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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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11928
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Olukorede
Abiona
Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty: Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020,18, 435-464)
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G23, H31, I31, I32
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11927
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Robert
Dur
Max
van Lent
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Socially Useless Jobs
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 3-16)
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J2, J3, J4, J8, M5
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11926
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Hannes
Schwandt
Till
von
Wachter
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Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-sectional Data Sets
This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S1), S161–S198)
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J2, J3, J6
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11925
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Nicole
Maestas
Kathleen
Mullen
David
Powell
Till
von
Wachter
Jeffrey
Wenger
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (7), 2007 - 2047)
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J13
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11923
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Francois
Gerard
Lorenzo
Lagos
Edson
Severnini
David
Card
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Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil
A growing body of research shows that firms' employment and wage-setting policies contribute to wage inequality and pay disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3418 -3457)
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E24, J15, J31
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11922
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Redzo
Mujcic
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Is Envy Harmful to a Society's Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults
Nearly 100 years ago, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell warned of the social dangers of widespread envy. One view of modern society is that it is systematically developing a set of ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 198, 103 - 111)
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I18, I31
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11921
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Xi
Chen
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Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making
Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019, 8 (2), 76 - 80)
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I24, Q53, Q51, G11, G41, J24
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11920
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David
B.
Huffman
Michael
L.
Bognanno
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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives
A previous literature cautions that paying workers for performance might crowd out non-monetary motives to work hard. Empirical evidence from the field, however, has been based on between-subjects ...
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.)
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D03, J22, J33
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11919
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Frederik
Graff
Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
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Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596)
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C91, D9, J33, M52
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11918
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Carlos
Alós-Ferrer
Ernst
Fehr
Nick
Netzer
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Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy
The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (6), 1828–1877)
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D11, D81, D83, D87
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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