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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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6356
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Florencia
López Bóo
Martín A.
Rossi
Sergio
Urzua
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The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 170–172.)
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J71, J78
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6355
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Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Ever since the very beginning of the Journal of Economics and Statistics, population economics has featured prominently in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 233 (3), 406-422)
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J10, J11, J13
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6353
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 1 - 39 )
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I21, J24, J44
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6352
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Kristian
Giesen
Jens
Suedekum
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The Size Distribution Across All “Cities”: A Unifying Approach
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively ...
(substantially revised version pubslished as 'City age and city size' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71,193-208)
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R11, R12, O4
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6350
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Guido
Friebel
Sergei
Guriev
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Human Smuggling
Despite its importance in global illegal migration, there is little, and mostly theoretical research on human smuggling. We suggest an analytical framework to understand the micro structure of the ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 121-133)
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J15, J61
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6349
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Daniel
Fackler
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that between 1975 and 2006 the average exit rate has risen considerably. In order to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 683-700)
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L2
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6348
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Annalisa
Cristini
Federica
Origo
Sara
Pinoli
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The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, 129-144)
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J22, J41
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6346
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Christopher K.
Hsee
Yuval
Rottenstreich
Alois
Stutzer
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Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis
Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus ...
(published in: International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, 1 (1), 63-85)
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D01, D11, D60, D91
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6345
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Simon
Gächter
Daniele
Nosenzo
Martin
Sefton
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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?
We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573)
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A13, C92, D03
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6344
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Marc
Blatter
Samuel
Mühlemann
Samuel
Schenker
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 238-257)
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J23, J24, J32
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6342
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Alpaslan
Akay
Peter
Martinsson
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Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 78, 98-103)
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C90, D63
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6341
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Gustavo
J.
Canavire Bacarreza
Merlin M.
Hanauer
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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty
Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2013, 41, 265–285)
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C14, I38, Q56
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6337
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Erich
Battistin
Michele
De Nadai
Barbara
Sianesi
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Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications
We provide a number of contributions of policy, practical and methodological interest to the study of the returns to educational qualifications in the presence of misreporting. First, we provide the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 181, 136-150)
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C10, I20, J31
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6336
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Balázs
Égert
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Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia
The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered a severe recession in 2008. While the rate declined relatively rapidly in 2011, ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 103 - 120)
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J08, J64, E24
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6335
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Eswar
Prasad
Lei (Sandy)
Ye
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The Renminbi's Role in the Global Monetary System
We analyze three related but distinct concepts concerning the renminbi's role in the global monetary system: (i) "internationalization" of the currency; (ii) currency convertibility; and (iii) ...
(published in: Proceedings of the 2011 Asia Economic Policy Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2011, 127-197)
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F3
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6334
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Oded
Galor
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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it ...
(published in: Cliometrica, 2012, 6 (1), 1-28)
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O10, J1
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6333
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Alicia
Adsera
Mariola
Pytlikova
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The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration
Fluency in (or ease to quickly learn) the language of the destination country plays a key role in the transfer of human capital from the source country to another country and boosts the immigrant's ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125(586), F49–F81)
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J61, F22, O15
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6332
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Alan
Barrett
Yumiko
Kamiya
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Childhood Sexual Abuse and Later-Life Economic Consequences
The impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on later-life health outcomes has been studied extensively and links with depression, anxiety and self-harm have been established. However, there has been ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2014, 53, 10-16, with Vincent O'Sullivan added as third author)
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I18, J12
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6331
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
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Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults
Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2013, 39 (10), 1659-1677)
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F22, J61
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6330
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Quamrul
Ashraf
Oded
Galor
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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 1-46)
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N10, N30, N50, O10, O50, Z10
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6329
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Niaz
Asadullah
Uma
Kambhampati
Florencia
López Bóo
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Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004
This study documents the size and nature of "Hindu-Muslim" and "boy-girl" gaps in children's school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(4), 869-893)
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I21, O15
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6328
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Oded
Galor
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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While classical economists advanced ...
(published in: Handbook of Economics of Education, North Holland. 2014.)
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O10
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6327
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Oded
Galor
Stelios
Michalopoulos
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Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 147(2), 759-780)
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O11, O14, O33, O40, J11, J13
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6326
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Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Alina
Rusakova
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after ...
(published in: DIW-Economic Bulletin, 2012, 3, 17-26.)
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L26, D22
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6325
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
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Announcing an Increase in the State Pension Age and the Recession: Which Mattered More for Expected Retirement Ages?
In March of 2010, the Irish government announced that the age at which the state pension is paid would be raised to 66 in 2014, 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028. Also during 2010, the economic news became ...
