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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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6245
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Assar
Lindbeck
Mĺrten
Palme
Mats
Persson
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Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures
In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 49-78)
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H56, I38, J22, Z13
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6244
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Leonardo
Gasparini
Sebastian
Galiani
Guillermo
Cruces
Pablo
A.
Acosta
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the ...
(published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28 (18).)
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J2, D3, I2, O5
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6243
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Javier
Ortega
Gregory
Verdugo
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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities
Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 785-815)
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F22, J15
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6242
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Beatrice
Schindler Rangvid
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The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6)
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I21, J12, J62
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6241
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Hendrik
Schmitz
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be ...
(revised version published as: 'Does Price Framing Affect the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(1): 89-128)
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H51, I11, I18
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6240
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Maya
Rossin-Slater
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jane
Waldfogel
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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 224-245)
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J2, J13, J18
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6239
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Mario
Centeno
Alvaro
A.
Novo
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Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 320-328)
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J21, J23, J63
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6238
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
Matias
Vaira-Lucero
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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter ...
(published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65)
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C34, J24, J61
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6237
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Carl
Lin
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Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118(1), 143-147)
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G14, J31, J38
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6236
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Ilhom
Abdulloev
Ira
N.
Gang
John
Landon-Lane
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Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan
How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227)
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O17, J61, P23
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6235
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Stefan
Eriksson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
In this paper, we use unique data from a field experiment in the Swedish labor market to investigate how past and contemporary unemployment affect a young worker's probability of being invited to a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1014-1039)
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J64
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6234
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Alan
Fuchs
Hendrik
Wolff
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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 93 (2), 505–511)
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Q11, Q14, O13, G22
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6233
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Martin
Kahanec
Renáta
Králiková
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Pulls of International Student Mobility
Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled ...
(shortened version published as 'Higher Education Policy and Migration: The Role of International Student Mobility' in: CESifo DICE Report, 2012, 9(4), 20-27)
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I23, I28, J21, J24, J61, J68
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6232
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Krzysztof
Karbownik
Michal
Myck
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Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the ...
(revised published as 'Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(3), 925-944)
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J13, J12, J16, J22
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6231
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Veronica
Amarante
Marco
Manacorda
Edward
Miguel
Andrea
Vigorito
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (2), 1 - 43)
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J88, I38, J13
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6230
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Tiziano
Razzolini
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market
In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 257-290)
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J64, J65, P50
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6229
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Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
Arthur
van Soest
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Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 600-605)
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J22, J26, J14
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6228
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Zahra
Siddique
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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 1-53)
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J3, J6, O17
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6227
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is ...
(published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (1), 227-252 )
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J64, J71
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6226
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Arjun
S.
Bedi
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective
We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market – the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 349-386)
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K42, R23, O15
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6225
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Roger
Wilkins
Mark
Wooden
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Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why Are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?
Empirical studies have consistently reported that rates of involuntary job separation, or dismissal, are significantly lower among female employees than among males. Only rarely, however, have the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (2), 582-608)
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J16, J63, J71
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6224
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Peter
Elek
János
Köllő
Balázs
Reizer
Péter A.
Szabó
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Detecting Wage Under-reporting Using a Double Hurdle Model
We estimate a double hurdle (DH) model of the Hungarian wage distribution assuming censoring at the minimum wage and wage under-reporting (i.e. compensation consisting of the minimum wage, subject to ...
(published in: Informal Employment in Emerging a Transition Economies, Research in Labor Economics, 34,. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012, 135-166)
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C34, H26, J38
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6223
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Arno
Riedl
Ingrid M.T.
Rohde
Martin
Strobel
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Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767 )
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C72, C92, D02, D03, D85
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6221
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Ronelle
Burger
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Trudy
Owens
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A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 64 (1), 71-111)
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G18, L31
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6220
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Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case
The purpose in this paper is to summarize existing evidence on welfare dependence among immigrants in Denmark and to supply new evidence with focus on the most recent years. Focus is on immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 113-125)
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H53, I38, J61
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6219
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Takao
Kato
Pian
Shu
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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an ...
(revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 37–50 )
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M5, J24, L2
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6217
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Helmut
Fryges
Karsten
Kohn
Katrin
Ullrich
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53 (S1), 251-277)
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G32, O32, L26
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6216
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97)
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H41, I18, O15
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6215
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Matthias
Doepke
Michčle
Tertilt
Alessandra
Voena
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 339-372)
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J10, N30, O10
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6214
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Kerry
L.
Papps
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The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey
Worker-level panel data are used to analyse the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (3), 686-707)
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J32
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6213
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (1), 96 - 102)
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B10, B30
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6212
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Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F308-F331)
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I21, J15
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6210
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Cahit
Guven
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?
Previous research has found that height is correlated with cognitive functioning at older ages. It therefore makes sense to ask a related question: do people from countries where the average person ...
(revised version published as 'Height, Ageing and Cognitive Abilities across Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 16, 16-29.)
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C21, J24, N3
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6209
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Nidhiya
Menon
Yana
van der Meulen Rodgers
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War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (1), 51-73)
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J21, O12, D74
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6208
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Guido
Schwerdt
Martin
R.
West
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The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based on an ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97 (C), 308-326)
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H52, I21, I28
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6207
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Joachim
Wagner
John Philipp
Weche Gelübcke
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys ...
(published in: International Economics / Economie Internationale, 2012, 132 (Q4), 117-139)
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F23, L60
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6206
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Jérôme
Adda
Valerie
Lechene
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Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 902-931)
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I12
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6205
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime
There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with various studies finding positive, negative or insubstantial effects. In this ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 118–141)
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F22, J15, K42
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6203
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Konstanze
Albrecht
Emma
von Essen
Juliane
Parys
Nora
Szech
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Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination
In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of individuals. Individuals from on average worse performing groups receive lower ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 144-169)
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J16, C91, D81
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6202
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Jo
Blanden
Paul
Gregg
Lindsey
Macmillan
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 541–563)
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J13, J31, Z13
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6201
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Jérôme
Adda
Christian
Dustmann
Katrien
Stevens
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The Career Costs of Children
This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 293-337)
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J1, J2, J31
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6199
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Jungmin
Lee
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 612-616)
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J22, J11, E24
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6198
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Řivind
Anti
Nilsen
Katrine
Holm
Reiso
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Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Using Norwegian individual register data of young workers, from the period 1986-2008, we analyse whether there are large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of ...
(published as 'Scarring Effects of Early-Career Unemployment' in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 13-45)
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J64, J65, C23
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6197
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Roberto
Basile
Alessandro
Girardi
Marianna
Mantuano
Francesco
Pastore
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, ...
(published in: Empirica, 2012, 39 (4), 525-545)
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C14, C21, L16, R23
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6196
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016, 82, 399-421.)
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D1, J1
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6195
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Gunther
Bensch
Jochen
Kluve
Jörg
Peters
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2011, 3 (4), 567-588)
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O12, O13, O18, O22
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6194
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Richard
Akresh
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Marinella
Leone
Una
O.
Osili
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War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277)
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I12, O12, J13
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6192
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between ...
(revised version published as 'The Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, 581-595)
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J15, I24, N31, O11
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6191
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 45, 197-212)
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C24, D03, D14
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6190
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Michela
Braga
Daniele
Checchi
Elena
Meschi
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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the ...
(revised version published as 'Educational policies in a long-run perspective' in: Economic Policy, 2013, 28 (73), 45-100)
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I2
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