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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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4969
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Pierre
Koning
Karen
van der Wiel
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School Responsiveness to Quality Rankings: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education in the Netherlands
This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 339-355)
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H75, I20, D83
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4968
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121 - 139)
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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4967
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs
Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that predicted severance plan consequences depend critically on the precise structure of the ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec, eds., Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 159-176)
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J65, J41, J33
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4966
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
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Immigrant Selection and Short-Term Labour Market Outcomes by Visa Category
This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 451-475)
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J61, J68
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4964
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Vincenzo
Verardi
Joachim
Wagner
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export ...
(published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (6), 694-712)
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F14, C23, C81, C87
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4963
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Michalis
Drouvelis
Robert
Metcalfe
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 479-492)
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C92, D01, H41
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4961
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Brighita
Negrusa
Sonia
Oreffice
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Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while ...
(published as 'Sexual orientation and household financial decisions: evidence from couples in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (4), 445-463)
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D1, D12, J15, J16
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4960
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Andrew
Leigh
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Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms
How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Using variation in state EITC supplements, I find that a 10 percent increase in the generosity of the EITC is associated with a 5 ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 45)
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H22, H23, J22, J30
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4959
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Libertad
González
Claire
Keane
Berkay
Özcan
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Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (8), 1675–1691)
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J12, J22, D10, D13, K36
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4958
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Andrey
Launov
Klaus
Wälde
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we ...
(revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198)
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E24, J64, J68, C13
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