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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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7296
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Heather
Antecol
Ozkan
Eren
Serkan
Ozbeklik
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The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 113-125)
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C21, I21, I28, J24
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7294
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Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 66, 112-118)
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D64, J39
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7293
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Yoram
Weiss
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior
We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in ...
(revised version published as 'Cross-border marriage costs and marriage behavior: Theory and Evidence' in: International Economic Review, 2018. 59 (2), 757 -784)
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F22, J11, J12
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7291
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Alexander
Hijzen
Sébastien
Martin
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The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis
There has been a strong interest in short-time work (STW) schemes during the global financial crisis. Using data for 23 OECD countries for the period 2004 Q1 to 2010 Q4, this paper analyses the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:5)
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J23, J65, J68
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7290
|
David
C.
Ribar
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Is Leaving Home a Hardship?
Nest-leaving – the transition of young adults from their parents' homes to other living arrangements – is a major life-course milestone. Although the causes of nest-leaving have been extensively ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal 2015, 81(3), 598-618)
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J12, J13
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7289
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada
In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions at the time of arrival may be crucial in determining immigrants' economic ...
(revised version published as 'The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada' in: International Migration Review, 2016, 50 (2), 475 - 505)
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J11, J13, J15
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7288
|
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error
Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using ...
(published as 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' in; Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, 857-871 )
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C13, C26, I14
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7286
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2013, 81 (5), 2055–2086)
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E20, J22, J24, J26, O11
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7285
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Martin
Kahanec
Brian
Fabo
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Migration Strategies of the Crisis-Stricken Youth in an Enlarged European Union
This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged European Union at the onset of the Great Recession. We use the Eurobarometer ...
(published in: Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 2013, 19 (3), 365-380)
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F22, J61
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7284
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Bettina
Müller
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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time
We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 45 (4), 787-804 )
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C10, L26, M13
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