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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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11773
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality
Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and ...
(published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 126-157.)
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I15, I18
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11771
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Sarah
Brown
Mark
N.
Harris
Preety
Srivastava
Karl
Taylor
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Mental Health and Reporting Bias: Analysis of the GHQ-12
Measures of mental wellbeing are heavily relied upon to identify at-risk individuals. However, self-reported mental health metrics might be unduly affected by mis-reporting (perhaps stemming from ...
(published as 'Mental health, reporting bias and economic transitions' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (2), 541-564)
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C3, D1, I1
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11769
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Ben
Baumberg Geiger
René
Böheim
Thomas
Leoni
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The Growing American Health Penalty: International Trends in the Employment of Older Workers with Poor Health
Many countries have reduced the generosity of disability benefits while making them more activating – yet few studies have examined how employment rates have subsequently changed. We present ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 82, 18–32, 2019)
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J14, J18, H55
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11767
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Jake
Bradley
Axel
Gottfries
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A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities
We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics 2021, 12 (4), 1399-1430)
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J31, J64
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11765
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Patrick
Arni
Amelie
Schiprowski
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Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes
How effective are effort targets? This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of job search requirements on effort provision and labor market outcomes. Based on large-scale register data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 169, 65-88)
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J64, J65
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11764
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Manuel
Denzer
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion
We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use ...
(published in: Information Economics and Policy, 2020, 100900.)
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J64, C26, L86
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11762
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Gopi
Shah Goda
Matthew
R.
Levy
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
Aaron
Sojourner
Joshua
Tasoff
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Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias
In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential-growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the tendency to neglect ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (3), 1636 - 1658 )
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D91, J26, D14, D15
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11761
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René
Böheim
Dominik
Grübl
Mario
Lackner
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Choking under Pressure: Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance
We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 76–93)
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D03, J24, M54
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11760
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
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The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 555-574)
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H41, D03, D64, C93
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11759
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Magnus
Carlsson
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Far-right and far-left parties by definition occupy the fringes of politics, with policy proposals outside the mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, 104533)
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D72, H70
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