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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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4875
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Fabio
Mariani
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The Economic Value of Virtue
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 323-356)
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D1, J12, Z13
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4874
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
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Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of ...
(revised as DP 10927)
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F22, F24, J61
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4873
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Silke
Anger
Michael
Kvasnicka
Thomas
Siedler
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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 591-601)
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I12, K32, I18, C33
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4870
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Lex
Borghans
Margo
Romans
Jan
Sauermann
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What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 868-874)
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A11, J44, C25
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4869
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David
Card
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, 126 (1), 103-143)
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D03, J12
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4868
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Economics and Religion
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers’ demand for ...
(published in: Rhona C. Free (ed.), 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications: 2010)
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Z12
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4867
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Maria
Concetta
Chiuri
Daniela
Del Boca
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Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons
In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 393-408)
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J2, C3, D1
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4866
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 16, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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J62
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4865
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Andreas
Peichl
Hilmar
Schneider
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Documentation IZA?MOD: The IZA Policy SImulation MODel
This paper describes IZA?MOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm ...
(see also IZA?MOD for more information)
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D58, H20, J22, J23
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4863
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Anders
Frederiksen
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Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence
The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. ...
(published as 'Incentives and Earnings Growth' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 85 (1), 97-107)
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J30, J41, M50
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4862
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Boris
Kralj
Darrel
Weinkauf
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Enhanced Fee-for-Service Model and Access to Physician Services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario
We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 99-111)
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I10, I12, I18
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4861
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Giorgio
Brunello
Simona
Lorena
Comi
Daniela
Sonedda
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Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training: Evidence from Italian Regions
We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 361-372)
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J24
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4859
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Anh
T.
Le
Paul
W.
Miller
Wendy
S.
Slutske
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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Are Attitudes Towards Economic Risk Heritable? Analyses Using the Australian Twin Study of Gambling
This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this ...
(published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2010, 13 (4), 330-339)
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G00, J01
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4857
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Birgitta
Jansson
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If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 ...
(published in: Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2010, 58 (3), 239-260)
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I32, N34, N94
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4856
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David
B.
Mustard
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How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime ...
(published in: Handbook on the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)
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J2, K14, K42
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4855
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Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
Ruben
R.
Seiberlich
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A Socio-economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness
Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (2), 253-262)
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D87, I12, I21, J13
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4854
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Robert
J.
Oxoby
William
G.
Morrison
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Loss Aversion and Intertemporal Choice: A Laboratory Investigation
We present results from a laboratory study of loss aversion in the context of intertemporal choice. We investigate whether the provision of (windfall) endowments results in different elicited ...
(published as 'The endowment effect and intertemporal choice: a laboratory investigation' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (2), 689 - 704)
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C91, D91
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4853
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John
R.
Bowblis
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy
The purpose of this research is to explain the variation in the utilization of drug therapy for the medical conditions of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2010, 39 (4), 674-684)
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I11, I12
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4851
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Francesco
Moscone
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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data
This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of 20 OECD countries observed over the period 1971-2004. In particular, the paper ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 804-811)
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C31, C33, H51
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4850
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Alois
Stutzer
Bruno
S.
Frey
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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also ...
(published in: Social Research, 2010, 77 (2), 679-714)
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A10, D60, H41, I31
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4849
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Ester
Faia
Wolfgang
Lechthaler
Christian
Merkl
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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is ...
(revised version published as 'Fiscal Stimulus and the Labor Market Policies in Europe' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 483–499)
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E62, H30, J20, H20
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4848
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Nina
Smith
Valdemar
Smith
Mette
Verner
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The Gender Pay Gap in Top Corporate Jobs in Denmark: Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Both?
This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 largest Danish private companies based on a panel data set of employer-employees ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (2), 156-177)
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J33, M52, J16
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4847
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England
This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (2), 173-202)
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H1, I1, I2
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4846
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Martin
G.
Kocher
Marc
V.
Lenz
Matthias
Sutter
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Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment: Comment
Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win ...
