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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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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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4999
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Johannes
Metzler
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 486 - 496)
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I20, O15
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4997
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Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Arvid
Raknerud
Marina
Rybalka
Terje
Skjerpen
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The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting
In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (2), 293-305)
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C23, D24, J24, J31
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4996
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
Francesco
Fasani
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Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, 1278-90)
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F22, K42
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4995
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Andrew
Leigh
Christine
Neill
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the ...
(published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2010, 12 (2), 462-508)
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I12, K14
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4994
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Carine
Milcent
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Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals
This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1103-1112)
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D21, D72, I18, J21
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4993
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Markus
Frölich
Blaise
Melly
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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395)
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C13, C14, C21
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4992
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James
Banks
Alastair
Muriel
James
P.
Smith
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Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England
We find disease incidence and prevalence are both higher among Americans in age groups 55-64 and 70-80 indicating that Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher ...
(published in: Demography, 2010, 47 (Supplement), S211- S231)
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I10
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4991
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Haroon
Chowdry
Claire
Crawford
Lorraine
Dearden
Alissa
Goodman
Anna
Vignoles
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Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis Using Linked Administrative Data
This paper makes use of newly linked administrative data to better understand the determinants of higher education participation amongst individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 431–457)
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I2
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4990
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Cagatay
Bircan
Tilman
Brück
Marc
Vothknecht
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Violent Conflict and Inequality
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2017, 45(2), 125-44.)
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O11, O15
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13087Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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