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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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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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4812
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Christian
Grund
Jan
Höcker
Stefan
Zimmermann
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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current ...
(revised version published as 'Incidence and Consequences of Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments - Evidence from the NBA' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1489–1501)
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M5
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4811
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Cathy Honge
Gong
Andrew
Leigh
Xin
Meng
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Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China
This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (3), 481-503 )
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D10, D31
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4810
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Kirk
Doran
Bruce
Schaller
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A Shred of Credible Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply
Virtually all public policies regarding taxation and the redistribution of income rely on explicit or implicit assumptions about the long run effect of wage rates on labor supply. The available ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 637-650)
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J22
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4808
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Paul
J.
Burke
Andrew
Leigh
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Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?
Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157)
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D72, N40, O17
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4806
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members
This paper documents evidence that rejects the paradox of dissatisfied union members. Using eleven waves of the BHPS, it studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (5), 1000-1019)
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J28, J5
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4805
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former ...
(published in: Maria Minniti (ed.) 2011, The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data, Oxford, pp.181-208)
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L26, O17, O57
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4804
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Sarah
Brown
Andy
Dickerson
Jolian
McHardy
Karl
Taylor
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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 44 (35), 4639-4650)
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D14, D81, L83
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4803
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Charles
Bellemare
Alexander
Sebald
Martin
Strobel
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Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models
We estimate structural models of guilt aversion to measure the population level of willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid feeling guilt by letting down another player. We compare estimates of WTP under ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (3), 437-453)
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C93, D63, D84
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4802
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Mehtabul
Azam
Aimee
Chin
Nishith
Prakash
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367)
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J31, J24, O15
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4801
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Pierre
Koning
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
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Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (3), 461-483)
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I38, H11, H53
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4800
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Joshua
Angrist
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010, 24 (2), 3-30)
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C01
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4799
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
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Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection
This paper studies the impact of an European-like labor market regulation on the return to schooling, equilibrium unemployment and welfare. We show that firing costs and temporary employment have ...
(published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23)
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I20, J20, J60
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4798
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Eva
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau
Jos
van Ommeren
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Labour Supply and Commuting
A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (1), 82-89)
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J22, R41
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4797
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Maarten
van Ham
Allan
M.
Findlay
David
Manley
Peteke
Feijten
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Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour ...
(published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171)
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J24, J61, J62, R23
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4796
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Pierre
Koning
Dinand
Webbink
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48 (4), 1479-1497)
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C41, I21
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4795
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Axel
Ockenfels
Dirk
Sliwka
Peter
Werner
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Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus ...
(published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (7), 1496-1513)
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D03, M52
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4793
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Christer
Gerdes
Patrik
Gränsmark
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Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775)
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J16, J70, J71, D03
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