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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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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
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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
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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
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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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8766
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Katja
Görlitz
Christina
Gravert
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The Effects of Increasing the Standards of the High School Curriculum on School Dropout
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (54), 5314-5328)
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D04, I21, I28
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8765
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Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they ...
(published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367)
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Z10, Z11, L15, L80, M30, D12, J44
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8764
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Voluntary Activities and Daily Happiness in the US
This paper analyzes differences in daily happiness between those individuals in the United States who perform voluntary activities during the day, and those who do not. Using the Well-Being Module of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (4), 1735-1750)
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D13, J16, J22
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8763
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Jan
Marcus
Thomas
Siedler
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Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany
Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 55-77)
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I12, I18, D04
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8761
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
Kirsten
Thommes
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Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership
In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a ...
(considerably shortened version published as 'Public Good Provision in Blended Groups of Partners and Strangers' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 41-44)
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C9, M5
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8758
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Christoph
Rothe
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Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap
Estimators of average treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignment are known to become rather imprecise if there is limited overlap in the covariate distributions between the treatment ...
(published in: Econometrica; 2017, 85 (2), 645 - 660)
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C12, C14, C25, C31
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8757
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David
Card
David S.
Lee
Zhuan
Pei
Andrea
Weber
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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of interest is a known, deterministic, but kinked function of an observed assignment ...
(revised version published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83(6), 2453–2483)
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C13, C14, C31
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8755
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Jyotsna
Puri
Anastasia
Aladysheva
Vegard
Iversen
Yashodhan
Ghorpade
Tilman
Brück
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to ...
(published as: 'Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?' in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017, 9 (4), 519 - 542. )
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H84, C93, O12, Q54
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8753
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Brian
Duncan
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Incentives to Identify: Racial Identity in the Age of Affirmative Action
It is almost universally assumed that race is an exogenously given trait that is not subject to change. But as race is most often self-reported by individuals who must weigh the costs and benefits of ...
(shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(3), 710-13)
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J15, I28, Z13
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8752
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Stijn
Baert
Frank
Heiland
Sanders
Korenman
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Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186)
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I24, J15, J16, J70, Z10, C35
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8751
|
Abebe
Shimeles
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Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent ...
(part of this paper published as 'Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives' in: The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2015)
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O12
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8749
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Merle
Zwiers
Gideon
Bolt
Maarten
van Ham
Ronald
van Kempen
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Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (5), 665 - 584)
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I32, I38, O18, R23
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8748
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Santiago
Budría
Pablo
Swedberg
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The Impact of Multilingualism on Spanish Language Acquisition among Immigrants in Spain
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. ...
(published as 'The impact of multilingualism on host language acquisition' in: Empirica, 2019, 46, 741 - 766)
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J15, J24, J61
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8747
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Caglar
Ozden
Christopher
Parsons
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On the Economic Geography of International Migration
We exploit the bilateral and skill dimensions from recent data sets of international migration to test for the existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's Laws in the context of aggregate and high-skilled ...
(published in World Economy 2015, 39 (4), 478–495 )
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F22, J61, O15
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8746
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Erhan
Artuc
Frédéric
Docquier
Caglar
Ozden
Christopher
Parsons
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A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 6 - 26)
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F22, J61, O15
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8745
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Calogero
Carletto
Jennica
Larrison
Caglar
Ozden
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Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer
Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on ...
(published in: R. E. B. Lucas (ed.), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, Elgar, 2014, 9–41 )
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F22, J61, O15
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8744
|
Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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The Impact of Temporary Protected Status on Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes
The United States currently provides Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 300,000 immigrants from selected countries. TPS is typically granted if dangerous conditions prevail in the home ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105, 576-580)
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J15, J31, J61
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8743
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration and the Demographic Shift
This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly ...
(substantially revised version published in: Piggott, J. and A. Woodland (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, Vol. 1A, Ch. 3, 119-177.)
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F22, F66, J11, J14, J61, O15
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8742
|
Nick
Drydakis
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The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013: A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis
The current study uses six annual waves of the Longitudinal Labor Market Study (LLMS) covering the 2008-2013 period to obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 128, 43-51)
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C23, C33, E24, I12
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8741
|
Nick
Drydakis
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the United Kingdom's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
Deviations from heteronormativity affect labour market dynamics. Hierarchies of sexual orientation can result in job dismissals, wage discrimination, and the failure to promote gay and lesbian ...
(published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68(11), 1769-1796)
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C93, J7, J82
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8740
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Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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Do NEETs Need Grit?
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market choices. In particular, we investigate the impact of grit (a tendency and ability to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:19)
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I10, I21
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8739
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Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Jonathan
H. W.
Tan
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Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving
This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Influence in the Face of Impunity' in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 119-121.)
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C78, C92
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8738
|
Adrian
Bruhin
Lorenz
Götte
Simon
Haenni
Lingqing
Jiang
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Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors
Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102244. )
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D03, C31, C36
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8737
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Dalit
Gafni
Erez
Siniver
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Even Education and Experience Has Its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap
Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42, (5), 908 - 928 )
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J15, J24, J31
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8736
|
Deniz
Ozabaci
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Additive Kernel Estimates of Returns to Schooling
In this paper, we employ a partially linear nonparametric additive regression estimator, with recent U.S. Current Population Survey data, to analyze returns to schooling. Similar to previous ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 227-251)
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C14, J24
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8734
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Joshua
Goodman
Takako
Nomi
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (1), 108-158)
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I20, I21, I24, J15, J24
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8733
|
Sandra
E.
Black
Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Efficacy vs. Equity: What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016, 38 (2), 336-363)
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I21, I23, I24, J15, J18
|
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8732
|
Rosario
Maria
Ballatore
Margherita
Fort
Andrea
Ichino
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (4), 885–921)
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C36, I20, I24, J15
|
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8731
|
Peter
Glick
David
E.
Sahn
Thomas
F.
Walker
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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar
This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 792 - 813)
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I25, J22, D13, E24
|
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8730
|
John
V.
Winters
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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments ...
(revised version published as 'Do higher college graduation rates increase local education levels?' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (3), 617 - 638)
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I25, J24, R23
|
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8729
|
Dmytro
Hryshko
Chinhui
Juhn
Kristin
McCue
|
Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?
We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 168-182)
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J1, J2, J3
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