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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dmytro
Hryshko
Chinhui
Juhn
Kristin
McCue
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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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8728
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Shoshana
Grossbard
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Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach
A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the most unique models he pioneered. Here I provide an overview of Becker's analysis ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25)
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J12, J16
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8727
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Andriana
Bellou
Emanuela
Cardia
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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified ...
(See IZA DP 18120 for an updated version of this paper.)
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J11, J12, J13, J21, J24, J26, J31
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8726
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabian
Kindermann
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Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is ...
(published in: M. Cervellati, U. Sunde (eds.), Demographic Change and Long-Run Development, MIT Press, 2017, )
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D13, J12, J13
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8725
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Astrid
Kunze
Amalia
Miller
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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (5), 769-775, 2017)
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J6, J7, M5
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8724
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Alex
Bryson
Andrew
E.
Clark
Richard
B.
Freeman
Colin
P.
Green
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Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing
We show that worker wellbeing is not only related to the amount of compensation workers receive but also how they receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 151-158)
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J28, J33, J54, J63, J81, M52
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8723
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Irene
Mosca
Alan
Barrett
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The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health: Evidence from Older Irish Adults
The few studies that have attempted to identify the causal effects of retirement on mental health and well-being have provided conflicting evidence. Hence, whether retirement affects mental health ...
(published in: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 2016, 19, 33-44)
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J26, J14
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8722
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Carol
Lee
Graham
Milena
Nikolova
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 68, 163 - 179)
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I31, I39
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8721
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John
T.
Giles
Elan
Satriawan
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Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia
In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 114, 97 -106)
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I12, I18, O15, O20, O22
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8720
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Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Carlos
Dobkin
Casey
Warman
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The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control
A substantial economics literature documents that tighter alcohol controls reduce alcohol related harms, but far less is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (2), 328-356. )
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I18
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8719
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Michael
Grimm
Jörg
Peters
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Beer, Wood, and Welfare
Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2015, 10 (8), e0132603)
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D2, D6, I3, O3
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8718
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D. Mark
Anderson
Benjamin
Crost
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Violent Crime
Drawing on county-level data from Kansas for the period 1977-2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1333-1366 )
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H75, K42
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8717
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Ive
Marx
Dieter
Vandelannoote
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Matthew Runs Amok: The Belgian Service Voucher Scheme
In response to structurally poor job prospects for the least skilled, a number of European countries have introduced measures to boost domestic services employment. No country has done so with more ...
(published in: Carbonnier, C. and N. Morel (eds.), The political economy of household services in Europe, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
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J22, J23, J38
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8715
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Monika
Bütler
Eva
Deuchert
Michael
Lechner
Stefan
Staubli
Petra
Thiemann
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Financial Work Incentives for Disability Benefit Recipients: Lessons from a Randomised Field Experiment
Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds (“cash-cliffs”). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for low DI ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:18)
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H55, J14, C93, D04
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8714
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Simon
Georges-Kot
Dominique
Goux
Eric
Maurin
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Following the Crowd: Leisure Complementarities Beyond the Household
Leisure externalities across households have potentially very important implications for labor market regulations, but they have proven difficult to identify. This paper exploits the unique features ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1061-1088)
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J22, D62
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8713
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Veruska
Oppedisano
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sibling Effects in Household Formation
In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. Policies have been implemented in Southern Europe to incentivize young adults to ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (4), 1007 - 1027)
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J1, H2, I3
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8712
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Tyas
Prevoo
Bas
ter Weel
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The Effect of Family Disruption on Children's Personality Development: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and death – on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163 (1), 61-93)
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J12, J24
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8711
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Junjian
Yi
James
J.
Heckman
Junsen
Zhang
Gabriella
Conti
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 124 (588), F347–F371)
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C23, D13, I12, J13
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8710
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Todd
McElroy
David
L.
Dickinson
Nathan
Stroh
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Pour Some Sugar in Me: Does Glucose Enrichment Improve Decision Making?
