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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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10624
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Sor
Tho
Ng
Nai
Peng
Tey
Niaz
Asadullah
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What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China
This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over) in China. We use the 2011/2012 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey data ...
(published in: PLOS One, 2017, 12(2): e0171799)
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O12, I30, I31
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10620
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Olaf
Hübler
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Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship
Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper ...
(revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111 )
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D03, I12, J16, J24, J81
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10619
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Manisha
Shah
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Scaling Up Sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 1-16)
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O12, I15
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10618
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Alberto
Diaz-Cayeros
Grant
Miller
Alfonso
Miranda
Atheendar
Venkataramani
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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (4), 490-520.)
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I18, H41, J11
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10617
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Soohyung
Lee
Chiara
Orsini
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Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?
This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference – Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 154, 48 - 50)
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J1, I1
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10615
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David
McKenzie
Olga
Susana
Puerto
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Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 13 (2), 297-332)
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O12, O17, J16, L26
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10614
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Guy
Johnson
David
C.
Ribar
Anna
Zhu
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Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies
This paper reviews international evidence regarding women's homelessness. It discusses different definitions of homelessness and how women are frequently part of the "hidden homeless" population and ...
(published in: in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women and the Economy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.)
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I30, R31
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10613
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
Xingfei
Liu
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8 (3), 895-927 )
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I2, J1, J3
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10611
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Jan
Feld
Jan
Sauermann
Andries
de Grip
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Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
The Dunning–Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance. Researchers usually interpret this empirical ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24)
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D03, I23
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10610
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Sungjin
Cho
Jihye
Kam
Soohyung
Lee
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Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major
This study examines the extent to which changing the composition of college majors among working-age population may affect the supply of human capital or effective labor supply. We use the South ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2018, 63 (5), 1319-1343 )
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I2, J2, J4
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