is identification via conditional second moments. The most general of these approaches is Klein and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 111-133)
J31, C31
4934 Sher Verick
Iyanatul Islam
The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through ...
(published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
E24, E60, G01, J08, J60
4932 Timothy J. Hatton
Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection ...
(published as 'Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910–50' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (3), 951-972)
I12, J13, N34
4931 Kristiina Huttunen
Jukka Pirttilä
Roope Uusitalo
The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 49–60)
H24, J23, J68
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