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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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5749
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Silke
Anger
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills' in: John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 393 - 421 )
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J10, J24, I20
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5748
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Govert
Bijwaard
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exist. In the growing literate on multiple spell multiple states duration models, or multistate ...
(revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620)
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C41, J61
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5747
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Oliver
Falck
Ludger
Woessmann
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89)
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Z13, J24
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5746
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Alessandra
Catozzella
Marco
Vivarelli
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Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries ...
(short version published as ' The possible adverse impact of innovation subsidies: some evidence from a bivariate switching model' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (1), 648-661)
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O32, O38
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5745
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Richard
Blundell
Andrew
Shephard
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(2), 481-510)
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J22, I38
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5744
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Stefan
Bender
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124 (3), 513–515)
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I28, J24
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5742
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Pablo
Agnese
Pablo
F.
Salvador
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More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis
This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, December 2012, 1:9)
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E24, J21, E22, C32
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5741
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Thong
Le
Pham
Peter
Kooreman
Ruud
H.
Koning
Doede
Wiersma
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322)
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C13, C31, C35, C41, I12
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5740
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Björn
Bartling
Ernst
Fehr
Daniel
Schunk
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's ...
(published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70)
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C90, I10, J24
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5739
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Katherine
Grace
Carman
Peter
Kooreman
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Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities
We study individuals' decisions to decline or accept preventive health care interventions such as flu shots and mammograms. In particular, we analyze the role of perceptions of the effectiveness of ...
(published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71)
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I10
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5738
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Oluwarotimi
Owolabi
Sarmistha
Pal
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to ...
(published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432)
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G21, G30, L14, M20, P21
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5737
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Almas
Heshmati
Ilham
Haouas
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and ...
(published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64. )
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C32, C52, D24, F12, L00
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5736
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Nancy
Daza
Johanna
Ramos
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (5), 464-513)
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C14, D31, J16, O57
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5735
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530)
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D03, J16, N30
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5732
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Nick
Drydakis
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Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012, 35 (12), 2054-2074)
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J31, J71, J15, C13, C81
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5731
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Robert
Holzmann
Yann
Pouget
Milan
Vodopivec
Michael
Weber
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Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms
The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs, examining their historic development, assessing their economic rationale and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective,Washington, D.C.: The World Bank., 2012)
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J33, J65, K31
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5730
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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Eight Questions about Brain Drain
High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 107-128)
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F22, O15, J61
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5728
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John
Cawley
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This ...
(published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199)
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I1, I20, I18, D01, H2, D1, D6, D03, D87, D83, J1, Q18, I24
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5727
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Johannes
Abeler
Steffen
Altmann
Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Matthias
Wibral
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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with ...
(published in: Analyse & Kritik, 2011, 33(1), 325-347)
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J33, D63, M52, C92, J41
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5726
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Aaron
K.
Chatterji
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 365-389)
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J26
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5725
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
The "Great Recession" resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it have on business formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential business income and ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 207-231)
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L26
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5724
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Mariya
Aleksynska
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures
This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 563-598; reprinted in: The Economics of Cultural Diversity, 2015, edited by Peter Nijkamp et al. )
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F22, J61, N3, Z12
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5723
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Field Experiments with Firms
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 63-82)
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C9, M5
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5722
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Govert
Bijwaard
Christian
Schluter
Jackline
Wahba
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The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the causal effects of labour dynamics on their return decisions. Specifically, the ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics & Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 483-494)
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J61, J64, C41
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5721
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Karin
Jacobsen
Kari
H.
Eika
Leif
Helland
Jo
Thori
Lind
Karine
Nyborg
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Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?
We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (5), 818-831)
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D10, D64
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5719
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Mikael
Carlsson
Julián
Messina
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1739–1773)
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J31, J23, J33
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5718
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Jörgen
Hansen
Xingfei
Liu
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Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48 (5), 1831-54.)
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J22
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5717
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Jason
Loughrey
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (1), 31-66)
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D12, D31, D63, E31, P46
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5716
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Niaz
Asadullah
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 873-888)
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I21, Z12, O12, O15
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5715
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Robert
Holzmann
Johannes
Koettl
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Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues
Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,)
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D91, F22, F53, G23, J61
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5713
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Anna
Fruttero
Phillippe
Leite
Leonardo
Lucchetti
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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and ...
(published in: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 64 (1), 151-176)
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D31, I38, O15
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5712
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Stefan
Denzler
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?
A number of studies have long shown that the probability of studying at university is influenced by the distance to the next university. This study shows for the first time that distance to ...
(published also in German as "Der Einfluss des lokalen Hochschulangebots auf die Studienwahl" in: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2010, 13(4), 683-706)
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I21, I23, R10
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5711
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Saioa
Arando
Monica
Gago
Derek
C.
Jones
Takao
Kato
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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct ...
(resvised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(2), 398-425)
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J54, D21
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5710
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Torben
M.
Andersen
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A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark
Flexicurity labour markets are characterised by flexible hiring/firing rules, generous social safety net, and active labour market policies. How can such labour markets cope with the consequences of ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160, 117–140)
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J01
|
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5709
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market
Family-friendly laws may backfire if not all workers with access to the policies use them. Because these policies are costly to the employer, hiring practices may consequently be affected at the ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407)
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J21, J68, J78
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5708
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Karsten
Kohn
Dirk
Antonczyk
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The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany
Using a large administrative data set, this paper studies the evolution of the East German wage structure throughout the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (1), 73-110)
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J31, C21
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5707
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Regina
Flake
Mathias
Sinning
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 370-385)
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F22, J31, J64, R23
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5706
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Mehtabul
Azam
Geeta
G.
Kingdon
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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 42, 143-164)
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I21, J16, J71
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5704
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Andrew
Coleman
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League-Table Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets
We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for managed funds. Each participant's portfolio is periodically evaluated at market value ...
(revised version published as 'Relative Performance Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 81 (2), 345-363)
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C92, G12, M52
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5702
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Enrique
Alaniz
T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua
We use an individual-level panel data set to study the impact of changes in legal minimum wages on a host of labor market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S45-S59)
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J3, O17
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5701
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Arnab
K.
Basu
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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, 11 (1), 1-34, )
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J3, Q38, Q12
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5700
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment ...
(revised and extended version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 876-891)
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C93, D82
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5699
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Guillermo
Cruces
Ricardo
Perez Truglia
Martin
Tetaz
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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112 )
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D31, D83, H24, H53, I30
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5698
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Fernanda
Brollo
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2012, 106 (4), 742-761)
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C21, D72, H77
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5697
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Martin
Nybom
Jan
Stuhler
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Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 239-268 )
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J62, D3, D31
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5694
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Liam
Graham
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013,17 (3), 591-620.)
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E20, E40, E50
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5693
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Yigal
Attali
Zvika
Neeman
Analia
Schlosser
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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real ...
(published as 'Differential Performance in High Versus Low Stakes Tests: Evidence from the Gre Test" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (623), 2916–2948)
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J16, J24, I24, M52
|
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5691
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Ann-Kathrine
Ejsing
Ulrich
Kaiser
Hans Christian
Kongsted
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of ...
(new version 'The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' published as: IZA DP 7470; published as 'Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39(7), 1935-1958)
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O33, O34, C23
|
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5690
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Joshua
Angrist
Susan
Dynarski
Thomas J.
Kane
Parag A.
Pathak
Christopher R.
Walters
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Who Benefits from KIPP?
The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (4), 837 - 860)
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I21, I24, I28
|
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5689
|
Stephen
L.
Cheung
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 129-153)
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C72, C91, D70, H41
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