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Forecasting the UK top 1% income share in a shifting world 预测不断变化的世界中英国收入最高的 1% 所占份额

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12533

Jennifer L. Castle, Jurgen A. Doornik, David F. Hendry

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Austerity and elections 紧缩与选举

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12534

Alberto Alesina, Gabriele Ciminelli, Davide Furceri, Giorgio Saponaro

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How the wellbeing function varies with age: the importance of income, health and social relations over the lifecycle 福祉功能如何随年龄变化：收入、健康和社会关系在生命周期中的重要性

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12528

Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören, Heinz Welsch

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Ex ante transparency and corruption by networks 事前透明度和网络腐败

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12526

Mehmet Bac

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Follow the leader? The long-run interaction between public and private sector wage growth in the UK 追随领导者？英国公共部门和私营部门工资增长之间的长期互动关系

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12525

Peter Dolton, Arno Hantzsche

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From unobserved to observed preference heterogeneity: a revealed preference methodology 从未被发现的偏好异质性到观察到的偏好异质性：揭示偏好的方法论

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12524

Laurens Cherchye, Dieter Saelens, Reha Tuncer

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The effect of school grants on test scores: experimental evidence from Mexico 学校补助金对考试成绩的影响：墨西哥的实验证据

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12523

Mauricio Romero, Juan Bedoya, Monica Yanez-Pagans, Marcela Silveyra, Rafael de Hoyos

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Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID-19: within-city evidence from England 邻里劳动力结构、封锁政策和 COVID-19 的不均衡传播：英格兰城市内部的证据

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12522

Carlo Corradini, Jesse Matheson, Enrico Vanino

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Debt, deficits and interest rates 债务、赤字和利率

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12521

Christopher D. Cotton

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Do management practices matter in further education? 继续教育中的管理实践重要吗？

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Economica Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12520

Sandra McNally, Luis Schmidt, Anna Valero

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