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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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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
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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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7167
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I. Semih
Akçomak
Dinand
Webbink
Bas
ter Weel
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 821-860)
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N33, N93, O15, J20
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7166
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David
Neumark
J.M. Ian
Salas
William
Wascher
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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2014, 67 (S3), 608-648.)
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J23, J38
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7165
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Hans
Grönqvist
Lena
Lindahl
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Time Preferences and Lifetime Outcomes
This paper investigates the relationship between time preferences and lifetime social and economic behavior. We use a Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on ...
(published as 'Adolescent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F739-F761)
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D03, D91, J01
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7164
|
Juanna
Schrøter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Math and Gender: Is Math a Route to a High-Powered Career?
There is a large gender gap in advanced math coursework in high school that many believe exists because girls are discouraged from taking math courses. In this paper, we exploit an institutional ...
(revised version published as 'Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, 1129-1163)
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I21, J24
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7163
|
Benjamin
R.
Lester
Ludo
Visschers
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Competing with Asking Prices
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that ...
(published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770)
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C78, D21, D44, D47, D82, D83, L11, R31
|
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7162
|
Biwei
Su
Almas
Heshmati
|
Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2013, 2(1), 1-29.)
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O15, O18, D31, D63, C31
|
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7161
|
Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks: The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition
This paper examines the employment effects of a large burst of immigration – the politically-driven exodus of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 282-315)
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J21, J61
|
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7157
|
Timothy
J.
Halliday
|
Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID
In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 113, 15-22)
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I0, I12, J1
|
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7156
|
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
|
The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 86-92)
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N30, P0, Z1
|
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7155
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Paolo
Brunori
Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international ...
(published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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D71, D91, I32
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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