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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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7484
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Nicole
M.
Fortin
Andrew
J.
Hill
Jeff
Huang
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Superstition in the Housing Market
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate ...
(publiished in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52(3), 974-993.)
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D03, J15, R2, Z1
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7483
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Vincenzo
Galasso
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters ...
(updated and expanded as IZA DP 'Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns')
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D72, J16, M37
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7482
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Jaan
Masso
Raul
Eamets
Pille
Mõtsmees
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The Effect of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
The existing literature on return migration has resulted in several studies analysing the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees' earnings or their decision to become self-employed; ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35 (6), 753-775)
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F22, J62
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7481
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Tim
Callan
Brian
Nolan
Claire
Keane
Michael
Savage
John
R.
Walsh
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Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, as a result of the bursting of a remarkable ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:9)
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D31, D78
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7480
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Daniel
Avdic
Per
Johansson
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Gender Differences in Preferences for Health-Related Absences from Work
Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related ...
(published as 'Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (2), 440 - 462)
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I13, J22, D13
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7479
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Fabrice
Defever
Jens
Suedekum
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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980-1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (3), 375-379)
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F14, F36, G20
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7478
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Martin
Guzi
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An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence in the Czech Republic
Paper demonstrates the existence of a welfare trap in the Czech Republic, created by the tax and social security systems. Combining individual data from the Czech Labor Force Survey and the Czech ...
(published in: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, 64 (5), 407- 431)
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J22, J31, I38
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7477
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Anastasia
Danilov
Dirk
Sliwka
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (2), 459–476)
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D03, C91, D86
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7476
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Maria
Zumbühl
Thomas
Dohmen
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust ...
(published as 'Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes, and Personality Traits' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2642–2670)
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D1, D8, J13, J62, Z13
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7475
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Almut
Balleer
Britta
Gehrke
Wolfgang
Lechthaler
Christian
Merkl
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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 99–122)
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E24, E32, E62, J08, J63
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7474
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Katalin
Evers
Lutz
Bellmann
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Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany
This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 125-157.)
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J31, J51
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7473
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
Guilhem
Cassan
Lakshmi
Iyer
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2014, 104, 4-17)
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I15, J13, H41, P16
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7471
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Laszlo
Goerke
Inga
Hillesheim
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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions
Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 170-179)
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D62, J22, J51
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7470
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Ann-Kathrine
Ejsing
Ulrich
Kaiser
Hans Christian
Kongsted
Keld
Laursen
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The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation
Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this ...
(published as 'Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39 (7), 1935-1958)
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O33, O34, C23
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7469
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Benjamin
Crost
Joseph
Felter
Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It is not clear, however, whether this association is causal or due to unobserved ...
(published in the World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (3), 767-789)
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D72, D73, D74
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7468
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Kusum
Mundra
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond
The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2018, 52(3), 648-694)
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R20, R23, J11, J15
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7467
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland
Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income ...
(published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014)
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J11, J08, L26, O11
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7466
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Ren
Mu
Alan
de Brauw
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Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28, 631-657)
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I1, J6, O1
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7465
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Michael
Grossman
Erdal
Tekin
Roy
Wada
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Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 12, 4-19)
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I1, I18
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7464
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Trust, Growth and Well-being: New Evidence and Policy Implications
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The ...
(published in: S.N. Durlauf and P. Aghion (eds.): Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol.2 , 2014, 49-120)
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O11, O43, Z13
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7463
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Ian
Davidoff
Andrew
Leigh
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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?
Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 396-410)
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H22, H24, H71, R21, R23, R28
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7462
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Emma
Tominey
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Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock
Female labor supply can insure households against shocks to paternal employment. The paper estimates whether the female labor supply response to a paternal employment shock differs by eligibility to ...
(published as 'Female labour supply and household employment shocks: Maternity leave as an insurance mechanism' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 87, 256-271)
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I30, J13, J20, J64
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7461
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Francesco
Pastore
Sarosh
Sattar
Erwin
R.
Tiongson
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:5 )
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I21, J13, J15, J16, J24, J31, J7, P30
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7460
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134)
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J68, R11, C14, H43, L26
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7459
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship ...
(published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013)
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J20, O10, O40
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7458
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Nauro
F.
Campos
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Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the ...
