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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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6825
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Chiara
Monfardini
Sarah
Grace
See
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Birth Order and Child Outcomes: Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the ...
(published as 'Birth Order and Child Cognitive Outcomes: an Exploration of the Parental Time Mechanism' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (5), 481- 495 )
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D13, J12, J13, J22, J24
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6824
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Patricia
Apps
Yuri
Andrienko
Ray
Rees
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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: ...
(published as 'Risk and Precautionary Saving in Two-Person Households' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1040-1046)
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D10, D13, D14, D81, D91, E21
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6823
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the ...
(published as 'Optimal family taxation and income inequality' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 1093–1128)
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J22, H21, H24, H31, D13
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6822
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Ali
Fakih
Walid
Marrouch
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Determinants of Domestic Workers' Employment: Evidence from Lebanese Household Survey Data
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) ...
(published as 'Who hires foreign domestic workers? Evidence from Lebanon' in: Journal of Developing Areas, 2014, 48 (3), 339-352)
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D13, J22, J23, J49
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6821
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Natalia
Zinovyeva
Manuel
Bagues
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The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
This paper analyzes the role of connections in academic promotions. We exploit evidence from centralized evaluations in Spain, where evaluators are randomly assigned to promotion committees. We find ...
(published in: American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (2), 264-292)
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J44, M51
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6820
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Kai
Liu
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Erik
Ø.
Sørensen
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Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession
We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 3-17.)
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E32, J31, J62
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6819
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Tobias
J. M.
Büttner
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 66-84)
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J23, J24, J31, I20, L26
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6818
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Ruud
Gerards
Andries
de Grip
Maaike
Witlox
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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness
This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46, 952-965)
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J24, M53
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6817
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Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment
We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 116, 288-290.)
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I21, J15
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6816
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
W.
Kip
Viscusi
James
P.
Ziliak
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric ...
(published in: the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 48 (3), 187-205)
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C23, I10, J17, J28, K00
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6815
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Paolo
Masella
Stephan
Meier
Philipp
Zahn
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Incentives and Group Identity
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25)
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C91, D03, Z13
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6814
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Sarah
S.
Stith
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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.
In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 43-56)
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D64, H41, I12, J18, K32
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6812
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Nezih
Guner
Ezgi
Kaya
Virginia
Sánchez-Marcos
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Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they ...
(published in: SERIEs - Journal of Spanish Economic Association, 2014, 5,(1), 61-103.)
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J16, J21, J22, J24
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6811
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Zoe
McLaren
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Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market
In the context of South Africa's pervasive poverty and mass unemployment, households provide an important private safety net for the unemployed. Using new South African Labour Force Survey panel ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (4), 757–798)
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J22, O15
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6810
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Marco
Caliendo
Jens
Hogenacker
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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1(3), 1-24 )
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J26, J38, J68
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6809
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Isis
Gaddis
Janneke
Pieters
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(2), 457-490)
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F13, F16, J16, J21, O15
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6808
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Guyonne
Kalb
Trinh
Le
Boyd
Hunter
Felix
Leung
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Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes ...
(published as 'Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians' in: Economic Record, 2014, 90(291), 536–550)
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J15, J21
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6807
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John
Cawley
David
E.
Frisvold
Chad
D.
Meyerhoefer
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755)
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I12, I18, I21, H75, K32
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6806
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Alejandra
Mizala
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
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J31, J44, J8, O54
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6804
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Abel
Brodeur
Marie
Connolly
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 1-16)
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I31, J20, J28
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6803
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Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Comparing Quasi-Experimental Designs and Structural Models for Policy Evaluation: The Case of a Reform of Lone Parental Welfare
This paper compares two different ways of doing policy evaluation: on the one hand, quasi-experimental methods (or "ex-post" evaluations) which exploit the introduction of a reform and identify its ...
(published as 'Fighting Lone Mothers’ Poverty Through In-Work Benefits: Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 95 - 122)
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I38, J22, C25
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6802
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Matthew
Harding
Carlos
Lamarche
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Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, 101-113)
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C23, C33, I21, I28
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6801
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment
We examine the effects of recently adopted state merit-based financial aid programs on college attendance and degree completion. Our primary analysis uses microdata from the 2000 Census and 2001-2010 ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2015, 55(3), 364-390)
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H75, I23, J24
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6800
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Robert
Holzmann
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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide ...
