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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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10415
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Mike
Brewer
Sarah
Cattan
Claire
Crawford
Birgitta
Rabe
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Free Childcare and Parents' Labour Supply: Is More Better?
Despite the introduction of childcare subsidies in many countries, the cost of childcare is still thought to hinder parental employment. Many governments are considering increasing the generosity of ...
(published as 'Does more free childcare help parents work more?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 74,102100)
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I21, J22
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10413
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Rania
Gihleb
Kevin
Lang
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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos (eds.), Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job (Research in Labor Economics 48), Emerald Publisheing, 2020, 1 - 26)
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J12
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10412
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Emily
McDool
Philip
Powell
Jennifer
Roberts
Karl
Taylor
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Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
Childhood circumstances and behaviours have been shown to have important persistent effects in later life. One aspect of childhood that has changed dramatically in the past decade, and is causing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1-20)
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D60, I31, J13
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10411
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Milena
Nikolova
Sinem
H.
Ayhan
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Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at the couple level. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 32, 799- 844)
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I31, J01, J65
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10410
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Guido
Friebel
Michael
Kosfeld
Gerd
Thielmann
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into this type of public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78)
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C9, D64, D73, J45
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10408
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Sarah
Brown
Daniel
Gray
Mark
N.
Harris
Christopher
Spencer
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Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk
Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background ...
(published as 'Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk' in: Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, 63, 96 - 117)
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C33, C35, D14, G11
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10407
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Nicolás
Salamanca
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568)
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G11, D14, D19
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10406
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Helke
Seitz
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Locus of Control and Investment in Training
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349)
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J24, C23, D84
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10405
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
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The Twin Instrument
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Twin Birth and Maternal Condition' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853 - 864 / published as 'The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090 - 3139)
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J12, J13, C13, D13, I12
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10404
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Garry
F.
Barrett
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data
We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 255 - 265)
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J22, C21
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