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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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6921
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014)
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D33, J61
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6920
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Yong
Yin
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The Problem of the Uninsured
The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called ...
(published in: Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong (eds.), Research in Economics, 2018, 72 (1), 147-168)
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G22, H42, I13, I28
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6919
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Johannes
Abeler
Anke
Becker
Armin
Falk
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Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment
A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104)
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C93, D01, D82, D83
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6918
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Andrea
Bassanini
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Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions
I examine the effect of labour market policies and institutions on the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to the labour market, using both aggregate and industry-level annual data for 23 OECD ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 3 (3), Article 1)
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J21, J31, J60
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6917
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement
This paper examines the determinants of mathematical achievement among primary school children. Previous studies have found that boys perform better in maths than girls, particularly at the upper end ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 104-119)
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J24, I21
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6916
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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Trust, Values and False Consensus
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (3), 889-915)
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A1, A12, D1, Z1
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6915
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Steven
W.
Cole
Gabriella
Conti
Jesusa
M.
Arevalo
Angela
M.
Ruggiero
James
J.
Heckman
Stephen
J.
Suomi
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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109(50), 20578-20583)
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I12, J13
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6914
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
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Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 48–70)
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H21, H24, H26, J22
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6913
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Magnus
Carlsson
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
How schooling affects cognitive skills is a fundamental question for studies of human capital and labor markets. While scores on cognitive ability tests are positively associated with schooling, it ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 533–547)
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J24, I20
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6912
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Karine
Torosyan
Randall
K.
Filer
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Tax Reform in Georgia and the Size of the Shadow Economy
This paper applies three different methods widely used in the literature to track changes in shadow economic activity in Georgia following a drastic tax reform in 2005. The first method is a currency ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2014, 22 (1), 179 - 210)
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E01, H26, J39
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6911
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained ...
(published in: Economic Affairs, 2013, 33 (1), 119–126)
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B40, D03, D10, H10
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6910
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Denvil
Duncan
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23 (4), 762 - 783 )
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H2, I3, J3, O1, O2
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6908
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Luca
Flabbi
James
Mabli
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Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates
Search Models of the labor market are widespread and influential but they usually ignore that labor market decisions are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and ...
(published as 'Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 35 (1), 1 - 46)
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J64, D63, C63
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6907
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Deng
Quheng
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Shi
Li
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Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China
Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436)
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D31, J62, P32
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6906
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France
In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 60-84 )
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E24, J6
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6905
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets
We model a boundedly rational agent who suffers from limited attention. The agent considers each feasible alternative with a given (unobservable) probability, the attention parameter, and then ...
(revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (3), 1153–1176)
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D0
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6904
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Jennifer
Hunt
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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1060-1118)
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J15, I21
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6903
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Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:12)
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J71, J23, J15, O52, P25
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6902
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Christopher
Jepsen
Kenneth
Troske
Paul
A.
Coomes
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The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied ...
(revision published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 95-121)
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J24
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6900
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Richard
Blundell
Luigi
Pistaferri
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
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Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (2), 387 - 435)
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J22
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6899
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James
P.
Smith
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller. (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Volume 1A, Chapter 4, pp. 167-195, 2014)
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I20, I23, I28, J10, J15, J61
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6898
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Susan
L.
Averett
Julie
K.
Smith
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Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused ...
(published as 'Financial hardship and obesity' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 15, 201-212 )
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I10, I12, I14
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6897
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Holger
Görg
Dennis
Görlich
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected ...
(published in: Review of World Economics / Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 2015, 151(3), 533-554)
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J31, F14
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6896
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6895
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David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6894
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Vanessa
Dräger
Paul
Marx
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (4), 942-975)
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J23, J28, J21, J63, J68, J82
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6893
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Philippe
Belley
Nathalie
Havet
Guy
Lacroix
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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 42, 231-260)
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J16, J71, J41
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6890
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Werner
Eichhorst
Corrado
Giulietti
Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Alexander
Muravyev
Janneke
Pieters
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda
Schmidl
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and ...
(substantially revised version published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157 )
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J24, I25, O17
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6889
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Marc
Piopiunik
Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 93-108)
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I20, J24, J31, J64
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6887
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John
T.
Giles
Irina
Murtazashvili
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for ...
(published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87)
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C13, C33, O15, P25
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6885
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (1), 199-22)
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J16, J44
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6884
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Sandra
Hentschel
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016)
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D22, J44, J63
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6883
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Niaz
Asadullah
Rupa
Chakrabarti
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, 67(2), 186–207)
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D04, I21, O15
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6881
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system ...
(published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.)
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J41, J65, J33, K31, O21
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6880
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Johannes
Koettl
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Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:12)
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J08, J22, J23, J38, E24
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6879
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Mircea
Trandafir
Reyn
van Ewijk
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Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7(3), 28-50)
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I11, I12, I18, J13
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6878
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
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Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and ...
(revised version published as 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (1), 29-45)
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J14, J15
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6877
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Denis
Conniffe
Donal
O'Neill
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An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
There is a large literature estimating Arrow-Pratt coefficients of absolute and relative risk aversion. A striking feature of this literature is the very wide variation in the reported estimates of ...
(published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102)
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C91, D81, G11
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6876
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Teresa
Lloyd-Braga
Leonor
Modesto
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Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?
Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of ...
(published in K. Nishimura et al. (eds.), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics, Studies in Economic Theory 31, Springer 2017.)
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E32, E62
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6875
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 55-59)
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C33, J16, J31, J41, L25
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6874
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Esfandiar
Maasoumi
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Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment
This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially ...
(published in: Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
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C14
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6873
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
Si
Wang
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317)
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J16, J31, J51, J62
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6872
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Javier
E.
Baez
Dorothy
Kronick
Andrew D.
Mason
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 267–289)
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Q12, Q54, O13
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6871
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Steven
Stillman
John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 79-93)
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I31, J61
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6869
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John
V.
Winters
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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (5), 799-822)
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J21, J24, R23
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6868
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Daniela
Del Boca
Chiara
Monfardini
Cheti
Nicoletti
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Self Investments of Adolescents and their Cognitive Development
While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children ...
(published as 'Parental and child time and cognitive development of adolescents' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 565-608)
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J13, D1
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6867
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Joniada
Milla
Thanasis
Stengos
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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes
We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45 (1), 48-82 )
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I20, J00
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6866
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Kristin
Göbel
Michael
Grimm
Jann
Lay
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Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110)
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D13, D61, O12
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6865
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Robert
Slonim
Carmen
Wang
Ellen
Garbarino
Danielle
Merrett
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Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 43-70)
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C9
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6864
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Christopher
A.
Neilson
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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1862-91)
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I38, J13, J24
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