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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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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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4791
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Anders
Frederiksen
Odile
Poulsen
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Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
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J3, J6, M5
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4790
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331)
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J68, C14, H43
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4789
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Chris
Skinner
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with ...
(revised version published as 'Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 915-938)
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C83, I21
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4788
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Christer
Gerdes
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Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 50, 645-666)
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H7, I28, J15, J78, R5
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4787
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Joachim
R.
Frick
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442)
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D31, I10, I12
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4786
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Monika
Schnitzer
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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(5), 1115-1152)
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O3, O16, F1, G3
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4785
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 479-494; cited in The Economist, February 2011)
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A10, I20
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4784
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Almas
Heshmati
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In ...
(published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590)
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C33, C43, D24, O18, O47
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4783
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Matteo
Picchio
Chiara
Mussida
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Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578)
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C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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4782
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Robert
Dur
Arjan
Non
Hein
Roelfsema
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686)
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D86, J41, M51, M52, M54, M55
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4781
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Ugo
Colombino
Marilena
Locatelli
Edlira
Narazani
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and ...
(published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1))
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C25, H24, H31, I38
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4780
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Dorly
J. H.
Deeg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428)
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I12, I10, J14, E32
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4779
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and ...
(published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.)
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J01, O52, O54, P50
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4777
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Simonetta
Longhi
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Job Competition and the Wage Curve
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620)
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J31, R23
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4775
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Petter
Lundborg
Paul
Nystedt
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique ...
(published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596)
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I10, J10, J70
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4774
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael
E. R.
Nicholls
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860)
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I12, J10
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4773
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Conny
Wunsch
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045)
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J64, J65, J68, D82, D86
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4772
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Jonathan
Haskel
Gavin
Wallis
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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (2), 195-198)
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O47, E22
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4771
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Olaf
Hübler
Lukas
Menkhoff
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Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (1), 107-126)
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J16, J44, G23
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4770
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Hilmar
Schneider
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 118-141)
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D31, D63, J11
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4769
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Rolf
Aaberge
Magne
Mogstad
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Robust Inequality Comparisons
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371)
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D31, D63
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4768
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Anh
T.
Le
Paul
W.
Miller
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The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities
This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 237-241)
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J13, J16, J22
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4767
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Andrea
Ichino
Loukas
Karabarbounis
Enrico
Moretti
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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69)
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E24, J62, J68, P16
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4766
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660)
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H83, J24, J3, J45
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4765
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Lenny
Stoeldraijer
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Age, Wage and Productivity
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and ...
(published as 'Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing' in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2) , 113-137)
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J23, J31
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4762
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Solomon
Polachek
Daria
Sevastianova
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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388)
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C2, O1, O47, O57, P47, P52
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4761
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Gulcin
Gumus
Jungmin
Lee
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The ART of Life: IVF or Child Adoption?
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is ...
(revised version published as 'Alternative Paths to Parenthood: IVF or Child Adoption?' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (3), 802-820)
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I11, J13, J18
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4760
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John
T.
Addison
Alex
Bryson
Paulino
Teixeira
André
Pahnke
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Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518)
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J50, J51
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4757
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Pedro
S.
Martins
Gary
Solon
Jonathan
P.
Thomas
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Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle
In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (4), 36-55)
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E24, J31, E32
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4756
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Stephan
Meier
Charles
Sprenger
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Stability of Time Preferences
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic ...
(revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286)
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C93, D01, D03, D11, D91
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4755
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Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23)
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D03, J24, C91
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4754
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121-139)
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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4752
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Emmanuel
Saez
Manos
Matsaganis
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece
This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127 (1), 493-533)
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J31, J22, H22
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4751
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Achim
Schmillen
Joachim
Möller
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Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span ...
(published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47)
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J64, J24
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