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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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2794
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Lena
Nekby
Peter
Skogman
Thoursie
Lars
Vahtrik
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Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?
Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100(3), 405-407)
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J2, J16, J71
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2792
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Dimitris
Georgarakos
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and their Descendants
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 161-170)
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F22, J15, J82, C41
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2791
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Jan
Svejnar
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China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy ...
(published in: L. Brandt and T. Rawski (eds), China’s Great Economic Transformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
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O1, P2, N1
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2790
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Joshua
Angrist
Adriana
Kugler
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 191-215)
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Q34, O13
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2789
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Kristen
Monaco
Kay
Porter
Aldo
Rustichini
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to ...
(published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106)
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C81, C93, L92, J63
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2788
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David
McKenzie
John
Gibson
Steven
Stillman
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A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?
Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better economic and social opportunities. Anecdotal evidence suggests that emigrants may have over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 116 - 127)
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D84, F22, J61
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2787
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Dolores
Messer
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle
When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration of their studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2010, 18(1), 111-123)
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C81, E32, I2, I23
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2784
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Vincenzo
Caponi
Miana
Plesca
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (3), 1100-1131)
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J24, J31, I2, C31
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2783
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Javier
A.
Birchenall
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (1-2), 280-295)
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J17, J13, I10
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2782
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Helmut
Fryges
Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2008, 144 (4), 695-722)
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F14, F23, L60
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2781
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Monojit
Chatterji
Karen
A.
Mumford
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The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain: A Preliminary Analysis
Relative employment conditions have changed across the public and private sectors in Britain over the last decade with the former becoming a more attractive earnings option. Using new linked ...
(substantially revised version published as: 'Flying High and Laying Low in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparison of Pay Differentials for Male, Full Time Employees.' Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 235-259)
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J3, J7
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2780
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Julien
Prat
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The Rate of Learning-by-Doing: Estimates from a Search-Matching Model
We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2010, 25 (6), 929-962)
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J31, J64
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2779
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Romain
Aeberhardt
Julien
Pouget
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National Origin Wage Differentials in France: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. Business survey data are matched to many ...
(revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 99/100, 17-140)
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J15, J16, J31, J71
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2778
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Marco
Francesconi
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Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this study examines the relationship between several outcomes in early adulthood (e.g., education, inactivity, earnings, and health) and being born ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (1), 93-117)
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C23, I31, J13
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2777
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Jens
Bonke
Mette
Deding
Mette
Lausten
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark
Objective: Focusing on housework activities, we construct a gender neutral composite index measure of intrahousehold specialization. We hypothesize that the degree of specialization is influenced by ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2008, 89 (4), 1023-1043)
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D13
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2776
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Diana
Kruger
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Matias
Berthelon
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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil
This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling. We argue that part of the conflicting results from the previous literature – ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (1), 1-31)
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D13, J22, O12
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2775
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment
This study presents evidence of recruitment discrimination against obese individuals in Sweden by sending fictitious applications to real job openings. Otherwise identical applications were randomly ...
(revised version published as "Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 710-735)
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J64, J71
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2773
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Roland
A.
Amann
Tobias
J.
Klein
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Returns to Type or Tenure?
We analyze the joint determination of wage levels, wage growth and firm tenure. Our analysis is built on estimating a reduced form for tenure, a structural wage level equation and a structural wage ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (1), 153 - 166)
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J31
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2772
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
Mathias
Sinning
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A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap
This paper investigates the source of the gap in the relative wealth position of immigrant households residing in Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 11 (4), 989-1007)
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F22, D31
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2771
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Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84(2), 590–608)
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I12, I31, I38, J17, O15, O54
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2770
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Giuseppe
Fiori
Giuseppe
Nicoletti
Stefano
Scarpetta
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment when there are interactions between policies and institutions in product and ...
(published as "Employment Effects of Product and Labour Market Reforms: Are There Synergies?" in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), 79-104)
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J23, J50, L50
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2769
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Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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The Role of Association Agreements within European Union Enlargement to Central and Eastern European Countries
The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade ...
(published in: Aussenwirtschaft : Schweizerische Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen /Swiss Review of International Economic Relations, 2008, Issue III)
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E61, F13, F15, C25
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2768
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Marco
Cipriani
Paola
Giuliano
Olivier
Jeanne
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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children
This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 90, 100-111)
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C92, H41, Z1
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2767
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Reuben
Gronau
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The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ supply of variety, but little to consumers’ demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 562-572)
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D13, J22
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2766
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Raven
E.
Saks
Abigail
Wozniak
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Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle: New Evidence from Internal Migration
This paper establishes the cyclical properties of a novel measure of worker reallocation: long-distance migration rates within the US. This internal migration offers a bird’s eye view of worker ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4). 697 - 739)
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J6, E32
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2765
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Armin
Falk
Christian
Zehnder
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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment
This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the ...
