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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Carl
Lin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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David
Carroll
Massimiliano
Tani
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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
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Andy
Barnett
Bruce
Yandle
George
S
Naufal
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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
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7199
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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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
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Muhammad
Rashid
Ansari
Chiara
Mussida
Francesco
Pastore
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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
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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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7196
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Robson
Morgan
Maggie
Switek
Fei
Wang
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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (25), 9775-9780)
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I31, I38, D60, O53, P36
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7195
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Lutz
Bellmann
Hans-Dieter
Gerner
Olaf
Hübler
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Investment under Company-Level Pacts
To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments. In order to reduce wage costs company-specific deviations from industry-level ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2015, 36(3), 501-522)
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J50, J52, J53, D24
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7191
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Yuling
Cui
Daehoon
Nahm
Massimiliano
Tani
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Self-Employment in China: Are Rural Migrant Workers and Urban Residents Alike?
This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in modern China. Estimates of the wage differential between self-employment and ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48 (4), 382-399)
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C36, J61, J31, J21, J24
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7190
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Mathias
Dolls
Herwig
Immervoll
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market ...
(revised version published as 'Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the United States, 1979–2007' in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (2), 1061-1085 )
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H23, H31, H53, P16
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7189
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Leandro
Carvalho
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs
We use data from a unique survey of members of drug-trafficking gangs in favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to characterize drug-trafficking jobs and study the selection into gangs, analyzing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 121, 77-98)
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J4, K42, O15, O17
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7188
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace: Judaism in the United States and Israel
Economic analysis is used to compare different paradigms for understanding the marketplace for religions and religious ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to ...
(published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), The Economics of Religion, World Scientific, 2023, 147-155)
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Z12, Y80, L00
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7187
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed ...
(published in W. Glatzer, L. Camfield, V. Møller, and M. Rojas (eds.): Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents, 2015, 283-299)
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I31, D60, O10, O5
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7186
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Corrado
Andini
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Persistence Bias and the Wage-Schooling Model
This paper provides an expression for the bias of the OLS estimator of the schooling coefficient in a simple static wage-schooling model where earnings persistence is not accounted for. It is argued ...
(revised version circulated as: IZA DP No. 8143)
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C23, I21, J31
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7185
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Govert
Bijwaard
Qi
Wang
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Return Migration of Foreign Students
Using unique administrative micro panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in The Netherlands. The life course experiences of these ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 31-54)
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F22, J64, J12, C41
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7184
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Roger
Gordon
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 629-635)
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A11, H0, J0, Z18
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7183
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Christine
Binzel
Dietmar
Fehr
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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106)
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C72, C93, D82, O12
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7182
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Lex
Borghans
Huub
Meijers
Bas
ter Weel
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The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Measuring IQ
This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34 (1), 17-28)
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J20, J24
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7181
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Nikolay
Angelov
Per
Johansson
Erica
Lindahl
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Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?
We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and ...
(published as 'Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 545–579)
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J21, D13, C21
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7180
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Patrick
Kline
Enrico
Moretti
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local ...
(shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 238-243)
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J6
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7179
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Resul
Cesur
Erdal
Tekin
Aydogan
Ulker
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious ...
(pubished in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (600), 330 - 362)
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I0, I12, I15, I18, O10, O13, Q42, Q48, Q53
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7178
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David
Autor
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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2013, 46 (3), 185-199)
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J23, J24, J30, J31, O31, O33
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7177
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Reto
Odermatt
Alois
Stutzer
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Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction
The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 176-194)
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D03, D62, I18, K32
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7176
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Quamrul
Ashraf
Oded
Galor
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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 528-533)
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N30, O10, O50, Z10
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7175
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Kristian
Behrens
Giordano
Mion
Yasusada
Murata
Jens
Suedekum
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Spatial Frictions
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97(1), 40-70.)
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F12, R12
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7174
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Andy
Dickerson
Steven
McIntosh
Christine
Valente
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Do the Maths: An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics in Africa
This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst primary school children. There is a significant difference in maths test scores in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 46, 1–22)
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O15, I20
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7173
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Olivier
Godart
Holger
Görg
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Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, 393-404)
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F23, O12
|
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7172
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Ali
Fakih
Pascal
L.
Ghazalian
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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It ...
(published as 'Which Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for the Manufacturing Sector in the MENA Region' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2014, 41 (5), 672-695)
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F1, F4, F14
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7170
|
Simone
Bertoli
Herbert
Brücker
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
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The European Crisis and Migration to Germany: Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows
The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative ...
(revised version published as 'The European Crisis and Migration to Germany' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 60, 61–72)
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F22, O15, J61
|
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7169
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Francesco
Drago
Tommaso
Nannicini
Francesco
Sobbrio
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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (3), 159-188)
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L82, D72, H70
|
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7168
|
Reinout
Kleinhans
Maarten
van Ham
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Lessons Learned from the Largest Tenure Mix Operation in the World: Right to Buy in the United Kingdom
In the last few decades, urban renewal policies have taken firm root in many Western European countries. Underlying these renewal policies is a strong belief in negative neighborhood effects of ...
(published in: Cityscape, 2013, 15 (2), 101-117)
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J61, R21, R23, R28
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