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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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4476
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Helena
Holmlund
Olmo
Silva
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Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention
A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (2), 126-160)
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C20, I20, H75
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4475
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Manuela
Angelucci
Orazio
Attanasio
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Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (3), 479-506)
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D12, O12
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4474
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Rita
K.
Almeida
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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set ...
(published in: Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, 17 (1), 63-96)
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J23, J24, J31, O33
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4472
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Alan
Barrett
Adele
Bergin
Elish
Kelly
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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42 (1), 1-26)
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J11, J21, J61
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4471
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Motivational Goal Bracketing
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740)
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A12, C70, D91
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4470
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (3), 231 - 246)
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K42, I38
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4469
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Devah
Pager
Bruce
Western
Bart
Bonikowski
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Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted ...
(published in: American Sociological Review, 2009, 74 (5), 77-799 )
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J7
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4468
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353)
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E02, E24, I21, I28, J22, J23, J24, J45
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4467
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine
Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 843-857)
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H00, J00
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4466
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Philipp
C.
Bauer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that ...
(published as 'Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 110–122)
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I2, I21, J24, D30
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13087Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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