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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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7261
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Casey
Boyd-Swan
Chris
M.
Herbst
John
Ifcher
Homa
Zarghamee
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The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness
This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, 18-38)
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I1, J00
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7260
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Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?
Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 702-729 )
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J68, J21, P52, O57
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7259
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Christine
Binzel
Jean-Paul
Carvalho
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580)
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D10, D63, I24, J24, J62, O10, Z12, Z13
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7257
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Lene
Kromann
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An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes
Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second-generation immigrants have the same job-offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes ...
(published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16)
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J15, J61, J71
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7256
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Abel
Brodeur
Sarah
Flèche
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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and ...
(published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238)
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C25, D00, J31
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7254
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Yu
Chen
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The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of ...
(published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.)
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J22, J24, Z12, Z13
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7253
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Kozo
Kiyota
Jacques
Mairesse
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322)
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C23, D21, J50, L13
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7252
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Nicole
Bosch
Bas
ter Weel
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Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (2), 199-218)
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J24, J60
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7251
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Hong
Liu
Qi
Sun
Zhong
Zhao
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Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 84–102)
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I1, G22
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7250
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Martin
Karlsson
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The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
This article evaluates an expansion of employer-mandated sick leave from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference-in-difference (DID), matching ...
(short version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29(2), 208-230)
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H51, I18, J22, J32
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7248
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Susan
J.
Méndez
Thomas
Rønde
Hannes
Ullrich
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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 174-187)
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I18, C23
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7246
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013)
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D1, I1, J13, J22
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7245
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Orley
Ashenfelter
David
E.
Bloom
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play
Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2013, 10 (3), 399-423)
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J52, K0
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7244
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 275-303.)
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D33, E25
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7243
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René
Böheim
Mario
Lackner
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Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions
We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as ...
(published as 'Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2015, 178( 4), 883–902)
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J16, D81
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7242
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Cathal
O'Donoghue
Jason
Loughrey
Karyn
Morrissey
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Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality
In this paper we attempted to chart the impact of the early part of Ireland's economic crisis from 2008-2010 on the distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:23)
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I38, C53
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7240
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Ott
Toomet
Daniela
Hochfellner
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Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 212-222)
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J61, J31, J24
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7239
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Melanie
Khamis
Mutlu
Yuksel
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For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation
This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term legacies of postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's family formation outcomes such as marriage, age at first marriage and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(29): 2771-2784.)
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J12, J16, J21, J48
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7236
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T. H.
Gindling
Juan Diego
Trejos
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The Distribution of Income in Central America
We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central ...
(revised version published in: Salvador Marti i Puig; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (eds.), The Handbook of Central American Governance, London: Routledge, 2014, 75-94.)
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O15, J31, O54
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7235
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Yeimin
Chung
Almas
Heshmati
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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries
This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained ...
(published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 104, 380-391. )
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D24, C61, O31, O44
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7233
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Mustafa
Ulus
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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 385 - 416)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
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7232
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John
H.
Pencavel
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The Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and Its Description by Pareto's Distribution
The size distribution of trade unions in the United States and changes in this distribution are documented. Because the most profound changes are taking place among very large unions, these are ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (1), 138-170 )
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J51
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7231
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Henry
R.
Hyatt
James
R.
Spletzer
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The Recent Decline in Employment Dynamics
In recent years, the rate at which workers and businesses exchange jobs has declined in the United States. Between 1998 and 2010, rates of job creation, job destruction, hiring, and separation ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:5)
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E24, J63
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7230
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Nicole
Schneeweis
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Immigrant Concentration in Schools: Consequences for Native and Migrant Students
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 63-76)
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I21, J15, J24
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7229
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Michael
Grimm
Renate
Hartwig
Jann
Lay
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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?
Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4): 827-846.)
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D13, D22, D92, O12, O43
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7228
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Rasmus
Landersø
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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School Starting Age and Crime
This paper investigates the effects of school starting age on crime while relying on variation in school starting age induced by administrative rules; we exploit that Danish children typically start ...
(substantially extended version available as IZA DP#9279)
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I21, K42
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7225
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Volker
Grossmann
Andreas
Schäfer
Thomas
M.
Steger
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Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices
We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To ...
(published as 'Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification' in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 109, 1-15)
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D90, F20, O10
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7224
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Monica
Bozzano
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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country's Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44, 496-521)
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E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15
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7223
|
Guonan
Ma
Dennis
T.
