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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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3658
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Juan
Ponce
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Cognitive Achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador
Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 116-125)
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I38, I28
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3657
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Annie
Georges
Susan
Pozo
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Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise ...
(The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010, 630 (1), 224-244.)
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F22, O54
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3656
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Andrew
Grodner
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Social Interactions in Demand
We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover effect in the form of an externality from other consumers’ choices and or a ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366)
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D11
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3655
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Ernst
Fehr
Martin
Brown
Christian
Zehnder
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On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity
We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 333 - 353)
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D82, J3, J41, E24, C9
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3654
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
The “Easterlin paradox” suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008, 1, 1-87)
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D6, I3, J1
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3653
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Ana
C.
Dammert
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Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua
In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 58(1), 53-84)
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O15, I38
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3652
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Jonathan
B.
Pritchett
Myeong-Su
Yun
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The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2009, 46 (2), 241-252 )
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N31, J15, I10
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3651
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 138-140)
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J0, I0, J1
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3650
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities’ economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 5-14)
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J15, J71, J78
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3649
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Esteban
Sanromá
Raul
Ramos
Hipólito
Simón
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The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence for Spain
The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This ...
(published as 'Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Overeducation in Spain' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2015, 34(2), 223-241)
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J61, J31, J24
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3648
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Joop
Hartog
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
Justin
van der Sluis
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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2010, 19 (4), 947-989)
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J23, J24, J31, J44, M13
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3647
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Julia
Spies
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Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. ...
(published in: Empirica, 2008, 35 (4), 369-389)
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F15, F41
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3646
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Martin
Salm
Daniel
Schunk
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The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data
We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive ...
(revised version published as 'The Relationship between Child Health, Developmental Gaps, and Parental Education: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (6), 1425-1449)
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J13, I20, I12
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3645
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W. Stanley
Siebert
Nick
Zubanov
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of ...
(published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414)
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D21, J24, M20, J33, M52
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3644
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Amelie
F.
Constant
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 145-162)
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M13, J23, J15, J61, J31
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3643
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Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours
We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 218-228)
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J22, J38
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3641
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Hessel
Oosterbeek
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
Auke
IJsselstein
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a ...
(published as "The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 442-454)
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A20, C31, H43, H75, 120, J24, L26
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3640
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Guido
W.
Imbens
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2009, 47(1), 1-81)
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C14, C21, C52
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3639
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Simon
Gächter
Daniele
Nosenzo
Martin
Sefton
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The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x)
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A13, C92, J31
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3638
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Markus
Frölich
Blaise
Melly
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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and proposes simple estimators. Quantile treatment effects are a very ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395)
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C13, C14, C21
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3636
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James
J.
Heckman
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The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind
This paper uses data available from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) survey on religious attitudes and powerful statistical methods to evaluate the effect of prayer on the attitude of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (1), 234-235)
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Z12
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3635
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Gabriele
Doblhammer
Kaare
Christensen
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) ...
(published in: Demography, 48(2) 2011, 507-530)
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I10, J14, C41, H75, E32, J10, N33, N13, I12, I18
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3634
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2009, 28 (4), 554-580)
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F41, F36, F43
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3633
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Enrico
Rettore
Adriano
Paggiaro
Ugo
Trivellato
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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers
Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. It combines a ‘passive’ component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 ...
(published as 'The Effect of Longer Eligibility to a Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (1), 37 - 66)
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C31, J38, J65, J68
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3632
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator ...
(published as 'Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (6), 982-1017)
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C21, C52
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3631
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (2), 750-765)
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D31, D72, D74, I38, J52, O17
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3630
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Helena
Holmlund
Mikael
Lindahl
Erik
Plug
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The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here)
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I20, J30, J62
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3629
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Stephen
Drinkwater
Paul
L.
Latreille
Ben
Knight
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When It's (Mostly) the Taking Part that Counts: The Post-Application Consequences of Employment Tribunal Claims
This paper uses the 2003 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications to examine the post-application employment consequences for individuals registering complaints to Employment Tribunals following ...
(published as 'The post-application labour market consequences of employment tribunal claims' in: Human Resource Management Journal, 2011, 21 (2), 171-189)
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K4, J0
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3628
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Joshua
Angrist
Stacey
H.
Chen
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Long-Term Economic Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: Schooling, Experience and Earnings
Military service reduces civilian labor market experience but subsidizes higher education through the GI Bill. Both of these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the ...
(published as "Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 96-118)
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J31, I22, I28, H56
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3626
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Lans
Bovenberg
Coen
Teulings
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Rhineland Exit?
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between ...
(published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 710-726)
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E24, G32, G34
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3625
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Ernst
Fehr
Andreas
Leibbrandt
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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons
This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1144-1155)
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B4, C9, D8, O1
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3624
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has ...
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37 (s2), S33-S79)
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D3, D63, I3, J1, Y1
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3622
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Daniele
Checchi
Carlo
V.
Fiorio
Marco
Leonardi
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Intergenerational Persistence in Educational Attainment in Italy
In this paper we show that there is a reduction in the correlation coefficient between father and children schooling levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show ...
(published as 'Intergenerational persistence of educational attainment in Italy' in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 229-232)
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J62, I38
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3617
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Guido
Schwerdt
Andrea
Ichino
Oliver
Ruf
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes
We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 137-140)
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J14, J65
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3616
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Georg
Weizsäcker
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Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations
The paper presents a new meta data set covering 13 experiments on the social learning games by Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch (1992). The large amount of data makes it possible to estimate the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2340-2360)
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C72, C92, D82
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3615
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C.
Katharina
Spieß
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany?
We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (3), 470-479)
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I2, R1
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3614
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Paul
J.
Devereux
Robert
A.
Hart
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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49 (s1), s70–s92,)
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E32, J31
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3613
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Martin
Halla
Friedrich
Schneider
Alexander
F.
Wagner
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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment
Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 155 (1-2), 109-137)
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K32, P16, Q21, Q28
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3612
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Benoit
Dostie
Rajshri
Jayaraman
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12.1, Article 4.)
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D20, L20, M54, O33
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3611
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Peter
Haan
Michal
Myck
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Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland
The collective model of labour supply opened the household “black box” and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 22, 2907 - 2919)
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J22, I38, D13
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3610
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Sally
Kwak
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Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers
Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 7 (2), 246-262)
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I10, I12
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3609
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Aldo
Rustichini
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Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual’s cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual’s preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how ...
(revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750)
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C81, C93, L92, J63
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3608
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
André
Pahnke
Paulino
Teixeira
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A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data
Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal of Labor Market Research, 2011, 44(3), 231-244)
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F16, J23
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3607
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility
In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (2), 349–363)
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J31, J63, F23
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3605
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Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
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The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes
This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4, 190-224.)
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J13, H52, J2
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3604
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
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Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of ...
(published as 'Life Satisfaction Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 190 - 211)
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I0
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3603
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I. Semih
Akçomak
Bas
ter Weel
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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 323-340)
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A13, A14, K42, Z13
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3602
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Carol
McAusland
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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78(2), 287–291)
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F22, J6, O34
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3601
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Viktor
Steiner
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany
We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114(1), 124–147)
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H52, H24, I28
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3599
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Daniele
Checchi
Antonio
Filippin
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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (3), 275-289)
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I21, J24
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