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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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8096
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Michael
Gibbs
Susanne
Neckermann
Christoph
Siemroth
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(4), 577-590)
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C93, J24, M52, O32
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8095
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Farzana
Afridi
Vegard
Iversen
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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits ...
(published in: India Policy Forum, 2013-14, 10, 297-331)
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H4, I3
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8094
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Arusha
Cooray
Friedrich
Schneider
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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310)
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O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
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8093
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Junfu
Zhang
Liang
Zheng
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Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice ...
(revised version published as 'Are People Willing to Pay for Less Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 97-112 )
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O15, R12, R23
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8092
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Immigrants and Religion
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
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Z12, J61, J11, J15
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8091
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Lídia
Farré
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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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8090
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Sebastian
Otten
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Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.)
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F22, J15, J24, J40
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8089
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Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
Yves
Zenou
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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111 - 137)
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O15, J61
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8088
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Gregory
Verdugo
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The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008
Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was also characterised by a substantial increase in the educational attainment of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 131-144)
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J31
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8087
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Ugo
Colombino
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Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour
The current Italian income support policies are defective with respect to both efficiency and equity. A more effective design must face five crucial choices: universal vs. categorical policies; ...
(revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389)
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H31, H21, C25
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8086
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James
Lake
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade
Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 99, 156-178)
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F13, H50, J65
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8085
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Maria
Cipollina
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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative ...
(published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377)
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C81, F23, O52
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8084
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Tymon
Sloczynski
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
In this paper we study doubly robust estimators of various average treatment effects under unconfoundedness. We unify and extend much of the recent literature by providing a very general ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133)
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C13, C21, C31, C51
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8079
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Christian
Dreger
Teymur
Rahmani
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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This ...
(published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2016, 40 (1), 36 - 49)
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F43, O53, Q30, C33
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8077
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Jungmin
Lee
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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" – would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2017, 44, 1-12)
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J22, J23, J28
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8076
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is ...
( published as 'Unemployment fluctuations over the life cycle' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2019, 100 (C), 334-352.)
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E32, J11, J23
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8075
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Robert
Scholte
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
Dorly
J. H.
Deeg
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Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 26 (1), 86 - 103)
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I12, C33, J14
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8074
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Andrew
Dillon
Jed
Friedman
Pieter
Serneels
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Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and ...
(published as 'Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 1077 - 1115)
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I12, J22, J24, O12
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8073
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Osea
Giuntella
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel with detailed local labor market characteristics for ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics ,2015, 43, 140–153)
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F22, I10, J15, J61
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8070
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Laurens
Cherchye
Thomas
Demuynck
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (6), 1507 - 1534)
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C14, D11, C78
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8069
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
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Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (1), 58-82)
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J24, J31
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8066
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Anna
De Paoli
Mariapia
Mendola
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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.)
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F22, F1, J61
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8064
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Christina
Gathmann
Nicolas
Keller
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141-3181)
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J24, J31, J61, K37
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8063
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Cristina
Mitaritonna
Gianluca
Orefice
Giovanni
Peri
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Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 96, 62 - 82)
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F22, E25, J61
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8062
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Jean-Louis
Pan Ké Shon
Gregory
Verdugo
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Forty Years of Immigrant Segregation in France, 1968-2007: How Different Is the New Immigration?
Analysing restricted access census data, this paper examines the long-term trends of immigrant segregation in France from 1968 to 2007. Similar to other European countries, France experienced a rise ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52 (5), 823-840)
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J61
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8059
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Sarojini
Hirshleifer
David
McKenzie
Rita
K.
Almeida
Cristobal
Ridao-Cano
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246 )
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I28, J24, J68, O12, C93
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8058
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Vojtech
Bartos
Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Filip
Matejka
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Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (6), 1437-1475)
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C93, D83, J15, J71
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8056
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Kyung-Gon
Lee
Solomon
Polachek
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Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school ...
(published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.)
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I20, I21, I22
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8055
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Michael
Kosfeld
Susanne
Neckermann
Xiaolan
Yang
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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. ...
(published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247)
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C93, J33, M12, M52
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8054
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Ulla
Lehmijoki
Tapio
K.
Palokangas
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Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that ...
(revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki))
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O41, J13, N33
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8053
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Suzanne
Kok
Bas
ter Weel
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Cities, Tasks and Skills
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54 (5), 856-892)
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J20, J30, O30
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8052
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Juan
Carlos
Duque
Michael
Jetter
Santiago
Sosa
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UN Interventions: The Role of Geography
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a ...
(revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95)
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D74, F52, F53, N40, R12
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8051
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Ronelle
Burger
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Trudy
Owens
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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31)
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I38, L31, L38
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8050
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Donald
J.
Lacombe
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Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (1), 67-77.)
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J22, D13
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8049
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Guido
W.
Imbens
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Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples
There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419)
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C01, C14, C21, C52
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8048
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Guido
W.
Imbens
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Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective
I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand ...
(published in: Statistical Science, 2014, 29 (3), 3232 - 358)
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C01
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8047
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Bas
van der Klaauw
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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97)
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C21, C26, C93, J68
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8046
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Julia
Vaillant
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur ...
(Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72)
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D13, D61, O12, J16
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8045
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Nick
Drydakis
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Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece
This study investigates the differences in four aspects of job satisfaction between gay men/lesbians and heterosexuals. The analysis results suggest that gay men and lesbians are less satisfied with ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2015, 54(1), 162-187)
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J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
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8044
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S
Anukriti
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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 27-57)
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D1, J13, J16, I15
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8043
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form ...
(revised version published as 'Does Grief Transfer across Generations? Bereavements during Pregnancy and Child Outcomes' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 193 - 223)
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I1, I2, J1
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8042
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Michael
Grimm
Carole
Treibich
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Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India
We focus on helmet use behavior among motorbike users in Delhi. We use a detailed data set collected for the purpose of the study. To guide our empirical analysis, we rely on a simple model in which ...
(published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, 88, 318-336.)
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D10, I10, I15, K42, R41
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8041
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Maurice
Schiff
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Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (9), 1708-1717)
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D70, J22
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8039
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Aslan
Zorlu
Clara
H.
Mulder
Ruben
van Gaalen
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Ethnic Disparities in the Transition to Home Ownership
This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2014, 26, 151-163)
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R21
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8038
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Kusum
Mundra
Amarendra
Sharma
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Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Research, 2015,24 (1), 2015, 55-72.)
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R2, J15
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8037
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Irene
Mosca
Alan
Barrett
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The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents
A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (3), 687-719)
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I15, J61
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8036
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey
During last sixty years, Turkish population moved from one province to another at the rate of about 7-8 percent per five-year interval. As a consequence of this massive internal migration, population ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (1).)
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D72, J61
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8035
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Pierre
M.
Picard
Tim
Worrall
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Is a Policy of Free Movement of Workers Sustainable?
This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (4), 718-75)
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F22, J61
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8034
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Alison
L.
Booth
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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition
A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 53-58)
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J2, J3, J5, D4
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8033
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Marianna
Marino
Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
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Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 123 (3), 168-183)
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J24, J60, L20
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