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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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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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4874
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
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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)
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F22, F24, J61
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4873
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Silke
Anger
Michael
Kvasnicka
Thomas
Siedler
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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)
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I12, K32, I18, C33
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4870
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Lex
Borghans
Margo
Romans
Jan
Sauermann
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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)
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A11, J44, C25
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4869
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David
Card
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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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)
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D03, J12
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4868
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Economics and Religion
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers’ demand for ...
(published in: Rhona C. Free (ed.), 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications: 2010)
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Z12
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4867
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Maria
Concetta
Chiuri
Daniela
Del Boca
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Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons
In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 393-408)
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J2, C3, D1
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4866
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 16, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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J62
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13080Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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