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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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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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4386
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Nishith
Prakash
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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509)
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H40, J21, J31, J45, O10
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4385
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Joshua
J.
Lewer
Gail
Pacheco
Stephanié
Rossouw
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Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2013, 110 (1), 1-15)
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F22, C51, D63
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4384
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Jens
Suedekum
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97 (1), 258-271)
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F12, F13, H25, L11
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4383
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Gadi
Barlevy
Derek
Neal
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Pay for Percentile
We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1805-31)
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J33, I20
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4382
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1076-1085)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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4380
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Pedro
Portugal
José
Varejão
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Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?
Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2022, 21, 401 - 421)
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J23, J41
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4378
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects
Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time ...
(published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15)
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J10
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4377
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
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Endogeneous Household Interaction
Most econometric models of intrahousehold behavior assume that household decision-making is efficient, i.e., utility realizations lie on the Pareto frontier. In this paper we investigate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65)
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C79, D19, J22
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4376
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Robert
Sparrow
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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (4), 722-749)
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J13, O24, O15
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