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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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5250
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Ana
Lamo
Julián
Messina
Etienne
Wasmer
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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 240-256)
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J4, J24
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5248
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Dayanand
Manoli
Andrea
Weber
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Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated ...
(published as "Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions" in: American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2016)
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J22, J26, E24
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5247
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Simon
Commander
Zlatko
Nikoloski
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Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 2 (2), Article 3)
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D24, L21, O12, P48
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5246
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Mayssun
El-Attar
Markus
Poschke
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Trust and the Choice Between Housing and Financial Assets: Evidence from Spanish Households
Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2011, 15 (4), 727-756)
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D1, D8, Z1
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5245
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Jan
Stuhler
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from ...
(substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697)
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J62, C23
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5244
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2011, 57 (2), 107-143 and 145-160)
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F14
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5242
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS ...
(published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011)
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C81, D31, I32
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5240
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates
We investigate the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes using a direct measure of social contacts based on information about individuals’ three best friends and their ...
(substantially revised version published as 'With a Little Help from My Friend? Quality of Social Networks, Job Finding and Job Match Quality' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 55-75)
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J64
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5239
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Dennis
T.
Yang
Xiaodong
Zhu
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60 (3), 367–382)
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O41, O33, N13
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5238
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Lina
Bergström
Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (6), 1381-1399)
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I30, J60, R23
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5237
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Kusum
Mundra
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 357-373)
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F22, F11, J10
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5235
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Tito
Boeri
Vincenzo
Galasso
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Is Social Security Secure with NDC?
The introduction of NDC public pension scheme in few European countries, such as Latvia, Sweden, Italy, and Poland, in the nineties was motivated, among other things, by the need (i) to ensure the ...
(published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer and D. Robalino (eds.), 2012, NDC Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World, Volume 2: Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, Chapter 6. Financial Stability, Chapter 5. Washington D.C.: The World Bank & Swedish Social Insurance Agency)
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J26, J68
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5234
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Alberto
Bisin
Eleonora
Patacchini
Thierry
Verdier
Yves
Zenou
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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 146-164.)
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A14, J15
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5233
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Eswar
Prasad
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These ...
(published in: Masahiro Kawai and Eswar Prasad (eds.), Financial Sector Reforms and Regulation in Emerging Markets, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011, 3-24)
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G1, G2, E58, F36
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5232
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John
Gibson
Steven
Stillman
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (6), 655-672)
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C21, I12, J61
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5230
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Daniel
W.
Sacks
Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We ...
(published in: The World Bank (ed.). Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World, 2012)
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O11, I31, I32
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5229
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Hassan
Arvin-Rad
Arnab
K.
Basu
Maria
Willumsen
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Economic Reform, Informal-Formal Sector Linkages and Intervention in the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: A Paradox
Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is pro-cyclical/ ...
(published in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2010, 19, 662-670)
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J8, R13, R23
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5228
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Hermann
Gartner
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
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Wage Cyclicality under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (2), 516-540)
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J31, E32, J53
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5227
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Georges
Bresson
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors: An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris
This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 24-42)
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C31, C33, R21
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5226
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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Back to the Future: Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (5), 708-731)
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H23, H53, I32
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5225
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Kerry
L.
Papps
Alex
Bryson
Rafael
Gomez
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 310-319)
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L23, L25, L83, M51
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5224
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Eugenio
Giolito
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Advances in Macroeconomics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 33)
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J12, D83
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5222
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 810-821)
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C23, H41, J51, J63
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5221
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Claire
Keane
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167)
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C63, C81, D31, D63, H11, H21, H23, H31
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5220
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Herwig
Immervoll
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed ...
(revised version published as 'Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (1), 118-138)
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D58, J23, H24, H60
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5219
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Guido
Heineck
Bernd
Süssmuth
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 789-803)
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P51, Z31
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5218
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Alan
Barrett
Elish
Kelly
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The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but also in response to its decision to allow full access to its labour market when EU ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2012, 28 (1), 91-111)
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J61
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5215
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Donka
M.
Mirtcheva
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Religion and Child Health
This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140)
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I1, I18, I12, Z12
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5213
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Jason
M.
Lindo
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Parental Job Loss and Infant Health
Although there exists a large literature documenting various consequences of job loss, this paper is the first to explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 869 - 897)
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I10, J13, J63
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5212
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Timothy
Bates
Magnus
Lofstrom
Lisa
Servon
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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2011, 25 (3), 255 - 266)
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J15, L26
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5211
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Jacques
Poot
Steven
Stillman
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (18), 1-23)
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F22, J21, J61
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5210
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Anita
Staneva
Reza
Arabsheibani
Philip
D.
Murphy
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Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach
This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample ...
(published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yearkhin (eds.), Critical Perspectives of Economics of Education, 2022, Chapter 9 )
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C14, I2, J24
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5209
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Gautam
Hazarika
Vejoya
Viren
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 146-161)
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I21, O12, O15
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5208
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Mark
M.
Pitt
Nidhiya
Menon
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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia
This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments ...
(published as 'Spatial Decentralization and Programme Evaluation: Theory and an Example' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 511 - 539)
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C21, H44, O12, C50
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5207
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Daniela
Borodak
Matloob
Piracha
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Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova
This paper analyses the occupational choice of return migrants. Using the CBSAXA data on different aspects of migration in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46)
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C35, F22, J24
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5206
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David
Masclet
Charles
N.
Noussair
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Experimental studies of social dilemmas have shown that while the existence of a sanctioning institution improves cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1421-1441)
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C92, H41, D63
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5205
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James
J.
Heckman
Daniel
Schmierer
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Tests of Hypotheses Arising in the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
This paper examines the correlated random coefficient model. It extends the analysis of Swamy (1971, 1974), who pioneered the uncorrelated random coefficient model in economics. We develop the ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (6), Special Issue: P.A.V.B Swamy, 1355-1367)
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C31
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5204
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Martin
G.
Kocher
Louis
Putterman
Matthias
Sutter
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 32-51)
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C91, C92, D31, D63, H41
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5203
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Kanika
Kapur
Susan
Gates
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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 146-162)
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L26, I1
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5202
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Markus
Poschke
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in ...
(superseded by DP 7991.)
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E24, J24, L11, L26, O30
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5200
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Tor
Eriksson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Respect as an Incentive
Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect as a non-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment ...
(revised version published as 'Respect and relational contracts' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (1), 286–298)
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C91, J32, J64, M52
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5199
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Martyna
Marczak
Thomas
Beissinger
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (2), 469-490)
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E32, C22, C32, J30
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5198
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Danny
Cohen-Zada
William
Sander
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Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?
In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54 (4), 889-906)
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K10, J16
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5197
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Guido
Heineck
Oliver
Wölfel
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 727–743)
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I21, J24
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5195
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 287-336)
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J71
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5194
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Seonghoon
Kim
Deng
Quheng
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Shi
Li
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The ...
(published in: Word Development, 2014, 54, 232-242)
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I12, J16, P36
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5193
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Lina
Bergström
Maarten
van Ham
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Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 4), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 79-99)
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I30, J60, R23
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5192
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
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The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this ...
(published in: Southern Economics Journal, 2012, 79 (2), 350-366)
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J22, J18, J14
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5190
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (17), 3377-3405)
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D11, D12, D13
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5189
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
Stephan
Meier
Matthias
Sutter
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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in ...
(revised version published as 'Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (5), 948-960)
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C72, C91, C93
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12994Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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