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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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4398
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Helena
Holmlund
Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents
An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, ...
(revised version published as 'Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden' in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 903-931)
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J10, C10
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4396
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Saul
Estrin
Julia
Korosteleva
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481)
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D23, D84, G21, J23, J24, K11, L26, P51
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4395
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Joeri
Sol
Willem
Verbeke
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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2) , 305-326)
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C93, J16, M52
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4394
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Miguel
Angel
Alcobendas
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how ...
(substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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4393
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation ...
(published in: Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2011, 44 (3), 1-20)
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F50, O10
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4392
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Marco
Francesconi
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Thomas
Siedler
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The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults
We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (11), 1377-1384)
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I10, J12, J18
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4391
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Aimee
Chin
Nishith
Prakash
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 265-277)
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I38, J15, J78
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4389
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David
Comerford
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
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Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions
This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2009, 30 (3-4), 419-433)
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D03, D12, C81, C93
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4388
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount ...
(published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011)
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J28, I12, C81
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4387
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David
J.
Bjerk
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How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2009, 25 (4), 391-417)
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C12, K42
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