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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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5050
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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Investing in Our Young People
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. ...
(published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414)
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J13, J24, D91
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5049
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Simon
Czermak
Francesco
Feri
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias
Sutter
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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games
We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 265-285.)
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C72, C91
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5048
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Catia
Batista
Aitor
Lacuesta
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45)
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F22, J24, O12, O15
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5047
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Glen
R.
Waddell
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Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 961- 969)
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I2, K42
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5046
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
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GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?
This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (16), 2111 - 2131)
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D19, J16, R20
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5045
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Werner
Eichhorst
Michael
Feil
Paul
Marx
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Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2010, 56 (61), 29-64)
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J23, J21, J58
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5044
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Alexandros
Polycarpou
Konstantinos
Vrachimis
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The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union
We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 86-102)
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J16, J31, J50, C21
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5043
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Patrick
Emmenegger
Paul
Marx
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Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German ...
(revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756)
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K31, N34, N44
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5042
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Douglas
Gollin
Christian
Zimmermann
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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., ...
(published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2012, 19 (1), 51-62)
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I1, O11, E13, E21, Q54
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5041
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at ...
(published as 'Improving Environmental Performance: A Challenge for Romania' in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014, 57 (3), 431-452)
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Q52, C29, C40
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5040
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Michael
Kosfeld
Susanne
Neckermann
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Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance
We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 86-99)
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C93, M52
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5039
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Alessandro
Barattieri
Susanto
Basu
Peter
T.
Gottschalk
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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence supporting the assumption of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 70-101)
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E24, E32, J30
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5038
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Arthur
van Soest
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?
We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in ...
(revised version published as 'Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 27, 30-43)
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J22, H31, C35
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5037
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different ...
(published in: Aman Ullah and David E. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Taylor & Francis. 2010)
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G12, G14
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5036
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Clive
Bell
Hans
Gersbach
Maik
T.
Schneider
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Raising Juveniles
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 74 (1), 32-51)
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D13, J13, J22, J24
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5035
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
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Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States
The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, ...
(published in: P.Emmenegger et al. (eds.): The Age of Dualization, Oxford: 2012, 73-99)
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J38, J41, J21, J58
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5034
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Gary
Charness
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort ...
(revised version published as 'The dark side of competition for status' in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (1), 38–55)
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C91, C92, M54, D63, J28, J31
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5032
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Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
Raquel
Vegas
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Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain
This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Gaps in Performance Pay: New Evidence from Spain' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 41-59)
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J31, J33, J42, J71
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5031
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jesse
Bricker
Chris
Rohlfs
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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2012, 12(1): 1935-1682)
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I20, I21, J13
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5029
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2012, 81, 130-139)
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F14, Q28
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5028
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Jose
C.
Galdo
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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 789-823)
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I12, J13, O12, O15
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5027
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Florian
Englmaier
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Andreas
Roider
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Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent Is Free to Leave
We characterize optimal incentive contracts in a moral hazard framework extended in two directions. First, after effort provision, the agent is free to leave and pursue some ex-post outside option. ...
(revised version published as 'Optimal Incentive Contracts for Knowledge Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 67, 82-106)
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D86, D82, K31, M52
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5026
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Andrew
I.
Friedson
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Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on Property Values
Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic admission to their state university of choice for all high school seniors who ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2014, 67 (1), 51-76)
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H31, H41, H73, I20
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5025
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Daniele
Checchi
Vito
Peragine
Laura
Serlenga
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Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe
This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, ...
(revised version published as “Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: is there a role for institutions ?” in Inequality: Causes and Consequences - Research in Labor Economics, Volume 43/2015, pp.1-44)
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D31, D63, J62
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5024
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Oliver
Falck
Ludger
Woessmann
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478)
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I20, L33, L26, Z12
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5023
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Leif
Danziger
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Uniform and Nonuniform Staggering of Wage Contracts
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1038-1049)
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E31, E32, J41
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5022
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (2), 351-376)
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C91, D03, J16
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5021
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
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Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new evidence on the effects of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29(6): 1110-1124)
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I21, I23, J15, J24
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5020
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Johannes
Berger
Christine
Harbring
Dirk
Sliwka
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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline ...
(published in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (1), 54-68)
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C91, D83, J33, M52
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5018
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Francis
Green
Stephen
Machin
Richard
J.
Murphy
Yu
Zhu
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The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School
Despite its relatively small size, the private school sector plays a prominent role in British society. This paper focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (316), 658–679)
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I22, I29, J31
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5016
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Matthias
Sutter
Francesco
Feri
Martin
G.
Kocher
Peter
Martinsson
Katarina
Nordblom
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 16-30.)
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C91, D63, D64
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5015
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Matthias
Sutter
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
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Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than ...
(largely extended version published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (10), 2339-2354)
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C91, D03
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5013
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Anna
Batyra
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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Selective Reductions in Labor Taxation: Labor Market Adjustments and Macroeconomic Performance
We use a calibrated general equilibrium model with heterogeneous labor and search to evaluate the quantitative effects of various labor tax cut scenarios. The focus is on skill heterogeneity combined ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32 (4), 531–543)
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C68, E24, J64
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5012
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Roberto
Bande
Marika
Karanassou
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Spanish Regional Unemployment Revisited: The Role of Capital Accumulation
This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period. We argue that interactive dynamic systems of labour demand, wage setting, and ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (11), 1863 - 1883)
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R23, J64
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5011
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Marco
Leonardi
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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled ...
(published: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7, 221-147.)
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J21, J31
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5010
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 507-530)
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J11, J22
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5009
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Panu
Poutvaara
Olli
Ropponen
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School Shootings and Student Performance
In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 51, 93-106)
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C21, J16, I19
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5008
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Dennis
T.
Yang
Vivian
Chen
Ryan
Monarch
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Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2010, 15 (4), 482-504)
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J31, J21, O5
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5007
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Volker
Grossmann
Thomas
M.
Steger
Timo
Trimborn
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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 451-485)
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H20, O30, O40
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5005
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Moody Choice
If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this paper we argue that, even with full unpredictability of mood, the way choices from a ...
(revised version published as 'State Dependent Choice' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 45 (2), 239-268)
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D01
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5004
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Patrick
Hullegie
Tobias
J.
Klein
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The Effect of Private Health Insurance on Medical Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health in Germany
In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductibles are moderate, and premia are based on ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (9), 1048-1062)
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I11, I12, C31
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5003
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Chunbing
Xing
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Residual Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
We use three waves of urban household survey data from 1995 to 2007 to investigate the trends of residual inequality and its determinants. First, we describe the change of overall and residual wage ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2012, 23 (2), 205-222)
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J3
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5002
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Anders
Björklund
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This ...
(revised version published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook in Economics of Education, Vol. 3, North Holland: 2010, pp. 201-247)
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I21, J13, J24
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5001
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
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Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 30-56)
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C92, J64, M55
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5000
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Stephen
Machin
Olivier
Marie
Suncica
Vujic
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The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (552), 463-484.)
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I2, K42
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4999
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Johannes
Metzler
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 486 - 496)
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I20, O15
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4997
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Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Arvid
Raknerud
Marina
Rybalka
Terje
Skjerpen
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The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting
In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (2), 293-305)
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C23, D24, J24, J31
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4996
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
Francesco
Fasani
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Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, 1278-90)
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F22, K42
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4995
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Andrew
Leigh
Christine
Neill
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the ...
(published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2010, 12 (2), 462-508)
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I12, K14
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4994
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Carine
Milcent
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Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals
This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1103-1112)
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D21, D72, I18, J21
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