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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
4314 Martin Halla
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)
J12, J13, J18, K36, D13, N32, R2
4313 Andrew J. Oswald
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)
A1, O38
4310 Mathias Dolls
Clemens Fuest
Andreas Peichl
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)
E32, E63, H2, H31
4307 Fredrik Carlsson
Peter Martinsson
Alpaslan Akay
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)
C25, D12, Q41
4306 Timothy J. Hatton
Richard M. Martin
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)
I32, J13, N33, N34
4305 Anders Björklund
Karin Hederos Eriksson
Markus Jäntti
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)
J0, I0, J1
4304 James J. Heckman
Petra E. Todd
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)
C52
4303 Ernesto Reuben
Arno Riedl
Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 77 (1), 122-137)
H41, C92, Z13
4301 Gabriele Pellegrino
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23 (4), 329-340)
O31
4300 Alison L. Booth
Gender and Competition
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 599-606)
C9, J16, J71
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