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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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4317
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work? 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 83-104)
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J22, J61
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4316
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Thierry
Warin
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Optat
Tengia
Kirsten
Wandschneider
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Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public ...
(published in: African Finance Journal, 2011, 13 (1), 1- 13)
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F1, F3, F4, O24, O55
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4315
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Giacomo
Corneo
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Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations
Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a ...
(published in: International Review of Economics, 2010, 57, 119-141)
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Z1
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4314
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Martin
Halla
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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 278–315)
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J12, J13, J18, K36, D13, N32, R2
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4313
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
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A Suggested Method for the Measurement of World-Leading Research (Illustrated with Data on Economics)
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (1), 99 - 113)
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A1, O38
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4310
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Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 279-294)
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E32, E63, H2, H31
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4307
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Peter
Martinsson
Alpaslan
Akay
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP ...
(revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798)
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C25, D12, Q41
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4306
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Richard
M.
Martin
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Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938
In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47 (4), 505-519)
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I32, J13, N33, N34
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4305
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Anders
Björklund
Karin
Hederos Eriksson
Markus
Jäntti
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IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?
For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 2)
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J0, I0, J1
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4304
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James
J.
Heckman
Petra
E.
Todd
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A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples
The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this probability can often not be consistently estimated, because of choice-based ...
(published in: Econometric Journal, 2009, 12 (Supplement), S230-S234)
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C52
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