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van Ours, Jan C.; Yao, Yuxin - 2016

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...

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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Henkens, Kène - 2004

citations. Three types of signals are examined: the author’s reputation (as producer of the idea), the journal (as the broker of …

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Is there such a Thing called Scientific Waste?

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Klamer, Arjo - 2005

publication statistics or competitive attention seeking strategies. The badly designed use of market principles in which citations …

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Modelling and Simulation: An Overview

McAleer, Michael; Chan, Felix; Oxley, Les - 2013

: Monte Carlo evidence, and coercive journal self citations, impact factor, journal influence and article influence. …

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Ranking Leading Econometrics Journals using Citations Data from ISI and RePEc

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2013

econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI … weighted and unweighted transformations of citations, are highlighted to show which RAMs are able to provide informational … value relative to others. The RAMs include the impact factor, mean citations and non-citations, journal policy, number of …

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On the Influence of Top Journals

Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; van der Leij, Marco J.; … - 2020

We study the evolution of the influence of journals over the period 1970-2017. In the early 1970's, a number of journals had similar influence, but by 1995, the `Top 5' journals, QJE, AER, RES, Econometrica, and JPE, had acquired a major lead. This dominance has remained more or less unchanged...

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The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay

Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; von Hinke, Stephanie; … - 2022

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

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The Fast and The Studious? Ramadan Observance and Student Performance

Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023

What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...

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Intergenerational Persistence in the Effects of Compulsory Schooling in the US

Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024

Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...

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Effects of Ethnic Geographical Clustering on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands

de Graaff, Thomas; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such networks are sometimes even regarded as the mostimportant attraction and location factors for migration, and may even exceed purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage...

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