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Migration to the US and marital mobility

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 3, pp. 669-694

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International handbook on internal migration

Nam, Charles B. (ed.); Serow, William John (ed.); … - 1990 - 1. publ.

These 21 national case studies of internal migration were written especially for this unusual and useful volume … important picture of national change. The International Handbook on Internal Migration is a compilation of 21 case studies, each …, Brazil, Guatemala, Ecuador, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK …

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Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method is first developed for a single probit model and later generalized to a simultaneous equations...

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Are we wasting our children's time by giving them more homework?

Eren, Ozkan; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2011

Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects...

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The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Cost of Going Public

Kaserer, Christoph; Mettler, Alfred; Obernberger, Stefan - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 2, pp. 125-147

This paper examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a legal framework intended to increase transparency and accountability of listed companies, on the cost of going public in the US. We expect SOX to increase the direct cost of going public, but decrease the underpricing because of...

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The inside scoop: Acceptance and rejection at the Journal of International Economics

Cherkashin, Ivan; Imai, Susumu; Krishna, Kala; … - 2008

There is little work on the inner workings of journals. What factors seem to affect the ability to publish in a journal? Could simple rules (which are already used by some journals) like the immediate rejection of a significant minority of papers, help to streamline the process? At what cost?...

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Student performance in an introductory business statistics course : does delivery mode matter?

Haughton, Jonathan; Kelly, Alison - In: Journal of education for business 90 (2015) 1, pp. 31-43

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Demand estimation with selection bias : a dynamic game approach with an application to the US railroad industry

Coublucq, Daniel - 2013

This paper is motivated by the US freight railroad industry, which is characterized by a major restructuring over the last 30 years. In particular, the number of active firms decreased from 26 in 1978 to seven in 2006 due to several takeover waves. The empirical focus concerns the estimation of...

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Selection and the distribution of female hourly wages in the U.S.

Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis; … - 2022

We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the years 1975 to 2020. We account for the selection bias from the employment decision by modeling the distribution of the number of working...

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How many hands to make sanctions work? : comparing EU and US sanctioning efforts

Weber, Patrick M.; Schneider, Gerald - In: European economic review : EER 130 (2020), pp. 1-23

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