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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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4354
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Alpaslan
Akay
Peter
Martinsson
Haileselassie
Medhin
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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 428 - 435)
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C90, D63
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4353
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Samantha
Rawlings
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 660 - 672)
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O12, I12
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4352
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Joachim
Wagner
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One-third Codetermination at Company Supervisory Boards and Firm Performance in German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence from a New Type of Enterprise Data
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination – firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2011, 131 (1), 91-106)
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J50
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4350
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Dimitris
Georgarakos
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Immigrant Self-Employment: Does Intermarriage Matter?
This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 253-271)
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J12, J15, J61
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4348
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara
de la Rica
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Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 697-707)
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F22, J61, J31, R13
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4347
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Eric
D.
Gould
Guy
Stecklov
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Terror and the Costs of Crime
This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1175-1188)
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K4
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4346
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Pedro
S.
Martins
Andy
Snell
Jonathan
P.
Thomas
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting
Following insights by Bewley (1999a), this paper analyses a model with downward rigidities in which firms cannot pay discriminate based on a year of entry to a firm, and develops an equilibrium model ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112(4), 841-863, 2010)
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E32, J41
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4345
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Douglas
A.
Webber
Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
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Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education?
Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 947-958)
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I2
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4344
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James
Costain
Marcel
Jansen
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Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard
This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of Mortensen and Pissarides' (1994) model of job creation and destruction when workers' effort is not perfectly observable, as in Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984). ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue: "Price and Wage Dynamics", 2010, 112(4), 782-811)
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C78, E24, E32, J64
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4343
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Karla
Hoff
Mayuresh
Kshetramade
Ernst
Fehr
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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 449-475)
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D02, D64
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4342
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 591-606)
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J13, J16, J21, J22, J31, J62, C23
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4339
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Charles
Bellemare
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm: Evidence from Field Experiments
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 2011)
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J33, M52, C93
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4338
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Fabrizio
Coricelli
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Financial Liberalization and Democracy: The Role of Reform Reversals
The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely ...
(published as 'Financial liberalization and reversals: political and economic determinants' in: Economic Policy, 2012, 27 (71), 483-513)
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C23, D72, O38, P16
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4336
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Dimitris
Christelis
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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Smoking Persistence Across Countries: An Analysis Using Semi-Parametric Dynamic Panel Data Models with Selectivity
We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence may be due to true state dependence but may also reflect individual unobserved ...
(revised version published as 'Smoking Persistence Across Countries: a Panel Data Analysis' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1077 - 1093)
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C33, C34, D12, I10, I12
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4335
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Tito
Boeri
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Setting the Minimum Wage
The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 281-290)
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J31, J41, J42
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4334
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Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud
Maurel
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Another Look at the Identification at Infinity of Sample Selection Models
It is often believed that without instrument, endogenous sample selection models are identified only if a covariate with a large support is available (see Chamberlain, 1986, and Lewbel, 2007). We ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2013, 29 (1), 213-224)
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C21
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4333
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Libertad
González
Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 37-59)
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F22, J61, R21, R23, R31
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4331
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Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Gender Gaps across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?
This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 837-844)
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J3, J7
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4330
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Hendrik
Jürges
Steffen
Reinhold
Martin
Salm
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Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany
During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 862-872)
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I12, I20
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4329
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James
J.
Heckman
Rosa
Matzkin
Lars
Nesheim
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Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models
This paper studies the identification and estimation of preferences and technologies in equilibrium hedonic models. In it, we identify nonparametric structural relationships with nonadditive ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78(5), 1569-1591)
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C14, D41, D58
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4328
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Umut
Oguzoglu
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Severity of Work Disability and Work
This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 370 - 383)
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J28, I12, C81
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4326
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Giorgio
Brunello
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The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: A Review of the Evidence
The existing empirical evidence on the relationship between apprenticeships, initial workplace training and economic downturns, is relatively scarce. The bottom line of this literature is that ratio ...
