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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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9089
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Nitika
Bagaria
Barbara
Petrongolo
John
Van Reenen
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Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform
Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624), 3189-3218)
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H51, I13, J18
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9088
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Lawrence
Jin
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?
This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep, Health, and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020,170, 174-192)
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H41, I18, I31
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9087
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Bernard
Fortin
Myra
Yazbeck
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138)
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C31, I10, I12
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9086
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Sanni
Breining
N. Meltem
Daysal
Marianne
Simonsen
Mircea
Trandafir
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Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (1), 1-16.)
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I11, I12, I18, I21, J13
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9085
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 129, 14-25)
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C72, C91, D82, H26
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9084
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation
We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are tempted to surf the internet. Further, we investigate how an active policy of ...
(revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426 )
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C91, D03, J33, M52
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9083
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Eric
S.
Lin
Shih-Yung
Chiu
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Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?
Postdoc is a special transitional position for those with a doctoral degree and is usually regarded as an investment to accumulate the additional human and social capital needed to facilitate future ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2016, 57 (3), 335-362)
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I2, J24
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9080
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Eleanor
Dillon
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges
We consider the effects of student ability, college quality, and the interaction between the two on academic outcomes and future earnings. Both ability and college quality strongly improve outcomes ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55(3), 768-808.)
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I21, J31
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9079
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Haapanen
Christopher
Jepsen
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Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education
Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's ...
(published as "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 485-508)
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J24, I26
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9078
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
Si
Wang
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The Occupational Feminization of Wages
This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of occupations on female (and male) earnings. Using large representative national samples of ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (1), 208-241)
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J31, J71
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12998Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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