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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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11649
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Christoph
Grimpe
Ulrich
Kaiser
Wolfgang
Sofka
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Innovating for the Better? The Role of Advocacy Group Work Experience for Employee Pay
How valuable is work experience with advocacy groups, e.g. Greenpeace, for new hires of innovative firms? We integrate strategic human capital with stakeholder theory and suggest that this experience ...
(published as 'Signalling valuable human capital: Advocacy group work experience and its effect on employee pay in innovative firms' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40(4), 685-70;)
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J24, J6, C21
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11647
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Adam
Cook
Yong
Yin
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What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 233–281)
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N3, E24, H42, I2, O1, O57, O4
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11645
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Manudeep
Bhuller
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
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Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(4),1269-1324)
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K42, J24
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11644
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Robert
Dur
Ben
Vollaard
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Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 93, 208-220)
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C93, K42
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11643
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Estimating Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on a Broad Set of Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
A growing body of evidence suggests large increases in criminal behavior and mortality coinciding with a young adult's 21st birthday, when alcohol consumption becomes legal. The policy implications ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (3), 427-448)
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I12, I18
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11642
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Thomas
Dohmen
Simone
Quercia
Jana
Willrodt
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Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763 )
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D91, C91, D81, D01
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11641
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Conny
Wunsch
Renate
Strobl
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Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters
Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of ...
(published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185–1214)
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C91, D63, D81, O12
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11639
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
van der Velde
Karolina
Goraus-Tanska
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How (Not) to Make Women Work?
Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap with respect to men was cut in half. This positive trend has often been ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2018, 75, 154-167)
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J2, J7, P7
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11638
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Mahdi
Majbouri
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Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female labor force participation (FLFP) has remained low. Using the instrumental ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2018, 51 (4), 387–397)
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J13, J22, O53
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11637
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Damien
de Walque
Christine
Valente
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Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions
Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 256–285)
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I25, D82, N37
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