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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3799 Dan-Olof Rooth
Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
This study provides empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing unequal treatment against the obese among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. A field experiment on ...
(revised version published (with Jens Agerström) as 'The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination ' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011, 96 (4), 790 - 805)
J64, J71
3798 Helmut Fryges
Joachim Wagner
Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship ...
(published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (3), 399-423)
F14, D21
3797 Robert A. Hart
Yue Ma
Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 170-179)
J41, J33
3796 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Felix Rioja
Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean
One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has ...
(published in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2009, 5 (1), 1-18)
O11, O16, G00
3795 Francesco C. Billari
Michele Pellizzari
The Younger, the Better? Relative Age Effects at University
In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi University. The identification exploits school entry cut-off ages that generate ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 697-739)
J13, I21
3794 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption
We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(3), 1142-1163.)
D11, D12, D13, C14
3792 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), 37-70)
J31, O15, O33
3791 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China
Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated taking a dynamic view and using a large sample covering 22 provinces. Based on the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (s1), 588-606)
I32, J15
3790 Andreas Peichl
Thilo Schaefer
Christoph Scheicher
Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (3), 597-619)
D31, H23, I32
3785 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Torben Sørensen
Christopher Taber
Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2 (2), 185-215)
I22, J24
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