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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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8830
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Helmuth
Cremer
Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur
Dario
Maldonado
Kerstin
Roeder
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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation
This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 454-470)
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H21, H31, D10
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8828
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of ...
(published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93)
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A11, J01, B31
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8827
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James
J.
Heckman
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Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist
This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 74–79)
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B31, D13, J13, J24
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8826
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Andy
Feng
Georg
Graetz
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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class – a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK – causally affects graduates' industry and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 140-161)
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C26, I24, J24, J31
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8825
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Ronny
Freier
Mathias
Schumann
Thomas
Siedler
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 39-50 )
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J01, J31, J44
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8824
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis
This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 155-180)
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D73, J16, L83, Z13
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8823
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Jannie
H. G.
Kristoffersen
Morten
Visby
Kraegpøth
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes
This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 1-13)
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I21, J12
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8822
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Angus
J.
Holford
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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 531 - 568)
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I38, J22, H53
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8821
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Stefanie
Schurer
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Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,119, 482-495, 2015)
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D81, D01, D63
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8820
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
Andrea
Robbett
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Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 50-60)
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J31, D01, C92
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8819
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Corrado
Andini
Monica
Andini
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A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity
The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data ...
(extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320)
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C23, J64
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8818
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Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Alina
Sorgner
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333)
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L26, D22
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8817
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Marco
Caliendo
Jens
Hogenacker
Steffen
Künn
Frank
Wießner
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190)
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C14, L26, J68
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8816
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Johannes
König
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Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669)
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L26, I13, J2
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8815
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David
Bardey
Helmuth
Cremer
Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur
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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 28 -37)
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I11, I13, I18
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8814
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Stefanie
Schurer
Michael
Alspach
Jayden
MacRae
Greg
L.
Martin
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The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach
This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 81–93)
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H51, I18
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8813
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Marco
Francesconi
Robert
Pollak
Domenico
Tabasso
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Unequal Bequests
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally ...
(publlished in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104513)
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D13, J12, K36
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8812
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Erik
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
John
Piggott
Knut
Røed
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Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work ...
(revised version published as 'Pension Reform and Labor Supply' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142, 39–55)
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H55, J22, J26
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8811
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Bernhard
Boockmann
Tobias
Brändle
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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e436-e468)
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J68, J14
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8810
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Ali
Termos
Ismail
H.
Genc
George
S
Naufal
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A Tacit Monetary Policy of the Gulf Countries: Is There a Remittances Channel?
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (2), 599-610)
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F24, N15
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8808
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Emanuele
Bracco
Maria
De Paola
Colin
P.
Green
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Long Lasting Differences in Civic Capital: Evidence from a Unique Immigration Event in Italy
A range of evidence exists demonstrating that social capital is associated with a number of important economic outcomes such as economic growth, trade and crime. A recent literature goes further to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 120, 160-173)
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A13, D72, P16
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8807
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Barbara
A.
Butrica
Nadia
S
Karamcheva
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Automatic Enrollment, Employer Match Rates and Employee Compensation in 401(k) Plans
This study uses restricted-access employer-level microdata from the National Compensation Survey to examine the relationship between automatic enrollment and employee compensation. By boosting plan ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, May 2015)
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J26, J31, J32
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8806
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James
Malcomson
Sophocles
Mavroeidis
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Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US
The Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model with all wages negotiated each period is shown inconsistent with macroeconomic wage dynamics in the US. This applies even when heterogeneous match ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 997-1017)
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E2, J3, J6
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8805
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Henry
R.
Hyatt
James
R.
Spletzer
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The Recent Decline of Single Quarter Jobs
Rates of hiring and job separation fell by as much as a third in the U.S. between the late 1990s and the early 2010s. Half of this decline is associated with the declining incidence of jobs that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46 (1), 166-176)
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J21
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8804
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Boris
Hirsch
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Dual Labour Markets at Work: The Impact of Employers' Use of Temporary Agency Work on Regular Workers' Job Stability
Fitting duration models on an inflow sample of jobs in Germany starting in 2002-2010, this paper investigates the impact of employers' use of temporary agency work on regular workers' job stability. ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (5), 1191-1215)
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J63, J41, J21
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8803
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Henna
Busk
Elke
J.
Jahn
Christine
Dauth
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2017, 56 (3), 514-544)
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J28, J41, J88
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8801
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Simon
Chang
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Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios
Sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex are still criminalized in more than one third of the countries in the world despite a global wave of decriminalization in the past sixty ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (2), 401-430)
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J1, K4
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8799
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Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
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Police Disruption and Performance: Evidence from Recurrent Redeployments within a City
More policing reduces crime but little is known about the mechanism. Does policing deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or because it leads to additional arrests of recurrent criminals? This ...
(publilshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 176, 18-31)
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K42, H00
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8796
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 565-92)
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O15, F22, D13, J16
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8795
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Peter
Glick
Christopher
Handy
David
E.
Sahn
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Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2015, 69 (2), 219-236)
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J12, J13, I20, C3
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8794
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities: Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 332 - 359)
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D13, J16, J22
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8793
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Hielke
Buddelmeyer
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Mark
Wooden
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The Stress Cost of Children
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 148 - 161)
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J13, J20
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8792
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Javier
E.
Baez
Leonardo
Lucchetti
Maria
Eugenia
Genoni
Mateo
Salazar
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Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala
This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (8), 1253 - 1271)
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I3, J2, O1
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8791
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Stephen
Broadberry
Sayantan
Ghosal
Eugenio
Proto
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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 127 (C), 379-394.)
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N13, O14, O43
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8789
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Joseph
S.
Shapiro
Reed
Walker
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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (12), 3814–3854)
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F18, F64, H23, Q56
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8787
|
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Falko
Tabbert
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Effects of Changes in Pensions on the Age of First Benefit Receipt: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Repatriated Ethnic Germans
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38, 12 - 23)
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J26, H55
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8786
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Herwig
Immervoll
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Sebastian
Königs
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Are Recipients of Social Assistance 'Benefit Dependent'? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries
Means-tested Social Assistance (SA) benefits play an important role as social protection floors supporting households in financial difficulties. This paper presents evidence on the patterns of SA ...
(published in parts in: International Journal of Social Welfare, 2018, 27 (2), 146-156)
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I38, J60, J64, C23
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8784
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Henry
S
Farber
Jesse
Rothstein
Robert
G.
Valletta
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The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Evidence from the 2012-2013 Phase-Out
Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most recipients. The extensions were rolled back and eventually terminated by the end of 2013. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 171 - 176)
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J64, J65
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8782
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Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and ...
(published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot and J. Bakens (eds.), The Economics of Cultural Diversity, Edward Elgar, 2015)
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C00, D63, J15, R23, Z13
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8780
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Kristiina
Huttunen
Jarle
Moen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Job Loss and Regional Mobility
It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (2), 479 - 509)
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J61, J63
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8778
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Francesc
Ortega
Ryuichi
Tanaka
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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives
This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country, emphasizing the political economy implications. In particular, we are interested on ...
(published as 'Immigration and the political economy of public education' in: G. Freeman and N, Mirilovic (eds.), Handbook of Migration and Social Policy. Elgar, 2016, 121–136 )
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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8777
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David
P.
Varady
Reinout
Kleinhans
Maarten
van Ham
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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community ...
(published as 'The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States' in: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2015, 9 (3), 253-276. )
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L26, L31, R23
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8776
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Adriana
Di Liberto
Marco
Sideri
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 38, 12-41)
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O11, O43, C26
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8773
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Aysit
Tansel
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor ...
(revised version published as 'Transitions across Labor Market States Including Formal/Informal Division in Egypt' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1674-1695.)
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J21, J24, J40, J63, O17
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8772
|
Mahmoud
Arayssi
Ali
Fakih
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Institutions and Development in MENA Region: Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2015, 42 (8), 717-732)
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G2, O16, P48
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8771
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Junhui
Qian
Le
Wang
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The Inequality-Growth Plateau
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 17-20)
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C5, C14, O4
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8770
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Private Tutoring: Evidence from India
Drawing on the nationally representative "Participation and Expenditure in Education" surveys, we document the incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (4), 739 - 761)
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I21, I22, I24
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8769
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Adam
S.
Booij
Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Ability Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper estimates peer effects originating from the ability composition of tutorial groups for undergraduate students in economics. We manipulated the composition of groups to achieve a wide range ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (2), 547 - 578)
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I22, I28
|
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8768
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Eva
Feron
Trudie
Schils
Bas
ter Weel
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Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Additional Value of Teacher Assessment in Predicting Student Ability
This research investigates to what extent subjective teacher assessment of children's ability adds to the use of test scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164 (4), 391-418)
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I21, I28, J24
|
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8767
|
Douglas
A.
Webber
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Are College Costs Worth It? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions
This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 296-310.)
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I21, I22, I23
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