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3646 Martin Salm
Daniel Schunk
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)
J13, I20, I12
3645 W. Stanley Siebert
Nick Zubanov
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)
D21, J24, M20, J33, M52
3644 Amelie F. Constant
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)
M13, J23, J15, J61, J31
3643 Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
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)
J22, J38
3641 Hessel Oosterbeek
Mirjam C. van Praag
Auke IJsselstein
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)
A20, C31, H43, H75, 120, J24, L26
3640 Guido W. Imbens
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
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)
C14, C21, C52
3639 Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Martin Sefton
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)
A13, C92, J31
3638 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
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)
C13, C14, C21
3636 James J. Heckman
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)
Z12
3635 Gerard J. van den Berg
Gabriele Doblhammer
Kaare Christensen
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)
I10, J14, C41, H75, E32, J10, N33, N13, I12, I18
3634 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Marco E. Terrones
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)
F41, F36, F43
3633 Enrico Rettore
Adriano Paggiaro
Ugo Trivellato
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)
C31, J38, J65, J68
3632 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
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)
C21, C52
3631 Indraneel Dasgupta
‘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)
D31, D72, D74, I38, J52, O17
3630 Helena Holmlund
Mikael Lindahl
Erik Plug
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)
I20, J30, J62
3629 Stephen Drinkwater
Paul L. Latreille
Ben Knight
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)
K4, J0
3628 Joshua Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
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)
J31, I22, I28, H56
3626 Lans Bovenberg
Coen Teulings
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)
E24, G32, G34
3625 Ernst Fehr
Andreas Leibbrandt
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)
B4, C9, D8, O1
3624 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
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)
D3, D63, I3, J1, Y1
3622 Daniele Checchi
Carlo V. Fiorio
Marco Leonardi
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)
J62, I38
3617 Guido Schwerdt
Andrea Ichino
Oliver Ruf
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Josef Zweimüller
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)
J14, J65
3616 Georg Weizsäcker
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)
C72, C92, D82
3615 C. Katharina Spieß
Katharina Wrohlich
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)
I2, R1
3614 Paul J. Devereux
Robert A. Hart
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,)
E32, J31
3613 Martin Halla
Friedrich Schneider
Alexander F. Wagner
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)
K32, P16, Q21, Q28
3612 Benoit Dostie
Rajshri Jayaraman
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.)
D20, L20, M54, O33
3611 Peter Haan
Michal Myck
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)
J22, I38, D13
3610 Timothy J. Halliday
Sally Kwak
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)
I10, I12
3609 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
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)
C81, C93, L92, J63
3608 John T. Addison
Lutz Bellmann
André Pahnke
Paulino Teixeira
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)
F16, J23
3607 Pedro S. Martins
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)
J31, J63, F23
3605 Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
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.)
J13, H52, J2
3604 Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
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)
I0
3603 I. Semih Akçomak
Bas ter Weel
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)
A13, A14, K42, Z13
3602 Peter J. Kuhn
Carol McAusland
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)
F22, J6, O34
3601 Viktor Steiner
Katharina Wrohlich
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)
H52, H24, I28
3599 Massimiliano Bratti
Daniele Checchi
Antonio Filippin
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)
I21, J24
3597 John T. Addison
McKinley L. Blackburn
Chad Cotti
New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 397-408)
J23, J38
3596 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 91 - 130)
I38, J15, J38, F22
3595 Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe
While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2008, 24 (3), 428-452)
F22, J15, J61
3594 Lina Song
Simon Appleton
Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?
Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State ...
(published in: Ingrid Nielsen and Russell, Smyth (eds.) Migration and Social Protection in China, World Scientific Publishing, 2008)
H41, H42, D63
3593 Ingo Geishecker
Holger Görg
Services Offshoring and Wages: Evidence from Micro Data
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (1), 124-146)
F16, J31, C23
3591 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 67-88)
D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
3590 Dan Anderberg
Arnaud Chevalier
Jonathan Wadsworth
Anatomy of a Health Scare: Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 515-530)
H31, I38, J12
3589 Tomislav Kovandzic
Mark E Schaffer
Gary Kleck
Estimating the Causal Effect of Gun Prevalence on Homicide Rates: A Local Average Treatment Effect Approach
This paper uses a “local average treatment effect” (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2013, 29(4), 477-541)
K42, C51, C52
3588 Hua Shen
Adrian Ziderman
Student Loans Repayment and Recovery: International Comparisons
Student loans schemes are in operation in more than seventy countries around the world. Most loans schemes benefit from sizeable built-in government subsidies and, in addition, are subject to ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57, 315-333)
I22, H52
3585 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18)
O10, O19, F35, O11, C23, O47, E21, E22
3584 Francesco Farina
Niall O'Higgins
Patrizia Sbriglia
Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures
Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents’ declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games ...
(revised version published as "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action" in: Research in Economics, 2009, 63 (4), 253-265)
C72, C91, D63, D64
3583 Amanda H. Goodall
Lawrence M. Kahn
Andrew J. Oswald
Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 77(3), 265-284)
J24, M51
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