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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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4568
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Andrea
Weber
Christine
Zulehner
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361)
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J16, J71, L25
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4567
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Robert
Slonim
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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are ...
(published as 'Will There be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-Social Behavior' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (1), 186-223 )
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D12, D64, I18
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4566
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?
Evidence from Project STAR has suggested that on average small classes increase student achievement. However, thus far researchers have focused on computing mean differences in student achievement ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2011, 35 (1), 71 - 92)
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I20
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4565
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Zahra
Siddique
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Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (502), 504-513)
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C9, C14, K42
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4564
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Fabio
Mariani
Agustín
Pérez-Barahona
Natacha
Raffin
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (4), 798-815)
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J24, O11, O40, Q56
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4561
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 97-129)
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J13, H40, I28
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4560
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 25-44)
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J15, J16, J31, L26
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4559
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Alexandre
Janiak
Paulo
Santos
Monteiro
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Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics
We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43 (5), 795 - 834)
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E40, E50, L16, O40
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4558
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Francesco
Giavazzi
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Michel
Serafinelli
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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (6), 1256-1289)
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J16, J22, J23, Z1
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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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13080Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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