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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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5654
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Hans Christian
Kongsted
Thomas
Rønde
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 110, 91–105 )
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O33, O34, C23
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5653
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Thomas
Hintermaier
Winfried
Koeniger
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Debt Portfolios
We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141)
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E21, D91
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5652
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1187-1201)
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I22, J31
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5650
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Bienvenue
N.
Tien
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
Jingzhou
Meng
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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few ...
(published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130.)
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F22, J24, N35, O15, O24, O53
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5649
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Andrea
Ichino
Elly-Ann
Lindström
Eliana
Viviano
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2014, 123 (3), 274–278)
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E24, J13, J22, J23
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5647
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Andrés
Rodríguez-Pose
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to ...
(published as 'Decentralization, Subjective Well-Being and the Perception of Institutions' in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (2), 179-193)
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H11, H77
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5646
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Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
Cathy
Redmond
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Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1136-1152)
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I21, J62, C81
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5645
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Pablo
Casas-Arce
Albert
Saiz
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Women and Power: Unwilling, Ineffective, or Held Back?
We develop a model that nests previous explanations for women under-representation in positions of power. Focusing on democratic electoral dynamics, our framework delineates the three types of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123 (3), 641–669)
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J16, J71
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5644
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Consistency in Organization (updated)
Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The ...
(earlier version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42)
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B52, D02, L2
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5643
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505)
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O43, N10, N40
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5642
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Laurence
Jacquet
Etienne
Lehmann
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal ...
(revised version published as 'Optimal Income Taxation with Kalai Wage Bargaining and Endogenous Participation' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 42(2), 381-402)
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D82, H21, J64
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5641
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Ralitza
Dimova
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 735-747. )
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D62, F22, I30, J13, J20, J24, O15
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5640
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Erik
Snowberg
Justin
Wolfers
Eric
Zitzewitz
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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a ...
(published in: Leighton Vaughn Williams (ed), Prediction Markets, Routledge, 2011.)
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A2, C58, D72, H50, G14
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5639
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Dominique
Goux
Eric
Maurin
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labour Supply
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that ...
(published in American Economic Review, 2014,104, 252-276.)
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J22
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5638
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Gary
Koop
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Ron
P.
Smith
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On Identification of Bayesian DSGE Models
In recent years there has been increasing concern about the identification of parameters in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Given the structure of DSGE models it may be ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Studies, 2013, 31 (3), 300 - 314)
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C11, C15, E17
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5636
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Chris
van Klaveren
Henriette
Maassen van den Brink
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2013, 29 (1), 1 - 18)
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D13, I31, J12, J22
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5635
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Tito
Boeri
Herbert
Brücker
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Short-Time Work Benefits Revisited: Some Lessons from the Great Recession
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (68), 697-766.)
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J63, J65
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5634
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David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
Joe
Doherty
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Social Mixing as a Cure for Negative Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence Based Policy or Urban Myth?
In this paper, we review the evidence base for social mixing in neighbourhoods, which is used as a strategy to tackle assumed negative neighbourhood effects. We discuss in detail the theoretical ...
(published in: Bridge, G., Butler, T. & Lees, L. (eds.), Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011)
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I30, J60, R23
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5633
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Yusuf
Soner
Baskaya
Timur
Hulagu
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The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (1), 128-131.)
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C26, J30, J60
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5632
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Eskil
Heinesen
Leif
Husted
Michael
Rosholm
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The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies for Immigrants Receiving Social Assistance in Denmark
We estimate the effect of active labour market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:15)
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J64, J24, J68, J61, C41
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5630
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Stefanie
Schurer
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Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control
Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F358-F400)
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J24, C18
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5629
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Dominik
Hanglberger
Joachim
Merz
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Are Self-Employed Really Happier Than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies ...
(published as 'Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48, 287 - 303)
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J23, J28, J81
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5628
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Peteke
Feijten
Maarten
van Ham
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The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing ...
(published as 'The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK' in: Comparative Population Studies, 2013, 38 (2), 405-432)
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J12, J61, R21, R23
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5627
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Darragh
Flannery
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Utilising Microsimulation to Estimate New Marginal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987-2005
In this paper we utilise microsimulation techniques in the form of an income generation model and a tax/benefit model to estimate both the fiscal and net private return to education at a marginal ...
