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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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9656
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55(3), 789-865)
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J16, J24, J31, J71
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9654
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Dieter
Verhaest
Elene
Bogaert
Jeroen
Dereymaeker
Laura
Mestdagh
Stijn
Baert
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Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a ...
(revised version published as 'Do Employers Prefer Overqualified Graduates? A Field Experiment' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2018, 57 (3), 351 - 388)
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I21, J24, M51
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9653
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Uttara
Balakrishnan
Johannes
Haushofer
Pamela
Jakiela
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How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments
Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 294–321)
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C91, D90, O12
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9652
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Jane
Cooley
Fruehwirth
Sriya
Iyer
Anwen
Zhang
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Religion and Depression in Adolescence
The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1178–1209)
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I10, Z12
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9651
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception
This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.)
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H21, H51, D82
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9649
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Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
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Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are ...
(revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 819 - 836.)
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C93, D64, J24, J71
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9648
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Pia
Pinger
Isabel
Ruhmer-Krell
Heiner
Schumacher
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The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a Restaurant's Menu
The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 14-34)
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D03, M31
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9647
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Dan
S.
Rickman
Hongbo
Wang
John
V.
Winters
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Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?
Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2017, 62, 283-290)
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Q4, R1, R2
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9646
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Mirjam
Strupler Leiser
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (2), 204-222)
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H32, I28, J08
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9645
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Øystein
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400)
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J13, J16, J24, L82
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