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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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6489
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Wei
Huang
Xiaoyan
Lei
Geert
Ridder
John
Strauss
Yaohui
Zhao
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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(2), 86-121.)
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D1, I12, J13
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6488
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Mirko
Abbritti
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the EMU and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2013, 45 (6), 1165-1186)
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E32, E52, F41
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6487
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Francesco
Pastore
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"I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia
This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally ...
(substantially revised version published as 'I wish I had 100 dollars a month…: The Determinants of Poverty in Mongolia' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2016, 28 (5), 934-956 )
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D63, H24, J62, I32, P36
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6486
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Masaru
Sasaki
Katsuya
Takii
Junmin
Wan
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Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital
This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human ...
(published as 'Synchronized job transfer and task-specific human capital' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, 56, 101075)
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J62, M51
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6485
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Martin
Kahanec
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 137-152)
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F22, J61
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6484
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Ronald
Bachmann
Thomas
K.
Bauer
Hanna
Kroeger
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Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany
This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 ...
(published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (3), 338-357)
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J38, J50, L41, L80
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6483
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Claudio
Lucifora
Federica
Origo
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Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Italy
This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment ...
(published as 'Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 606-632)
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J31, J33, J52, L61
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6480
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Arjan
Non
Willem
Verbeke
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569)
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C93, M51, M52
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6479
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Aaron
Sojourner
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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Controversies over the promise and perils of union political influence have erupted around the U.S. This study develops the first evidence on the degree to which labor unions develop members' ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 467–486)
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D7, H7, J5
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6478
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Herbert
Dawid
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 387–406)
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J24, M53, I25, I28
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6475
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Julie
Rosaz
Robert
Slonim
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67)
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C91, D83, J63, J28, J81
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6474
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Boris
Kralj
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Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario
Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired with any existing payment mechanism such as salary, fee-for-service, and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(12), 1417–1439)
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I10, I12, I18
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6473
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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A Theory of Political Entrenchment
We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution with probabilistic voting. A partially self-interested left-wing party may ...
(Economic Journal, 2016, 126, 1238-1263)
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D72, P16
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6472
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper investigates immigrants' and natives' labour supply to the firm within a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative ...
(substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (3), 501-528)
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J42, J61, J71
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6471
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Enzo
Weber
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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment
This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016, 20(5), 1264-1281)
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C32, J21, J41
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6470
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Anke
Becker
Thomas
Deckers
Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
Fabian
Kosse
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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478)
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C91, D01, D80, D90, I00, J30, J62
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6468
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Hadi
Salehi
Esfahani
Kamiar
Mohaddes
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters
This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 1-21 )
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C32, C53, E17, F43, F47, Q32
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6467
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Nisvan
Erkal
Lata
Gangadharan
Marina
Zhang
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Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences
Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals ...
(published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111, 38-58.)
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C91, J15, D64, D03
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6466
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Mario
Macis
Fabiano
Schivardi
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Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?
We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34(4), 945 - 978)
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F16, J31
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6464
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Rashmi
Barua
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time
Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4), 399-431)
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J08, J22, I2
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6463
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Mikael
Lindahl
Mårten
Palme
Sofia
Sandgren Massih
Anna
Sjögren
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The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations
Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link ...
(split into two papers and published as 'A test of the Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission using microdata on four generation' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 7(1), 80-96 and as 'Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 1-33. )
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D31, J62
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6462
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Costas
Meghir
Mårten
Palme
Emilia
Simeonova
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Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 234–256)
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I12, I18, I21
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6461
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Susanto
Basu
Luigi
Pascali
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Luis
Serven
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1647–1682)
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D24, D90, E20, O47
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6460
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Michael
Kosfeld
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 99-110)
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C92, J33, M52
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6459
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Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Aniruddha
Mitra
Robert E.
Prasch
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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our ...
(published as 'Globalization and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence' in: Social Science Quarterly, 2015, 96 (5), 1475-1492 )
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O47, O43, P14
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6458
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Soohyung
Lee
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Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.)
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A12, J12, J61
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6457
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Claudio
Lucifora
Simone
Moriconi
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Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions
This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 39, 2015, 201–221)
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J64, J88, H11
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6456
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Pavel
Yakovlev
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
William P.
Lewis
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Legislative Term Limits and State Aid to Local Governments
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, ...
(published as 'The Fiscal Consequences of State Legislative Term Limits' in: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2018, 48 (3), 1-19)
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H7, H3
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6455
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Stephen
Gibbons
Shqiponja
Telhaj
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Peer Effects: Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England
We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (4), 548-575)
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I2
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6454
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Susan
L.
Averett
Laura
M.
Argys
Jennifer L.
Kohn
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Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:2)
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I10, J15, J31
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6453
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Heather
Antecol
Ozkan
Eren
Serkan
Ozbeklik
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The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory results found in the economics literature and the educational psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(1), 63-89)
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I21, J24
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6452
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Elena
Crivellaro
Sandra
McNally
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Mental Health and Education Decisions
Mental health problems – and depression in particular – have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, Vol. 33, 1–12.)
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I1, I2
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6451
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Charlotte
Geay
Sandra
McNally
Shqiponja
Telhaj
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Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What Are the Effects on Pupil Performance?
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F281-F307. )
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I2, J15
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6450
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Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
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Welfare Migration
This chapter reviews and discusses major theories and empirical studies about the welfare magnet hypothesis, i.e. whether immigrants are more likely to move to countries with generous welfare ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 26, 489-504)
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H53, J61, J68
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6449
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Sebastian
G.
Kessing
Chiara
Strozzi
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an ...
(revised and updated version published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51 (7), 1100-1114)
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H11, J45, R12
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6448
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Florian
Englmaier
Andreas
Roider
Uwe
Sunde
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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment' in: Management Science, 2017, 63(12), 4061-4080)
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M52, J30, D03, D80
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6447
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Daniel
Pollmann
Thomas
Dohmen
Franz
C.
Palm
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540)
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C14, C21, C24, J24, J31, D01, D81
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6446
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Social Insurance Networks
Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 1081-1113)
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C31, H55, I38
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6445
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Jeff
E.
Biddle
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
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E29, J71
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6444
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Fidan
Ana
Kurtulus
Donald
Tomaskovic-Devey
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 ...
(published as 'Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records' in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022, 639, 173-197 )
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J16, J21, J24, J44, J62, J71, J78, J82, M51
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6443
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Philippe
Askenazy
Gilbert
Cette
Paul
Maarek
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Rent Building, Rent Sharing: A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis
Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2018, 120 (2), 563-596.)
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E25, J20, J30
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6442
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50)
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O17, O12, C93, D21, L26
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6441
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Olaf
Hübler
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Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?
This paper examines the question of whether risk aversion of prime-age workers is negatively correlated with human height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2013, 133 (1), 23-42)
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D90, J13, J24
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6440
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Christina
Gathmann
Björn
Sass
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709)
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J13, J22, J18
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6438
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Ioana
E.
Marinescu
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HIV, Wages, and the Skill Premium
The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 181-197)
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J22, I15, J31
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6437
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Nicole
B.
Simpson
Chad
Sparber
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2013, 80(2), 414-438)
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J61, E01
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6436
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework
The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 606-611)
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D13, J22
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6435
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Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, ...
(published as 'Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1 (6))
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J31, J71
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6434
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Niall
O'Higgins
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This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'
This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people's ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (2), 395-412)
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I28, J13, J23, J24
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6433
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
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Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 23, 432-452)
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J61, J68
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