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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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12631
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Max
Nathan
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Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138)
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L53, L86, O31, R30, R50
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12629
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Zichen
Deng
Maarten
Lindeboom
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A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life: Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation we find strong positive ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102615)
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I15, J16, J24, O15
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12628
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Alessio
Gaggero
Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Does Class Size Matter in Postgraduate Education?
The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2019, 88 (3), 489-505.)
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I21, I23
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12626
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Plamen
Nikolov
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Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania
Attitudes toward risk underlie virtually every important economic decision an individual makes. In this experimental study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (2), 1124-1137. )
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D03, D81, D91, OI10, O12, O16
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12625
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Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis
Pension schemes in the Netherlands allow workers to redistribute their own pension wealth to increase the survivor pension of their partner. However, due to lacking communication and knowledge of ...
(published in: Journal of Behavior Economics and Organization, 2020, 173, 402-421.)
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J14, J26, D31
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12624
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Samuele
Giambra
David
McKenzie
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Self-Employment and Migration
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 141, 105362)
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F22, J61, O15
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12623
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Michal
Burzynski
Christoph
Deuster
Frédéric
Docquier
Jaime
de Melo
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Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on local, interregional, and international migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1145 - 1197)
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E24, F22, J24, J61, O15, Q54
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12622
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Alois
Stutzer
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Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based ...
(published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4 (2), 210-225)
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D60, D70, H11, I31
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12619
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John
V.
Winters
Zhengyu
Cai
Karen
Maguire
Shruti
Sengupta
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Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era
Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas ...
(published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, 2021, 61 (2), 387 - 406)
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J20, J30, Q40, R10
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12618
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Ali
Fakih
Pascal
L.
Ghazalian
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Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system and for better economic conditions. This paper investigates the perceptions of ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021, 48 (1), 1658-1676)
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A13, P48, Z13
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