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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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7585
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Karthik
Muralidharan
Nishith
Prakash
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350)
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H42, I2, O15
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7584
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John
V.
Winters
Weineng
Xu
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Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors
Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2014, 45 (3), 262-276)
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I23, J24, J31, R23
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7583
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale
Cross-national differences in outcomes are often analysed using regression analysis of multilevel country datasets, examples of which include the ECHP, ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We review ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2016, 32 (1), 3–22 )
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C52, C81, O57
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7582
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Matloob
Piracha
Teresa
Randazzo
Florin
Vadean
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Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind
This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (2), 278 - 293)
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F22, J24
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7581
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Rong
Zhu
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Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67, 310–333)
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J14, J21
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7580
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Ursula
Jaenichen
Thomas
Rothe
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, ...
(published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294)
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C34, C41, J31, J62, J68
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7579
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Ernesto
Reuben
Matthew
Wiswall
Basit
Zafar
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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186)
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D81, D84, I21, I23, J10
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7577
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Wenjin
Long
Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family ...
(Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101)
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J24, J31, O15
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7576
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Annalisa
Cristini
Almudena
Sevilla
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Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper undertakes a comparison exercise to disentangle what drives the opposite findings regarding the effect of house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.)
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D13
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7575
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jessica
Holmes
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 30-61)
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J16, J31
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7573
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Ragui
Assaad
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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:6)
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I25, J21, J24, J31, J45, O53, P52
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7571
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Robert
Holzmann
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A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection
Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic ...
(published in: Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 2013 50 (2), 107-137)
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H55, J11, J14, J26
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7570
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e204-e218)
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C26, I1, J26
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7569
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Elvire
Guillaud
Paul
Marx
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Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide
Insider-outsider theory suggests that in dual labour markets two groups have opposing preferences regarding protection against dismissals: insiders defend employment protection, because it increases ...
(revised version published in: West European Politics, 2014, 37 (5), 1177-1185)
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J08, J41, K31
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7568
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Alberto
Alesina
Johann
Harnoss
Hillel
Rapoport
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138)
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O1, O4, F22, F43
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7567
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Byung-Yeon
Kim
Syngjoo
Choi
Jungmin
Lee
Sokbae
Lee
Kyunghui
Choi
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Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea
The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888)
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C92, C93, D03, P20
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7566
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Kostas
Mavromaras
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An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life ...
(published in Education Economics, 2014, 22 (4), 389-411)
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I24, I21
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7565
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602)
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D13, H21, I13
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7564
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Christoph
Rothe
Sergio
Firpo
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Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step, but retain a fully nonparametric specification in the first ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087)
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C14, C21, C31, C51
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7563
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David
E.
Bloom
Elizabeth
T.
Cafiero
Mark
E.
McGovern
Klaus
Prettner
Anderson
Stanciole
Jonathan
Weiss
Samuel
Bakkila
Larry
Rosenberg
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The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic ...
(published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111)
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E13, I15, O40
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7562
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Chunbing
Xing
Junfu
Zhang
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The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90)
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O15, R12, R23
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7561
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Massimo
Bordignon
Tommaso
Nannicini
Guido
Tabellini
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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (8), 2349-70)
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H72, D72, C14
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7558
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Lídia
Farré
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain
Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:1)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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7557
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Olivier
Deschenes
Michael
Greenstone
Joseph
S.
Shapiro
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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade ...
(published as 'Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program' in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (10), 2958–2989))
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H4, I1, Q4, Q5, D1
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7556
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Tim
Higgins
Mathias
Sinning
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Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans
This paper studies the importance of dynamic earnings modeling for the design of income contingent student loans (ICLs). ICLs have been shown to be theoretically optimal in terms of efficiency in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37 (1), 273-285)
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H81, I22, C15
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7555
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Mary
Gallagher
John
T.
Giles
Albert
Park
Meiyan
Wang
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The ...
(revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235)
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J08, J16, J28, J41, J52, J53, O15, O17
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7554
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, 54-62)
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D12, C35, C31, D61, C9
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7552
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James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31)
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C21, C38, C43, D24
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7551
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nikhil
Jha
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Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources
The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools' budget ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2016, 49 (3), 251 – 271)
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I21, I22, I28
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7549
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Giovanni
Peri
Agnese
Romiti
Mariacristina
Rossi
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Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement
Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a consequence of population aging assistance to elderly parents, rather than child care, has ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 18-34)
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J22, J26, F22
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7548
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Maurice
Kugler
Oren
Levintal
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In ...
(Published in: World Bank Economic Review, 32, 1, 2018: 148–162 )
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F21, F22, O1
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7547
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Wim
Naudé
José
Ernesto
Amorós
Oscar
Cristi
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'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing ...
(published as 'Should We Romanticize Penniless Entrepreneurs?: Startups and Human Wellbeing across Countries' in: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012, 1, 15914)
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I31, M13, O50
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7546
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David
N.F.
Bell
Alasdair
C.
Rutherford
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Older Workers and Working Time
Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 28-34)
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J01, J11, J21, J22, J23, J38, J64
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7545
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Katharina
Janke
Carol
Propper
Michael A.
Shields
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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 47, 34-49.)
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I12, I18, R23
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7543
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Wim
Naudé
Adam
Szirmai
Alejandro
Lavopa
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing ...
(published as 'Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment' in: W. Naudé, A. Szirmai, and N. Haraguch (eds.), Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015)
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F23, L52, L53, O25, O40, O33, O34
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7542
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Daniel
Fackler
Claus
Schnabel
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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,))
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L2, D22, M13, C41
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7540
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Eric
Bartelsman
Sabien
Dobbelaere
Bettina
Peters
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2015, 24(5), 875-949)
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C10, I20, O14, O30
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7538
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Erdal
Tekin
Chandler
McClellan
Karen Jean
Minyard
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th ...
(published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026)
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E32, I00, I10, I12, I14, I15
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7537
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Tyas
Prevoo
Bas
ter Weel
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The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study
This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (4), 918-948)
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J24
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7536
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Xiaoyan
Lei
James
P.
Smith
Xiaoting
Sun
Yaohui
Zhao
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Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey ...
(published as 'Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 46-55)
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H10
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7535
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James
P.
Smith
Meng
Tian
Yaohui
Zhao
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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline
There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 50 - 59, )
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I10, I14
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7534
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Richard
Fabling
David
C.
Maré
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Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences
We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level ...
(published in: Journal of Labour Research, 2016, 37, 179 - 210)
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E24, J23, J63, M51
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7532
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Maja
Adena
Michal
Myck
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Poverty and Transitions in Health
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210)
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I14, I32, J14
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7531
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Rachel
Connelly
Jean
Kimmel
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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34)
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D13, J13, J16
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7530
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
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Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants
We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 45 - 67)
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F22, J15, Z13
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7529
|
Nick
Drydakis
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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (2), 192-215)
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J10, J30, J24
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7528
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Karsten
Albæk
Søren
Leth-Petersen
Daniel
le Maire
Torben
Tranæs
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Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?
Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 512-540)
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H56, K42, J24
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7526
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Sanne
Boschman
Maarten
van Ham
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Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model
The selective inflow and outflow of residents by ethnicity is the main mechanism behind ethnic residential segregation. Many studies have found that ethnic minorities are more likely than others to ...
(published as 'Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Effects Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model' in: Environment and Planning A, 2015, 47(5), 1155-1174)
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J15, R23
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7525
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Rory
Coulter
Maarten
van Ham
Allan
M.
Findlay
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New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space
While researchers are increasingly reconceptualising international migration, less interest is being shown in rethinking the geographies of short-distance residential mobility and immobility. ...
(published as 'Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space' in: Progress in Human Geography, 2016, 40 (3), 352-374)
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J61, R23
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7523
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Sotiris
Georganas
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed
Peer effects arise in situations where workers observe each other's work activity. In this paper we disentangle the effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.)
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D03, J24, M52, M59
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