(updated version published as 'Utilizing Microsimulation to Estimate the Private and Fiscal Returns to Education: Ireland 1987–2011' in: Manchester School, 2016, 84 (1), 55 - 80)
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I22, I28
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5626
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Darragh
Flannery
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Lifecycle Impact of Alternative Higher Education Finance Systems in Ireland
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42(3), 237–270)
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I22, I28
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5624
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Giacomo
De Giorgi
Michele
Pellizzari
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Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579), 917–953)
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J0, I21
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5623
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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Performance Appraisal: Dimensions and Determinants
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that ...
(published in: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2020, 31(15), 1984-2015.)
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M12, M5
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5622
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Magnus
Strömgren
Tiit
Tammaru
Maarten
van Ham
Szymon
Marcinczak
Olof
Stjernström
Urban
Lindgren
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Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation
In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and ...
(published as 'Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants' in: Demography, 2014, 51(2), 645-671)
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J15, J61, R23
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5621
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Sarah
Brown
Jolian
McHardy
Karl
Taylor
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Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 43-54)
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D19, H24, H41, H31
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5620
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Michela
Braga
Marco
Paccagnella
Michele
Pellizzari
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Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors
This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy). The effectiveness measures are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 71-88)
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I20
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5617
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Tiit
Tammaru
Maarten
van Ham
Kadri
Leetmaa
Anneli
Kährik
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Ethnic Dimensions of Suburbanisation in Estonia
Large scale suburbanisation is a relatively recent phenomenon in East Central Europe and responsible for major socio-spatial changes in metropolitan areas. Little is known about the ethnic dimensions ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2013, 39 (5), 845-862)
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J61, R21, R23
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5616
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Peter
G.
Backus
John
Micklewright
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Unofficial Development Assistance: A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(2), 191–209)
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L3, D1, D6, F3
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5615
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Resul
Cesur
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Erdal
Tekin
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The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental health, the causal effect of combat is not well established. Using data drawn from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (1), 51-65)
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H56, I1
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5614
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
Simona
Valmori
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Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the ...
(revised version published as 'Pathogens, Weather Shocks and Civil Conflicts' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2581 - 2616)
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D74, J1
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5613
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Michele
Pellizzari
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The Use of Welfare by Migrants in Italy
A large part of the Italian welfare system is designed and implemented at the very local level, leading to a high degree of heterogeneity in the type and the generosity of available programs across ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 155-166)
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J61
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5612
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Rory
Coulter
Maarten
van Ham
Peteke
Feijten
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Partner (Dis)agreement on Moving Desires and the Subsequent Moving Behaviour of Couples
Residential mobility decisions are known to be made at the household level. However, most empirical analyses of residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood ...
(published as 'Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples' in: Population, Space and Place, 2012, 18 (1), 16-30)
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J61, R21, R23
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5611
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Marco
Stampini
Audrey
Verdier-Chouchane
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Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia: The Issue of Youth Unemployment
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to 2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2011, 7 (2), 1-35 )
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J21, J64, J68, J71
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5609
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Mathieu
Lefèbvre
Pierre
Pestieau
Arno
Riedl
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about ...
(revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.)
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H26, H31, I38, C91
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5608
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Olivier
Donni
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Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households
Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 48-62)
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D13, D31, D63, H21, H31
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5606
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Christophe
Rault
Anne-Gaël
Vaubourg
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 43 - 64)
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E24, J23, P17
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5605
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are ...
(published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 315-320)
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D01, D03, D89
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5603
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Teresa
Lloyd-Braga
Leonor
Modesto
Thomas
Seegmuller
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Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 151, 216–247)
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C62, E32
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5602
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2014, 14(1), 41-67 )
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H51, I11, I18, J22
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5601
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 26 - 47. )
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C81, E32, I1, L86
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5600
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Jason
Abrevaya
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"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368)
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I30, J10, C20
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5599
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Hilmar
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts
We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a Berlin city community to integrate young people in social assistance into the labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German ...
(published as 'Econometrics vs. Project Design: Lessons from the Evaluation of a Workfare Project' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 65-85)
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J22, J64, H43
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5597
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Philip
Du Caju
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade: Evidence from a Small Open Economy
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 14 (2), 297-331)
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F16, J31
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5596
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Johan
Vikström
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods
We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training. Previous ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 58-67 )
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C14, C41, C93
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5595
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth ...
(published in: Robert Peccoud (Ed.), Measure For Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, 2011, 99-176)
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D63, I3, O1
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5594
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Murat
Iyigun
Jeanne
Lafortune
Yoram
Weiss
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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence
We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1874-1905.)
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J12, J16, J24
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