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4038 Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Thouraya Hadj Amor Essid
Christophe Rault
International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (6), 789 - 808)
E31, F0, F31, C15
4037 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Kenneth Rogoff
Shang-Jin Wei
Financial Globalization and Economic Policies
We review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developing economies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies ...
(published in: Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 5, The Netherlands: North-Holland, 2010, 4283-4362.)
F02, F21, F36, F4
4036 James P. Smith
Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories
This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is ...
(published in: Demography 46(2):387-403, May 2009)
H0, J0
4034 Andries de Grip
Maarten Lindeboom
Raymond Montizaan
Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late in the Game
This paper assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on mental health, savings behavior and retirement expectations of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 1–25)
I12, J08, J14, J26
4032 Paola Giuliano
Prachi Mishra
Antonio Spilimbergo
Democracy and Reforms
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013, 5(4), 179-204)
O57, E6
4030 Uwe Dulleck
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Matthias Sutter
The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 526-555)
C72, C91, D40, D82
4029 Heather Antecol
Michael D. Steinberger
Female Labor Supply Differences by Sexual Orientation: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach
Using 2000 U.S. Census data we illustrate the importance of accounting for household specialization in lesbian couples when examining the sexual orientation gap in female labor supply. Specifically, ...
(published as 'Labor Supply Differences between Married Heterosexual Women and Partnered Lesbians: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 783-805)
J22, J24
4028 Jonathan Haskel
Raffaella Sadun
Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 425-448)
D24, L81
4027 Alison L. Booth
Patrick J. Nolen
Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (2), 542 - 555)
C91, C92, J16, J33
4026 Alison L. Booth
Patrick J. Nolen
Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because their innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (558), F56 - F78)
C9, C91, C92, J16
4023 Joachim R. Frick
Markus M. Grabka
Olaf Groh-Samberg
The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic ...
(published in: Empirica, 2012, 43, 1143–1169)
D31, D13, I32
4022 Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Arthur van Soest
Erik Wengström
Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population
We analyse risk preferences using an experiment with real incentives in a representative sample of 1,422 Dutch respondents. Our econometric model incorporates four structural parameters that vary ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 664-694)
C90, D81
4020 Lawrence M. Kahn
Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 113-128)
J21, J23
4019 Alicia Adsera
Alicia Menendez
Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and ...
(published as 'Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty' in: Population Studies, 2011, 65 (1), 37 - 56)
J13, J16
4018 Indraneel Dasgupta
Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization
We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9 (1), Article 26)
D21
4016 Franz Hackl
Martin Halla
Gerald J. Pruckner
Volunteering and the State
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495)
H41, H44, H31, J22, I38, H11, D30, D64
4015 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Life Satisfaction
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global ...
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104)
I31, J28, D31
4014 Giuseppe Moscarini
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create ...
(published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39)
J21, J63, E24, E32
4013 Petri Böckerman
Ulla Hämäläinen
Roope Uusitalo
Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 672-681)
I21,I23
4011 Stephen P. Jenkins
Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Jeff Larrimore
Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81)
D31, C46, C81
4010 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Bert van Landeghem
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538)
D1, I12, I31
4009 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Christine Valente
Arthur van Soest
The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204)
O12, I12, J15, J16, J18
4008 Jos van Ommeren
Giovanni Russo
Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 432-455)
J63
4007 Bart Cockx
Matteo Picchio
Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 646 - 675 )
C15, C41, J62, J64
4005 Rosalind S. Hunter
Andrew J. Oswald
Bruce G. Charlton
The Elite Brain Drain
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (538), F231 - F251)
O3, J6
4004 Jan Eeckhout
Philipp Kircher
Identifying Sorting: In Theory
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (3), 872–906)
J31, C78
4002 David Card
Jochen Kluve
Andrea Weber
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2010, 120, F452-F477)
J00, J68
4001 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 320 - 364)
A12
4000 Richard A. Easterlin
Onnicha Sawangfa
Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, ...
(published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010)
I31, D60, O5, O10
3999 Klaus F. Zimmermann
Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing ...
(published in: E. Nowotny, P. Mooslechner and D. Ritzberger-Grünwald (eds.), The Integration of European Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, 9-23)
F22, J15, J61
3998 Matias Busso
John DiNardo
Justin McCrary
New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators
Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 885-897)
C14, C21, C52
3997 Magnus Lofstrom
Timothy Bates
Latina Entrepreneurship
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 427-439)
J15, J16, J31, L26
3995 Guido W. Imbens
Karthik Kalyanaraman
Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
We investigate the problem of optimal choice of the smoothing parameter (bandwidth) for the regression discontinuity estimator. We focus on estimation by local linear regression, which was shown to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 933-959)
C14
3994 Florencia López Bóo
Lucia Madrigal
Carmen Pagés
Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571)
C13, J16, J28
3992 Guillaume Horny
Rute Mendes
Gerard J. van den Berg
Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480)
C11, C15, C41, J20, J41, J62
3991 Per Engström
Patrik Hesselius
Bertil Holmlund
Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the ...
(published in: Labour, 2012, 26 (4), 419–435)
C99, J64, J68
3989 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Nicolai Kristensen
Dario Pozzoli
External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies
Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 854-865)
C25, I10
3987 Lawrence M. Kahn
The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics, Oxford, OUP, 2012)
J71, L83
3986 Sarah Brown
Steven McIntosh
Karl Taylor
Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 73 (1), 40-58)
J13, J24
3985 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
Huub Meijers
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 649-658)
J24, D03, D80
3982 Annette Bergemann
Regina T. Riphahn
Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended ...
(published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2011, 18 (1), 17 - 20)
J13, J21
3981 Sarah Brown
Karl Taylor
Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279)
J13, J24, J64
3980 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 27-37)
C31
3977 Philipp C. Bauer
Regina T. Riphahn
Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 103 (2), 87-90)
I2, I21, J24, D30
3976 Horst Entorf
Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2+3), 254-269)
C83, J38, J68, K42
3975 Graziella Bertocchi
Marianna Brunetti
Costanza Torricelli
Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915)
G11, E21, J12, J21
3974 Christopher Dawson
Andrew Henley
Paul L. Latreille
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of ...
(published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822)
L26, J24
3973 Mehtabul Azam
A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (4), 415–432)
C15, D63, O53
3972 Magnus Carlsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The ...
(published as 'The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers' in: Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 98-108)
J64, J71
3971 Daniel A. Powers
Myeong-Su Yun
Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models
We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is decomposed into components attributable to group differences in characteristics and ...
(published in: Sociological Methodology, 2009, 39(1), 233-263)
C20, C41, J13
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