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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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7360
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (2) 236–239)
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F22, J15, J24, J31
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7359
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Ian
K.
McDonough
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Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development
With the increased availability of longitudinal data, dynamic panel data models have become commonplace. Moreover, the properties of various estimators of such models are well known. However, we show ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (4), 725-743)
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C23, C51, I21
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7358
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Jennifer
P.
Poole
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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 126, 154-166)
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F16, J6, J8
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7354
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Jan
Bergerhoff
Lex
Borghans
Philipp
K.
Seegers
Tom
van Veen
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International Education and Economic Growth
In recent years international student mobility increased. While net hosting countries are in a better position to win highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:3)
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I25
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7353
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Subjective Well?Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of ...
(shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 598-604)
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D6, I3, N3, O1, O4
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7352
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Mthuli
Ncube
Abebe
Shimeles
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The Making of Middle Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data
This paper presents evidence on the making of the middle class in Africa by exploiting a comparable micro data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for thirty-seven countries over two ...
(published in : Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (2), 178 - 193)
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D31, J15
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7351
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Andrea
Garnero
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 760–788)
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J31, J33, J51
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7350
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Andrea
Garnero
François
Rycx
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2014, 53 (3), 430-477.)
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D24, J24, J31, M12
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7349
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Yuling
Cui
Daehoon
Nahm
Massimiliano
Tani
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Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008
This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China's economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural ...
(revised version published in : Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48, 382 –399)
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C31, J24, J61, O15
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7347
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Henry
S
Farber
Robert
G.
Valletta
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909)
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J64, J65
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7345
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Thomas
Deckers
Armin
Falk
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life
We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.)
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D60, C23, D31
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7343
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap
Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 323-345.)
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J42, J71
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7342
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution
Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 123-134)
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J42, J21
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7341
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Cross Sections Are History
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38, 302-308 )
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C2, O10, O57, J11, N0, I0
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7340
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Chad
Kendall
Tommaso
Nannicini
Francesco
Trebbi
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353)
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D72, D83
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7339
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David
Albouy
Walter
Graf
Ryan
Kellogg
Hendrik
Wolff
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Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life
We present a hedonic framework to estimate U.S. households' preferences over local climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3 (1), 205–246)
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H49, I39, Q54, R10
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7337
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Andreas
Landmann
Markus
Frölich
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 51-59)
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I13, J20, J82, O12
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7336
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Gustavo
Adolfo
Garcia
Catia
Nicodemo
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Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case
This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The ...
(published in: Developing Economies, 2015, 53 (2), 75 - 99)
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J64, J31, J24, P23, J6, J7, J0
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7335
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Solomon
Polachek
Tirthatanmoy
Das
Rewat
Thamma-Apiroam
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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital
We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ...
(published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455 )
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J24, J29, J31, J39
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7334
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Matteo
Cervellati
Paolo
Vanin
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"Thou Shalt Not Covet ...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values
This paper proposes a theory of the relationship between prohibitions and temptation. In presence of self-control problems, moral values may increase individual material welfare (and utility) by ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 103, 15-28)
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D03, K42, Z13
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7333
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Yoon
Y.
Cho
Maddalena
Honorati
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Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis
This paper provides a synthetic and systematic review on the effectiveness of various entrepreneurship programs in developing countries. We adopt a meta-regression analysis using 37 impact evaluation ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 110-130)
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O12, O16, J24
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7331
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Andriana
Bellou
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Male Wage Inequality and Marital Dissolution: Is There a Link?
After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, 50 (1), 40-71 (winner of Robert Mundell Prize, 2017))
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J11, J12, J31
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7330
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Lukas
Inderbitzin
Stefan
Staubli
Josef
Zweimüller
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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution
This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement and social welfare. The trade-off of optimal UI between consumption smoothing ...
(revised version published in: American Economics Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8(1), 1-37)
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J14, J26, J65
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7329
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125(584), 621–646)
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F16, J21, J23, O33
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7328
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Beatriz
Fabiola
López Ulloa
Valerie
Moller
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review
This literature review provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical research in several disciplines on the relation between ageing and subjective well-being, i.e., how subjective well-being ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (3), 227-246)
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J14, J28
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7327
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Yuhao
Ge
Hartmut
Lehmann
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The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China
This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market ...
