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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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8017
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Resul
Cesur
Naci
Mocan
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as ...
(published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44)
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I2, Z12, D72
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8016
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Markus
Nagler
Ludger
Woessmann
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Education Promoted Secularization
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source ...
(published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311)
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Z12, N33, I20
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8015
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?
Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a growing distinctive group in future labour markets. University dropout is ...
(revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96)
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I21
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8014
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Naomi
E.
Feldman
Andrew
Leigh
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Crime and Mental Wellbeing
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (1), 110-140)
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I31, R28
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8013
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Jérôme
Adda
Brendon
McConnell
Imran
Rasul
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Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment
We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. Such a policy can: (i) impact the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(5), 1130-1202)
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H75, J18, K42
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8010
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Gordon
G.
Liu
Ohyun
Kwon
Xindong
Xue
Belton
M.
Fleisher
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a ...
(published as 'How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?-Evidence from China's Academician Election' in: Health Economics, 2017, 26, 292-304.)
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I12
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8009
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Charles
Courtemanche
Joshua
C.
Pinkston
Jay
Stewart
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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not weigh and measure respondents. The standard correction from prior research ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293)
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C18, I1
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8008
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Paula
Nagler
Wim
Naudé
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the ...
(published as 'Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence' in: Food Policy, 2017, 67, 175-191)
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Q12, O13, O55, M13, J43
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8007
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Delphine
Boutin
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Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. ...
(published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938)
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F24, I25, J22
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8005
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James
Albrecht
Aico
van Vuuren
Susan
Vroman
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Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited
Derek Neal (JPE 2004) used the NLSY79 to show that the observed median log wage gap between young white and young black women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 66-71)
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J15, J16, J31, J71
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8004
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Ilhom
Abdulloev
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation
Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods ...
(published in: Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot & Jessie Bakens (eds) Economics on Cultural Diversity, 2015, Edward Elgar Pub: Cheltenham, UK, 52-77)
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J15
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8003
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Ilham
Haouas
Almas
Heshmati
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but ...
(published in: International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 144, 7-23)
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C22, E20, L16, L71, O11, O53
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8001
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Jo
Ritzen
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
Caroline
Wehner
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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes ...
(completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576)
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D31, J31, O43, O52, P48, Z18
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8000
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James
J.
Heckman
Stefano
Mosso
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life ...
(published in: Annual Reviews of Economics, 2014, 6(1), 689-733)
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J13, I20, I24, I28
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7999
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Pia
Pinger
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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 103-120)
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I12, J11
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7998
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 141-161)
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D13, D61, D64
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7997
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Sonia
Oreffice
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Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples
This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2014, 35(2), 162-184)
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D1, J15, J22
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7996
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Susan
L.
Averett
Yang
Wang
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences. Researchers have documented a strong positive correlation between alcohol abuse and ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 82 (3), 697 - 724)
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I12, I18, J12
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7995
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Victor
Naroditskiy
Sebastian
Stein
Mirco
Tonin
Long
Tran-Thanh
Michael
Vlassopoulos
Nicholas
R.
Jennings
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to ...
(published in: Proceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014, 171-183)
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C93, D64, L31, M31
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7992
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?
A number of states have adopted laws that require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify program to check workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the ...
(published as 'The Impact of E-Verify Mandates on Labor Market Outcomes' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81, 947-959)
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J15, J31, J61
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7991
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Markus
Poschke
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018, 10 (3), 1-41)
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E24, J24, L11, L26, O30
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7990
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Yu
Aoki
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Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing
This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (1), 97 - 117)
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I10, J14
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7989
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Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
Almas
Heshmati
Jörn
Altmann
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships ...
(published as 'Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 119-146)
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D62, H23, N50, O13, O14
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7986
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Tim
A.
Bruckner
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Kirk
R.
Smith
Ralph
A.
Catalano
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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002
For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 119 2014, 191–197)
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I12, Q54
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7985
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe
Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper ...
(published in: P. Bevelander and B. Petersson (eds.), Crisis and Migration: Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics, and policies of migration, Nordic Academic Press 2014, Lund, Sweden, Chapter 2, 25-47)
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F22, F52, J15
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7984
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Catia
Batista
Janis
Umblijs
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.)