(substantially extended version published as: 'Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: New Evidence from Randomized Natural Experiments' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (8), 1585-1591)
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C93
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4845
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Gigi
Foster
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The Multitasking of Household Production
The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that individuals regularly multitask. We formulate a model where time spent in child care ...
(published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds): The Economics of Multitasking, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
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D13, J13
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4844
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Aysit
Tansel
H. Mehmet
Tasci
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Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530)
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J64, C41, J16
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4843
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Martin
Halla
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of ...
(published in: Friedrich Schneider (ed.), The Handbook on the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 375-408)
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O17, H26, A13, Z13, C81
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4842
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Dirk
Antonczyk
Thomas
DeLeire
Bernd
Fitzenberger
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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage ...
(published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33)
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J30, J31
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4841
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Sergio
Firpo
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Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures
This paper presents semiparametric estimators of distributional impacts of interventions (treatment) when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts of a ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 457-486)
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C1, C3
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4840
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Aldo
Rustichini
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Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative ...
(revised version published as 'Overconfidence and Social Signalling' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949-983)
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D03, D83, C93
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4839
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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The Diffusion of Pay for Performance across Occupations
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are ...
(published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1115-1148)
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M52
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4838
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Arnaud
Dupuy
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An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is ...
(published in: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2012, 12 (1), 222-245)
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J16, J7, N32
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4837
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Laurence
Jacquet
Etienne
Lehmann
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, 148 (5), 1770-1805)
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H21, H23
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4834
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Fabrizio
Coricelli
Nigel
Driffield
Sarmistha
Pal
Isabelle
Roland
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Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies: Is There A Threshold Effect?
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We ...
(revised version published as 'When does leverage hurt productivity growth? A firm-level analysis' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2012, 31 (6), 1674-1694)
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G32, O16
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4832
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Mathias
Hungerbühler
Etienne
Lehmann
Alexis
Parmentier
Bruno
Van der Linden
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A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment
We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly ...
(published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218)
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H21 H23, J64
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4831
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Pieter
Serneels
Jose
G.
Montalvo
Gunilla
Pettersson
Tomas
Lievens
Jean
Damascene
Butera
Aklilu
Kidanu
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Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that ...
(published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, 88, 342-349)
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J22, I11
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4830
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask
A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), 2014, 177, 807-827.)
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I12, J13
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4829
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Luca
Flabbi
Andrea
Moro
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The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model
This paper develops and estimates a search model of the labor market where jobs are characterized by wages and work-hours flexibility. Flexibility is valued by workers, and is costly to provide for ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (1), 81–95)
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J30, C5
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4828
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Daniel
Baumgarten
Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152)
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F1, F2, J3
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4827
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Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Jianying
Qiu
Matthias
Sutter
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Shaping Beliefs in Experimental Markets for Expert Services: Guilt Aversion and the Impact of Promises and Money-Burning Options' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 145-164)
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C72, C91, D82
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4826
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Rolf
Aaberge
Manudeep
Bhuller
Audun
Langørgen
Magne
Mogstad
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549-562)
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D31, H72, I30
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4825
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method ...
(substantially revised version available as: IZA DP 5926)
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D31, D63, I0, I31
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4824
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Miles
Corak
Darren
Lauzon
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Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term
This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences ...
(abridged version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 189-198)
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I22
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4822
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Iris
BenDavid-Hadar
Adrian
Ziderman
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A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (3), 341-362)
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I22
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4821
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Filipe
Almeida-Santos
Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain
We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the ...
(published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60)
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J24, J31, J41
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4820
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Axel
Dreher
Stephan
Klasen
James
Raymond
Vreeland
Eric
Werker
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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 62 (1), 157-191)
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O19, O11, F35
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4819
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Miles
Corak
Patrizio
Piraino
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The ...
(slightly revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 37-68)
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J62, J64
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4817
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Andrea
Guerzoni
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2012, 49 (6), 769-783)
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O43, H11, N17
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4816
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Xiaodong
Gong
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The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia
This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market ...
(published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426)
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C23, J20, J60
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4814
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Miles
Corak
Lori
Curtis
Shelley
Phipps
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We ...
(published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010)
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J62, J13, I3
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