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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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9480
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Alan
I.
Barreca
Olivier
Deschenes
Melanie
Guldi
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Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could ...
(published as 'Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates ' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1269-1293. )
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I12, J13, Q54
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9479
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Pedro
Carneiro
Italo
Lopez Garcia
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (3), 757 - 788)
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J24, E24
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9478
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Benjamin
Elsner
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381)
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I12, I14, I21, I24
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9477
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Mathias
Kuepie
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
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Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo
Using first-hand data from the 2009 Employment and Informal Sector Survey (EESIC) in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, we analyse the impact of education ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2016, 44 (1), 1-27)
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J24, J31, O12
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9476
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Sneha
Elango
Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
Andrés
Hojman
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Early Childhood Education
This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond meta-analysis and reanalyze primary data sources in a common framework. We consider ...
(published in: Robert A. Moffitt (ed.), Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume II, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 235-298. )
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J13, I28, C93
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9475
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Jian
Z.
Yeo
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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Educational Mismatches and Earnings in the New Zealand Labor Market
Mismatch of educational skills in the labor market is an emerging topic in the field of labor economics, partly due to its link to labor productivity. This is the first application of this question ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2017, 51 (1), 28-48 )
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J24, J31
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9474
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David
N.
Figlio
Krzysztof
Karbownik
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Education Research and Administrative Data
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have ...
(published in: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5, 2016, 75–138)
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I20
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9473
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Semih
Tumen
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102)
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J31, L22, L23, M51, M52
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9472
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Matteo
Picchio
Sigrid
Suetens
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery
This paper investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labor supply. Analyzing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that earnings are affected but not employment. Lottery ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1700-1729)
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J22, J29
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9470
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Matteo
Picchio
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 125, 192-211)
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C33, C35, J24, M51, M53
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9469
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Gregory
Verdugo
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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession: Evidence from Micro Data
We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great Recession. Average real wages are found to be acyclical, but this reflects, in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 82, 46-69)
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J30, E32
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9468
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Nora
Lustig
Daniel
Teles
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction
In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, a number of cross-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.)
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D31, I32
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9467
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Nidhaleddine
Ben Cheikh
Christophe
Rault
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The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, ...
(published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2016, 21 (2), 154–166)
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C22, E31, F31
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9466
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Michail
Veliziotis
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What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (1), 81-96)
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J51, P2, P3
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9465
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Henry
S
Farber
Dan
Silverman
Till
von
Wachter
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Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study
We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college- educated females applying for an ...
(published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017, 3 (3), 168-201 )
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J64
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9464
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Hans
Bloemen
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Collective Labour Supply, Taxes, and Intrahousehold Allocation: An Empirical Approach
Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019, 37 (3), 471-481)
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J22, D1, D13, H24, C51
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9463
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Francesco
Devicienti
Elena
Grinza
Davide
Vannoni
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The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Italy
In this paper, we explore the impact of part-time work on firm productivity. Using a large panel data set of Italian corporations' balance sheets for the period 2000-2010, we first estimate the total ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2018, 27 (2), 321 - 347)
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L23, L25, J23
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9462
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Niels
Vermeer
Mauro
Mastrogiacomo
Arthur
van Soest
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Demanding Occupations and the Retirement Age
In several countries where pensions are reformed and the retirement age is increased, the issue came up to make an exception for workers with demanding occupations, since health considerations may ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 159-170)
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J26, J81, H55
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9460
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Joan
Monras
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Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Often, minimum wage laws are decided at the state or regional level, and even when not, federal level increases are only binding in certain states. This has been used in previous literature to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (3), 853–904)
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J38
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9458
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Seokjin
Woo
Soohyung
Lee
Kyunghee
Kim
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Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137 195 - 199)
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C5, I2
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9455
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Binnur
Balkan
Semih
Tumen
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Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence
Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266)
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C78, J21, J31, L11
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9453
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Elena
Meschi
Erol
Taymaz
Marco
Vivarelli
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Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand: A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey
This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2016, 152, 655-680)
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O33
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9452
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Timothy
M.
Diette
David
C.
Ribar
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity
Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56(3), 1602-21.)
