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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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4580
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Bernhard
Boockmann
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Thomas
Walter
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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014, 3:21, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9004-3-21 )
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I38, J64, C31
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4579
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Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
Manuel
Artís
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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (2), 435-447)
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O18, O47, R23
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4578
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Eric
Bartelsman
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334)
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E02, L11, L16, L2, L25, O4, O57
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4577
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies ...
(published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415)
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L26, J16, H11, O16, O17, P43
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4576
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512)
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H4, I2, O4, N16
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4575
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321)
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H4, I2, J3, J61, O1, O4
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4574
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George
W.
Hammond
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18)
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E62, H7, R11
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4572
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Sarmistha
Pal
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Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794)
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I20, I30, O15, P36
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4571
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Maarten
C.M.
Vendrik
Christiane
Schwieren
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Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping ...
(published in Journal of Economics, 2010, 99 (2), 141-171)
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J7, M51
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4570
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Roland
Benabou
Jean
Tirole
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent ...
(published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.)
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D64, D78, H41, L31
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4569
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Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
Kyung-Seong
Jeon
Daver
C.
Kahvecioglu
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New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, ...
(published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6 )
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J24, J48
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4568
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Andrea
Weber
Christine
Zulehner
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361)
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J16, J71, L25
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4567
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Robert
Slonim
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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are ...
(published as 'Will There be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-Social Behavior' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (1), 186-223 )
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D12, D64, I18
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4566
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?
Evidence from Project STAR has suggested that on average small classes increase student achievement. However, thus far researchers have focused on computing mean differences in student achievement ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2011, 35 (1), 71 - 92)
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I20
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4565
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Zahra
Siddique
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Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (502), 504-513)
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C9, C14, K42
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4564
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Fabio
Mariani
Agustín
Pérez-Barahona
Natacha
Raffin
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (4), 798-815)
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J24, O11, O40, Q56
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4561
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 97-129)
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J13, H40, I28
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4560
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 25-44)
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J15, J16, J31, L26
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4559
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Alexandre
Janiak
Paulo
Santos
Monteiro
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Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics
We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43 (5), 795 - 834)
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E40, E50, L16, O40
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4558
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Francesco
Giavazzi
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Michel
Serafinelli
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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (6), 1256-1289)
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J16, J22, J23, Z1
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4557
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Francesco
Cinnirella
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204)
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I20, J13, N33
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4556
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Erik
Hornung
Ludger
Woessmann
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, ...
(published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126)
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N13, N33, I20, O14
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4553
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Diana
Kruger
Matias
Berthelon
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Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile
We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours ...
(published as "Risky behavior among youth: Incapacitation effects of school on adolescent motherhood and crime in Chile" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 41-53)
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H51, I18, I28, J13, O15
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4551
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Brad
R.
Humphreys
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Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium Investment
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and ...
(published as 'Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment: The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium and Arena Construction' in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (3), 604 - 617)
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J15
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4550
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Zvi
Eckstein
Osnat
Lifshitz
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Dynamic Female Labor Supply
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726)
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E24, J2, J3
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4549
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Jens
Großer
Ernesto
Reuben
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 101, 39-52)
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H23, D41, D72, D73
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4548
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Liam
Delaney
Mark
E.
McGovern
James
P.
Smith
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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 1-10)
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I19, N34
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4546
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Mathieu
Lefèbvre
Ferdinand
M.
Vieider
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon: Fact or Artifact?
The ratio bias – according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2011, 71(4), 615-641)
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C91, D03, D81, I19
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4545
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Mathieu
Lefèbvre
Ferdinand
M.
Vieider
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 115-120)
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C91, D81, D89
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4544
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Erkki
Koskela
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor ...
(published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214)
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E24, H22, J21, J31, J51
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4543
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Govert
Bijwaard
Geert
Ridder
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A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard ...
(published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF])
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C41, C14
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4541
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Jackline
Wahba
Yves
Zenou
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 890–903)
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L26, O12, O15
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4540
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Armin
Falk
James
J.
Heckman
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Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has ...
(final version published in: Science, 2009, 326 (5952), 535-538)
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C90, C91, C92, C93, D00
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4539
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (4), 933-952)
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J15, J16, J31, L26
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4538
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Peder
J.
Pedersen
Torben
Dall
Schmidt
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Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and ...
(published as 'Happiness in Europe: Cross-country differences in the determinants of satisfaction with main activity' in: Journal of Socio Economics, 2011, 40 (5), 480 - 489)
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C23, D31, I31, J28
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4537
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Hadi
Salehi
Esfahani
Kamiar
Mohaddes
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the ...
(published in: Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2013, 53 (3), 221-237)
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C32, C53, E17, F43, F47, Q32
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4536
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition
We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (1), 469-503)
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C91, D03
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4535
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Stefan
Bender
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during ...
(published in European Economic Review 56(4):814–829)
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J31
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4534
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Albert
Bollard
David
McKenzie
Melanie
Morten
Hillel
Rapoport
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 132 - 156)
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O15, F22, J61
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4533
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James
J.
Heckman
Seong
Hyeok
Moon
Rodrigo
Pinto
Peter
A.
Savelyev
Adam
Yavitz
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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (1-2), 114-128)
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D62, I22, I28
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4532
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Robert
Dur
Joeri
Sol
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 293-301)
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D86, J41, M50
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4529
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these ...
(published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2 (1), Article 2)
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H23, H31, I38, J16
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4528
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Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration, Citizenship, and the Size of Government
This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 26)
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F22, I2, J62
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4526
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Andrea
Weber
Christine
Zulehner
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12(2), 492-521)
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J16, J71, L25
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4525
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James
J.
Heckman
Daniel
Schmierer
Sergio
Urzua
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Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 158 (2), 177-203)
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C31
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4523
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Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 413-438)
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J22, I31, J16
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4522
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Ceren
Ozgen
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (3), 537-561)
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O15, O18, R23, R11
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4521
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Olof
Aslund
Per-Anders
Edin
Peter
Fredriksson
Hans
Grönqvist
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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 67-95)
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J15, I20, Z13
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4520
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Clemens
Fuest
Judith
Niehues
Andreas
Peichl
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The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU
How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU ...
(revised version published in: Public Finance Review, 2010, 38 (4), 473-500)
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D31, D60, H20
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4519
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Francesc
Ortega
Javier
G.
Polavieja
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Labor-Market Exposure as a Determinant of Attitudes toward Immigration
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 298-311)
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F1, F22, J61, J31, R13
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