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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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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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5593
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Paul
Bingley
Miles
Corak
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
The intergenerational transmission of employers between fathers and sons is a common feature of labour markets in Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed ...
(published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.)
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J62, J64, J24
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5592
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Mateus
Joffily
David
Masclet
Charles
N.
Noussair
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80(4), 1002-1027.)
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C92, D62, D63, D64, D74
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5591
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Matteo
Picchio
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32 (1), 29-48)
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C33, C35, J21, J24, M53
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5590
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Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (3), 681-730)
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F22, O15, J61
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5589
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Christine
Binzel
Ragui
Assaad
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Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S98-S114)
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O15, J22, F22, R23
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5588
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013)
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J8, J21, J31, J62, P20
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5587
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Paul
Ryan
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1095-1112)
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J24, J31, J42
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5586
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Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit?
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1342–1371)
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O33
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5584
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Katrin
Boeckh
Christa
Hainz
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74)
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N33, N34, D73, Z10
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5583
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Mariano
Bosch
M. Angeles
Carnero
Lídia
Farré
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Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Enclaves
We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet ...
(published in: SERIEs, 2015, 6, 129 - 152)
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J15, J61
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5582
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Pietro
Moncada-Paternò-Castello
Marco
Vivarelli
Peter
Voigt
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2011(2), 20, 585-603)
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F23, O32
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5581
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Hipólito
Simón
Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (2), 223-255)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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5580
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Benjamin
Hansen
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Cigarette Taxes and the Social Market
Previous researchers have argued that the social market for cigarettes insulates its participants from policies designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine ...
(published as 'Cigarette Taxes and How Youth Obtain Cigarettes' in: National Tax Journal, 2013, 66 (2), 371-394)
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I10, I12
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5579
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Nabamita
Dutta
Saibal
Kar
Sanjukta
Roy
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Informal Sector and Corruption: An Empirical Investigation for India
India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and ...
(published as 'Corruption and Persistent Informality: An Empirical Investigation for Indian States' in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2013, 27, 357-373)
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C12, C31, D23, J21
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5578
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Josep
M.
Raya
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Is there Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing against Immigrants in the Spanish Lending Market?
In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage market exists. More specifically, we test whether, ceteris paribus, immigrant ...
(published as 'Mortgages, immigrants and discrimination: An analysis of the interest rates in Spain' in: Regional Science & Urban Economics, 2014, 45, 22-32)
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R21, G21, J14
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5576
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia
Bansak
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The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey
This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 443-471.)
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J6
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5575
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Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
Arthur
van Soest
Erik
Wengström
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Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42 (2), 159–190)
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C90, D81
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5574
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Andrea
Salvatori
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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 944–956)
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J51
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5573
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Andreas
Kuhn
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with ...
(revised and shortened version published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4), 483-499)
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D31, D63, H50, J31
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5572
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W. Craig
Riddell
Xueda
Song
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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals’ transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 453-463)
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I20, J64
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5571
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Catia
Nicodemo
Raul
Ramos
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Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain: Accounting for Differences in the Supports
The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 118-136)
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J16, J31, C2, C3
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5570
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 281-287)
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D72, E32, E65, K0, O4, P52, Z13
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5569
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John
Griffin
David
Nickerson
Abigail
Wozniak
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Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012,. 84(2), 600-617.)
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J15, D03, D63, C72, C91
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5568
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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Remittances and Income Smoothing
Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 582-587)
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F22, O15, O54
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5567
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Olga
Nottmeyer
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized – in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday – than those between ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:3)
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J1, J12
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5566
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814)
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D81, J23, M13
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5564
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Siddhartha
Chib
Liana
Jacobi
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain: Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity ...
(revised version published as 'Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis and Returns to Compulsory Schooling' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (6), 1026 - 1047)
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C11, C21, I21
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5563
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Julien
Grenet
Robert
A.
Hart
J. Elizabeth
Roberts
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Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204)
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J24, J31, N44
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5562
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Luojia
Hu
Analia
Schlosser
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1227 - 1261)
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J13, J16, I1, O12
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5561
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Giovanni
Facchini
Max
F.
Steinhardt
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, 734-743)
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F22, J61
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5559
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Seo-Young
Cho
Axel
Dreher
Eric
Neumayer
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and ...
(revised version published as 'Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 429-454)
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O15, F22, P41
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5558
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Richard
Akresh
Leonardo
Lucchetti
Harsha
Thirumurthy
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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 330-340.)
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I12, J13, O12
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5557
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Denis
Fougère
Francis
Kramarz
Roland
Rathelot
Mirna
Safi
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 56-69.)
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J61, I38, R38
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5555
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Democratization and Civil Liberties: The Role of Violence During the Transition
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 226-247)
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H10, O20, N10
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5554
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David
M.
Blau
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ...
(revised version published as ' Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis of crowd out' in Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7 (1), 193 - 224)
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J26
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5553
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Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 111-121)
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J68
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5552
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using a 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census of Population for the years 1991 through 2006. We focus on those individuals that ...
(published as 'Factors Influencing the Fertility Choices of Child Immigrants in Canada' in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2014, 68(1), 65-79)
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J13, J15, J61
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5550
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Alain
Cohn
Ernst
Fehr
Benedikt
Herrmann
Frédéric
Schneider
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Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, ...
(revised version published as 'Social Comparison an Effort Provision' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4), 877-898)
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C93, J33, M53
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5549
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Nezih
Guner
Remzi
Kaygusuz
Gustavo
Ventura
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Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the ...
(published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17(4), 559–581)
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E62, H31, J12, J22
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5547
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Ozkan
Eren
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?
Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 950-961)
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C23, I21, I28
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5546
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Assaf
Razin
Jackline
Wahba
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Free vs. Restricted Immigration: Bilateral Country Study
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity' in: Journal of Scandinavian Economics, 2015, 177 (2), 369 - 402)
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J61, J48
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