(published in: International Social Security Review 2013, 66 (2), 1-29)
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G23, H55, I3, J21, J26
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6799
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Matthias
Strifler
Thomas
Beissinger
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Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis
We consider a theoretical model in which unions not only take the outside option into account, but also base their wage-setting decisions on an internal reference, called the fairness reference. Wage ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 63 (3), 303-330)
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J51, J64, E24
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6798
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Seth
H.
Giertz
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2012, 65, 1069-92)
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H21, H23, H71
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6797
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Ren
Mu
Yang
Du
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31(2), 483-503.)
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J26, J24, O15, D13
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6796
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Erez
Siniver
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Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32(3), 2414-2441)
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J15, J24, J31
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6795
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Costanza
Biavaschi
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Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In particular, it recovers the counterfactual wage distribution if all Mexican ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38 (1), 59-80)
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J61, F22
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6794
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Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
John
Östh
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Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects
Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely ...
(published as 'Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2015, 15 (1), 195-215)
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I30, J60, R23
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6793
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research
Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2012, 44 (12), 2787-2793)
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I30, R23
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6792
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Claus
Schnabel
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Union Membership and Density: Some (Not So) Stylized Facts and Challenges
Surveying some recent data and the empirical literature from various disciplines, this paper attempts to shed some light on what we know and don't know about (trends in) unionization and its ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 19 (3), 255-272)
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J51
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6790
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Atila
Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua
Angrist
Parag A.
Pathak
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The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools
Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (1), 137 - 196)
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I21, I28, C21
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6789
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sonja
C.
de New
Stefanie
Schurer
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Healthy Habits: The Connection between Diet, Exercise, and Locus of Control
This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their decisions to exercise regularly, eat well, drink moderately, and avoid tobacco. Our primary goal is to assess the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 1-28)
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I14, J3, C18
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6788
|
Hendrik
Wolff
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Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices
Do drivers reduce speeds when gasoline prices are high? Previous research investigating this energy conservation hypothesis produced mixed results. We take a fresh look at the data and estimate a ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2014, 67(1), 71-88.)
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D70, J17, K32, Q26, R41
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6786
|
Christoph
Wunder
Guido
Heineck
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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 244-252.)
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I31, J21, J22
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6785
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Ana
Isabel
Moreno-Monroy
Janneke
Pieters
Abdul
Azeez
Erumban
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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for ...
(published as 'Formal Sector Subcontracting and Informal Sector Employment in Indian Manufacturing' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3(22))
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O14, O17, L60
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6784
|
Robert
M.
Sauer
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 537-564)
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C35, C53, C61, D91, J12, J13, J22, J24, J31, J64
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6783
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Jay
Bhattacharya
Christina
Gathmann
Grant
Miller
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The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 232-60)
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I18, I15, P35, P36, P37
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6781
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
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A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models
A simple graphical approach to presenting results from nonlinear regression models is described. In the face of multiple covariates, 'partial mean' plots may be unattractive. The approach here is ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 578-581)
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C1, C13, C14
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6780
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Rolf
Ketzler
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes
The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2013, 95 (3), 1095-1112)
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A11, C53, I23, L31
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6777
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 13–25)
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I18, J51, J22
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6775
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Lukas
Vogel
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2015, 12 (3), 375-392)
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D78, E52, E61, F36
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6774
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Diego
Ubfal
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How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates
This paper tests the broadly adopted assumption that people apply a single discount rate to the utility from different sources of consumption. Using unique data from two surveys conducted in rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 118: 150-170.)
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D01, D91, O1
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6773
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Rudi
Rocha
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 112, 72–91)
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I15, I18, H51, Q54
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6772
|
Mehtabul
Azam
Céline
Ferré
Mohamed
Ihsan
Ajwad
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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that ...
(revised version published as 'Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? The case of Latvia' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:10)
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I38, J64, J68
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6771
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Christian
Bayer
Falko
Juessen
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Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks
We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (4), 160–187)
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E21, D12, D60
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6770
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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School and Drugs: Closing the Gap - Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US
We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results ...
(substantially revised verion published in: Journal of Behavior & Economics, 2017, 139, 166-181 )
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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6769
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Cain
Polidano
Domenico
Tabasso
Yi-Ping
Tseng
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A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(3), 358-375)
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I20, J01
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6768
|
Hong
Liu
Zhong
Zhao
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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the ...
(published as 'Does Health Insurance Matter? Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 1007-1020 )
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I13, G22, H43
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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