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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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4600
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Stephen
Wu
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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)
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D1, I3
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4599
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Cahit
Guven
Claudia
Senik
Holger
Stichnoth
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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)
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J12, D13, D63, D64, H31, I31, Z13
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4598
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
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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)
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D19, D63, H21, H24, H31
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4597
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Ahmad
Saleh
Vitaliy
S.
Kuzeyev
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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 )
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O11, Z12, O55, H1
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4596
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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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)
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D11, D71
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4594
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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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. )
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D1, J1
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4593
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
Maria
Vyshnya
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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)
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I12, I18
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4592
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Mario
Centeno
Alvaro
A.
Novo
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When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (23) )
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J3, D3, O3
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4591
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Ursula
Jaenichen
Claudia
Villosio
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Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy
According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172 )
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J62, J64, J68, K31, C41
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4590
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on ...
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645)
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J15, J24, J31, J61, J62, N31, N32, Z12
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