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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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9041
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Simon
Gächter
Lingbo
Huang
Martin
Sefton
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Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712)
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C91, C92, J41
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9040
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Simon
Jäger
Florian
Zimmermann
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Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49)
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C93, D04, D83, J64, J68
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9039
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Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
Matthias
Sutter
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Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264)
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C91, C93, D03
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9038
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Paul
Bisschop
Stephen
Kastoryano
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 28-63)
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J16, J47, K14, K23, K42
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9036
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions
In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041)
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C21, J31, J71
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9035
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Christoph
Wunder
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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (4), 1303-1329)
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I38, J61
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9034
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Arash
Nekoei
Andrea
Weber
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 527-561.)
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H5, J3, J6
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9032
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Alain
Jousten
Mathieu
Lefèbvre
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Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality ...
(published in: D. A. Wise (ed.); Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 5-58)
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J14, J21, J26
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9031
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Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
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Does Commuting Affect Health?
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25(8), 984-1004 )
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I12, R41
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9030
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Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Crosetto
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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164(3), 281-295. )
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B49, C91, D81
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9029
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Paolo
Crosetto
Antonio
Filippin
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 83 (4), 1038–1051)
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C81, C91, D81
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9028
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Cameron
K.
Murray
Paul
Frijters
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 93(C), 99-114)
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D72, D73, R52, R58
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9027
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Niall
Hughes
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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career concerned committee members receive private information of different ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, 10, 181-209)
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C92, D71, D83
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9025
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Nils
G.
May
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.)
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Q42, R11, C23
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9024
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Yiu Por
(Vincent)
Chen
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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2016, 50 (9), 1469-1482 )
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H30, J61, J68, D72
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9023
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S
Anukriti
Abhishek
Chakravarty
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Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders
Despite theoretical advances, measurement issues have impeded empirical research on aspirations. We quantify political aspirations in a developing country by estimating individuals' willingness to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 79-121)
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J13, J16, H75, O11
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9021
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Oliver
Krebs
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2018, 26, 171-222)
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F10, F11, F12, F16
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9020
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Kurt
Schmidheiny
Jens
Suedekum
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13)
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R11, R12
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9019
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Chiara
Rapallini
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Immigrant Student Performance in Math: Does It Matter Where You Come From?
The performance gap in math of immigrant students is investigated using PISA 2012. The gap with respect to non-immigrant schoolmates is first measured. The hypotheses that first (second) generation ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 291-304)
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I25, J15, O15
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9018
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Xiuna
Yang
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Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?
This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic minority groups and the Han majority. Results show that the probability to migrate to ...
(published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 44-69)
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J15, J61, J7, P23
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9017
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.)
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F22, O15, P2
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9016
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Claudia
Cigagna
Giovanni
Sulis
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On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 441 - 468)
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J61, J50, F22
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9015
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Boris
Hirsch
Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031)
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I19, J22
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9014
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Ewa
Ga?ecka-Burdziak
Marek
Góra
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Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market
Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour ...
(published as 'The impact of easy and early access to old-age benefits on exits from the labour market: a macro-micro analysis' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2016, 5, 18 (2016))
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J14, J22
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9012
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
Virgilio
Galdo
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Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design
This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4 (11), 1-26)
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I3, J2
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9011
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Marion
Collewet
Andries
de Grip
Jaap
de Koning
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Conspicuous Work: Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers
This paper uncovers 'conspicuous work' as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 79–90)
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J22, I31, D62
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9009
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Nicolao
Bonini
Stefania
Pighin
Enrico
Rettore
Lucia
Savadori
Federico
Schena
Sara
Tonini
Paolo
Tosi
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Overconfident People Are More Exposed to "Black Swan" Events: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk
Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant anecdotal evidence ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (4), 1443 - 1467)
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D83, D84, C2
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9007
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Wen
Ci
Jose
C.
Galdo
Marcel
Voia
Christopher
Worswick
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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada
Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9)
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C14, I20, J24, J31, M53
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9004
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Olivier
Marie
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 393-430)
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J13, I20
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9003
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Hans
Fricke
Jeffrey
Grogger
Andreas
Steinmayr
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the ...
(published as 'Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 199-213)
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A20, I20, I23
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9002
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Anyck
Dauphin
Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors ...
(published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766 )
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D1, D7, J12
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9001
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model
The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 187-190)
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D11, D12, D13
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9000
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (1), 326-342)
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B40, C18, C80
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8999
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Frank
Gyimah
Sackey
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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium ...
(published as "Microfinance and credit rationing: does the microfinance type matter?" Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 8(2), 114–131.)
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G21
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8997
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Sourafel
Girma
Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
Sandra
Lancheros
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269)
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F23
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8995
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Alex
Bryson
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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161 )
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J31, J33
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8994
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016)
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D63, I32
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8991
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Mark
Strom
Kristoffersen
Michael
Svarer
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Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 27-39)
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E32, H3, J65
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8990
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training
This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62 )
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I22, I26, J24, M53
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8989
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Benjamin
W.
Chute
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Is There a Link Between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility? Evidence from Recent Micro Data
This study investigates the prevalence and severity of job immobility induced by the provision of employer-sponsored health insurance – a phenomenon known as 'job-lock'. Using data from the ...
(published in: Open Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, 1 (1), 38 - 52)
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I13, J16, J32, J51
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8988
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Andrea
Albanese
Bart
Cockx
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Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?
In several OECD countries age-targeted wage subsidies have been introduced to increase the employment of older workers, but evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. This paper examines the effects ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166)
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J14, C21, J18, J3
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8987
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Charlotte
Cabane
Adrian
Hille
Michael
Lechner
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Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 90-103)
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Z28, Z29, I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
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8986
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Daniele
Checchi
Enrico
Rettore
Silvia
Girardi
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IC Technology and Learning: An Impact Evaluation of Cl@ssi2.0
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 241 - 264)
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I20, I28
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8985
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Atila
Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua
Angrist
Peter
Hull
Parag A.
Pathak
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (7), 1878–1920)
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I21, I28, J24, C26, C36
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8984
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Dan
S.
Rickman
Hongbo
Wang
John
V.
Winters
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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state ...
(revised portion published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35 (3), 542-550)
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H75, I20, I28, J24, J31, R23
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8983
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Katja
Görlitz
Christina
Gravert
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The Effects of a High School Curriculum Reform on University Enrollment and the Choice of College Major
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (3), 321-336)
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I21, I23, I28
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8982
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Evelina
Gavrilova
Nadia
Campaniello
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Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in the Crime Market
There is little research on the gender variation in the crime market. We document a gender gap in criminal activities, based on property crimes, using data from the U.S. National Incident Based ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 289-304)
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J16, K42
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8981
|
Robert
M.
Sauer
Tanya
Wilson
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 73-86)
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J23, L26, M13
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8979
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Pedro
Carneiro
Rita
Ginja
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F66 -F95)
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D12, D91, I30, J1
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8978
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Barbara
Broadway
Guyonne
Kalb
Daniel
Kühnle
Miriam
Mäder
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of ...
(published as 'Paid Parental Leave and Child Health in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2017, 93 (301), 214-237)
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I1
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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