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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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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. Mřller, 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
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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
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Juanna
Schrřter
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
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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
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Biwei
Su
Almas
Heshmati
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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
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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
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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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
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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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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7153
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Leonardo
Becchetti
Riccardo
Massari
Paolo
Naticchioni
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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442)
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I31, I28, J17, J21, J28
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7151
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544)
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Z12, N33
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7150
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2121-68)
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F16, H53, J23, J31
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7149
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Huu
Chi
Nguyen
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
François
Roubaud
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (12), 1694-1710)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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7148
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Wojtek
Przepiorka
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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts
It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection ...
(published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145)
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C72, C92, H41
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7147
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Lisa
B.
Kahn
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Asymmetric Information between Employers
Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205)
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D21, D83, J33
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7146
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Hans
K.
Hvide
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether ...
(published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185)
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D21, D24, J23, L11, L25, G39
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7145
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
Niels
Gheyle
Cora
Vandamme
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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour ...
(revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500)
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C93, J15, J21, J24, J42, J71
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7144
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
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Population Ageing and PAYG Pensions in the OLG Model
This paper shows the effects on a pay-as-you-go pension system of the demographic change in the standard overlapping generations model. Firstly, we consider a setting with exogenous fertility and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 251-256)
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J13, H55
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7143
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Jay
Stewart
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Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep
School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to diminished cognitive performance and that people who sleep less are more likely to be ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50)
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J22
|
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7142
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Qingjie
Xia
Lina
Song
Shi
Li
Simon
Appleton
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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression ...
(published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45)
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J31, J42, O15, P23
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7141
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Gary
S.
Fields
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2015, 27 (S1), 5 -16)
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I3, J2, O1, O19
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7140
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 251-256)
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J16, J22
|
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7139
|
Felix
Weinhardt
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 82, 12-31)
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J18, I21, J24
|
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7138
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Ricard
Gil
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'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data
In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants ...
(published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344)
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L23, L22, L60, J29, J59
|
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7137
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Elisabeth
Fevang
Inés
Hardoy
Knut
Rřed
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Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?
We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi-experiment in Norway, with a ...
(revised version published as: 'Temporary disability and economic incentives' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1410–1432.)
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H55, I38, J22
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7136
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Harriet
Duleep
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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy ...
(published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845)
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J15, J24, J39, J61, L26
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