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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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12764
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Yaxi
Li
Qian-Li
Xue
Michelle
C.
Odden
Xi
Chen
Chenkai
Wu
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Early Life Environments and Frailty in Old Age among Chinese Older Adults
Exposures in childhood and adolescence may impact the development of diseases and symptoms in late life. However, evidence from low- and middle- income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined ...
(published as 'Linking early life risk factors to frailty in old age: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study ' in: Age and Ageing, 2020, 49 (2), 208 - 217)
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I10, I14, I18
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12763
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Giorgio
Brunello
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia
Terskaya
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Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity
We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic predisposition to high BMI – measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102349)
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D62, I1, I12
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12761
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Milena
Nikolova
Olga
Popova
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Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
After the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. However, it remains unclear whether this ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (4), 1783-1800)
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L26, P20, P31
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12760
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Karen
A.
Kopecky
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The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. This led to a sexual revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, ...
(published in: A. Bison; F. Giovanni (eds.), Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021.)
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J11, J12, N3, O3
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12758
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Shahar
Sansani
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Immigrant Examination Behavior
In this paper, we estimate differences in examination behavior between immigrants and natives, by examining differences in the propensity to forego a passing grade on a final exam in order to retake ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 28 (2), 136–155)
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J15, I23, D81
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12757
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James
Elwell
Kevin
Corinth
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
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Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census ...
(published in D. Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being; OUP, Oxford, 2020, 90-124. )
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D31, C81
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12756
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Oded
Stark
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Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors
Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and ...
(published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835)
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D01, D81, D91, I12
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12755
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Marco
Caliendo
Stefan
Tübbicke
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 517-554)
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C14, L26, H43, I31, J68
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12753
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James
J.
Heckman
Tomáš
Jagelka
Tim
Kautz
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Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality
This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes ...
(published in: O. P. John and R. W. Robins (eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed., Guilford Press, 2021, 853–892)
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D91, D12, C93, C91, D9
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12752
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Philip
Ushchev
Yves
Zenou
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Social Norms in Networks
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104969.)
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D85, J15, Z13
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