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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4880 Glen R. Waddell
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)
J13, I12
4879 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Marcela Umana-Aponte
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)
J22, J13
4878 Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
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)
D19, J14
4877 Albert Park
Dewen Wang
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)
J61, O15
4876 Miles Corak
Patrizio Piraino
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)
J62, J64, J24
4875 Fabio Mariani
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)
D1, J12, Z13
4874 Stephane Mahuteau
Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of ...
(revised as DP 10927)
F22, F24, J61
4873 Silke Anger
Michael Kvasnicka
Thomas Siedler
One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 591-601)
I12, K32, I18, C33
4870 Lex Borghans
Margo Romans
Jan Sauermann
What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 868-874)
A11, J44, C25
4869 David Card
Gordon B. Dahl
Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, 126 (1), 103-143)
D03, J12
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