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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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9203
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Seth
Gershenson
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Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title-1 schools that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638)
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J45, J48, J22, I2
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9202
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Seth
Gershenson
Stephen
B.
Holt
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
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Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224)
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I24, D84, J15, J16
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9201
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Brittany
Bass
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Do Anti-Bullying Laws Reduce Youth Violence?
This study is the first to comprehensively examine the effect of state anti-bullying laws (ABLs) on youth violence. Using data from a variety of sources – including the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, ...
(published as 'Do anti-bullying laws work? New evidence on school safety and youth violence' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 473 - 502)
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I28
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9200
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Ulf
Zölitz
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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(7))
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I2, I24, J24
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9199
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Manuel
Bagues
Mauro
Sylos-Labini
Natalia
Zinovyeva
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Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?
An increasing number of countries are introducing gender quotas in scientific committees. We analyze how a larger presence of female evaluators affects committee decision-making using information on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (4), 1207–1238)
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J71, J16
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9196
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Laura
M.
Argys
Susan
L.
Averett
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The Effect of Family Size on Education: New Evidence from China's One Child Policy
Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (1), 21 - 42)
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I21, J18
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9195
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Thomas
Hills
Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective ...
(extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275)
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N3, N4, O1, D6
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9194
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Deborah
Goldschmidt
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring ...
(pubished in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1165 -1217)
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J31, D22
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9193
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Andrea
Salvatori
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The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52, 8 (2018))
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J21, J23, J24, O33
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9192
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Thomas
Horvath
Mario
Schnalzenberger
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by ...
(publshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 19 - 32)
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J14, J26, J31, H55
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