(puplished in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013, 2, Article 4)
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J64, J65, P50
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7326
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 220-225)
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F16, O33, R12
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7325
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Francesc
Ortega
Giovanni
Peri
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Migration, Trade and Income
This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy ...
(published as 'Openness and Income: The Roles of Trade and Migration' in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 92 (2), 231-251)
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F22, E25, J61
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7323
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Pablo
Agnese
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Offshoring and Productivity Revisited: A Time-Series Analysis
The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple framework for estimating the contribution of these strategies to the growth rate of ...
(published as 'Offshoring and Productivity from a Time-Series Perspective' in: Advances on International Economics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 139 -158)
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J23, J24, E25
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7322
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Roland
Benabou
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Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (2), 429-462)
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D03, D23, D53, D83, D84, E32, G01, G14, Z1
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7321
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Roland
Benabou
Jean
Tirole
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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370)
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D31, D82, D86, J31, J33, L13, M12
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7318
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Tilman
Brück
Damir
Esenaliev
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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2018, 26 (1), 61 - 89)
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J62, P36, I25
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7316
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Andriana
Bellou
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The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market
The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 265-297 )
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J11, J12, D12, R11, O33
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7315
|
Tymon
Sloczynski
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Population Average Gender Effects
In this paper I develop a consistent estimator of the population average treatment effect (PATE) which is based on a nonstandard version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition. As a result, I extend the ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 9036)
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C21, J31, J71
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7314
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Guido
Schwerdt
Martin
R.
West
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The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end of third grade be retained and provided with remedial services. We exploit a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, 154-169)
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H52, I21, I28
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7313
|
Barry
Hirsch
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An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions
Public sector unionism grew rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s following the passage of state collective bargaining laws. During the last thirty years, public sector membership has grown ...
(published in: Michael Green and Samuel Estreicher (eds.), The Challenge for Collective Bargaining: Proceedings of the NYU 65th Annual Conference on Labor, LexisNexis, 2013)
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J45, J5
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7312
|
Bradley
Ruffle
Yossef
Tobol
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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 65, 126-135)
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C93, D63
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7311
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players
We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain-intensive profession. We show that less talented players tend to leave the game ...
(published as 'Selection and the Age-Productivity Profile: Evidence from Chess Players' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2015, 110, 45–58)
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D83, J14, J24
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7310
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Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
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The Relation between Maternal Work Hours and Cognitive Outcomes of Young School-Aged Children
This paper is the first that analyzes the relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive outcomes of young school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163 (2), 203-232)
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D10, J13, J22
|
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7308
|
Aysit
Tansel
Saziye
Gazioglu
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35 (8), 1260-1275.)
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J28, J5, J21, D23
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7307
|
Ronen
Bar-El
Yossef
Tobol
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Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis
We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to ...
(published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel))
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C72, C92, H41
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7306
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Daniel
Parent
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Transactions Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy
In this paper we adapt the model of MacLeod (2007) to provide one way to formally implement some of Williamson's ideas regarding the effect of transactions costs upon employment relationship. We then ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2015, 31 (S1), i40–i76,)
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J33
|
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7305
|
Shelly
Lundberg
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The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality
I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 421-441 )
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I24
|
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7304
|
Vincenzo
Caponi
Miana
Plesca
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Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on legal and illegal immigrants to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 923-960)
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J15, F22
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7303
|
Arnaud
Dupuy
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82 (325), 24-45.)
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D3, J21, J23, J31
|
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7302
|
Luca
Colombo
Herbert
Dawid
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the formation of start-ups – proxied by the ease of access to financial resources – ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49, 513-531.)
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O31, L26
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7301
|
Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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The Effect of Non-Cognitive Traits on Health Behaviours in Adolescence
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23 (9), 1146-1158)
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I18, I28
|
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7300
|
Redzo
Mujcic
Paul
Frijters
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Still Not Allowed on the Bus: It Matters If You're Black or White!
We employ a natural field experiment to study the extent and nature of racial discrimination in Queensland, Australia. Mimicking the historical case of Rosa Parks who was denied seating in a bus ...
(published as 'The Colour of a Free Ride' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (634), 970–999)
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C93, J15, J71, D03
|
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7299
|
Mark
W.
Nichols
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime
We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 66, 1-15.)
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H71, L83
|
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7298
|
Aaron
K.
Chatterji
Kenneth
Y.
Chay
Robert
W.
Fairlie
|
The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 507-561 )
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J15, L26
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