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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3694 Rainald Borck
Katharina Wrohlich
Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (3), 436-454)
J13, D72, H42, D19
3693 Nauro F. Campos
Francesco Giovannoni
Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries ...
(published as 'Political institutions, lobbying and corruption' in: Journal of Institutional Economics , 2017, 13 (4), 917-939)
E23, D72, H26, O17, P16
3692 Dorothea Blomeyer
Katja Coneus
Manfred Laucht
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2-3), 638 - 648)
D87, I12, I21, J13
3690 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore
Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975–2004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 393 - 415)
D31, C81
3689 Alan Barrett
Elish Kelly
Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As ...
(published as "How Reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for Migration Research?" in: Economic and Social Review, 2008, 39 (3), 191-205)
J61
3688 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy
Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(545), 683-708)
D21, G34, J23, J31, L33, P31
3687 Pierre Cahuc
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model
We analyze the consequences of counseling provided to job seekers in a standard job search and matching model. It turns out that neglecting equilibrium effects induced by counseling can lead to wrong ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 196-205)
J64, J68
3686 Rolf Aaberge
Audun Langørgen
Magne Mogstad
Marit Østensen
The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how ...
(published as 'The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549 - 562 )
D31, H72, I30
3685 Paul Grout
Wendelin Schnedler
Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health ...
(improved version is available here)
L30, M50, H10, H40
3684 Andrew Grodner
Thomas J. Kniesner
Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366)
D31, D63
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