Yang
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China's High Saving Puzzle
This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past ...
(published in: Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shnag-Yin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang (eds): Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, 2014, 190-193)
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E21, O16, F32
|
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7221
|
Fabian
Kosse
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and their Intergenerational Transmission
This study explores the intergenerational transmission of time preferences and focuses on the question which specific aspects of mother's time preference are related to her preschool child's ability ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters 2013, 20 (10), 983-986)
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D90, D10
|
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7220
|
Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration
In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (1), 434-441)
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J3, K42
|
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7218
|
Pieter
Bevelander
Mikael
Hjerm
Jenny
Kiiskinen
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The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths: A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009
Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of the European population subscribes to classical anti-Semitic notions, and that ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015, 38 (15), 2705-2721.)
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Z12, F22
|
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7217
|
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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On the Power of Childhood Impressions for Skill Formation: Initial Evidence and Unsettled Questions
Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and ...
(published in: German Review of Social Policy, 2013, 62 (5), 131-139)
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D87, I12, I21, J13
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7216
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Dorothea
Blomeyer
Katja
Coneus
Manfred
Laucht
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics 2013, 233 (4), 468-485)
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D87, I12, I21, J13
|
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7215
|
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Mathias
Dolls
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(5), 845-873)
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H11, H21, D63, C63
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7214
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Default Options and Training Participation
This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (4), 1417-1428)
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J24, J31, I2
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7212
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Farzana
Afridi
Vegard
Iversen
M.R.
Sharan
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017, 66(1): 1-30)
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P26, I38
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7211
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Jonathan
Robinson
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and minority children – lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 211-240)
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I24
|
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7210
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Martin
Halla
Mario
Lackner
Johann
Scharler
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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries
We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 292 - 323)
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J12, J13, J18, D1, D62, H31, H53
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7209
|
Martin
Biewen
Andos
Juhasz
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A Goodness-of-Fit Approach to Estimating Equivalence Scales
We use income satisfaction data in order to estimate equivalence scales. Our method differs from previous attempts to use satisfaction data for this purpose in that it can be used to estimate or ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Direct Estimation of Equivalence Scales and More Evidence on Independence of Base' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (5), 875-905)
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J31, J71, C02, D31
|
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7208
|
Carl
Lin
|
Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 249-265)
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J31, J61, J24
|
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7207
|
Alison
L.
Booth
Lina Marcela
Cardona Sosa
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 168, 109-126)
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C91, C92, J16, J33
|
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7205
|
David
E.
Bloom
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Ageing and Productivity: Introduction
Population ageing will be the dominant feature of the world's demographic landscape in the coming decades, raising concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 22 (2013) 1–4)
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J11, J14, J18
|
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7204
|
Milena
Buechs
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of ...
(revised version published as 'Who emits most? An analysis of UK households' CO2 emissions and their association with socio-economic factors' in: Ecological Economics, 2013, 90, 114-123)
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D12, D31, D60, H20, Q01
|
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7203
|
Julie
Moschion
Domenico
Tabasso
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3 (10))
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J15, O15, Z10
|
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7202
|
David
Carroll
Massimiliano
Tani
|
Job Search as a Determinant of Graduate Over-Education: Evidence from Australia
This study considers the relationship between job search and over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates. Using a panel estimation method, we find that using universities' ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23 (5), 631-644)
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A22, I23, J24
|
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7201
|
Andy
Barnett
Bruce
Yandle
George
S
Naufal
|
Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2013, 44, 41-46)
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D21, K20, N45
|
|
7199
|
Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
|
The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (3), 189-225)
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E10, J10, J13, N30, O10, O40
|
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7198
|
Muhammad
Rashid
Ansari
Chiara
Mussida
Francesco
Pastore
|
Note on Lilien and Modified Lilien Index
This note is a companion to the Lilien (lilien) and Modified Lilien (mlilien) commands for computing the relative indices in STATA. The note illustrates the main features of the commands with an ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2014, 14 (2), 398-406)
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C46, C87, J63, L16, R23
|
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7197
|
Ali
Fakih
Pascal
L.
Ghazalian
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Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-Related and National Factors
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region falls behind several other geo-economic regions in terms of women's participation rates in the labour market. This paper examines the implications of ...
(publslihed as 'Female Employment in MENA’s Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-related and National Factors' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2015, 48 (1), 37-69)
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J16, J21, J23, J82
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