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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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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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5889
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Ambrogio
Cesa-Bianchi
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Alessandro
Rebucci
TengTeng
Xu
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
The international business cycle is very important for Latin America’s economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages ...
(published in: Filippo di Mauro and Hashem Pesaran (eds.), The GVAR Handbook: Structure and Applications of a Macro Model of the Global Economy for Policy Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2013, 195–211 )
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C32, F44, E32, O54
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5888
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Natalia
Nollenberger
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain
Reconciling work and family is high on many governments' agenda, especially in countries, such as Spain, with record-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects' in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 124 - 136)
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H42, H52, I20, J13, J21, J22
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5887
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
Ismet
Koc
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(4), 640-668.)
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J12, J13, I20, D10
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5884
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Julie
Rosaz
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment
This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers’ performance to the experimenter. The report is non ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 537-549.)
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C91, D82, M52
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5882
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Olivier
Godart
Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Surviving the Crisis: Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the ...
(published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (10), 1305-1321)
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F3, J2, L2
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5881
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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On Input Market Frictions and Estimation of Factors Demand
In this paper we explore the impact of imperfectly competitive input markets on production function estimation. First order profit maximizing conditions are altered when frictions in input markets ...
(published as 'On input market frictions and estimation of factors' demand' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 772-782. )
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D2, J42, J23
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5880
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Ohyun
Kwon
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Deng
Quheng
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in ...
(substantially revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(1), 17–44 (co-authored by Simon Chang))
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J31, D22, D33, L16, O53
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5879
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Peter
Fredriksson
Björn
Öckert
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 249-285)
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I21, I28, J24, C31
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5878
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Mihails
Hazans
Kaia
Philips
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The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets
We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with several other surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EU accession with that ...
(published in: Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds), EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin - Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, 255-304)
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J61, J15
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5877
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Stephen
Drinkwater
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Informal Caring and Labour Market Outcomes Within England and Wales
This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity at the sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to date despite the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2015, 49 (2), 273-286)
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J22, R23
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5875
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Boris
Hirsch
Claus
Schnabel
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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength ...
(substantially revised version published as 'What Can We Learn from Bargaining Models about Union Power? The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009' in: Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 347-362)
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J50, J51
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5874
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational ...
(published in: BJIR, 2014, 29 (6), 880-900)
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C30, I10, I21, J24
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5873
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2, Part 2), 17-58)
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C81, J16, J24
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5872
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Mihails
Hazans
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a ...
(published as: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5917, 2011/12)
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J08, J21, J51, J61, K31
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5871
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Mihails
Hazans
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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work ...
(extended version published as 'Informal workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 European countries', as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5912, 2011/12)
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J21, J24, J61, J71, O17, O52
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5870
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Mariapia
Mendola
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Parental Health and Child Schooling
Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 35, 94-108)
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I21, O15
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5868
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Aekapol
Chongvilaivan
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different ...
(published as 'Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-Being' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014, 52 (3), 426-444)
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J53, D61
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5864
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Alireza
Naghavi
Chiara
Strozzi
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing ...
(revised and updated version published as 'Intellectual Property Rights, Diasporas, and Domestic Innovation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 96(1), 150–161)
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O34, F22, O33, J24, J61
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5863
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Stefan
Staubli
Josef
Zweimüller
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Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?
This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 108, 17-32)
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J14, J26
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5861
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William A.V.
Clark
Maarten
van Ham
Rory
Coulter
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Socio-Spatial Mobility in British Society
The research reported in this paper examines the nature and extent of socio-spatial mobility in the United Kingdom. In contrast with previous studies, we do not only investigate who moves out of ...
(published as 'Spatial mobility and social outcomes' in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2014, 29 (4), 699-727)
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J61, R23
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