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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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4354
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Alpaslan
Akay
Peter
Martinsson
Haileselassie
Medhin
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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 428 - 435)
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C90, D63
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4353
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Samantha
Rawlings
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672)
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O12, I12
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4352
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Joachim
Wagner
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One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (1), 91-106)
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J50
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4350
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Dimitris
Georgarakos
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Immigrant Self-Employment: Does Intermarriage Matter?
This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 253-271)
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J12, J15, J61
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4348
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara
de la Rica
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Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 697-707)
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F22, J61, J31, R13
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4347
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Eric
D.
Gould
Guy
Stecklov
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Terror and the Costs of Crime
This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1175-1188)
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K4
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4346
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Pedro
S.
Martins
Andy
Snell
Jonathan
P.
Thomas
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting
Following insights by Bewley (1999a), this paper analyses a model with downward rigidities in which firms cannot pay discriminate based on a year of entry to a firm, and develops an equilibrium model ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112(4), 841-863, 2010)
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E32, J41
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4345
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Douglas
A.
Webber
Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
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Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?
Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 947-958)
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I2
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4344
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James
Costain
Marcel
Jansen
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Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard
This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of Mortensen and Pissarides' (1994) model of job creation and destruction when workers' effort is not perfectly observable, as in Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984). ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue: "Price and Wage Dynamics", 2010, 112(4), 782-811)
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C78, E24, E32, J64
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4343
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Karla
Hoff
Mayuresh
Kshetramade
Ernst
Fehr
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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 449-475)
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D02, D64
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