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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4604 Spiros Bougheas
Indraneel Dasgupta
Oliver Morrissey
Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (2), 247-265.)
G21, F34
4603 Pierre-André Chiappori
Olivier Donni
Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature
This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households consist of a number of different members with preferences that are different from each ...
(published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.)
D11, D13, J22
4601 Beatrice Brunner
Andreas Kuhn
To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative ...
(completely revised version published as IZA DP No. 5360)
E3, J2, J3, J6, M5
4600 Andrew J. Oswald
Stephen Wu
Well-being across America
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1118-1134)
D1, I3
4599 Cahit Guven
Claudia Senik
Holger Stichnoth
You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130)
J12, D13, D63, D64, H31, I31, Z13
4598 Rolf Aaberge
Ugo Colombino
Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761)
D19, D63, H21, H24, H31
4597 Nauro F. Campos
Ahmad Saleh
Vitaliy S. Kuzeyev
Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (2),129-152 )
O11, Z12, O55, H1
4596 Indraneel Dasgupta
Contraction Consistent Stochastic Choice Correspondence
We model a general choice environment via probabilistic choice correspondences, with (possibly) incomplete domain and infinite universal set of alternatives. We offer a consistency restriction ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2011, 37 (4), 643-658)
D11, D71
4594 Pierre-André Chiappori
Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market
We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) ...
(revised version published as 'Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 120 (4), 659-695. )
D1, J1
4593 Olena Y. Nizalova
Maria Vyshnya
Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, Volume 19 (Supplement 1), 107–125)
I12, I18
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