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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3694 Rainald Borck
Katharina Wrohlich
Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (3), 436-454)
J13, D72, H42, D19
3693 Nauro F. Campos
Francesco Giovannoni
Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries ...
(published as 'Political institutions, lobbying and corruption' in: Journal of Institutional Economics , 2017, 13 (4), 917-939)
E23, D72, H26, O17, P16
3692 Dorothea Blomeyer
Katja Coneus
Manfred Laucht
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2-3), 638 - 648)
D87, I12, I21, J13
3690 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore
Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975–2004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 393 - 415)
D31, C81
3689 Alan Barrett
Elish Kelly
Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As ...
(published as "How Reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for Migration Research?" in: Economic and Social Review, 2008, 39 (3), 191-205)
J61
3688 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy
Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(545), 683-708)
D21, G34, J23, J31, L33, P31
3687 Pierre Cahuc
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model
We analyze the consequences of counseling provided to job seekers in a standard job search and matching model. It turns out that neglecting equilibrium effects induced by counseling can lead to wrong ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 196-205)
J64, J68
3686 Rolf Aaberge
Audun Langørgen
Magne Mogstad
Marit Østensen
The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how ...
(published as 'The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549 - 562 )
D31, H72, I30
3685 Paul Grout
Wendelin Schnedler
Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health ...
(improved version is available here)
L30, M50, H10, H40
3684 Andrew Grodner
Thomas J. Kniesner
Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366)
D31, D63
3682 Kristian Behrens
Giordano Mion
Yasusada Murata
Jens Suedekum
Trade, Wages, and Productivity
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies ...
(substantially revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (4), 1305-1348. [Final version])
F12, F15, F17
3681 Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany
This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (4), 542-556)
E24, J30, J31, J64
3680 Philippe Aghion
Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the ...
(revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42)
J30, J50, K00
3679 Hans Bloemen
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and ...
(published as 'Market hours, household work, child care, and wage rates of partners: an empirical analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 51-81)
D1, D13, J21
3677 Melanie K. Jones
Richard J. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 139 - 175)
J0, J2, J3
3676 Anders Frederiksen
Odile Poulsen
Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
J3, J6, M5, O3
3674 Michael Daly
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking
This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland ...
(published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669)
C81, D84, D01, D91
3671 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance
Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2013, 32 (3), 384-414)
C13, C14, C21
3670 Adriana Kugler
Mutlu Yuksel
Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds.), Latinos and the U.S. Economy: A Labor Economics Perspective, Springer, 2011.)
J11, J21, J31, J61
3669 Quentin David
Alexandre Janiak
Etienne Wasmer
Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home ...
(merged with DP 3668 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
J2, J61, Z1
3668 Quentin David
Alexandre Janiak
Etienne Wasmer
Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not ...
(merged with DP 3669 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
J2, J61, Z1
3667 Alan B. Krueger
Andreas I. Mueller
Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307)
J64, J65
3666 Phanindra V. Wunnava
Daniel B. Leiter
Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical ...
(published in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009, 68 (2), 413-426)
O33, D63, I20
3664 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Muna Husain
School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (3), 640-654)
C31, H51, I18, I28
3663 Elke J. Jahn
Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2010, 230 (2), 208-233)
J30, J31, J42
3661 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2008, 228 (5-6), 497-511)
J51
3660 John H. Pencavel
How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being
Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 47-156.)
J51
3658 Juan Ponce
Arjun S. Bedi
The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Cognitive Achievement: The Bono de Desarrollo Humano of Ecuador
Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (1), 116-125)
I38, I28
3657 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Annie Georges
Susan Pozo
Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise ...
(The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010, 630 (1), 224-244.)
F22, O54
3656 Andrew Grodner
Thomas J. Kniesner
Social Interactions in Demand
We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover effect in the form of an externality from other consumers’ choices and or a ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366)
D11
3655 Ernst Fehr
Martin Brown
Christian Zehnder
On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity
We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 333 - 353)
D82, J3, J41, E24, C9
3654 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
The “Easterlin paradox” suggests that there is no link between a society’s economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008, 1, 1-87)
D6, I3, J1
3653 Ana C. Dammert
Heterogeneous Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from Nicaragua
In the last decade, the most popular policy tool used to increase human capital in developing countries has been the conditional cash transfer program. A large literature has shown significant mean ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 58(1), 53-84)
O15, I38
3652 Jonathan B. Pritchett
Myeong-Su Yun
The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2009, 46 (2), 241-252 )
N31, J15, I10
3651 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 138-140)
J0, I0, J1
3650 Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities’ economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 5-14)
J15, J71, J78
3649 Esteban Sanromá
Raul Ramos
Hipólito Simón
The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence for Spain
The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This ...
(published as 'Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Overeducation in Spain' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2015, 34(2), 223-241)
J61, J31, J24
3648 Joop Hartog
Mirjam C. van Praag
Justin van der Sluis
If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability: Entrepreneurs versus Employees
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2010, 19 (4), 947-989)
J23, J24, J31, J44, M13
3647 Ansgar H. Belke
Julia Spies
Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. ...
(published in: Empirica, 2008, 35 (4), 369-389)
F15, F41
3646 Martin Salm
Daniel Schunk
The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data
We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive ...
(revised version published as 'The Relationship between Child Health, Developmental Gaps, and Parental Education: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (6), 1425-1449)
J13, I20, I12
3645 W. Stanley Siebert
Nick Zubanov
Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of ...
(published in: Management Science, 2011, 56(8), 1398-1414)
D21, J24, M20, J33, M52
3644 Amelie F. Constant
Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 145-162)
M13, J23, J15, J61, J31
3643 Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours
We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 218-228)
J22, J38
3641 Hessel Oosterbeek
Mirjam C. van Praag
Auke IJsselstein
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a ...
(published as "The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 442-454)
A20, C31, H43, H75, 120, J24, L26
3640 Guido W. Imbens
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2009, 47(1), 1-81)
C14, C21, C52
3639 Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Martin Sefton
The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity
We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1346-1367; doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01730.x)
A13, C92, J31
3638 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and proposes simple estimators. Quantile treatment effects are a very ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (2), 382-395)
C13, C14, C21
3636 James J. Heckman
The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind
This paper uses data available from the National Opinion Research Center's (NORC) survey on religious attitudes and powerful statistical methods to evaluate the effect of prayer on the attitude of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (1), 234-235)
Z12
3635 Gerard J. van den Berg
Gabriele Doblhammer
Kaare Christensen
Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) ...
(published in: Demography, 48(2) 2011, 507-530)
I10, J14, C41, H75, E32, J10, N33, N13, I12, I18
3634 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Marco E. Terrones
Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2009, 28 (4), 554-580)
F41, F36, F43
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