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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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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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4518
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Donal
O'Neill
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from a Randomised Evaluation of a Parenting Programme
A number of researchers and policy makers have recently argued that the most effective way of dealing with long-run disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of poverty is through early ...
(published as 'A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Incredible Years parenting programme in reducing childhood health inequalities' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (1), 85-94.)
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D31
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4517
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Harminder
Battu
Yves
Zenou
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Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England
Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this paper ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 524 (120), F52 - F71)
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J15
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4514
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Yann
Algan
Christian
Dustmann
Albrecht
Glitz
Alan
Manning
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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe’s ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (542), F4 - F30)
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J61, F22
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4512
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Diane
J.
Macunovich
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Reversals in the Patterns of Women's Labor Supply in the U.S., 1976-2009
Despite strong increases in women's labor force participation – especially among married women with children – in the 1980s, and somewhat less strong increases in the 1990s, the first decade of the ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2010, 133 (11), 16-36)
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J21
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4511
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
Paul
Makdissi
Abdelkrim
Araar
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Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help identify tax reforms that will necessarily be ...
(published as 'Pro-Poor Indirect Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(1), 87-118)
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D12, D63, H21, I32
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4510
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Peter
Rupert
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
Etienne
Wasmer
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Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power
A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques, 2009, (95 - 96), 201 - 221)
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J3, J6, R2
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4509
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Patrick
Arni
Rafael
Lalive
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to ...
(revised version (including technical online appendix) published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (7), 1153–1178)
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J64, J65, J68
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4508
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
W.
Kip
Viscusi
James
P.
Ziliak
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Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010, 40 (1), 15-32)
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C23, I10, J17, J28, K00
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4507
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Stefan
Palan
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Two Heads Are Less Bubbly than One: Team Decision-Making in an Experimental Asset Market
We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets ...
(revised version published in Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 373-397)
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C92, D70, G12
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4506
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
Damien
Échevin
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Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 293 - 302)
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I10, I32, I38, D63, D30, H51
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4504
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1455-1465)
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J13, H40, J21
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4503
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Peter
Haan
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 498-512)
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C23, C25, J22, J64
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4502
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John
T.
Addison
Alex
Bryson
Paulino
Teixeira
André
Pahnke
Lutz
Bellmann
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (2), 182-209.)
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J50, J53
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4501
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Nicolas
Dromel
Elie
Kolakez
Etienne
Lehmann
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Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment
In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. For this purpose, we first develop a theoretical model based on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 823-834)
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E24, E44, J08, J64
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4500
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Jochen
Kluve
Marcus
Tamm
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Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career: Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Leave Regulations, Mothers' Labor Force Attachment and Fathers' Childcare Involvement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 983-1005)
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H31, J13, J18
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4499
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Marcos
A.
Rangel
Imran
Rasul
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Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy . 2009, 9 (1))
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J12, O12, O17
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4498
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Marcos
A.
Rangel
Imran
Rasul
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Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico: A Descriptive Analysis
We provide descriptive evidence on the characteristics of a household’s extended family network using data from the Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the ...
(published in: Institutional Microeconomics of Development, edited by Timothy Besley and Raji Jayaraman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.)
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J12, O12
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4497
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Marcos
A.
Rangel
Imran
Rasul
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Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 197-221)
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I21, J12, O12
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4496
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Oriana
Bandiera
Valentino
Larcinese
Imran
Rasul
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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (549), 1365 - 1398)
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A20, D23, I23
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4495
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Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden
Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2012, 13, 203 - 222)
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F22, J61, J68
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