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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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4534
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Albert
Bollard
David
McKenzie
Melanie
Morten
Hillel
Rapoport
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 132 - 156)
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O15, F22, J61
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4533
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James
J.
Heckman
Seong
Hyeok
Moon
Rodrigo
Pinto
Peter
A.
Savelyev
Adam
Yavitz
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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 114-128)
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D62, I22, I28
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4532
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Robert
Dur
Joeri
Sol
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 293-301)
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D86, J41, M50
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4529
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these ...
(published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2 (1), Article 2)
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H23, H31, I38, J16
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4528
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Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration, Citizenship, and the Size of Government
This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 26)
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F22, I2, J62
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4526
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Andrea
Weber
Christine
Zulehner
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12(2), 492-521)
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J16, J71, L25
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4525
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James
J.
Heckman
Daniel
Schmierer
Sergio
Urzua
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Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (2), 177-203)
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C31
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4523
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Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 413-438)
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J22, I31, J16
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4522
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Ceren
Ozgen
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (3), 537-561)
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O15, O18, R23, R11
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4521
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Olof
Aslund
Per-Anders
Edin
Peter
Fredriksson
Hans
Grönqvist
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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 67-95)
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J15, I20, Z13
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