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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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3985
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
James
J.
Heckman
Huub
Meijers
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 649-658)
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J24, D03, D80
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3982
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Annette
Bergemann
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended ...
(published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2011, 18 (1), 17 - 20)
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J13, J21
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3981
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279)
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J13, J24, J64
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3980
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James
J.
Heckman
Sergio
Urzua
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Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 27-37)
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C31
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3977
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Philipp
C.
Bauer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 103 (2), 87-90)
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I2, I21, J24, D30
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3976
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Horst
Entorf
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Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2+3), 254-269)
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C83, J38, J68, K42
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3975
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Marianna
Brunetti
Costanza
Torricelli
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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915)
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G11, E21, J12, J21
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3974
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Christopher
Dawson
Andrew
Henley
Paul
L.
Latreille
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of ...
(published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822)
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L26, J24
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3973
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Mehtabul
Azam
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (4), 415–432)
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C15, D63, O53
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3972
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The ...
(published as 'The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers' in: Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 98-108)
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J64, J71
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