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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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10954
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Trenton
G.
Smith
Steven
Stillman
Stuart
Craig
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'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World: Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic
Obesity rates have risen dramatically in the US since the 1980s, but well-identified studies have struggled to explain the magnitude of the observed changes. In this paper, we estimate the causal ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 90 (3), 634 - 655)
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D10, I12, I18, J60
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10953
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Micha
Kaiser
Mirjam
Reutter
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Kristina
Strohmaier
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Smoking and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Germany
In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results ...
(published as 'Smoking and local unemployment: Evidence from Germany ' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 138 - 147)
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E32, I12, J22
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10952
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Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
Daniel
Ladd
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Did Parental Involvement Laws Grow Teeth? The Effects of State Restrictions on Minors' Access to Abortion
We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 71, 102302)
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I11, I12, J13
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10951
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Charles
Courtemanche
Andrew
I.
Friedson
Andrew
P.
Koller
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times
This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213)
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I11, I13, I18
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10949
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Robert
A.
Hart
Mirko
Moro
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Date of Birth and Selective Schooling
We examine the effects of date of birth on state selective education using the 1944 Education Act in England and Wales as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective ...
(published as 'Date of birth and selective schooling: Some lessons from the 1944 education reforms in England and Wales' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (5), 523 - 538)
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I21, I24, I28
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10948
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany
To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the ...
(published in: M.R. West, L. Woessmann (eds.), Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, 205-243)
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I28, D72, H52
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10947
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Adriana
Kugler
Catherine
H.
Tinsley
Olga
Ukhaneva
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Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?
Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102079)
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I23, I24, I26, J16
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10946
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Andre
Jungmittag
Paul
J. J.
Welfens
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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation
The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced ...
(published as 'EU-US trade post-trump perspectives: TTIP aspects related to foreign direct investment and innovation' in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2020,17, 259 - 294)
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F14, F43, O30, O47, O52
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10945
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Ngoc Thi
Minh Tran
Michael
P.
Cameron
Jacques
Poot
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International Migration and Institutional Quality in the Home Country: It Matters Where You Go and How Long You Stay!
International migrants are widely recognised as agents of institutional change in their home countries. However, the huge growth in temporary migration in recent years demands a fresh investigation ...
(published as "How robust is the evidence on the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries?" in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1), 126-152)
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F22, O15
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10944
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Tom
Kleinepier
Maarten
van Ham
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Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage during Childhood
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure ...
(published as 'Ethnic differences in timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood disadvantage during childhood' in: Advances in Life Course Research, 2018, 36, 92 - 104)
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I30, J60, P46, R23
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