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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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4027
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Alison
L.
Booth
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (2), 542 - 555)
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C91, C92, J16, J33
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4026
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Alison
L.
Booth
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because their innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), F56 - F78)
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C9, C91, C92, J16
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4023
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Markus
M.
Grabka
Olaf
Groh-Samberg
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic ...
(published in: Empirica, 2012, 43, 1143–1169)
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D31, D13, I32
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4022
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Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
Arthur
van Soest
Erik
Wengström
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Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population
We analyse risk preferences using an experiment with real incentives in a representative sample of 1,422 Dutch respondents. Our econometric model incorporates four structural parameters that vary ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 664-694)
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C90, D81
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4020
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 113-128)
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J21, J23
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4019
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Alicia
Adsera
Alicia
Menendez
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Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and ...
(published as 'Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty' in: Population Studies, 2011, 65 (1), 37 - 56)
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J13, J16
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4018
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization
We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9 (1), Article 26)
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D21
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4016
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Franz
Hackl
Martin
Halla
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
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Volunteering and the State
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495)
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H41, H44, H31, J22, I38, H11, D30, D64
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4015
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Life Satisfaction
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global ...
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104)
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I31, J28, D31
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4014
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Giuseppe
Moscarini
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create ...
(published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39)
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J21, J63, E24, E32
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