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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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2934
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries. The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372)
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O12, O17
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2933
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Annika
Alexius
Bertil
Holmlund
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the ...
(published in: Economics E-Journal, 2008, 2008-4.)
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J60, E24
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2932
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Anne
C.
Gielen
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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility
Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, ...
(revised version published as 'Profit Sharing for Increased Training Investments' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations. 2011, 49 (4), 643-665.)
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M52, M53, J24, J62
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2930
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Barry
Hirsch
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (1), 153-176)
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J5, J31, J2
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2929
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality
This paper presents evidence that real wage cyclicality can be a particularly heterogeneous parameter, depending on different worker characteristics and also on the specific stage of the business ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(5), 684-698, 2007)
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J31, E24, E32
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2928
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Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting
It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, ...
(published as 'Social capital and Voting participation of Immigrants and Minorities in Canada' in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2009, 32(8), 1406-1430)
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D72, J15, J61
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2927
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Michael
Kosfeld
Ferdinand
von Siemens
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43)
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D23, D82, L23, M54
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2925
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Alois
Stutzer
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Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424)
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D12, D91, I12, I31
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2924
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Shuming
Bao
Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Yaohui
Zhao
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Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks
Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic ...
(published in: Chinese Economy, 2009, 42 (4), 7-29)
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J61
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2923
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
Steven
W.
Hemelt
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Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance
Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2008, 3 (3), 316-338)
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I2, I21
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2922
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Graziella
Bertocchi
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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553)
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P16, J16, N40, H50, O11
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2921
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 292-296)
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C1, J1, J7, O17
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2919
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Joshua
J.
Lewer
Hendrik
Van den Berg
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 560-574)
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J23, J61, F22
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2918
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Martina
Zweimüller
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (4), 615-635)
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J16, J31, J71
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2917
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Derek
C.
Jones
Takao
Kato
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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data
To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data – for rejection, production and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 215-240)
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M54, J50, J41, D20
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2916
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Ernesto
Reuben
Arno
Riedl
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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2009, 53 (1), 72-93)
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H41, D01, C92, Z13
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2914
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928)
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I18, I38, O15, O12
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2913
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Eric
Verhoogen
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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries – the quality-upgrading mechanism – and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 489-530)
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F16, J31, O12, L11
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2912
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Francesco
Drago
Roberto
Galbiati
Pietro
Vertova
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The Deterrent Effects of Prison: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In this paper we test for the theory of deterrence. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006. As a consequence of the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (2), 257-280)
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K42
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2910
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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The Taxation of Couples
This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Tax Reform for Two-Earner Households" in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 283-304)
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H21, D13, J22
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2909
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John
Knowles
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Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours
Empirical patterns of labor supply at the micro level tend to reject the unitary model assumption implicit in most macro theories, where households are the deemed to be rational agents. This paper ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 1055-1085)
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E13, J12, J16, J20, J22
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2908
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Govert
Bijwaard
Justus
Veenman
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands
The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at the same time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional ...
(revised version published as 'Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market' in: European Sociological Review, 2012, 28 (5), 661-673 )
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C41, J64, J7
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2907
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Ana Margarida
Fernandes
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2008, 44 (5), 701-727)
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F1, F2, O3
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2905
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
This paper argues that accounting for the dynamic interactions between endogenous changes in longevity, the education composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is ...
(see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version)
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E10, J10, O10, O40, O41
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2904
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR
Given that previous findings on the social distribution of the effects of small classes have been mixed and inconclusive, in the present study I attempted to shed light on the mechanism through which ...
(published in: Elementary School Journal, 2008, 108 (3), 1-17)
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I2
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2903
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89 (2), 258-270)
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F2, F4
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2902
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Emanuela
Galasso
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Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence among Welfare Participants in Argentina
One important concern of governments in developing countries is on how to phase-out large safety nets programs. This paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that ...
(published as 'Jump-starting Self-employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina' in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 742-755)
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J21, I38, J31
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2901
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Sylvain
Dessy
John
Knowles
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Why Is Child Labor Illegal?
