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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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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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6568
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Anne
Busch
Elke
Holst
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on ...
(shorter German version published in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2013, 42 (4), 315-336)
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B54, J16, J24, J31, J71, L2, M51
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6567
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Christian
Dreger
Richard
Ochmann
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Do Wealthier Households Save More? The Impact of the Demographic Factor
This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2015, 12, 163-173)
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G10, G11
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6565
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Jochen
Kluve
Ulf
Rinne
Arne
Uhlendorff
Zhong
Zhao
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Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers
This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual ...
(revised version published as 'The impact of training duration on employment outcomes: Evidence from LATE estimates' in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (3), 487-490)
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C21, C26, J67
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6564
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Jens
Suedekum
Verena
Nowak
Christian
Schwarz
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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?
Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the ...
(revised version published as 'Asymmetric spiders: Supplier heterogeneity and the organization of firms' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49 (2), 663 - 684)
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D23, F12, L23
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6563
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Sonja
Fagernäs
Panu
Pelkonen
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Preferences and Skills of Indian Public Sector Teachers
With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1:3)
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I25, J33, J45
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6562
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
Dieter
Verhaest
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Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?
This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 123-140)
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C21, C41, I21, J24, J64
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6561
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Timothy
M.
Diette
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states. Given the perceived negative impact of significant immigrant inflows, we are interested in investigating ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (5), 446-461)
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I20, I21, J15, J24
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6560
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Pedro
Carneiro
Andrea
Locatelli
Tewolde
Ghebremeskel
Joseph
Keating
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program ...
(substantially revised version pubished in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 107 - 115)
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D12, D83, H42, I10, I12
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6559
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
Nidhiya
Menon
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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India
This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 49-64.)
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O12, I15, Q53, Q56
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6558
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Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
Catia
Nicodemo
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?
We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381)
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J3, J7
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6557
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future ...
(published as 'Would You Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in the Folly of Predictions' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (2), 257 - 272)
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C91, D03
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6556
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Aysit
Tansel
Elif
Öznur
Acar
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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 ...
(published in: John A. Bishop and Juan Gabriel Rodrigue (eds.), Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality Book 24) ,2016, 123-156)
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J21, J31, J40, O17
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6555
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Carlo
Dell’Aringa
Claudio
Lucifora
Laura
Pagani
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A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 ...
(published as: 'Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: the role of occupational attainment' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (8), 2015)
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J31, J24, J61, F22
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6554
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Hans
Grönqvist
Per
Johansson
Susan
Niknami
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Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics 2012, 31 (4), 617-629 )
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I10, J15
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6553
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Per
Engström
Pathric
Hägglund
Per
Johansson
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Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017,127 (600), 363 - 392)
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C93, H51, H55, I18, J22
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6551
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Shareen
Joshi
T. Paul
Schultz
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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 149-180)
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O12, J13, I12, J16
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6550
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James
J.
Heckman
Junjian
Yi
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the ...
(published in: S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, and X. Zhang (eds)., The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China on Human Capital, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
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I25, J24, O15
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6549
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Mehtabul
Azam
Vipul
Bhatt
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Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India
An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain information about parents' education for the entire adult population. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: Demography, 2015, 52(6), 1929-1959 )
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J6, I28
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6547
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain
Much of the literature on immigrants' cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with well established Welfare states. This paper ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 167-180)
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J15, J61, J68, I38
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6545
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Oliver
Falck
Robert
Gold
Stephan
Heblich
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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2238-2265)
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D72, C50, L86
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6544
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Peter
Haan
Daniel
Kemptner
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 1123-1141)
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C11, C25, J22
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6543
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Miguel
Angel
Alcobendas
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Raquel
Vegas
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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how ...
(published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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6542
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Raquel
Vegas
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Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain
Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Do Moroccan Migrants to Spain Fare Better or Worse than Other Migrants?' in: Middle East Development Journal, 2014, 6 (2), 308 - 328 )
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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6541
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 824-837)
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I1, J1
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6540
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection
Job protection reduces job turnover by changing firms' hiring and firing decisions. Yet the effect of job protection on workers' quit decisions and post-quit outcomes is still unknown. We present the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 624 - 632)
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J28, J62
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6537
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Mona
Larsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark
The labor market in Denmark seems to follow the trend in a number of other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval ...
(published as 'To work, to retire – or both? Labor market activity after 60' in: IZA Journal of European Studies, 2013, 2:21)
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H55, J14, J26
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6536
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?
The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators ...
(published as 'Union decline in Britain: does gender have anything to do with it?' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64 (1), 25 - 49 )
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J51, J16, J82
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6535
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Andrea
Bassanini
Andrea
Garnero
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data
Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13 years, we study the effect ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21 (1), 25-41)
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J23, J24, J62, J63
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6534
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Andrew
Kerr
Francis
J.
Teal
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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa' in: Journal of African Economics, 2015, 24 (4), 530- 558)
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J31, J51, J45, O12
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6533
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Robert
J.
McCann
Xianwen
Shi
Aloysius
Siow
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2015, 31 (4), 690-720)
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E24, J12, J24, J31
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