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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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4902
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Paul
Frijters
Juan
D.
Barón
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The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion
Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 116-136)
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D8, Z12
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4901
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Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Jonathan
Morduch
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 1118-1139)
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C93, D91, O12
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4900
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (5), 941–969)
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F22, N30, J61
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4899
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions
This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:8)
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F22, J61
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4898
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
Mary
J.
Lopez
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2013, 19 (1), 76-110)
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J1, J2, J3, J6
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4897
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Elisabeth
Fevang
Knut
Rřed
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Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative ...
(revised version published as 'Job Loss and Disability Insurance' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 137–150)
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H55, I12, I38, J63, J65
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4896
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Eva
Deuchert
Conny
Wunsch
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Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric ...
(published as 'Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions: Malawi's Insecticide Treated Net Distribution Program' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2014, 177 (2), 523-552)
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C14, C21, I18
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4895
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Eric
Bartelsman
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Joris
De Wind
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 57 (3), 787 - 825)
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J65, O38
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4894
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 453-486)
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J61, D91, H55, J65, J68
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4893
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Markus
Poschke
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"Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (7), 658-663)
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L26, O40
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