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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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6629
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 104, 65-77)
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C31, H52, I2
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6628
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Luca
De Benedictis
Gianluca
Santoni
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by ...
(revised version published in: Review of World Economics, 2014, 150 (3), 557-594)
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F10, F14, F22, R10
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6627
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Southwest as the New Internal Migration Destination in Turkey
Antalya and Mu?la provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are ...
(first part published as 'Tourism Driven Migration to Southwestern Turkey' in: Bogazici Journal, 2017, 31 (1). 23-42 / second part published as 'Analysing Internal Migration to Antalya and Mugla Through Gravity Modelling' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2018, 26 (37), 117-126.)
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J61, R23
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6626
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Aysit
Tansel
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Private Tutoring and the Question of Equitable Opportunities in Turkey
This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Private Tutoring and Equitable Opportunities in Turkey: Challenges and Policy Implications' in: Mark Bray and André E. Mazawi (eds.), Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean - Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity, Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2013, Chapter 11, 177-186)
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I21, I24, I25
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6625
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Werner
Eichhorst
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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model
Most Continental European labour markets and welfare states underwent a substantial transformation over the last two decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(1), 49-69)
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J21, J31, J52, J68
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6623
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Audrey
Light
Andrew
McGee
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Employer Learning and the "Importance" of Skills
We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with O*NET data, we use Armed ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 72-107)
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J31, D83
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6622
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry Using Spanish Immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 41, 83-95. )
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F24, F22
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6621
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Anna
D'Souza
Dean
Jolliffe
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. ...
(published in: Food Policy, 2013, 42, 32-47)
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D12, I3, O12
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6620
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Thomas
Markussen
Ernesto
Reuben
Jean-Robert
Tyran
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195)
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D72, J33, H41
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6619
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Emilia
Del Bono
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Does Breastfeeding Support at Work Help Mothers and Employers at the Same Time?
This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 88-115.)
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J13, C26
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6618
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Ron
P.
Smith
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Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics: An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing
This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2016, 70 (2), 262-280)
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C18, C54, E65
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6617
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Pablo
Ibarrarán
Laura
Ripani
Bibiana
Taboada
Juan Miguel
Villa
Brígida
García
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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:10)
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J24, J64, O15, O17
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6616
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Deniz
Karao?lan
Cagla
Okten
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?
This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that ...
(published as 'Labor-Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey' in: Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 2015, 51 (1), 274-290 )
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J21, J60
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6613
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Lance
John
Lochner
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1927-1956)
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I2, I3
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6611
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Volker
Grossmann
David
Stadelmann
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Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence
This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2013, 27 (2), 297-319)
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F22, O30
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6610
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Volker
Grossmann
David
Stadelmann
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Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments?
This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (5), 944-959.)
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F22, H40
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6609
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Hans
K.
Hvide
Eirik
Gaard
Kristiansen
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Management of Knowledge Workers
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2012, 55 (4), 815-838)
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J30, J60
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6608
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Ervin
Prifti
Daniela
Vuri
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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 77-88)
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J2, J13, J65
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6606
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Xiaodong
Gong
Robert
Breunig
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Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (1), 7 - 48)
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C15, C35, J22
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6605
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Abigail
Wozniak
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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment
Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to ...
(Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 93 (7), 548-566)
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J7, J15, K2, K3, M5
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6603
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Umut
Oguzoglu
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Dynamics of Disability and Work in Canada
Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry ...
(shorter version published as 'Why Do Past Disabilities Still Haunt the Newly Healthy?' in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2020, 12 (3), 331-344 )
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J14, J21, C23
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6602
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Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2015, 10 (1), 117-156)
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I20, J08, J24, J44, J45
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6601
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Jacobus
de Hoop
Furio
C.
Rosati
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Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project
Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 39, 78-96)
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I25, J22, J24, O12, O55
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6599
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David
de la Croix
Fabio
Mariani
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From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions
Consider an economy populated by males and females, both rich and poor. The society has to choose one of the following marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(2), 565-607)
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J12, O17, Z13
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6598
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Sarah
Bohn
Magnus
Lofstrom
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Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers
We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona workers, with a focus on the states' unauthorized population. The intent of LAWA was ...
(published in: David Card and Steven Raphael (eds.) Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, Russell Sage, 2013)
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J8, J11, J15, J18, J48, J61
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6596
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Helge
Liebert
Günther
G.
Schulze
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On the Heterogeneity of Terror
The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 116-136)
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D74, K4
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6595
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Ian
Li
Paul
W.
