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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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4812
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Christian
Grund
Jan
Höcker
Stefan
Zimmermann
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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current ...
(revised version published as 'Incidence and Consequences of Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments - Evidence from the NBA' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1489–1501)
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M5
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4811
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Cathy Honge
Gong
Andrew
Leigh
Xin
Meng
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Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China
This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (3), 481-503 )
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D10, D31
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4810
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Kirk
Doran
Bruce
Schaller
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A Shred of Credible Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply
Virtually all public policies regarding taxation and the redistribution of income rely on explicit or implicit assumptions about the long run effect of wage rates on labor supply. The available ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 637-650)
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J22
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4808
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Paul
J.
Burke
Andrew
Leigh
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Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?
Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157)
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D72, N40, O17
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4806
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members
This paper documents evidence that rejects the paradox of dissatisfied union members. Using eleven waves of the BHPS, it studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (5), 1000-1019)
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J28, J5
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4805
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former ...
(published in: Maria Minniti (ed.) 2011, The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data, Oxford, pp.181-208)
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L26, O17, O57
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4804
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Sarah
Brown
Andy
Dickerson
Jolian
McHardy
Karl
Taylor
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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 44 (35), 4639-4650)
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D14, D81, L83
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4803
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Charles
Bellemare
Alexander
Sebald
Martin
Strobel
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Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models
We estimate structural models of guilt aversion to measure the population level of willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid feeling guilt by letting down another player. We compare estimates of WTP under ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (3), 437-453)
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C93, D63, D84
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4802
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Mehtabul
Azam
Aimee
Chin
Nishith
Prakash
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367)
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J31, J24, O15
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4801
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Pierre
Koning
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
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Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (3), 461-483)
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I38, H11, H53
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