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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4838 Arnaud Dupuy
An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is ...
(published in: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2012, 12 (1), 222-245)
J16, J7, N32
4837 Laurence Jacquet
Etienne Lehmann
Bruno Van der Linden
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, 148 (5), 1770-1805)
H21, H23
4834 Fabrizio Coricelli
Nigel Driffield
Sarmistha Pal
Isabelle Roland
Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We ...
(revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694)
G32, O16
4832 Mathias Hungerbühler
Etienne Lehmann
Alexis Parmentier
Bruno Van der Linden
A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment
We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly ...
(published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218)
H21 H23, J64
4831 Pieter Serneels
Jose G. Montalvo
Gunilla Pettersson
Tomas Lievens
Jean Damascene Butera
Aklilu Kidanu
Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that ...
(published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, 88, 342-349)
J22, I11
4830 David W. Johnston
Carol Propper
Stephen Pudney
Michael A. Shields
Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask
A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), 2014, 177, 807-827.)
I12, J13
4829 Luca Flabbi
Andrea Moro
The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model
This paper develops and estimates a search model of the labor market where jobs are characterized by wages and work-hours flexibility. Flexibility is valued by workers, and is costly to provide for ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (1), 81–95)
J30, C5
4828 Daniel Baumgarten
Ingo Geishecker
Holger Görg
Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152)
F1, F2, J3
4827 Adrian Beck
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Jianying Qiu
Matthias Sutter
Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Shaping Beliefs in Experimental Markets for Expert Services: Guilt Aversion and the Impact of Promises and Money-Burning Options' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 145-164)
C72, C91, D82
4826 Rolf Aaberge
Manudeep Bhuller
Audun Langĝrgen
Magne Mogstad
The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549-562)
D31, H72, I30
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