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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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8401
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Adele
Bergin
Elish
Kelly
Seamus
McGuinness
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Changes in Labour Market Transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession
This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4 (9))
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J64, J88
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8400
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Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Youth Labour Markets
This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth ...
(published in: Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2016, 26 (2), 1-27)
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J64, J21
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8398
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Mthuli
Ncube
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The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?
Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment, declining share in the world exports, high current account deficits, and external ...
(published as 'The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Emerging Markets: The Case of Zimbabwe' in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 564 - 576)
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F36, F41, C22, O11
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8397
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries ...
(published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2015, 20 (1), 48–60)
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E44, E58, F36, P26
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8396
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Sylvia
Frühwirth-Schnatter
Christoph
Pamminger
Andrea
Weber
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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When Is the Best Time to Give Birth?
Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 179(3), 707-725, 2016.)
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J13
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8395
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Joachim
De Weerdt
Garance
Genicot
Alice
Mesnard
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of ...
(published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 225 - 254)
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O12, O15, D12
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8394
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Wei
Huang
Xiaoyan
Lei
Yaohui
Zhao
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One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins
This paper investigates how people respond to the distorted incentives of One-Child Policy by examining its impact on twin births in China. The analysis using population census data shows that the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 93 (3), 467 -476)
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J08, J11, J13
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8393
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
Matthew
Wiswall
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Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development
In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 526, F138-F183)
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J13, D1
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8392
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John
Jerrim
John
Micklewright
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Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?
The international surveys of pupil achievement – PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS – have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic ...
(revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781)
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C21, C81, I24
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8391
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Silvia
Mendolia
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Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children
This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research ...
(published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2016, 37, 566 - 580)
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I10, J13, J22
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8390
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Charles
L.
Baum
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (2), 333 - 356)
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J1, J2, J3, J13, J18
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8389
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Elvira
Andersson
Petter
Lundborg
Johan
Vikström
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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 21 - 32)
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D91, H31, H55, I10, I12, I38
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8388
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Barry
Hirsch
Julia
Manzella
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Who Cares – and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work
Economists and sociologists have proposed arguments for why there can exist wage penalties for work involving helping and caring for others, penalties borne disproportionately by women. Evidence on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 40, 213-275)
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J16, J31
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8387
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Elizabeth
Kaletski
Nishith
Prakash
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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
This paper examines the relationship between elected minority representatives, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21 (1), 67 - 102)
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I18, I38, J15
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8386
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Pilar
Garcia-Gomez
Anne
C.
Gielen
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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter eligibility criteria and reduced generosity. Our results show substantial adverse ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), 606-621.)
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I14, H53, I38
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8384
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Willie
Belton
Yameen
Huq
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9 (2), Article 1)
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D71, Z10, J10, J19
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8383
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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How Far Away Is a Single European Labor Market?
A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of the European community since the 1950s. Whereas it may entail opportunities and ...
(revised version published as 'European Labor Market Integration: What the Experts Think' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 954-974)
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J40, J61, J68
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8381
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
Felix
Weinhardt
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Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment
Theories about neighbours' influence on children based on social capital, cohesion and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (4), 746-783)
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C21, I20, R23
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8380
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Oscar
Marcenaro Gutierrez
John
Micklewright
Anna
Vignoles
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Social Mobility and the Importance of Networks: Evidence for Britain
Greater levels of social mobility are widely seen as desirable on grounds of both equity and efficiency. Debate on social mobility in Britain and elsewhere has recently focused on specific factors ...
(published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2015, 6 (2), 190-211)
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J62
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8379
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Natalia
Nollenberger
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Almudena
Sevilla
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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture
This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 257-61 )
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I21, I24, J16, Z13
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8378
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Gil
S.
Epstein
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Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts
We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:19)
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I21, J24, J61
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8377
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Elif
Öznur
Acar
Aysit
Tansel
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for ...
(published in: Sosyoekonomi, 2016, 24 (28), 147-174.)
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J20, J21, J24, O17
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8376
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Susan
Murphy
Patrick
Paul
Walsh
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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (2), 261 - 284)
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O35, O43, J65, J68
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8375
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Almas
Heshmati
Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information ...
