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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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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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9191
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Means Testing versus Basic Income: The (Lack of) Political Support for a Universal Allowance
This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 81-84)
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D3, D7, H2, H5
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9190
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Markus
Jäntti
Eva
Sierminska
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327)
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C1, D31, J10
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9189
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
Katsunori
Yamada
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When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons
While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 70, 1-9)
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D31, D63, I3, J31
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