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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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4421
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Nadja
Dwenger
Johanna
Storck
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 155-167)
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I22, I28, H75, R23
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4419
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Matt
Dickson
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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (4), 477–498)
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I20 J30
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4418
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Daron
Acemoglu
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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Persistence of Civil Wars
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (2-3), 664-676)
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H2, N10, N40, P16
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4417
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Kenneth
Troske
Alexandru
Voicu
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The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
We use panel data from NLSY79 to analyze the effects of the timing and spacing of births on the labor supply of married women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 483-521)
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C11, C15, J13, J22
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4416
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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The Right Amount of Trust
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (6), 1155 - 1180)
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A1, A12, D1, O15, Z1
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4415
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Jed
Kolko
David
Neumark
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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses – namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15)
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R11, R38, J23
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4414
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 573-594)
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D31, D63, I3, J31, Z13
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4413
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Junfu
Zhang
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Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51(1), 167-193)
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C72, C73, D62, R13
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4412
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Giovanni
Russo
Edwin
van Hooft
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Identities, Conflicting Behavioural Norms and the Importance of Job Attributes
The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (1), 103-119)
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J22, J24, Z13
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4410
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Michele
Battisti
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FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?
This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada. The contribution of this paper lies in its use of a natural experiment to detect ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 579-604)
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J61, F22
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