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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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4885
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesca
Fabbri
Ian
Preston
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Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (3), 689-711)
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J15, R23
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4884
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Erik
Snowberg
Justin
Wolfers
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746)
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D03, D49, G12, L83
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4882
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María
Cervini-Plá
Xavier
Ramos
José
I.
Silva
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Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 113-137. Winner of the 2015 Spanish Association for Labour Economics Best Paper Award.)
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C23, D31, J31
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4881
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Torun
Österberg
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Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of ...
(published in: Peter Saunders and Roy Sainsbury (eds.), Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries. International Studies on Social Security volume 16, Intersentia Publishing, 2010 )
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I32, J13, R23
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4880
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Glen
R.
Waddell
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Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity
I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 50 (1), 248-263)
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J13, I12
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4879
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Marcela
Umana-Aponte
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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We ...
(revised version available)
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J22, J13
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4878
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Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family ...
(revised version published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (2), 337-351)
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D19, J14
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4877
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Albert
Park
Dewen
Wang
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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also ...
(published in: China Economic Journal, 2010, 3 (1), 40 - 67)
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J61, O15
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4876
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Miles
Corak
Patrizio
Piraino
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the ...
(revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34)
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J62, J64, J24
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4875
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Fabio
Mariani
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The Economic Value of Virtue
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 323-356)
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D1, J12, Z13
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