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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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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
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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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6744
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Stefan
Boes
Stephan
Nüesch
Steven
Stillman
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Aircraft Noise, Health, and Residential Sorting: Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (9), 1037 - 1051)
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I10, Q53, C23
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6743
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Peter
Dungan
Tony
Fang
Morley
Gunderson
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro-Model
We use a macro-econometric forecasting model to simulate the impact on the Canadian economy of a hypothetical increase in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations , 2013, 51 (1), 174-195)
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J15, E17, J18
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6742
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Tony
Fang
Al-Karim
Samnani
Milorad
M.
Novicevic
Mark
N.
Bing
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Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers
We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job ...
(published in: Journal of World Business (Columbia); 2013, 48 (1), 98–109)
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J15, J71, J78
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6741
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi
We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a ...
(revised version published in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345)
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J15, N41, O43, P16
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6740
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Matthew
J.
Lindquist
Joeri
Sol
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 32 (2), 269–296)
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J24, J62, L26
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6739
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Giuseppe
De Luca
Claudio
Rossetti
Daniela
Vuri
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In-Work Benefits for Married Couples: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy
This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014, 3, 23 (2014))
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I38, H31, H53
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6738
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Simon
Burgess
Carol
Propper
Marisa
Ratto
Emma
Tominey
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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F117 - F141)
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J33, J45, D23
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6737
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Pieter
Serneels
Marijke
Verpoorten
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The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda
Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (4), 555-592)
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O0, E2, O5
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6736
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Manisha
Shah
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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia
Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62 (2), 381-415)
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O12, O15, I38
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6735
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Kristian
Orsini
Andreas
Peichl
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (3), 723-838)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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6732
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Susana
Ferreira
Alpaslan
Akay
Finbarr
Brereton
Juncal
Cuñado
Peter
Martinsson
Mirko
Moro
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Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2013, 88, 1-10)
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I31, Q51, Q53, Q54
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6731
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Sander
M.
Hoogendoorn
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field ...
(revised version available here)
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J15, L25, C93, L26, M13, D83
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6730
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Martin
Biewen
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Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects
This paper proposes a comprehensive, path-independent decomposition formula of changes into ceteris paribus effects and interaction effects. The formula implies a reassessment of sequential ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (9), 636-642)
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J31, J71, C02, D31
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6729
|
Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Yu
Chen
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Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis
In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2013, 29 (20), 521-542)
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J12
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6728
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
François-Charles
Wolff
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On-the-Job Learning and Earnings: Comparative Evidence from Morocco and Senegal
In this paper, we consider a model of on-the-job learning where workers learn informally by watching and imitating colleagues. We estimate the rate of knowledge diffusion inside the firm using two ...
(published in: Region et Developpement, 2012, 35, 151-176)
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J24, J31, O12
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6727
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Reza
Arabsheibani
Anita
Staneva
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan
This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:1)
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C14, J21, J30
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6725
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 120-134)
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C91, J33
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6723
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John
V.
Winters
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Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:11)
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I20, J24, R23
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6722
|
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Enric
Meix-Llop
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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing ...
(published as 'Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data' in: Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, 2019, 37 (7), 1296-1316)
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H11, H77, I21
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6720
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Erik
Snowberg
Justin
Wolfers
Eric
Zitzewitz
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Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting
Prediction markets – markets used to forecast future events – have been used to accurately forecast the outcome of political contests, sporting events, and, occasionally, economic outcomes. This ...
(published in: Handbook of Economic Forecasting, 2013, 2A, 657-684)
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C5, G14
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6718
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Tine Louise
Mundbjerg
Eriksen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 839-871)
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L14, I21
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6716
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Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811)
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D64, J24, J32, L3, M14, M52
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6714
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Søren
Dalsgaard
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based ...
(substantially extended version available as IZA DP#8208)
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I1
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6713
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Herbert
Brücker
Elke
J.
Jahn
Richard
Upward
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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 205-225)
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F22, J31, J61
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6712
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Riemer
Faber
Pierre
Koning
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Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?
This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (1), 60 - 95 )
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H77, H20, H71, I38
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6710
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Paolo
Crosetto
Antonio
Filippin
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The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task
This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65)
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C81, C91, D81
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6709
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Almudena
Sevilla
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Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis
Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56(6), 1338-1359)
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D12, D13, J2
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6708
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Almudena
Sevilla
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Jonathan I.
Gershuny
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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ...
(published in: Demography, 2012, 49(3), 939-964)
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C13, C23, D13, J12, J16, Z13
|
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6707
|
Kristiina
Huttunen
Jenni
Kellokumpu
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The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions
This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data (FLEED) matched to birth records. We distinguish between male and female job losses. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (2), 403-442)
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J65, J13, J12
|
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6706
|
Monique
de Haan
Erik
Plug
José
Rosero
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Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador
In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (2), 359-392)
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D1, I2, J1
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