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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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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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6288
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Eren
Inci
Simon
C.
Parker
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 232-258)
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D82, G20, L26
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6287
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
Emily
Kerr
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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affected Chinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (2), 456-482)
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J15
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6286
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Andrea
Hammermann
Alwine
Mohnen
Petra
Nieken
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Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment about In-Group Favouritism
The practical relevance of favouritism among students of the same study path is evident in lifelong memberships in fraternities or sororities or in high donations to faculties. In our study, we focus ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2014, 8(3), 327–350)
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C92, D03, J71, M51
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6284
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Andrea
Hammermann
Alwine
Mohnen
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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 43 (1), 1-15.)
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C83, J32, M52
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6283
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Christos
Koutsampelas
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education in Greece
The present paper examines the short-run distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of the 2004/5 Household Budget Survey. The aggregate distributional impact of public ...
(revised version published as 'The Progressivity of Public Education in Greece: Empirical Findings and Policy Implications' in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(5), 596-611)
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I24, D31
|
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6282
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
Irina
Murtazashvili
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Exogenous Treatment and Endogenous Factors: Vanishing of Omitted Variable Bias on the Interaction Term
Whether interested in the differential impact of a particular factor in various institutional settings or in the heterogeneous effect of policy or random experiment, the empirical researcher ...
(published in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2016, 5(1), 71-78)
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C21, C93
|
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6281
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Stephen
Gibbons
Sandra
McNally
Martina
Viarengo
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1618-1668 )
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R0, I21, H52
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6280
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is ...
(published as 'Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicides by Gender and Age' in: American Journal of Public Health, 2014, 104 (12), 2369-2376)
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I10, I18
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6279
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1079-1114)
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D23, J33, M52
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6278
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm ...
(revised version published as 'Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Job Tasks and Firm Effects' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24(3), 261-279)
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I21, J24
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6277
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Christian
Thöni
Simon
Gächter
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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Substantial evidence suggests the behavioral relevance of social preferences and also the importance of social influence effects ("peer effects"). Yet, little is known about how peer effects and ...
(revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88)
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C92, D03
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6276
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1146-1175)
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J15, J61, J62
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6275
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
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Nice Guys Finish Last: Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?
This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high ...
(substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (1), 29-53)
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H2, H3, D7
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6274
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Joachim
Wagner
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 161-170)
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C81, F14, J31
|
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6273
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Daniel
Rosenblum
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The Indian Ultrasound Paradox
The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 15838)
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J13, J16, O1
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6272
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Nick
Drydakis
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Men's Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction
This study investigates the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 901-917)
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J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
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6271
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Aysit
Tansel
Elif
Öznur
Acar
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2017, 44 (4), 617-635.)
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J21, J24, J40, J63, O17
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