Miller
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Gender Discrimination in the Australian Graduate Labour Market
This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999-2009. A framework of analysis provided by the ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 167-199. )
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J24, J31, J70
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6594
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Sanjay
Banerji
Rajesh
S.N.
Raj
Kunal
Sen
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2016, 84 (5), 573 - 599)
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D22, G10, O16
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6593
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Farzana
Afridi
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
Soham
Sahoo
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme' in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5, Article number: 7 (2016))
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I21, I38, J16
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6592
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D. Mark
Anderson
Benjamin
Hansen
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close ...
(published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2015,17 (2), 495-528)
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K4, I1, D8
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6591
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Santiago
Budría
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Are Relative-Income Effects Constant across the Well-being Distribution?
This paper challenges the common assumption made by economists to date that income comparisons are similarly important in different segments of the subjective well-being (SWB) distribution. The ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2013, 14 (4), 1379-1408)
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D62, I31
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6590
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Aldo
Rustichini
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 10-24.)
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D03, D63, C91, C7
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6588
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Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
Winfried
F. X.
Pohlmeier
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments ...
(published in: Review of Economic and Business Studies 2011, 4 (2), 29-41)
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J21, J24, J31
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6586
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Susan
L.
Averett
Sarah M.
Estelle
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Is it Necessary to Walk the Talk? The Effects of Maternal Experiences and Communication on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents
Numerous social marketing campaigns exhort parents to talk to their children about sexual abstinence and pregnancy/STD prevention while child-development experts advise parents to initiate ...
(published as 'Will Daughters Walk Mom's Talk? The Effects of Maternal Communication about Sex on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12(4), 613-639)
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I13, J12
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6585
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System
The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event ...
(revised version published as 'Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilizing Effects of a European Tax-Benefit System and Fiscal Equalization Mechanism' in: Economic Policy, 2013, 28 (75), 375-422)
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H2, H3, J22
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6584
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Julian
di Giovanni
Andrei
A.
Levchenko
Francesc
Ortega
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and destinations, using a quantitative multi-sector model of the global economy calibrated to ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 168-202)
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F12, F15, F22, F24
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6583
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Kazuhiko
Hayakawa
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Robust Standard Errors in Transformed Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models
This paper extends the transformed maximum likelihood approach for estimation of dynamic panel data models by Hsiao, Pesaran, and Tahmiscioglu (2002) to the case where the errors are crosssectionally ...
(published as 'Robust standard errors in transformed likelihood estimation of dynamic panel data models with cross-sectional heteroskedasticity' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2015, 188 (1), 111-134)
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C12, C13, C23
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6582
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Stephen
Machin
Olivier
Marie
Suncica
Vujic
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Youth Crime and Education Expansion
We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ...
(revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13(4), 366-384.)
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I2, K42
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6581
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Joanne
Lindley
Stephen
Machin
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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility
In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2012, 33 (2), 265 - 286)
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J24, J31
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6580
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James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 451-464)
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I20, D01
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6579
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:2)
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J71, J78
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6578
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Gavin
Chan
Christopher
Heaton
Massimiliano
Tani
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia
We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression ...
(published in Australian Economic Review, 2013, 46(4), 395-404 )
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C34, J24, J61
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6577
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D. Mark
Anderson
Resul
Cesur
Erdal
Tekin
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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior
While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 294-317)
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I10, K42
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6575
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Martin
Halla
Alexander
F.
Wagner
Josef
Zweimüller
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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case ...
(revised version published as 'Immigration and Voting for the Far Right' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (6), 1341-1385, )
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P16, J61
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6574
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Harounan
Kazianga
Dan
Levy
Leigh
L.
Linden
Matt
Sloan
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The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 41-62)
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I24, I25, I28, O15
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6573
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Barbara
Hanel
Guyonne
Kalb
Anthony
Scott
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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities: The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 94-112.)
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J22, J24, I10, I11
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6572
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Maarten
van Ham
Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
Rory
Coulter
John
Östh
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Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories
The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether ...
(published as 'Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty. An analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals' in: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2014, 39, 402-417)
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I30, J60, R23
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6571
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Arthur
Lewbel
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Sharing Rule Identification for General Collective Consumption Models
We propose a method to identify bounds (i.e. set identification) on the sharing rule for a general collective household consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83 (5), 2001 - 2041)
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D11, D12, D13, C14, C30
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6570
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Petter
Lundborg
Anton
Nilsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform
In this paper, we exploit the Swedish compulsory schooling reform in order to estimate the causal effect of parental education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (1), 253-278)
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I12, I28, J13
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6569
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Niaz
Asadullah
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (5), 940 - 950)
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O12, I30, I31
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