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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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3899
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Christopher A.
Parsons
Johan
Sulaeman
Michael
C.
Yates
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435)
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J44, J71
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3898
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (3), 621-637)
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A23, J44, A11, A14, A10
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3896
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 246-262)
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J12, C14
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3895
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Ernst
Fehr
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 235-266)
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C7, D00, D2, D7, D8
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3894
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Christopher J.
Boyce
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?
This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21, 580-596)
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I1
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3893
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Self-Regulation through Goal Setting
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 212-227;)
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A12, C70, D91
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3891
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Marco
Francesconi
Helmut
Rainer
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial ...
(published as 'Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform for Children with Single Parents: A Theoretical Analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 709-733)
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D13, H31, J22
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3890
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration ...
(published in: German Data Forum (RatSWD): Buildung on Progress: Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciencs, Vol. 2, Opladen and Farmington Hills, MI, 2010, 689 - 701)
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J15, J18, J61, J68
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3889
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Ernst
Fehr
Oliver
Hart
Christian
Zehnder
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Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence
In a recent paper, Hart and Moore (2008) introduce new behavioral assumptions that can explain long term contracts and important aspects of the employment relation. However, so far there exists no ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 493-525)
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C7, D00, D2, D8, K00
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3888
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David
Neumark
Brandon
Wall
Junfu
Zhang
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Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 16-29)
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J20, L25, L53
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