In the current study we explore whether enriching the brain's supply of glucose will improve the quality and speed of decision making. Prior research shows that glucose enrichment supports cognition ...
(revised version published as 'Thinking about Decisions: An integrative Approach of Person and Task Factors' in: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2020, 33 (4), 538 - 555 )
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C91
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8709
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Marco
Castillo
David
L.
Dickinson
Ragan
Petrie
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Sleepiness, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences
We investigate the consistency and stability of individual risk preferences by manipulating cognitive resources. Participants are randomly assigned to an experiment session at a preferred time of day ...
(revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82, 41–73, (2017)
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C91, D81
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8708
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
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Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 37-53)
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C93, D03, I23, J71
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8707
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Anastasia
Danilov
Christine
Harbring
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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Helping in Teams
We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards ...
(revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.)
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M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
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8706
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Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
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When Is Voting Optimal?
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. ...
(published in: Economic Theory Bulletin, 2015, 3 (2), 341–356)
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D70, D71
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8705
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Aaron
K.
Chatterji
Michael
Findley
Nathan
M.
Jensen
Stephan
Meier
Daniel
Nielson
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research ...
(published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2016, 37 (1), 116–132, )
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C93, D03, L10
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8701
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Corrado
Andini
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Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has ...
(revised version published in: International Economics, 2023, 175 (C), 158-170)
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J31, C23
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8698
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Naci
Mocan
Luiza
Pogorelova
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 509-539)
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I21, Z1
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8697
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Deniz
Gevrek
Z. Eylem
Gevrek
Cahit
Guven
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Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, 41 (3), 298 – 328. (ABDC ranking: B))
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I2, J15, J24
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8696
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Tim
Kautz
James
J.
Heckman
Ron
Diris
Bas
ter Weel
Lex
Borghans
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: ...
(also available as: OECD Education Working Papers, 2014, No. 110 )
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D01, I20, J24
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8695
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Olga
Nottmeyer
Simone
Schüller
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Estimating the effect of 'ethnic capital' on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 551–569. )
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R23, J15, I21
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8694
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
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The Impact of Age of Entry on Academic Progression
Using an RD-design and public educational administrative data for Chile, we study the impact of age of entry on children outcomes. Different from previous studies, we are able to track this impact on ...
(revised version published in: Nuno Crato and Paolo Paruolo (eds.), Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2018)
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A21, I24, I25, I28
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8692
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Rolf
Aaberge
Kai
Liu
Yu
Zhu
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Political Uncertainty and Household Savings
Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017): 154-170 )
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D91, J3, E21
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8691
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Štepán
Jurajda
Daniel
Münich
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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case
We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. ...
(published in: PostSoviet Affairs, 2015, 31 (5), 448-469)
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D72, D83
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8690
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Daniela
Andrén
Monica
Roman
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements
The change in Romanian political regime in 1989 has lifted the barriers for population circulation and mobility that were further more amplified in 2002 by the liberalization of Romanians' ...
(published in: Kahanec, M., and Zimmermann, K.F. (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer, 2016, 247-269)
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F22, F24, J15
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8689
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Mehtap
Akgüç
Xingfei
Liu
Massimiliano
Tani
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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2020, 60, 101391 )
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D19, H13, J18, O12, O43, R20
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8688
|
Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia
This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or ...
(published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2016, 2 (2), 192-218 )
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J31, J62
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8687
|
Hartmut
Lehmann
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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30)
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D03, J43, P23
|
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8683
|
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Hillel
Rapoport
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672)
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F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, O19
|
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8682
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Ana
Ferrer
Garnett
Picot
W. Craig
Riddell
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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 846-867)
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J11, J24, J61, J68
|
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8681
|
Ekrame
Boubtane
Jean-Christophe
Dumont
Christophe
Rault
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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, 2016, 68 (2), 340 - 360)
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C23, F22, J24, J61, O41, O47
|
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8680
|
Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Paul
Heidhues
Rajshri
Jayaraman
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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 808-826)
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C93, D03, D64
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