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6911 Gilles Saint-Paul
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)
B40, D03, D10, H10
6910 Denvil Duncan
Klara Sabirianova Peter
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 )
H2, I3, J3, O1, O2
6908 Luca Flabbi
James Mabli
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)
J64, D63, C63
6907 Deng Quheng
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Shi Li
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)
D31, J62, P32
6906 Jean-Olivier Hairault
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Thepthida Sopraseuth
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 )
E24, J6
6905 Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
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)
D0
6904 Jennifer Hunt
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)
J15, I21
6903 Margaret Maurer-Fazio
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)
J71, J23, J15, O52, P25
6902 Christopher Jepsen
Kenneth Troske
Paul A. Coomes
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)
J24
6900 Richard Blundell
Luigi Pistaferri
Itay Saporta-Eksten
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)
J22
6899 James P. Smith
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)
I20, I23, I28, J10, J15, J61
6898 Susan L. Averett
Julie K. Smith
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 )
I10, I12, I14
6897 Holger Görg
Dennis Görlich
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)
J31, F14
6896 Suresh de Mel
David McKenzie
Christopher Woodruff
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)
O12, J16, L26, M53
6895 David McKenzie
Christopher Woodruff
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)
O12, J16, L26, M53
6894 Vanessa Dräger
Paul Marx
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)
J23, J28, J21, J63, J68, J82
6893 Philippe Belley
Nathalie Havet
Guy Lacroix
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)
J16, J71, J41
6890 Costanza Biavaschi
Werner Eichhorst
Corrado Giulietti
Michael Jan Kendzia
Alexander Muravyev
Janneke Pieters
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda Schmidl
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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 )
J24, I25, O17
6889 Marc Piopiunik
Guido Schwerdt
Ludger Woessmann
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)
I20, J24, J31, J64
6887 John T. Giles
Irina Murtazashvili
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)
C13, C33, O15, P25
6885 Jennifer Hunt
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)
J16, J44
6884 Sandra Hentschel
Gerd Muehlheusser
Dirk Sliwka
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)
D22, J44, J63
6883 Niaz Asadullah
Rupa Chakrabarti
Nazmul Chaudhury
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)
D04, I21, O15
6881 Nauro F. Campos
Jeffrey B. Nugent
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.)
J41, J65, J33, K31, O21
6880 Alessio J. G. Brown
Johannes Koettl
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)
J08, J22, J23, J38, E24
6879 N. Meltem Daysal
Mircea Trandafir
Reyn van Ewijk
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)
I11, I12, I18, J13
6878 Alan Barrett
Irene Mosca
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)
J14, J15
6877 Denis Conniffe
Donal O'Neill
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)
C91, D81, G11
6876 Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
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.)
E32, E62
6875 Alessia Matano
Paolo Naticchioni
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)
C33, J16, J31, J41, L25
6874 Daniel J. Henderson
Esfandiar Maasoumi
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)
C14
6873 John T. Addison
Orgul Demet Ozturk
Si Wang
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)
J16, J31, J51, J62
6872 Javier E. Baez
Dorothy Kronick
Andrew D. Mason
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)
Q12, Q54, O13
6871 Steven Stillman
John Gibson
David McKenzie
Halahingano Rohorua
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)
I31, J61
6869 John V. Winters
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)
J21, J24, R23
6868 Daniela Del Boca
Chiara Monfardini
Cheti Nicoletti
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)
J13, D1
6867 Louis N. Christofides
Michael Hoy
Joniada Milla
Thanasis Stengos
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 )
I20, J00
6866 Kristin Göbel
Michael Grimm
Jann Lay
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)
D13, D61, O12
6865 Robert Slonim
Carmen Wang
Ellen Garbarino
Danielle Merrett
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)
C9
6864 Prashant Bharadwaj
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Christopher A. Neilson
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)
I38, J13, J24
6863 Raymond Montizaan
Maarten C.M. Vendrik
Misery Loves Company: Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being
This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 1-26)
D63, D1, I3, J26
6862 M. Shahe Emran
Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka
Stephen C. Smith
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2014, 50 (4), 481-501)
I2, O12, D1, J12
6861 Yoichi Hizen
Keisuke Kawata
Masaru Sasaki
An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76)
C91, D83
6860 Stefan Bauernschuster
Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Jens Suedekum
Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69)
J61, R23, D81
6859 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106)
L82, L33, L10
6857 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Chad Sparber
In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and its Impact on College Enrollment, Tuition Costs, Student Financial Aid, and Indebtedness
The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 49, 11-24.)
F22, J15, I23, I28
6854 Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2015, 35 (3), 191 - 209)
F22, J61, J31, J24
6853 Yuanyuan Chen
Shuaizhang Feng
Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2013, 26, 75-88)
I28, J15, O15
6852 Govert Bijwaard
Stijn van Doeselaar
The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997 )
J12, F22, C41
6851 Quang Nguyen
Marie Claire Villeval
Hui Xu
Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572)
C91, C93, D81, D90, O10, O53
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