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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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4421
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Nadja
Dwenger
Johanna
Storck
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 155-167)
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I22, I28, H75, R23
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4419
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Matt
Dickson
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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (4), 477–498)
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I20 J30
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4418
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Daron
Acemoglu
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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Persistence of Civil Wars
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (2-3), 664-676)
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H2, N10, N40, P16
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4417
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Kenneth
Troske
Alexandru
Voicu
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The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
We use panel data from NLSY79 to analyze the effects of the timing and spacing of births on the labor supply of married women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 483-521)
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C11, C15, J13, J22
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4416
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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The Right Amount of Trust
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (6), 1155 - 1180)
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A1, A12, D1, O15, Z1
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4415
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Jed
Kolko
David
Neumark
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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses – namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15)
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R11, R38, J23
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4414
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 573-594)
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D31, D63, I3, J31, Z13
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4413
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Junfu
Zhang
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Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51(1), 167-193)
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C72, C73, D62, R13
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4412
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Giovanni
Russo
Edwin
van Hooft
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Identities, Conflicting Behavioural Norms and the Importance of Job Attributes
The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (1), 103-119)
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J22, J24, Z13
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4410
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Michele
Battisti
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FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?
This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada. The contribution of this paper lies in its use of a natural experiment to detect ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 579-604)
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J61, F22
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4409
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Andreas
Kuhn
Oliver
Ruf
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The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market
We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial ...
(revised version published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 149 (1), 57-86)
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J17, J28, J31
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4408
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Leif
Danziger
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Noncompliance and the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Hours and Welfare in Competitive Labor Markets
This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 625-630)
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J38
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4407
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
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Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock nationwide. This paper provides ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (3), 634-662)
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I21, I12, J24, N34
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4406
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Hideaki
Goto
Ravi
Kanbur
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, 81 - 108)
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F15, I32, L3
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4405
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Ghazala
Azmat
Libertad
González
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Targeting Fertility and Female Participation Through the Income Tax
We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small children. The reform introduced a tax credit for working mothers with children ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 487-502)
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J22, J13, H31
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4404
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Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 321-333)
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F19, O31
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4403
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Hermann
Gartner
Christian
Merkl
Thomas
Rothe
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They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the ...
(revised version published as 'Sclerosis and Large Volatilities: Two Sides of the Same Coin' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 106–109)
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J6, E24, E32
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4402
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Christian
Bayer
Falko
Juessen
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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 831-833)
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E20, D31, D91, J31
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4401
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Margaretha
Buurman
Robert
Dur
Seth
van den Bossche
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Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic?
We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 279-291)
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H1, J45, M52
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4400
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection
The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled individuals shy away from politics ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 369-398)
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M52, D72, J45, H70
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4399
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Katarina
Keller
Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries
Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2010, 66 (2), 97-120)
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H56, I20
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4398
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Helena
Holmlund
Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents
An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, ...
(revised version published as 'Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden' in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 903-931)
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J10, C10
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4396
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Saul
Estrin
Julia
Korosteleva
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481)
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D23, D84, G21, J23, J24, K11, L26, P51
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4395
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Joeri
Sol
Willem
Verbeke
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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2) , 305-326)
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C93, J16, M52
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4394
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Miguel
Angel
Alcobendas
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how ...
(substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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4393
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation ...
(published in: Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2011, 44 (3), 1-20)
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F50, O10
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4392
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Marco
Francesconi
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Thomas
Siedler
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The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults
We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (11), 1377-1384)
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I10, J12, J18
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4391
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Aimee
Chin
Nishith
Prakash
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 265-277)
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I38, J15, J78
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4389
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David
Comerford
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
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Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions
This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2009, 30 (3-4), 419-433)
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D03, D12, C81, C93
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4388
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount ...
(published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011)
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J28, I12, C81
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4387
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David
J.
Bjerk
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How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2009, 25 (4), 391-417)
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C12, K42
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4386
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Nishith
Prakash
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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509)
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H40, J21, J31, J45, O10
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4385
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Joshua
J.
Lewer
Gail
Pacheco
Stephanié
Rossouw
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Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2013, 110 (1), 1-15)
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F22, C51, D63
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4384
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Jens
Suedekum
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97 (1), 258-271)
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F12, F13, H25, L11
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4383
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Gadi
Barlevy
Derek
Neal
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Pay for Percentile
We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1805-31)
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J33, I20
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4382
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1076-1085)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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4380
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Pedro
Portugal
José
Varejão
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Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?
Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2022, 21, 401 - 421)
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J23, J41
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4378
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects
Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time ...
(published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15)
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J10
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4377
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
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Endogeneous Household Interaction
Most econometric models of intrahousehold behavior assume that household decision-making is efficient, i.e., utility realizations lie on the Pareto frontier. In this paper we investigate this claim ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65)
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C79, D19, J22
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4376
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Robert
Sparrow
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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (4), 722-749)
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J13, O24, O15
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4375
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Steven
Stillman
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1297-1318)
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J61, F22, C21
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4374
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
David
C.
Ribar
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?
We investigate how household disadvantage affects the time use of 15-18 year-olds using 2003-2006 data from the American Time Use Survey. Applying competing-risk hazard models, we distinguish between ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 1-44)
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J22 , J13
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4373
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Steven
Y.
Wu
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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 28 - 41)
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Q12, Q18, K12, D82, D86
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4372
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Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
Olga
Bilyk
Bogdana
Grechaniuk
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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine
The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2010, 48(2), 5-24)
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G34, J40, L29
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4371
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Robert
Duval Hernández
Pedro
Orraca Romano
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A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009
This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are the labor force participation, the unemployment rate, and the employment shares ...
(published in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 78 (2), 343-375)
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J21, O17, O54
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4370
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (4), 484-504)
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I38, J68, I10
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4369
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We ...
(published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11(3), Article 5)
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I1, C5
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4368
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Melinda
Podor
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Health Status and the Allocation of Time
In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status have large and positive effects on time allocated to home and market production and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21(5), 514-527)
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I1, J2
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4367
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Dana
P.
Goldman
Darius
N.
Lakdawalla
Yuhui
Zheng
Adam
H.
Gailey
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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (2), 254-63)
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I10, I38, J26
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4366
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Dana
P.
Goldman
Darius
N.
Lakdawalla
Yuhui
Zheng
Adam
H.
Gailey
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Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy ? with a concomitant ...
(published as 'The Fiscal Effects of Trends in Public Health' in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (2), 307-324,)
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I10, I38, J26
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