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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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4557
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Francesco
Cinnirella
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204)
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I20, J13, N33
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4556
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Erik
Hornung
Ludger
Woessmann
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, ...
(published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126)
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N13, N33, I20, O14
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4553
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Diana
Kruger
Matias
Berthelon
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Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile
We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours ...
(published as "Risky behavior among youth: Incapacitation effects of school on adolescent motherhood and crime in Chile" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 41-53)
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H51, I18, I28, J13, O15
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4551
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Brad
R.
Humphreys
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Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium Investment
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and ...
(published as 'Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium and Arena Construction' in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (3), 604 - 617)
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J15
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4550
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Zvi
Eckstein
Osnat
Lifshitz
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Dynamic Female Labor Supply
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726)
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E24, J2, J3
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4549
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Jens
Großer
Ernesto
Reuben
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 39-52)
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H23, D41, D72, D73
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4548
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Liam
Delaney
Mark
E.
McGovern
James
P.
Smith
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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 1-10)
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I19, N34
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4546
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Mathieu
Lefèbvre
Ferdinand
M.
Vieider
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?
The ratio bias – according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2011, 71(4), 615-641)
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C91, D03, D81, I19
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4545
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Mathieu
Lefèbvre
Ferdinand
M.
Vieider
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120)
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C91, D81, D89
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4544
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Erkki
Koskela
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor ...
(published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214)
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E24, H22, J21, J31, J51
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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