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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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4011
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Shuaizhang
Feng
Jeff
Larrimore
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Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81)
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D31, C46, C81
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4010
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Bert
van Landeghem
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538)
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D1, I12, I31
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4009
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Christine
Valente
Arthur
van Soest
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204)
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O12, I12, J15, J16, J18
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4008
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Jos
van Ommeren
Giovanni
Russo
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Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 432-455)
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J63
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4007
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Bart
Cockx
Matteo
Picchio
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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 646 - 675 )
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C15, C41, J62, J64
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4005
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Rosalind
S.
Hunter
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Bruce
G.
Charlton
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The Elite Brain Drain
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (538), F231 - F251)
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O3, J6
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4004
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Jan
Eeckhout
Philipp
Kircher
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Identifying Sorting: In Theory
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (3), 872–906)
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J31, C78
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4002
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David
Card
Jochen
Kluve
Andrea
Weber
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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2010, 120, F452-F477)
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J00, J68
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4001
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 320 - 364)
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A12
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4000
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Onnicha
Sawangfa
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Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, ...
(published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010)
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I31, D60, O5, O10
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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