We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1275 - 1311)
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J82, O11
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2900
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Evolution of Inflation and Unemployment: Explaining the Roaring Nineties
This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a phenomenon arising from the interplay between growth and frictions. In ...
(published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2008, 47 (4), 334-354)
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E24, E31, E51, E62
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2899
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Nina
Smith
Aycan
Celikaksoy
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The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Spouse Import
We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform which generated exogenous variation in ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(3), 457 - 486)
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I21, J12
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2898
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Romain
Aeberhardt
Denis
Fougère
Julien
Pouget
Roland
Rathelot
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Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin
Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 881-905)
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C24, J31, J71
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2897
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Corrado
Andini
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A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data
This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (16), 2091-2098)
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I21, J31, C23
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2896
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Govert
Bijwaard
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Effects for Duration Outcomes
In this article we propose and implement an instrumental variable estimation procedure to obtain treatment effects on duration outcomes. The method can handle the typical complications that arise ...
(published in: H. Engelhardt, H.-P. Kohler and A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (eds.), Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, Springer-Verlag: 2009, 111-148)
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C21, C41, J64
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2895
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Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
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Job Losses and Child Outcomes
Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on their children’s earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(4), 591–603)
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J62, C23
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2894
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Rachel
Connelly
Jean
Kimmel
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Spousal Influences on Parents' Non-Market Time Choices
This paper considers the effect of spouse’s characteristics on three aggregated non-paid time uses, active leisure time; child caregiving time; and home production time, using the American Time Use ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (4), 361-394)
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J13, J22
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2893
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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How Long Do Teacher Effects Persist?
Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2011, 113 (7), 1541-1565)
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I2
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2892
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T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras
Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 291-303)
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J23, J31, J38
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2891
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Govert
Bijwaard
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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants: The Case of The Netherlands
In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. ...
(revision published as "Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1213-1247)
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F22, J10, C41
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2890
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David
A.
Jaeger
M. Daniele
Paserman
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The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of suicide attacks and targeted killings in the Second Intifada. We find evidence that the targeted killings of Palestinian leaders by Israel reduce realized ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2009, 4(4), 315–342)
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C32, D71, D74, H56
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2889
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Pauline
Grosjean
Claudia
Senik
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Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a ...
(published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381 )
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H1, H5, P2, P3, P5, O1, O12, O57
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2888
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Peter
Haan
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Intertemporal Labor Supply and Involuntary Unemployment
In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supply behavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (working hours decision). ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, 661-683)
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C23, C25, J22, J64
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2887
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Imed
Drine
Christophe
Rault
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Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?
The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (4), 752-773)
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E31, F0, F31, C15
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2886
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596)
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N33, Z12, I20
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2885
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Martin
Biewen
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Aderonke
Osikominu
Marie
Waller
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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 837-897)
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C14, J68, H43
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2884
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Almudena
Sevilla
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Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe
This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in ...
(published as 'Social Norms, Partnerships and Children' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 215-236)
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E21, I29
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2883
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Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
Patrick
G.
Wall
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Behavioural Economics and Drinking Behaviour: Preliminary Results from an Irish College Study
This paper examines the results of single-equation regression models of the determinants of alcohol consumption patterns among college students modelling a rich variety of covariates including ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 29-36)
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I12
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2882
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Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
Karsten
Reuss
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence
This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 631-646)
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J21, J24, J31
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2881
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Social and Economic Determinants of Turkish Voter Choice in the 1995 Parliamentary Election
1995 Turkish parliamentary election was held almost under the conditions of a controlled experiment. The unique cross-section data pertaining to this election is utilized to study the voter behavior ...
(published in: Electoral Studies, 2007, 26: 633-647)
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D72
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2880
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Ludger
Woessmann
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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270)
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I28, L38, L33, H52, D02, D63, J24
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2878
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Pushkar
Maitra
Sarmistha
Pal
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Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health of the children) cannot be considered to be randomly determined. While most ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705)
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J13, O10, C41, C24
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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