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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3866 Francis Kramarz
Stephen Machin
Amine Ouazad
What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using ...
(published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587)
I21
3865 Daniel J. Henderson
A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity
This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (4), 519 - 538)
C14, C23, D2
3864 Robert Plasman
Michael Rusinek
Ilan Tojerow
The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium
The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (2), 301-317)
D31, J31, J41
3863 Pradeep Mitra
Alexander Muravyev
Mark E Schaffer
Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:13)
G32, L11, O12, P31
3861 Robert Orlowski
Regina T. Riphahn
The East German Wage Structure after Transition
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 629-659)
J31, J24
3860 Erin L. Krupka
Roberto A. Weber
Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?
We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 495–524)
C91, C72, D34
3859 Antoni Calvó-Armengol
Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, 1239-1267)
A14, C31, C72, I21
3856 Barbara Petrongolo
The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform
This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1234-1253 )
J31, J64, J65
3855 Thomas K. Bauer
Christoph M. Schmidt
WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (1), 4 - 11)
D01, D49, D61
3854 Alexander Vogel
Joachim Wagner
Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (4), 641-665)
F14, D21
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