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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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3995
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Guido
W.
Imbens
Karthik
Kalyanaraman
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Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
We investigate the problem of optimal choice of the smoothing parameter (bandwidth) for the regression discontinuity estimator. We focus on estimation by local linear regression, which was shown to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 933-959)
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C14
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3994
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Florencia
López Bóo
Lucia
Madrigal
Carmen
Pagés
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Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571)
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C13, J16, J28
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3992
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Guillaume
Horny
Rute
Mendes
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480)
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C11, C15, C41, J20, J41, J62
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3991
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Per
Engström
Patrik
Hesselius
Bertil
Holmlund
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Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the ...
(published in: Labour, 2012, 26 (4), 419–435)
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C99, J64, J68
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3989
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nicolai
Kristensen
Dario
Pozzoli
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External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies
Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 854-865)
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C25, I10
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3987
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics, Oxford, OUP, 2012)
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J71, L83
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3986
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Sarah
Brown
Steven
McIntosh
Karl
Taylor
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Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 73 (1), 40-58)
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J13, J24
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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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