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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
3580 Lorenz Götte
Alois Stutzer
Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 170, 52-74)
C93, D64, H41, I18
3579 Ana Iturriza
Arjun S. Bedi
Robert Sparrow
Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina’s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (4), 811-837)
J64, J65
3578 Philip Oreopoulos
Till von Wachter
Andrew Heisz
The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (1), 1-29)
J62, J64, J31
3577 Francesco Drago
Self-Esteem and Earnings
Recent research in economics suggests a positive association between self-esteem and earnings. A major problem in this literature is that from simple cross-sectional wage regressions it is not ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (3), 480-488)
J13, J30
3576 Belton M. Fleisher
Haizheng Li
Min Qiang Zhao
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(2), 215-231)
O15, O18, O47, O53
3574 José Alberto Molina
Víctor M. Montuenga
The Motherhood Wage Penalty in a Mediterranean Country: The Case of Spain
We present evidence for the motherhood wage penalty in Spain as a representative Southern European Mediterranean country. We use the European Community Household Panel (ECHP, 1994-2001) to estimate, ...
(published as 'The Motherhood Wage Penalty in Spain' in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2009, 30 (3), 237-251)
J30, D10, C23
3573 Eva Sierminska
Joachim R. Frick
Markus M. Grabka
Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, 62 (4), 669-690)
D13, D31, D69, I31
3572 M. Daniele Paserman
Do High-Skill Immigrants Raise Productivity? Evidence from Israeli Manufacturing Firms, 1990-1999
During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:6)
J61, F22, D24
3571 Bertrand Candelon
Arnaud Dupuy
Luis A. Gil-Alana
The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?
This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41, 2483-93)
E24, C22, J62
3570 Peter Fredriksson
Martin Söderström
Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question
We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit ...
(published as 'The Equilibrium Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment: Evidence from a Non-linear Policy Rule' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104199)
J64, J65
3568 Barry R. Chiswick
The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of ...
(Julian Simon Lecture IV, IZA, 2008 and published in: Terrance Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger (eds.),The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol, 2009, 72-91)
J15, J24, J31, J61
3567 Adama Konseiga
Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the ...
(published in: A. de Sherbinin, Rahman, A. Barbieri, J.C. Fotso, Y. Zhu (eds.), Urban Population-Development-Environment Dynamics in the Developing World: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Paris: CICRED 2009)
C31, D13, I12, R23
3566 Erkki Koskela
Ronnie Schöb
Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2010, 18 (4), 682–695)
J41, J51, H22
3565 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Edward Vytlacil
Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case
This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 9-74)
C31
3564 Guillermina Jasso
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main determinants of the size and skill composition of employment immigrants to developed ...
(published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009)
F22, J31, J61, J68, O15
3563 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 502-525)
J61, J31, F22
3562 Juan D. Barón
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 227 - 246)
J31, J70, J24
3561 Torbjørn Haegeland
Oddbjørn Raaum
Kjell G. Salvanes
Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 601-614)
I21, I28, J00
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