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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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12768
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 186, 1-5)
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I23
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12767
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Arnd
Kölling
Claus
Schnabel
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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments
Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of ...
(substantially revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (2), 424-443)
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J53, M54, G32
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12765
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Jordy
Meekes
Wolter
Hassink
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Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies
This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2023, 57 (1), 13 - 25)
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R12, R23, J31, J6
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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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12759
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Anselm
Hager
Lukas
Hensel
Johannes
Hermle
Christopher
Roth
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Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
How does a citizen's decision to participate in political activism depend on the participation of others? We examine this core question of collective action in a nation-wide natural field experiment ...
(Published in: The Economic Journal, 133(653), 2068–2084.)
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D8, P16
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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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