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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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11934
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Tarun
Jain
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
Nishith
Prakash
Raghav
Rakesh
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Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy
This paper explores the association between studying science at the higher secondary stage and labor market earnings using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult ...
(published as 'Science Education and Labor Market Outcomes in a Developing Economy' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 741-763)
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I23, I26, J24
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11933
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Brecht
Neyt
Sarah
Vandenbulcke
Stijn
Baert
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Education Level and Mating Success: Undercover on Tinder
In this study, we examine the impact of an individual’s education level on her/his mating success by means of a field experiment on the mobile dating app Tinder, using a sample of 3,600 profile ...
(revised version published as 'Are Men Intimidated by Highly Educated Women? Undercover on Tinder' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101914 )
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C93, I26, J12
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11931
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Rebecca
Schrader
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Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment
We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions. We apply rich administrative data and exploit a difference-in-differences ...
(published as 'Institutional Reforms of 2006 and the Dramatic Rise in Old-Age Employment in Germany' in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1185-1225.)
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J14, J26
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11930
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Carl
Lin
Yan
Sun
Chunbing
Xing
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Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57 (12), 2077-2094)
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J13, J17, J61, J24
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11929
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Michael
Grimm
Renate
Hartwig
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Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso
We assess the willingness to pay (WTP) for eyeglasses in an adult population in rural Burkina Faso using a variant of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) method. We combine the BDM approach with video ...
(published as 'All Eyes on the Price: An Assessment of the Willingness-to-Pay for Eyeglasses in Rural Burkina Faso' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1347 - 1367)
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D11, D12, D83, I15
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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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