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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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5010
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 507-530)
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J11, J22
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5009
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Panu
Poutvaara
Olli
Ropponen
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School Shootings and Student Performance
In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 51, 93-106)
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C21, J16, I19
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5008
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Dennis
T.
Yang
Vivian
Chen
Ryan
Monarch
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Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2010, 15 (4), 482-504)
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J31, J21, O5
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5007
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Volker
Grossmann
Thomas
M.
Steger
Timo
Trimborn
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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 451-485)
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H20, O30, O40
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5005
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Moody Choice
If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this paper we argue that, even with full unpredictability of mood, the way choices from a ...
(revised version published as 'State Dependent Choice' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 45 (2), 239-268)
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D01
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5004
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Patrick
Hullegie
Tobias
J.
Klein
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The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductibles are moderate, and premia are based on ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (9), 1048-1062)
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I11, I12, C31
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5003
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Chunbing
Xing
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Residual Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
We use three waves of urban household survey data from 1995 to 2007 to investigate the trends of residual inequality and its determinants. First, we describe the change of overall and residual wage ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2012, 23 (2), 205-222)
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J3
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5002
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Anders
Björklund
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This ...
(revised version published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook in Economics of Education, Vol. 3, North Holland: 2010, pp. 201-247)
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I21, J13, J24
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5001
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
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Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56)
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C92, J64, M55
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5000
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Stephen
Machin
Olivier
Marie
Suncica
Vujic
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The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (552), 463-484.)
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I2, K42
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