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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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6766
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John
V.
Winters
Barry
Hirsch
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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings
Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 930-947)
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J15, J31
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6765
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Alan
de Brauw
John
T.
Giles
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32 (1), 1-18)
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O12, O15, J22, J24
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6764
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Seamus
McGuinness
Mark
Wooden
Markus
Hahn
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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45 (4), 329 - 347)
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J63
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6763
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Gigi
Foster
Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
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Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (18), 1847-1862)
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D13, C91
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6762
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment
Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I ...
(revised version published as 'Comment on "Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences": On the Elicitation of Time Preference under Conditions of Risk' in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (7), 2242-2260)
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C91, D03, D81, D90
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6761
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Sarah
Flèche
Claudia
Senik
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The Great Happiness Moderation
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed ...
(published in: Andrew Clark and Claudia Senik (Eds.), Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 22-139)
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D31, D6, I3, O15
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6759
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Sarah
Hamersma
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Peter
R.
Mueser
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Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding
Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers, and in importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 72 - 100)
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J3, J4
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6758
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Christopher
Jepsen
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
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Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
We evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for ...
(revision published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (3), 621-649)
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J24, I21
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6757
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Fernando
Rios-Avila
Barry
Hirsch
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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas
Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (1), 1-27.)
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J31, J51
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6756
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Manisha
Shah
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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 484-515)
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Q54, O12, D81
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6755
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Jee-Yeon
K.
Lehmann
Ana
Nuevo-Chiquero
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments
The critical role of prenatal and early childhood conditions on adult outcomes has been the focus of a rich body of research. In this paper, we examine various pre- and postnatal investments as ...
(published as 'The Early Origins of Birth Order Differences in Children's Outcomes and Parental Behavior' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, 123 - 156)
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J10, J13, I24
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6754
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Miriam
Jorgensen
Uwe
Sunde
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Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects ...
(revised version published as 'Critical junctures and economic development – Evidence from the adoption of constitutions among American Indian Nations' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (4), 844 - 861)
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D72, N12, O11, O43, P16
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6753
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Ronald
Bachmann
Daniel
Baumgarten
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How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey
Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search behaviour of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:22)
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J20, J64, C38
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6752
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María
Cervini-Plá
José
I.
Silva
Judit
Vall Castello
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Estimating the Income Loss of Disabled Individuals: The Case of Spain
In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51, 809–829)
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I10, J24, J31
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6751
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Luc
Behaghel
Bruno
Crépon
Marc
Gurgand
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models
We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit" and of the bounding approach of Lee (2009). As a substitute for the instrument ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (5), 1070 - 1080)
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C31, C93, J6
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6750
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Aldo
Rustichini
Colin
G.
DeYoung
Jon
E.
Anderson
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior
Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of ...
(revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137)
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D83, C72, C93
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6749
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Richard
J.
Long
Tony
Fang
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Do Employees Profit from Profit Sharing? Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether employee earnings increase, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (4), 899-927)
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J33, J31, J38
|
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6748
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Paul
Muller
Bas
van der Klaauw
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (4), 1073-1125)
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C21, E24, J64
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6746
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Giovanni
S. F.
Bruno
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Orietta
Dessy
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Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs: Exits from Temporary Contracts in Italy after the 2003 Reform
In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market ...
(published in: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2013, 1, 31-60)
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J24, C41, C33, C35, J6
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6745
|
Gabriella
Sjögren
Lindquist
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Income Distribution among those of 65 Years and Older in Sweden
The population of Sweden is ageing and the number of pensioners is increasing. This means that the incomes of older people and the income differences between older and younger people and among ...
(published in: Marek Szczpanski (ed.), Old Age Crisis and Pension Reform. Where do we stand?, Poznan: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology, 2013 )
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J14, D31, H55
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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