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J1, R2
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9451
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being
The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 47-61)
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D19, H13, I31, J61, R20
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9449
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Jan
Bietenbeck
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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426)
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I21, J24
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9448
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Jan
Feld
Ulf
Zölitz
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428)
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I21, I24, J24
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9447
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Julia
Debski
Michael
Jetter
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Gender and Corruption: A Reassessment
This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a panel framework. Using annual observations in a pooled setting (no ...
(revised version published as 'Gender and corruption: The neglected role of culture' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 526 - 537 )
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C23, D73, J16
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9446
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Ernesto
Reuben
Paola
Sapienza
Luigi
Zingales
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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap among Young Business Professionals
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2024, 79, 1087-1121)
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J16, D81, D84, I21, C93
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9445
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Zachary
Bleemer
Basit
Zafar
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Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost
Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the US have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 184-211)
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D81, D83, D84, I21, I24, I28
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9444
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Theresa
Kuchler
Basit
Zafar
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Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic outcomes in housing and labor markets. We exploit variation in locally experienced ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2019, 74 (5), 2491-2542)
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D83, D84
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9443
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Francesco
Drago
Friederike
Mengel
Christian
Traxler
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Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 96 - 133)
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D8, H26, Z13
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9442
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Shaohua
Chen
Andrew
Dabalen
Yuri
Dikhanov
Nada
Hamadeh
Dean
Jolliffe
Ambar
Narayan
Espen
Beer
Prydz
Ana
Revenga
Prem
Sangraula
Umar
Serajuddin
Nobuo
Yoshida
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A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14 (2), 141-172)
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I3, I32, E31, F01
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9441
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Amparo
Castelló-Climent
Latika
Chaudhary
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
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Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic ...
(published as 'Higher Education and Prosperity: From Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 3039-3075)
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I25, N35, O15
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9440
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Manisha
Shah
Bryce
Millett Steinberg
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Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 527-561)
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O12, I2, J1
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9439
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Nekeisha
Spencer
Solomon
Polachek
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Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production
This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015, 120, 234-240. )
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O13, O54, Q1
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9438
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Tony
Fang
Morley
Gunderson
Carl
Lin
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The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China
Job search procedures are a form of human capital investment in that they involve current investments to enhance future returns, analogous to human capital investments in areas such as education, ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37(0), 154-165)
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J31, J61, J64
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9437
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Martyn
J.
Andrews
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence
This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic ...
(published in World Economy, 2017, 40(9), 1750-1774 )
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F16, F22
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9435
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Eric
S.
Lin
Yu-Lung
Lu
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The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan
This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are ...
(published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016, 36 (1), 48-72)
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A2, I2
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9434
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George
J.
Borjas
Ilpo
Kauppinen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Self?Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 143–171)
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F22, J61
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9433
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Marc
Piopiunik
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139, 52-56)
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I21, I24, Z13
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9431
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Antonio
Di Paolo
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Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 90–101)
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J24, J31, I28
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9430
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis
Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing full-time pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 150, 277-294)
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J14, J26
|
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9429
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Giulia
Canzian
Samuele
Poy
Simone
Schüller
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Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 87–103. )
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O33, J24, L24, L26
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9428
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Hans
Fricke
Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
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Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504)
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C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
|
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9427
|
Nikos
Askitas
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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or ...
(published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198)
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C81, E65, G21, R31
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9426
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Nick
Drydakis
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Brain Types and Wages
We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2017, 85 (2), 183 - 211)
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J24, J31
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9425
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees
In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework ...
(published as "The commuting behavior of workers in the United States: differences between the employed and the self-employed" in: Journal of Transport Geography, 2018, 66, 19-29)
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R20, R41, J64
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9424
|
Michčle
Belot
Jonathan
James
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 213-229)
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J13, I18, I28, H51, H52
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9423
|
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohčme" (bobos). This takeover ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056)
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H7, R3, R4, R5
|
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9422
|
Claudio
Fassio
Sona
Kalantaryan
Alessandra
Venturini
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Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries ...
(published as 'Foreign Human Capital and Total Factor Productivity: A Sectoral Approach' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 613 - 646)
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F22, F66, O31, O32
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