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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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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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4375
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Steven
Stillman
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1297-1318)
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J61, F22, C21
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4374
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
David
C.
Ribar
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?
We investigate how household disadvantage affects the time use of 15-18 year-olds using 2003-2006 data from the American Time Use Survey. Applying competing-risk hazard models, we distinguish between ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 1-44)
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J22 , J13
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