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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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13210
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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The Causal Effect of Education on Climate Literacy and Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global ...
(published as 'Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: a nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales' in: Ecological Economics, 2021, 181, 106931.)
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I26, Q54
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13207
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Martin
Abel
Willa
Brown
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Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models
In public good provision and other collective action problems, people are uncertain about how to balance self-interest and prosociality. Actions of others may inform this decision. We conduct an ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101942)
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H41, I21, K30, O15
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13206
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Perline
A.
Demange
Margherita
Malanchini
Travis
T.
Mallard
Pietro
Biroli
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Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction
Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we ...
(published in: Nature Genetics, 2021, 53, 35 - 44)
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J24, I24, E24, I14
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13205
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Ulugbek
Aminjonov
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Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socioeconomic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required for collective survival. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316)
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E71, H12, I12, I18, Z18
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13204
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Abel
Brodeur
Andrew
E.
Clark
Sarah
Flèche
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104346)
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I12, I31, J22
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13203
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Miguel
Urquiola
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Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
Around 1870 the U.S. had no research universities of note, while today it accounts for the largest number in the world. Many accounts attribute this transformation to events surrounding World War II. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 185 - 205)
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J24, J44
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13202
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Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
Chi
Trieu
Jana
Willrodt
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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies
Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (656), 3099 - 3135)
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C91, D02, D63
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13200
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
Xiao
Wang
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The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1393 - 1402)
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I13, I18, N32, N52
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13198
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Markus
Gehrsitz
Henry
Saffer
Michael
Grossman
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The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption
We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204,104520)
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I12, H21, D12, D62
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13196
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Fernando
Rios-Avila
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Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings
Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109253)
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C81, C83, D31
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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