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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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4816
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Xiaodong
Gong
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The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia
This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market ...
(published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426)
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C23, J20, J60
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4814
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Miles
Corak
Lori
Curtis
Shelley
Phipps
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We ...
(published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010)
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J62, J13, I3
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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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13080Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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