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How do labor markets affect crime? : new evidence on an old puzzle

Mustard, David B. - 2010

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

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From estimation resultsto stylized facts : twelve recommendations for empirical research in international activities of heterogeneous firms

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of microeconometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...

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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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On the role of counterfactuals in inferring causal effects of treatments

Kluve, Jochen - 2001

Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual...

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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...

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A meta-analysis of the international gender wage gap

Weichselbaumer, Doris (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Resource misallocation in European firms : the role of constraints, firm characteristics and managerial decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Švejnar, Jan; … - 2018

Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...

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Partial insurance and investments in children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

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