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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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5545
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Francesco
Moscone
Elisa
Tosetti
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 42 (2), 395-411)
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C31, C33, H51
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5544
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Muriel
Roger
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81(322), 368-389)
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J14, J24, J26, O30
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5541
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Stephan
Russek
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Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade ...
(revised version published in: Open Economies Review, 2013, 24 (5), 963-976)
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F12, F13, F15, L25
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5540
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Susanne
Ek Spector
Bertil
Holmlund
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper ...
(published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 22(2), 201-223)
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J64, J65
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5539
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Szilvia
Hámori
János
Köllő
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average ...
(published in: Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012, 18 (5), 459-488)
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I21, I28, J24
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5538
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Patrick
Kampkötter
Dirk
Sliwka
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees: Theory and Evidence
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 45–60)
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J31, J44, J62
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5536
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Eric
Bonsang
Tobias
J.
Klein
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 311-329)
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J26, J14
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5535
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Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada
No previous study has attempted to estimate the effect of intrauterine exposure to armed conflict, a potential source of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian ...
(published as 'Armed Conflict and Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (1),190-199)
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I10, I12
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5534
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Gabriele
Doblhammer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Lambert
H.
Lumey
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Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long-term consequences of the fetal or childhood environment. Results are inconsistent and ...
(published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322)
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I12, J11, C41
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5532
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Bruce
Chapman
Mathias
Sinning
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2014, 22 (6), 569-588)
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H52, I22, I28
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5531
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Jacopo
Mazza
Hans
van Ophem
Joop
Hartog
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. ...
(published as 'Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk?' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 323 - 338 )
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C01, C33, C34, J31
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5530
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Ernst
Fehr
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias
Sutter
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 369-383)
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C91, D03
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5529
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker’s commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish ...
(published as 'Commuting Time and Labor Supply in the Netherlands: A Time Use Study' in: Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2014, 48(3), 409-426)
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R23, J22, J24
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5528
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Monique
de Haan
Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across ...
(published as 'School Consolidation and Student Achievement' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2016, 32 (4), 816 - 139)
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I21, I22, H75, D40
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5527
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Exit Exams and High School Dropout
In this paper, I consider the impact of the expansion of exams students must pass in order to graduate high school on dropout rates. "Exit exams," as these tests are known, have become more common, ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 323-350)
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I2, I28
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5526
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Simon
Chang
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Seonghoon
Kim
Shi-yung
Liu
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria ...
(published in: Econmic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62 (3), 519-36.)
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I12, I18, I21, O15, O18
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5525
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Isaac
D.
Swensen
Glen
R.
Waddell
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Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (1), 22–32)
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I21, I18, K32
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5524
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Matt
Dickson
Sarah
Smith
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What Determines the Return to Education: An Extra Year or a Hurdle Cleared?
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years’ schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1167-1176)
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I21, I28, J24
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5523
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Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s ...
(published in: Handbook of the Economics of EducationErik Hanushek, F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, Elsevier Science, Vol. 4, 283 - 326)
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I2
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5522
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The ...
(published in: Journal of Forecasting, 2013, 32 (4), 299 - 306.)
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C82, E01, E32, E37, L92
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5520
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3-4), 653-676)
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D72, H11, H83, J31, J45
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5519
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Cristina
Terra
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, ...
(published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
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5516
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Alan
Barrett
Corona
Joyce
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 142-154)
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I38, J61
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5515
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Alan
Barrett
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt across Europe
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 8-23)
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I38, J61
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5513
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Niclas
Berggren
Henrik
Jordahl
Panu
Poutvaara
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 79–86)
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D72, J45, J70
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5512
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Jungmin
Lee
Sokbae
Lee
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Does It Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2012, 65 (1), 148 - 160)
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J3
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5510
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence
Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. ...
(published in: Economica, 2016, 83 (332), 679 - 703. )
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D31, D63, I32
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5509
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Mirco
Tonin
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Too Low to Be True: The Use of Minimum Thresholds to Fight Tax Evasion
The enforcement of compliance with tax regulation is a complex task. This is particularly the case when the administrative capacity of the tax authority is low, as it often happens in developing and ...
(published in: Clemens Fuest and George R. Zodrow (eds.), Critical Issues in Taxation and Development, Cambridge (MA), MIT press, 2013)
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H26, K35, K42, P37
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5507
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Yves
Zenou
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Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74,113-132.)
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A14, J15, R14, Z13
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5506
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Robert
W.
Helsley
Yves
Zenou
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 426-466)
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D85, R14, Z13
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5505
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Morris
M.
Kleiner
Alan
B.
Krueger
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational ...
(published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202)
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J08, J44, J58, J80, K23, K31, L38, L5, L51
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5504
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Maria
Bytchkova
Saul
Estrin
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Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749 )
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D22, L26, P31
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5502
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Fertility and the Plough
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503)
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J13, O13
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5501
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Esteban
F.
Klor
Sebastian
Kube
Eyal
Winter
Ro'i
Zultan
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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83)
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C92, D23, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
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5500
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Mathilde
Almlund
Angela
Lee
Duckworth
James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Personality Psychology and Economics
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2011)
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I2, J24
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5499
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits ...
(revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594. )
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J22, J33, P36, O17
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5497
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Jürgen
Meckl
Benjamin
Weigert
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558)
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F12, F16, J24
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5496
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Frédéric
Docquier
Elisabetta
Lodigiani
Hillel
Rapoport
Maurice
Schiff
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Emigration and Democracy
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel ...
(strongly revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223)
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O1, F22
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5495
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James
J.
Heckman
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The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality
In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality ...
(published in: Daedalus, 2011, 140 (2): 70-89)
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J15, J24
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5494
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Emmanuelle
Walkowiak
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (3), 490-517.)
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J23, J24, J41
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5493
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Bernard
van den Berg
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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1032 - 1043 )
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H8, I18, I31
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5490
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Werner
Eichhorst
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The Transition from Work to Retirement
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2011, 7 (1), 107-133)
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J14, J26
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5489
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Silke
Anger
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market
This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 786-797)
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E32, J31
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5488
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Blair
L.
Cleave
Nikos
Nikiforakis
Robert
Slonim
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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences
Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382)
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C90, D03
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5486
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
Anders
Stenberg
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The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (2), 196-223)
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O4, D3, J6
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5485
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Annette
Bergemann
Marco
Caliendo
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795)
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J64, J61, C21, D83, D84
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5484
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Robert
Dur
Joël
van der Weele
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15 (1), 77-93)
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K14, K42
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5483
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Mabel
Andalón
Gary
S.
Fields
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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production ...
(published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48)
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I11, J01, J08
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5482
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G.
Brant
Morefield
David
C.
Ribar
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11 (3), Article 8)
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I12, J24
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5481
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Saul
Estrin
Julia
Korosteleva
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2013, 28 (4), 564–580)
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L26, D23, D84, J24, P11
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