(published in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 107-118)
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D40, H44, L11, L49, Q13, Q27, Q42
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8373
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Philipp
Breidenbach
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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'Phantom of the Opera' or 'Sex and the City' ? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation
Using the location of baroque opera houses as a natural experiment, Falck et al. (2011) claim to document a positive causal effect of the supply of cultural goods on today's regional distribution of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 37, 2015, 93-98)
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R11, H42, J24
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8372
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2015, 22(8), 603-612)
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N34, J01
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8371
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Ulf
Zölitz
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Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics
Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2015, 15(1), 85–117)
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I2, I24, J24
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8370
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs
Married individuals match with spouses who share their occupation more frequently than predicted by chance, suggesting either a preference for same-occupation matches or lower search costs within ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1005-1033)
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J12, J24
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8369
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
Benjamin
Tabb
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 65 - 72)
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H20, H41, J22, J33, C91
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8367
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Dean
Karlan
Jonathan
Zinman
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (2), 125 - 161)
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L26, J24
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8365
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Maitreyi
Bordia
Das
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2015, 32, 183-218.)
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D19, I29, J12, J16, J24
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8364
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Filipa
Sa
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The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the UK
This article uses variation in university tuition fees over time and across countries in the UK to examine the effect of fees on university applications and attendance. It focuses on two policy ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 607 - 634)
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I21, J24
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8363
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 257-292)
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I22, J31
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8361
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
Alex
Bryson
Michael
White
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122)
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J5, J51, J28, J82
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8360
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
Lucy
Stokes
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The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (2), 139 - 154)
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J33
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8357
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Benjamin
R.
Lester
Ludo
Visschers
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets
In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15)
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C78, D44, D83
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8356
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Jens
Bonke
Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
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Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09
Various European studies show that the majority of those employed wish to work fewer hours than they actually do. The question addressed here is whether imbalanced working hours – working hour ...
(published in: Danish Journal of Economics, 2014, 152 (1), 1-25.)
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J22
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8355
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Didier
Fouarge
Ben
Kriechel
Thomas
Dohmen
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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences
We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351)
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J24, J31, D01
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8354
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Olga
Skriabikova
Thomas
Dohmen
Ben
Kriechel
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New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184)
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J24, D81, P3
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8353
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Michael
French
Gulcin
Gumus
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Fast Times During Spring Breaks: Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 745 - 757)
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I12, I18, H73
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8351
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Kailing
Shen
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Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the ...
(published as 'Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China' in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2016, 11 (4), 548-580)
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J61, J11
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8350
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data ...
(published: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 175, 135 - 142)
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D1, I1, I3, J14, J26
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8349
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Laure
Pasquier-Doumer
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Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks
This paper sheds light on the role of family networks in the dynamics of a West African labour market, i.e. in the transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85)
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D13, J24, L14
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8347
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Monica
Bozzano
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, Special Issue on the Determinants of Gender Gaps, 2015, 61, 263-300)
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E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15
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8345
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Daniele
Checchi
Gianni
De Fraja
Stefano
Verzillo
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of ...
(published in Review of Economics and Statistics 2021, 103 (4), 786-802)
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D44, I23, I21, M51
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8344
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Daniele
Checchi
Gianni
De Fraja
Stefano
Verzillo
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And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set
We study here the problem of evaluating whether the selection from a set is close to the ranking determined by a measurable criterion. We propose a number of natural axioms and show that an index ...
(published as 'Selections from ordered sets' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 50 (4), 677-703)
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I23, I30
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8343
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Giray
Berberoglu
Aysit
Tansel
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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey
This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three ...
( Published in: International Review of Education, 2015, 60 (5), 683-701. )
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120, 121, 122
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8342
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Ryuichi
Tanaka
Lídia
Farré
Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and ...
(published as 'Immigration, assimilation, and the future of public education' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 52 (C), 141-165)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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8339
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Lena
Janys
Enno
Mammen
Jens
P.
Nielsen
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A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models
We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 221, 43-67)
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C41, C14, I12, J13
|
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8338
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Gabriella
Conti
Sylvia
Frühwirth-Schnatter
James
J.
Heckman
Rémi
Piatek
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Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis
This paper develops and applies a Bayesian approach to Exploratory Factor Analysis that improves on ad hoc classical approaches. Our framework relies on dedicated factor models and simultaneously ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 183(1), 31–57)
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C11, C38, C63
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