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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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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
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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
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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
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Luca
Nunziata
Lorenzo
Rocco
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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
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7974
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Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Brian
Stacy
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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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
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7973
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Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Brian
Stacy
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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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
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7972
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Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
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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
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Patrick
Arni
Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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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
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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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
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S
Anukriti
Todd
J.
Kumler
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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
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Tarja
Viitanen
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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
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7965
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Alena
Bicakova
Štepán
Jurajda
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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
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7964
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Henry
S
Farber
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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
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7963
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Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
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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
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7962
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Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
Charlie
Weir
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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)
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G34, G39
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7960
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Giammario
Impullitti
Julien
Prat
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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
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7959
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Simon
Janssen
Simone
N.
Tuor Sartore
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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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
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7958
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Andreas
Lichter
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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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
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7957
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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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
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7956
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Edwin
Leuven
Erik
Plug
Marte
Rřnning
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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
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7953
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Nicky
Hoogveld
Nick
Zubanov
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students at a Dutch university. Our treatment, given unannounced in randomly selected ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 67, 75-84)
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C93, M52
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7952
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Connor
Lewis
Paul
Kivi
Amanda
Wiener
Jon
E.
Anderson
Lorenz
Götte
Colin
G.
DeYoung
Aldo
Rustichini
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Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success
We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/ planning), and economic ...
(revised version published as 'Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 30–44)
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D03, I21, C99
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7951
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Nadine
Ketel
Jona
Linde
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device
This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition ...
(published as 'Tuition Fees and Sunk-Cost Effects' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (598), 2342-2362)
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C93, D03, I22
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7950
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Daniela
Glocker
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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 1-25.)
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I20, D81
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7948
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Dominique
Goux
Marc
Gurgand
Eric
Maurin
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Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour
At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (602), 1025-1046)
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I21, I24, J18
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7947
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Marco
Caliendo
Markus
Gehrsitz
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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relationship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 209-225)
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J31, J71, C14
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7946
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Yuval
Arbel
Ronen
Bar-El
Erez
Siniver
Yossef
Tobol
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The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty
We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that ...
(published as 'Roll a Die and Tell a Lie: What Affects Honesty?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 153-172)
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C91, D63, Z12
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7944
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Joanna
Lucio
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Happy in the Hood? The Impact of Residential Segregation on Self-Reported Happiness
Previous research consistently finds that racially-based residential segregation is associated with poor economic, health, and social outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (3), 494 - 521)
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J10
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7942
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Terence
Chai
Cheng
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets
There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a 'U shape'). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (599), 126 - 142)
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I31, D01, C18
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7941
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Braz
Camargo
Rafael
Camelo
Sergio
Firpo
Vladimir
Ponczek
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Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance
This paper uses a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rules of the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 414-444)
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I20, I21
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7939
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
Ismet
Koc
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Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (3), 549-579.)
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I21, I24, I28, J15, J16
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7938
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Marco
Casari
Maurizio
Lisciandra
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance ...
(published as 'Gender Discrimination in Property Rights: Six Centuries of Commons Governance in the Alps' in: Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76 (2), 559 - 594 )
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J16, N53, Q20
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7937
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Shoshana
Grossbard
Victoria
Vernon
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Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use
Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Gender Convergence in the Labor Market), 2015, 41,43-175)
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J12, J16, J22, K36
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7936
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Jörn
Block
Laszlo
Goerke
José
María
Millán
Concepción
Román
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Family Employees and Absenteeism
Work effort varies greatly across employees, as evidenced by substantial differences in absence rates. Moreover, absenteeism causes sizeable output losses. Using data from the European Community ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 94-99)
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I10, J22, M50
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7933
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Takao
Asano
Hiroko
Okudaira
Masaru
Sasaki
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An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity
This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search behavior in a finite-horizon sequential search model. In so doing, we employ a new ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 627-637 )
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C91, D81
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7932
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Zhixin
Dai
Robin
M.
Hogarth
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162)
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C92, H41, D83
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7931
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Michael
Lechner
Nazmi
Sari
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 1 - 15)
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I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
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7930
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Peter
Siminski
Oleg
Yerokhin
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Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales
A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (7), 908 - 928)
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I18, K32
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7928
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Yong
Yin
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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?
The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Capital, 7(4), 411-447)
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I1, I15, O4, E24
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7926
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Laura
Hospido
Gema
Zamarro
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Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3:12, 2014)
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J26, D10, C21
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7925
|
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288)
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A14, C21, D23, D85, K42, Z13
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7923
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
Davide
Sala
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 248-263)
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J15, F14, F15, F16, D22
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7922
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Chiara
Conti
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' ...
(revised version published as "The effect of immigration on innovation in italy" in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (7), 934-947)
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O3, J2
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7920
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Pieter
Bevelander
Mikael
Spĺng
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From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
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D72, J15, J61
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7919
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Arthur
Sweetman
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?
Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of ...
(published in: B.R. Chiswick and P.W. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1b, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1141-1193)
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J15
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7918
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Sergio
Firpo
Vladimir
Ponczek
Viviane
Sanfelice
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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, 186-198)
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H7
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7917
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
Christopher
Zeppenfeld
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Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure
This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 109, 85 - 100)
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G11, H21, H24, H26, J22
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7916
|
Richard
Blundell
Michael
Graber
Magne
Mogstad
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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 58-73)
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C33, D3, D91, J31
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7915
|
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country ...
(revised version published in: K. Pouliakas and I. Psifidou (eds.), Greece: Vocational education and training in economic change', Education in the European Union Pre-2003 Member States, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015)
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C25, I29, J11, J20, J24, J69
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