(published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144)
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C83, F23, O12
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7457
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Manan
Roy
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Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health
Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 83-141)
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C14, C21, I12, I32
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7456
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Briggs
Depew
Peter
Norlander
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers
Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job ...
(published as "Inter-firm mobility and return migration patterns of skilled guest workers" in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 681-721)
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F22, J42, E32
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7454
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Jesper
Bagger
Javier
A.
Birchenall
Hani
Mansour
Sergio
Urzua
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent ...
(published in Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 33-69)
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E20, E24, D52
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7453
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
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Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood
While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is ...
(published as 'Persistence in Body Mass Index in a Recent Cohort of US Children' in: Economics an Human Biology, 2015, 17, 157-176)
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C23, I12, I18
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7452
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Felix
FitzRoy
Michael
A.
Nolan
Max
F.
Steinhardt
David
Ulph
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Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 24.)
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D10, I31, J10
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7451
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John
Roy
Stefanie
Schurer
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Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia
Do episodes of mental health problems cause future mental health problems, and if yes, how strong are these dynamics? We quantify the degree of persistence in mental health problems using ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(9), 1139-1157.)
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I14, C23
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7450
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Rulof
Burger
Servaas
van der Berg
Dieter
von Fintel
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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer ...
(published in: SAJE South African Journal of Economics, 2015, 83 (1), 74-100)
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J21, I25, J64
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7449
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Matthias
Doepke
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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation ...
(published in: Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013, 12(4), 375-391)
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D63, D64, J10, J47, J80
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7448
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Laurent
Gobillon
Peter
Rupert
Etienne
Wasmer
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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 108-120)
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J15, J61, R23
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7446
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study
This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 51(11), 207-220)
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C81, J13, J22, O15
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7445
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Andrew
Lilley
Robert
Slonim
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The Price of Warm Glow
This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 114, 58-74)
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D64, D78, H41, C91
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7444
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Daniele
Checchi
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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 249-271)
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I21, I24
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7443
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Tetsushi
Murao
Ryo
Kambayashi
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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards: Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?
This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57, 195-224)
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J44
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7440
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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The Scarring Effects of Unemployment, Low Pay and Skills Under-utilisation in Australia Compared
There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller one on the scarring effects of low pay, but the possibility that skills mismatch ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47(23), 2413-2429)
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J24, J31, I21
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7439
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Manuela
Angelucci
Dean
Karlan
Jonathan
Zinman
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Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of ...
(substantially revised version published as "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (1), 151-182)
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D12, D22, G21, O12
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7438
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Katrin
Sommerfeld
Susanne
Steffes
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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach
The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 49-62)
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C14, J13, J22
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7437
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Erich
Battistin
Elena Claudia
Meroni
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Should We Increase Instruction Time in Low Achieving Schools? Evidence from Southern Italy
This paper investigates the short term effects of a large scale intervention, funded by the European Social Fund, that provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 39-56)
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C31, I28
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7436
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Francesco
Quatraro
Marco
Vivarelli
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30, 277–305)
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L26, O12
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7435
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Christian
Grund
Tanja
Walter
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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector
Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2015, 9, 751-777)
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M52, M12, J33
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7434
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Jason
J.
Delaney
John
V.
Winters
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Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors
This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2014, 35 (4), 464-476)
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I19, J13, K42, Z12
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7433
|
Wolter
Hassink
Bas
van Leeuwen
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A Note on Height and Surnames: The Role of Networks
Many studies indicate that human height is determined largely by childhood circumstances, which in turn influences an adult's labor market opportunities. The aim of this note is to test this thesis ...
(published in: Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2014, 19 (4), 579-587)
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J01, N35, Z13
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7432
|
Nick
Drydakis
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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35 (8), 1185-1211)
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E24, J21, J24
|
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7430
|
Bruno
S.
Frey
Alois
Stutzer
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Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility
In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, 15(4), 937-956)
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A12, D11, D12, D84, I31, J22
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7429
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Joshua
Angrist
Miikka
Rokkanen
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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff
In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The effect of ...
(published as 'Wanna Get Away? Regression Discontinuity Estimation of Exam School Effects Away From the Cutoff' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2015, 110 (512), 1331-1344 )
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I21, I28, C21, C31
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