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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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5947
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Alejandra
Mizala
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
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J31, J44, J8, O54
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5946
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Vikesh
Amin
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117 )
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J0, I0, J1
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5945
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Jeff
E.
Biddle
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Cycles of Wage Discrimination
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and ...
(published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
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E29, J71
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5944
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Giorgio
Brunello
Margherita
Fort
Nicole
Schneeweis
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336)
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J1, I12, I21
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5943
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Stefanie
Schurer
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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15)
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J24, C18
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5942
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Mirco
Tonin
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Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:2)
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J38, H26
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5941
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism
We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British establishments. Private sector establishments that explicitly link pay with individual ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 36, 109-157)
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J22, J33, C21
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5940
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Gabriele
Doblhammer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Thomas
Fritze
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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to ...
(revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915)
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I12, I18, J14, N14, N34, J26
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5938
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Alessandra
Cataldi
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Does It Pay to Be Productive? The Case of Age Groups
Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (3), 264-283)
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J14, J24, J31
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5937
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Bart
Cockx
Matteo
Picchio
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Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980 )
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C33, C41, J62, J64
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5935
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Claudia
Olivetti
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17 (4), 842-859)
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E24, J16, J31
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5934
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Andrew
Grodner
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
John A.
Bishop
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366 )
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D11, J22, Z13 D31, D63
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5933
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Donald
J.
Lacombe
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Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach
The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92 (2), 407-417)
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J08, J21, J38, J48, C31
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5932
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Chiara
Mussida
Matteo
Picchio
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The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110)
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C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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5929
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Syeda Shahanara
Begum
Deng
Quheng
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
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Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2012, 23 (1), 73 - 85)
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I32, J13, J15
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5928
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Briggs
Depew
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture ...
(published as 'The elasticity of labor supply to the firm over the business cycle' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 196-204)
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J42, J31, J64
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5927
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Alassane
Drabo
Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries
The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many ...
(revised version published as 'Natural Disasters, Migration and Education: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries' in: Environment and Development Economics, 2015, 20 (6), 767-796.)
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O15, Q54
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5926
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (32), 4591-4601)
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D31, D63, I31
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5925
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Franziska
Barmettler
Ernst
Fehr
Christian
Zehnder
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory
Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 75 (1), 17-34)
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C91, D03
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5924
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (1), 113-130)
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F14
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5923
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Ariaster B.
Chimeli
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
Agents operating in illegal markets cannot resort to the justice system to guarantee property rights, to enforce contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 30-57)
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K42, O13, O17, Q58
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5922
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Edwin
Leuven
Marte
Rønning
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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 1164-1192 )
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I2
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5921
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Andrew
I.
Friedson
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2012, 45 (2), 115-133 )
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C21, I18
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5920
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Guido
Friebel
Juan Miguel
Gallego
Mariapia
Mendola
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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa
We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 555-591)
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O1, R2, J6, D1
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5919
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Ernst
Fehr
Karla
Hoff
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 396-412)
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A12, A13, D01, K0
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5918
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Ylenia
Brilli
Daniela
Del Boca
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual ...
(published as 'Does Child Care Availability Play a Role in Maternal Employment and Children's Development? Evidence from Italy' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016 ,14(1), 27-51)
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J13, D1, H75
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5917
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Guilherme
Lichand
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 459-499)
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K1, K41, K42, H41, O12, O17, O54
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5916
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Joachim
Wagner
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International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006
The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 148 (2), 235-267)
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F14
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5915
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David
Card
Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 57-93)
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J31, J24
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5914
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Niaz
Asadullah
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48(9), 1193-1208 )
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D63, O53
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5913
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Diane
J.
Macunovich
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Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women's Labor Force Participation 1968-2010
Relative cohort size – the ratio of young to prime-age adults – and relative income – the income of young adults relative to their material aspirations, as instrumented using the income of older ...
(published as 'Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968–2010' in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (4), 631-648)
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J22
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5911
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Jayjit
Roy
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Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement ...
(published as 'Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (4), 652-677)
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C31, F21, Q52
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5910
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Mathias
Dolls
Herwig
Immervoll
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct ...
(elements published in "Connecting People with Jobs: Australia", https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264269637-en)
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H23, H31, H53, P16
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5909
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Luca
Bossi
Gulcin
Gumus
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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State: A Political Economy Model
In this paper, we set up a three-period stochastic overlapping generations model to analyze the implications of income inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We ...
(revised version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, 17 (6), 1198-1226)
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D72, H53, H55
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5908
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Francesco
Bogliacino
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata
After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous microeconometric literature, our aim with this paper is to test the possible job ...
(short version published as 'R&D and employment: An application of the LSDVC estimator using European microdata' in: Economics Letters, 2012 (1), 116, 56-59)
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O33
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5907
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Aysit
Tansel
Yousef
Daoud
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in ...
(published in: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2014, 13, 347-378.)
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J16, J24, J31, J45, O31
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5906
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Natalia
Danzer
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The Long-Term Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health
This paper assesses the long-term subjective well-being and mental health toll of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in the general Ukrainian population and estimates the monetary differential necessary ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 135, 47-60)
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D60, I18, I31, J28
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5905
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Alexander
Muravyev
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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. ...
(published in: Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (eds.): The Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition, Routledge, 2013, pp. 350-362)
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J21, P20
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5904
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Migration and Stratification
Migration and stratification are increasingly intertwined. One day soon it will be impossible to understand one without the other. Both focus on life chances. Stratification is about differential ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2011, 40 (5), 1292 - 1336)
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F22, J15, J16, J24, K42
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5903
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Raven
Molloy
Christopher
L.
Smith
Abigail
Wozniak
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Internal Migration in the United States
We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 173-196)
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J61, R23, J1
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5902
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Pedro
Carneiro
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality
Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (3), 64-89)
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J2, J3
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5901
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Anthony
Strittmatter
Uwe
Sunde
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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584)
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I10, J10, O11, N13
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5898
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Tarja
Viitanen
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Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust
This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using Australian HILDA panel data. The dependent variable is composed of answers to the ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 35-53)
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J12, J13, H8, Z13
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5897
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Alastair
Muriel
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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On Educational Performance Measures
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 187-206)
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H52, I2, I28
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5896
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André
Betzer
Markus
Doumet
Ulf
Rinne
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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (8), 799-803 )
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Q48, Q54, G38
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5894
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Larry
L.
Howard
Nishith
Prakash
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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?
This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational ...
(published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2012, 26 (4), 489 - 513)
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J62, J61, J24, O10, O2
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5893
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Filipa
Sa
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Immigration and House Prices in the UK
This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative effect on house prices and presents evidence that this negative effect is due to the ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2015, 125(587), 1393–1424)
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J61, R21
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5892
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David J.
Cooper
Matthias
Sutter
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Role Selection and Team Performance
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59(3), 1547-1569.)
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C91, C92
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5891
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
Christopher J.
Tyson
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Manipulation of Choice Behavior
We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision making, with the agent's choices determined by three "psychological variables," we ...
(revised version published as 'Two-stage threshold representations' in: Theoretical Economics, 2013, 8, 875–882)
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D01, D03, D70
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5890
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 439-482)
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J16, J22, J24, J61
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