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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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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
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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
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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
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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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7428
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José
R.
Guardado
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages
In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In ...
(revised version published as 'Worker Investment in Safety, Workplace Accidents, and Compensating Wage Differentials' in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (1), 133-155)
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I10, I12, J24, J31, J62, J71
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7427
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Neeraj
Kaushal
Ce
Shang
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Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional Destinations
We study the earnings of Mexican immigrants in their traditional and newer destinations in the US. Analysis based on longitudinal data suggests that during 2001-2009, the real wage of Mexican ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:11)
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J61, J15
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7425
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Testing for Discrimination against Lesbians of Different Marital Status: A Field Experiment
In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (1), 131-161)
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C93, J15, J71
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7424
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Petri
Böckerman
Jari
Vainiomäki
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24 (1), 86-96)
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I10, J23, J31
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7422
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Markus
Brückner
Hannes
Schwandt
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Income and Population Growth
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 124 (589), 1653-1676)
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O1, Q56
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7421
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José Alberto
Molina
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José A.
Cuesta
Carlos
Garcia-Lazaro
Yamir
Moreno
Angel
Sanchez
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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students
Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2013, 8(12): e83700.)
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C72, C73, C93, D03, J16
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7419
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia
Bansak
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2014, 32(3), 671 - 680. )
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J2, J3, J6
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7417
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Philippe
Bracke
Christian
Hilber
Olmo
Silva
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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt
We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure where homeowners commit a fixed budget to mortgage payments. Our model predicts ...
(heavily revised version published as 'Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103, 52 - 66)
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L26, D14, G11, R21
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7416
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Guyonne
Kalb
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 1-24)
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C26, I21, J24
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7415
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James
J.
Heckman
Lakshmi
K.
Raut
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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2016, 191 (1), 164 - 175)
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J24, J62, O15, I21
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7414
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Ive
Marx
Lina
Salanauskaite
Gerlinde
Verbist
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The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?
There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of the income distribution actually enhances or weakens their redistributive ...
(revised version published in: Social Forces, 2016, 95 (1), 1-24)
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H1, H2, H53
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7412
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Gabriel
Burdin
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Are Worker-Managed Firms Really More Likely to Fail?
Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67(1), 202-238)
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P13, P51, C41
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7411
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Michael
Kosfeld
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Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions
NGOs and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404)
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C72, C92, M51
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7410
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Jannie
H. G.
Kristoffersen
Nina
Smith
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Behavioral Problems and School Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 75–93)
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J16, I29, I19
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7409
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Peter
Eibich
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2014, 114 (1), 41-53)
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I12, I14, I18
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7407
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Thierry
Magnac
Nicolas
Pistolesi
Sébastien
Roux
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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.)
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C33, D91, I24, J24, J31
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7406
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Bakhrom
Mirkasimov
Susan
Steiner
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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities
We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(3), 690–705)
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D63, F22, O12, I30
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7403
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Gerhard
Krug
Gesine
Stephan
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Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
There is a longstanding debate on the advantages of quasi-markets for placement services compared to their public deliverance. During 2009, the German Public Employment Service (PES) implemented a ...
(revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500)
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J68, J64, J65
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7402
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Gustavo
Henrique
de Andrade
Miriam
Bruhn
David
McKenzie
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54)
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O17, O12, C93, D21, L26
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7401
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David
McKenzie
Melissa
Siegel
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Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization
Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91)
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F22, C83, J61, K42
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7400
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Patrick
Hullegie
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption ...
(published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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7399
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Maliranta
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (4), 878-914)
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J28, F23
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7397
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Alfred
Lameli
Volker
Nitsch
Jens
Suedekum
Nikolaus
Wolf
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306)
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F14, F15, Z10
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7396
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Jason
M.
Lindo
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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health
This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 83-96)
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I10, J20, E32
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7395
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
Virgilio
Galdo
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Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Subjective expectations are fundamental for understanding individual behavior. Yet, little is known about how individuals use new information to formulate and update their subjective expectations. In ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 112-116)
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I3, J2
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7394
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 243-246)
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I3, J2, C8
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7393
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Vincent
O'Sullivan
Brian
Nolan
Alan
Barrett
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Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed on a wide ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (3), 329-348, with Cara Dooley added as fourth author)
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D31, J14
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7392
|
Albrecht
Glitz
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Coworker Networks in the Labour Market
This paper studies the effect of coworker-based networks on individual labour market outcomes. I analyse how the provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 44, 218–230)
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J63, J64
|
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7391
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David
E.
Bloom
David
Canning
Günther
Fink
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Disease and Development Revisited
Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health ...
(pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1355-1366 )
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I10, O40
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7390
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Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP 9606)
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H2, H7, J3
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