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D81, F22, F24, J01, J08, J15, J61
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7983
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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When Do Remittances Facilitate Asset Accumulation? The Importance of Remittance Income Uncertainty
A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, ...
(published as 'Remittance income uncertainty and asset accumulation' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:3)
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F22, J20
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7982
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
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J11, J12, J13, J15
|
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7981
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Margherita
Comola
Mariapia
Mendola
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The Formation of Migrant Networks
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117(2), 592-618)
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J15, D85, C45
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7980
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Toman Omar
Mahmoud
Hillel
Rapoport
Andreas
Steinmayr
Christoph
Trebesch
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69)
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F22, D72, O1
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7979
|
Paul
Marx
Gijs
Schumacher
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The Effect of Economic Change and Elite Framing on Economic Preferences: A Survey Experiment
An unresolved question in political science is how economic downturns affect citizens' economic left-right preferences. Existing observational studies fail to isolate the effect of economic ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2016, 26 (1), 20-31.)
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D72, Z18
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7978
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Jürgen
Huber
Michael
Kirchler
Daniel
Kleinlercher
Matthias
Sutter
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Market vs. Residence Principle: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of a Financial Transaction Tax
While politically attractive in order to generate tax revenues, the effects of a financial transaction tax (FTT) are scientifically disputed, not the least because seemingly small details of its ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, F610-631)
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C91, G10, E62
|
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7977
|
Sebastian
Königs
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'
In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 107-150)
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I38, J60, J64, C23
|
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7976
|
Luca
Nunziata
Lorenzo
Rocco
|
A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 189-224)
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Z12, J24, J21, Z13
|
|
7974
|
Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Brian
Stacy
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
|
Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation
We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015, 8 (1), 35-59.)
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C01, I20, J45, J01
|
|
7973
|
Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Brian
Stacy
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
|
A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance
School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision ...
(published in: Statistics and Public Policy, 2015, 2(1), e1034820)
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I20, J08, J24, J45
|
|
7972
|
Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
|
Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition
This paper develops a nonparametric methodology for treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under treatment endogeneity and missing outcomes. We use instrumental variables, pre-treatment ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711)
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C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
|
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7971
|
Patrick
Arni
Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
|
The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (6), 1-20 )
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C81, H43, J68
|
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7970
|
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
|
Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of ...
(published in: China Quarterly, 2014, 220 (220), 968-987)
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D31, J15, R23
|
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7969
|
S
Anukriti
Todd
J.
Kumler
|
Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (3), 687-724)
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F13, I15, J12, J13, J16, J82, O15, O18, O19, O24
|
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7966
|
Tarja
Viitanen
|
The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010
This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the General Social Survey from 1973-2010. The easier divorce culture is defined as the ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 38, 25-32)
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J12, K36, Z13
|
|
7965
|
Alena
Bicakova
Štepán
Jurajda
|
The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns
It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Composition of College Graduates by Field of Study and Early Fertility' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (4), 1323-1343 )
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I23, J13, J16
|
|
7964
|
Henry
S
Farber
|
Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(5), 1126-1156)
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J5, J50
|
|
7963
|
Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
|
On the Optimal Composition of Committees
This paper derives a simple characterization of how to optimally divide an organization's experts into different decision-making committees. The focus is on many three-member committees that make ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (4), 973-980)
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D71
|
|
7962
|
Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
Charlie
Weir
|
Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards: An Analysis of UK Firms
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK ...
(published in: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2016, 46(1), 25-45)
|
G34, G39
|
|
7960
|
Gabriel
Felbermayr
Giammario
Impullitti
Julien
Prat
|
Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1476 - 1539)
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F12, F16, E24
|
|
7959
|
Simon
Janssen
Simone
N.
Tuor Sartore
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
|
Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large ...
(published as 'Discriminatory Social Attitudes and Varying Gender Pay Gaps within Firms'. in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 96 (1), 253 - 279 )
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J31, J33, J71, M5
|
|
7958
|
Andreas
Lichter
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
|
The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 80, 94-119)
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J23, C10, C83
|
|
7957
|
Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
|
A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high-frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179)
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J30, J64, J65
|
|
7956
|
Edwin
Leuven
Erik
Plug
Marte
Rřnning
|
Education and Cancer Risk
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 106-121)
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I12, I21
|
12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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