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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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10364
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Alison
L.
Booth
Elliott
Fan
Xin
Meng
Dandan
Zhang
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions
In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 734 - 764)
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C9, C91, C92, J16, P3, P5, D03
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10363
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Viola
Angelini
Marco
Bertoni
Luca
Stella
Christoph T.
Weiss
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The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Long-term Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Savings of European Households
By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 97-113)
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G11, J12, J22, J32
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10362
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Guillaume
Vandenbroucke
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Family Economics Writ Large
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.)
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D1, E2, J1, O1, O4, Z1
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10361
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Rafael
Lalive
Pierpaolo
Parrotta
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How Does Pension Eligibility Affect Labor Supply in Couples?
Many OECD countries are reforming their pension systems. We investigate how pension eligibility affects labor supply in couples. Inspired by a theoretical framework, we measure how the sharp change ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 177-188)
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J26, J14, C40, D10
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10360
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Matteo
Bobba
Veronica
Frisancho
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Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high ...
(Updated version available as DP 16168.)
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D83, I21, I24, J24
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10357
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Martin
R.
West
Ludger
Woessmann
Philipp
Lergetporer
Katharina
Werner
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157)
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H52, I22, D72, D83
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10356
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
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What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure
Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 113 (47), 13354-13359)
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J24, D03
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10354
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Laura
Barbieri
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28, 203-218.)
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O31, O33
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10352
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Pierre
Cahuc
Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Helène
Benghalem
Emeline
Limon
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Taxation of Temporary Jobs: Good Intentions with Bad Outcomes?
This paper analyzes the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs recently introduced in several European countries to induce firms to create more open-ended contracts and to increase the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (626), 422 - 445. )
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J63, J64, J68
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10351
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Michael
Grimm
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Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21, 593-618.)
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J13, N31, N32, O12, Q12
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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