(published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 145-171)
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J24
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4325
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Johan
Vikström
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 116 2014, 284-334)
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J64, C41, C21, J31, J44, J65, J62
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4324
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
Edward
Vytlacil
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Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin
This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78 (1), 377-394)
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C14
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4323
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Thomas
Schober
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?
Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have ...
(published in: World Development, 2011, 39 (8), 1476-1484)
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J16, O15
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4322
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Ester
Faia
Wolfgang
Lechthaler
Christian
Merkl
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Labor Turnover Costs, Workers' Heterogeneity, and Optimal Monetary Policy
We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is ...
(revised version published as 'Labor Selection, Turnover Costs and Optimal Monetary Policy' in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2014, 46 (1), 115–144)
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E52, E24
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4321
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Seamus
McGuinness
Yin
King
Fok
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Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 619-628)
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J24, J31
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4320
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Leif
Danziger
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Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms
The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 224-229)
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J38
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4319
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Guido
Menzio
Eric
Smith
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Job Search with Bidder Memories
This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 639 - 655)
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J24, J42, J64
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4318
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Francesca
Mazzolari
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Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States: Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs
The magnitude of remittance flows to Latin America exceeds the combined inflows of foreign direct investment and official development assistance to the region. Since the United States is the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (2), 323-335)
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F24, O15
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4317
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work? 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 83-104)
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J22, J61
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4316
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Thierry
Warin
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Optat
Tengia
Kirsten
Wandschneider
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Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public ...
(published in: African Finance Journal, 2011, 13 (1), 1- 13)
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F1, F3, F4, O24, O55
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4315
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Giacomo
Corneo
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Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations
Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a ...
(published in: International Review of Economics, 2010, 57, 119-141)
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Z1
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4314
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Martin
Halla
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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 278–315)
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J12, J13, J18, K36, D13, N32, R2
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4313
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
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A Suggested Method for the Measurement of World-Leading Research (Illustrated with Data on Economics)
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (1), 99 - 113)
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A1, O38
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4310
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Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 279-294)
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E32, E63, H2, H31
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4307
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Peter
Martinsson
Alpaslan
Akay
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP ...
(revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798)
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C25, D12, Q41
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4306
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Richard
M.
Martin
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Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938
In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47 (4), 505-519)
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I32, J13, N33, N34
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4305
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Anders
Björklund
Karin
Hederos Eriksson
Markus
Jäntti
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IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?
For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 2)
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J0, I0, J1
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4304
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James
J.
Heckman
Petra
E.
Todd
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A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples
The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this probability can often not be consistently estimated, because of choice-based ...
(published in: Econometric Journal, 2009, 12 (Supplement), S230-S234)
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C52
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4303
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Ernesto
Reuben
Arno
Riedl
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 77 (1), 122-137)
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H41, C92, Z13
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4301
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Gabriele
Pellegrino
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23 (4), 329-340)
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O31
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4300
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Alison
L.
Booth
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Gender and Competition
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 599-606)
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C9, J16, J71
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4299
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve: A Reassessment of the US Experience
In this paper we analyse a new Phillips curve (NPC) model and demonstrate that (i) frictional growth, i.e. the interplay of wage-staggering and money growth, generates a nonvertical NPC in the ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2012, 64 (3), 344–366)
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E24, E31
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4298
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Eswar
Prasad
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Rebalancing Growth in Asia
Rebalancing growth patterns of Asian economies is an important component of the overall rebalancing effort that will be required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical ...
(published in: International Finance, 2011, 14 (1), 27 - 66)
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E2, F3, F4
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4297
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
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Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe
Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233(5+6), 619-637)
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D03, J81, M12, M5
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4296
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (6), 856–874)
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H23, H53, I32
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4295
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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The End of Destitution
The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use ...
(published as' The end of destitution: evidence from urban British working households, 1904-37' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (1), 80-102)
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N3, O12
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4294
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Werner
Eichhorst
Eric
Thode
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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: Wie konsistent sind die Reformen?
Wenn institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf behindern, wird die Wahl zwischen Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In ...
(published in: Regards sur l'Economie Allemande, 2010, 96, 13-21)
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J13, J16
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4293
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Michel
Beine
Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 143 - 166)
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F22
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