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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
3784 Gary Charness
Peter J. Kuhn
Marie Claire Villeval
Competition and the Ratchet Effect
The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 513-547)
C91, D23, D82, J24, L14
3783 Martyn J. Andrews
Ken Clark
William Whittaker
The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174(1), 127-153.)
C14, C23, C41, J24, J61, R23
3782 Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Christophe Rault
Anamaria Sova
Robert Sova
On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (2), 189-206)
E61, F13, F15, C25
3777 Douglas S. Noonan
Douglas J. Krupka
Determinants of Historic and Cultural Landmark Designation: Why We Preserve What We Preserve
There is much interest among cultural economists in assessing the effects of heritage preservation policies. There has been less interest in modeling the policy choices made in historic and cultural ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 1-26)
Z1, R52, D78
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