R Abramitzky - The quarterly journal of economics, 2008 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract What limits the capacity of society to redistribute? What determines the structure of
compensation in organizations striving for income equality? This paper addresses these
questions by investigating the economic and sociological forces underlying the ...
R Abramitzky, A Delavande… - American Economic Journal …, 2011 - nber.org
Abstract We investigate the effect of a change in sex ratio on assortative matching in the
marriage market using a large negative exogenous shock to the French male population
due to WWI casualties. We analyze a unique marriage-level dataset, which is linked to ...
R Abramitzky, LP Boustan… - 2010 - nber.org
The Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913) was among the largest migration episodes in
history. During this period, the United States maintained open borders. Using a novel
dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration while accounting for ...
R Abramitzky - 2005 - mauricio.econ.ubc.ca
Abstract The Israeli Kibbutz movement is a voluntary cooperative based on equality, mutual
assistance, partnership, and common ownership of property. It is one of the last socialist
experiments that successfully survived for most of the twentieth century. How did a ...
R Abramitzky - Journal of Public Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper tests a key theoretical prediction of public finance, that local redistribution
induces sorting of the population so that less productive individuals are located in
communities with more redistribution. Specifically, I use a longitudinal data set to test ...
R Abramitzky - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: I use a longitudinal dataset of individuals entering and exiting Israeli kibbutzim,
communities that engage in equal sharing of output, to test the mobility patterns induced by
redistribution. I find evidence of negative selection in entry to kibbutzim and positive ...
R Abramitzky… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study
the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on
800,000 translations, we show that while translations between Communist languages ...
R Abramitzky… - 2011 - nber.org
This paper uses an unusual pay reform to test the responsiveness of investment in schooling
to changes in redistribution schemes that increase the rate of return to education. We exploit
an episode where different Israeli kibbutzim shifted from equal sharing to productivity- ...
[CITATION] The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz
A Ran - Quarterly Journal of, 2005
[CITATION] On the (lack of) stability of communes: an economic perspective
R Abramitzky - The Hanbook of the Economics of Religion', Oxford …, 2011
R Abramitzky, Z Frank… - Journal of Economic …, 2010 - Cambridge Univ Press
We construct an individual-level data set of partnership contracts in late-nineteenth-century
Rio de Janeiro to study the determinants of contract terms. Partners with limited liability
contributed more capital and received lower draws for private expenses and lower profit ...
[CITATION] Brain Drain and Avderse Selection: the Case of the Israeli Kibbutz
A Ran - 2003 - Northwestern Mimeo
[CITATION] Forthcoming. Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas
R Abramitzky, L Einav… - Economic Journal
[CITATION] Marriage and War
R Abramitzky, A Delavande… - 2007
R Abramitzky - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The first kibbutzwas established southwest of the Sea of Galilee in 1910, but the
vast majority of kibbutzim were established in the 1930s and 1940s, shortly before the
creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Founders aimed to create a “new human being “who ...
R Abramitzky… - NBER Working Paper No. w17093, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper uses a novel dataset to test the important theoretical prediction that the
level of investment in schooling is increasing in the rate of return to education. We exploit a
unique episode where different Israeli kibbutzim shifted from equal sharing to productivity- ...
R Abramitzky, L Einav… - The Economic Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We use individual-level survey and county-level expenditure data to examine the extent to
which Hanukkah celebrations among US Jews are driven by the presence of Christmas. We
document that Jews with young children are more likely to celebrate Hanukkah, that this ...
[CITATION] Luis Vasconcelos. 2010.“Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching.”
R Abramitzky… - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
R Abramitzky… - The Journal of Economic …, 2006 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe
characteristics such as the health, physical strength, and education of indentured servants.
These characteristics, unobservable to us, were likely to influence servitude duration, ...
R Abramitzky, LP Boustan… - 2011 - stanford.edu
Abstract: Using a novel dataset on over 50,000 men during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-
1913), we explore the relationship between an individual's household and place of
residence during childhood and his probability of internal or international migration later in ...
WT Harbaugh, K Krause,
L Vesterlund… - The Economic …, 2009 - res.org.uk
We examine the robustness of the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes under two elicitation
procedures. We find that individuals are, on average, risk-seeking over low-probability gains
and high-probability losses and risk-averse over high-probability gains and low- ...
R Abramitzky - stanford.edu
1 Lazear (1986, 2000a, 2000b) highlighted the selection effect of pay-for-performance
contracts and illustrated its effect on performance. The main focus of agency theory has
been the incentive effects of contracts; a classic reference for the incentive effect of equal- ...
R Abramitzky - 2006 - helsinki.fi
Abstract I employ a longitudinal dataset of individuals linked across the 1983 and 1995
Israeli censuses of population to test Borjas' hypothesis that migrants' self-selection depends
on the difference in earnings inequality between the origin and the destination. The nature ...
R Abramitzky… - National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: This paper uses a novel dataset to test the important theoretical prediction that the
level of investment in schooling is increasing in the rate of return to education. We exploit a
unique episode where different Israeli kibbutzim shifted from equal sharing to productivity- ...
R Abramitzky, LP Boustan… - 2012 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Abstract: Using a novel dataset on over 50,000 men during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-
1913), we explore the relationship between parental wealth and the probability of internal or
international migration later in life. Exogenous variation in birth order and gender ...
[CITATION] The Limits of Equality: An Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz Job Market Paper
R Abramitzky - 2005
R Abramitzky, Z Frank… - 2010 - stanford.edu
Abstract We construct an individual-level dataset of partnership contracts in late nineteenth
century Rio de Janeiro to study the determinants of contract terms. We show that partners
with limited liability contributed more capital and received lower draws for private ...
R Abramitzky, L Einav… - The Economic Journal, 2009 - res.org.uk
We use individual-level survey and county-level expenditure data to examine the extent to
which Hanukkah celebrations among US Jews are driven by the presence of Christmas. We
document that Jews with young children are more likely to celebrate Hanukkah, that this ...
R Abramitzky… - 2009 - Citeseer
Abstract We use a difference-in-differences strategy that compares Communist with Western
European countries to test the effect of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe on the
flow of book translations between countries. We find that translations of Western European ...
R Abramitzky, LP Boustan… - … presented at the 2011 Migration and …, 2011 - eh.net
Abstract: In the early twentieth century, over 20 percent of the US labor force was foreign
born. Prior work finds that immigrants during this era earned less than natives upon first
arrival but that their earnings converged over time. Comparisons with newly-assembled ...
RAN ABRAMITZKY, L BOUSTAN… - news.stanford.edu
The Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913) was one of the largest migration episodes in history.
Unlike today, during this era the US maintained an open border. This column suggests that,
unhindered by entry restrictions, Europeans migrants to the US during this period were ...
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