(published as 'Increasing the State Pension Age, the Recession and Expected Retirement Ages' in: Economic and Social Review 2013, 44 (4), 447-472)
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H55, J26, D84
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6324
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants
Within the economics literature, the "psychic costs" of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 483-506)
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F22, J61, I10
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6323
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Chiara
Criscuolo
Ralf
Martin
Henry
Overman
John
Van Reenen
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in ...
(pubished as 'Some Causal Effects pubished as 'Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (1), 48–85of an Industrial Policy' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (1), 48–85)
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H25, L52, L53, O47
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6322
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Michael
Gibbs
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature ...
(published in: C. R. Thomas and W. F. Shughart II (eds.), Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013, 397-423)
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M52, J33, M12, L81
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6321
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Richard
Akresh
Damien
de Walque
Harounan
Kazianga
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. ...
(published in: NBER African Successes: Human Capital, volume 2. 2016. Editors, S. Edwards, S. Johnson, D. Weil, University of Chicago Press.)
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I15, I38, J13, O15
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6320
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 544–565)
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I31, J64
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6316
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Florian
Lindner
Matthias
Sutter
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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (4), 425-441)
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C93, D03, L83, M51, M52
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6315
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Pedro
Carneiro
Rita
Ginja
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Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 135-173)
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C21, I28, I38
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6314
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Nick
Drydakis
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The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants
This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (2), 285-308)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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6313
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Johannes
Koettl
Michael
Weber
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
The analysis presented in this paper defines three different synthetic measurements of disincentives for formal work: two standard measurements, namely the tax wedge and the marginal effective tax ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 34, 2012)
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H26, J32, O17
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6311
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Felipe
Kast
Stephan
Meier
Dina
Pomeranz
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not ...
(revised version published as 'Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 275-294. )
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O16, D03, D14, D91
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6310
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Franz
Hackl
Martin
Halla
Michael
Hummer
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
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The Effectiveness of Health Screening
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (8), 913-935)
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I10, I18
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6309
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Cristina
Lopez-Mayan
Catia
Nicodemo
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Vocational High School or Vocational College? Comparing the Transitions from School to Work
Using a specific micro-dataset with information on working histories, we analyse the labour market entry of Spanish youths who have completed vocational education. According to the education system, ...
(revised version published as 'The Transition from Vocational Education to Work: Evidence from Spain' in: Revista de Economia Aplicada, 2015, 67(23), 93-130)
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J13, J24, I20
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6307
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Robert
Scholte
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 17–30)
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I10, I12, J01, J10, J13, J24
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6306
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23 (8), 894-916)
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I18, J13
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6305
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Todd
Pugatch
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Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa
Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the ...
(published in: Labour, 2018, 32(2): 205-242.)
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I21, J24, O12
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6303
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Resul
Cesur
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Erdal
Tekin
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Combat Exposure and Migraine Headache: Evidence from Exogenous Deployment Assignment
Migraine headache is a growing problem for U.S. servicemen deployed in the Global War on Terrorism and has been linked to substantial negative socioeconomic consequences. However, there has been no ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2015, 16, 81-99)
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H56, I1
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6302
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Steffen
Ahrens
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Envy, Guilt, and the Phillips Curve
We incorporate inequity aversion into an otherwise standard New Keynesian dynamic equilibrium model with Calvo wage contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 99, 69-84)
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D03, E20, E31, E50
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6300
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Maria Alejandra
Cattaneo
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment
Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a "non-qualified only" policy to one that favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015)
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I21, I24, J15
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6299
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Volker
Tjaden
Felix
Wellschmied
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources of wage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. We address this issue ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 134-161)
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J24, J31, J64
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6297
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James
Banks
James
P.
Smith
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International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies
We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages. Since the ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 57–81)
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I0, H0
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6296
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Iris
Kesternich
Bettina
M.
Siflinger
James
P.
Smith
Joachim
Winter
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The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe
In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood events are important ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (1), 103–118)
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I0, H0
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6295
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Ira
N.
Gang
Kunal
Sen
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India
The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link ...
(published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2017, 29(2), 476–492)
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O12, J15
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6294
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Christian
Merkl
Thijs
van Rens
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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard search models of the labor market, all workers have the same probability of being hired. We argue that selective ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 117-130)
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E24, J65
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6291
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Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Issues, 2014, 48 (1), 123-154)
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O33
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6289
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Alisher
Aldashev
Barbara
Dietz
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Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan
In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008-2010. In line with traditional ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2014, 38 (3) 379-396)
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J61, P36, R23
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