(published as 'A City-Wide Experiment on Trust Discrimination' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 100, 15-27)
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C90, D63
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2764
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Implicit Discrimination in Hiring: Real World Evidence
This is the first study providing evidence of a new form of discrimination, implicit discrimination, acting in real economic life. In a two-stage field experiment we first measure the difference in ...
(published as "Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 523-534)
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J64, J71
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2763
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Giacomo
Corneo
Olivier
Jeanne
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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development
Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 241-255)
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D1, O1
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2762
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Francesca
Francavilla
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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2011, 22 (5), 412 - 426)
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J13, J16, J22, O18
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2761
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Tobias
J.
Klein
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College Education and Wages in the U.K.: Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables
We propose and implement an estimator for identifiable features of correlated random coefficient models with binary endogenous variables and nonadditive errors in the outcome equation. It is ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(1), 135-161)
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C14, C31, J31
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2760
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Replication in Economics
This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication – checking on others' published papers using their data – and scientific ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40 (3), 715-733)
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A14, B41, C59
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2759
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Martin
Nordin
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?
This is the first study to use an achievement test score to analyze whether the income gap between second-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. ...
(revised version published as 'The Ethnic Employment and Income Gap in Sweden: Is Skill or Labor Market Discrimination the Explanation?' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (3), 487 - 510)
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J64, J71
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2758
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Deng
Quheng
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Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China
Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income insecurity. The rapid expansion of the system of social assistance, Di Bao, can ...
(published in: Poverty and Public Policy, 2011, 3(1), Article 10)
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I32, I38, P36
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2757
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other ...
(published as "Bribery in Health Care in Uganda" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 699-707)
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H4, K4, O1
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2755
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Laura
Angelescu McVey
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Modern Economic Growth and Quality of Life: Cross Sectional and Time Series Evidence
To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil rights, happiness, and the like) associated with economic growth? International ...
(published in: Kenneth C. Land (ed.). Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality-of-Life Research, New York and London: Springer, 2011)
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N30, O57, D60, Y1
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2754
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Julien
Prat
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection and Unemployment
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous multiple-worker firms. In our setup, PMR modifies the distribution of firm ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (2), 278-318)
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E24, J63, L16, O00
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2753
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Jocelyn
A.
Lehrer
Vivian
L.
Lehrer
Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Zhenxiang
Zhao
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Physical Dating Violence Among College Students in Chile
Dating violence is a serious public health concern both per se and because victimization in the young adult years can be a precursor to more severe incidents of domestic violence later, in the ...
(published in: Journal of Women's Health, 2010, 19(5), 893-902)
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J4, J16, I12, I18
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2752
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David
W.
Johnston
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development
We test if there is a differential in early child development by handedness, using a comprehensive range of measures covering, learning, social, cognitive and language skills, evaluated by both ...
(revised version published (with Michael E.R. Nicholls) as 'Nature's Experiment? Handedness and Early Childhood Development' in: Demography, 2009, 46 (2), 281 - 301)
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J13, I21
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2750
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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The Power of the Family
The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (2), 93-125 )
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Z10, Z13
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2749
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Guillermina
Jasso
Samuel
Kotz
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Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups
Social scientists study two kinds of inequality: inequality between persons (as in income inequality) and inequality between subgroups (as in racial inequality). This paper analyzes the mathematical ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2008, 37 (1), 31-74)
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C02, C16, D31, D6, I3
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2747
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Hartmut
Egger
Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure
This paper uses a two-country model with integrated markets for high-skilled labor to analyze the opportunities and incentives for national governments to provide higher education. Countries can ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 81-94)
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F22, H52
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2746
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Andrea
Bassanini
Giorgio
Brunello
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training
We develop a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model yields ambiguous predictions on the sign of this relationship. On the ...
(revised version published as 'Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training: A theoretical model with evidence from Europe' in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1152-1176)
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J24, L11
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2745
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Fabian
Lange
Douglas
Gollin
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Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements
Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (4), 749-777)
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F21, F22
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2744
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Francesca
Lotti
Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-Run Regularity
According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32(1), 31-44)
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L11, L26
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2743
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Eran
Yashiv
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1859-1895)
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E24, E32, E52, J23, J31, J41, J63, J64, J65
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2741
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Olaf
Hübler
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Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (4), 469-489)
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C23, J31, J62, J63
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2740
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Michael
Lechner
Stephan
Wiehler
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Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812)
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J68
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2739
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Yves
Zenou
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High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models: Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch
We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 534-546)
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D83, J15, J64, R14
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2738
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Tobias
J.
Klein
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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: Instrumental Variables without Monotonicity?
A fundamental identification problem in program evaluation arises when idiosyncratic gains from participation and the treatment decision depend on each other. Imbens and Angrist (1994) were the first ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 155 (2), 99-116)
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C21
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2737
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Michael A.
Shields
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Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (3), 540 - 552)
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I10, I18, C42
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