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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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9059
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Francesco
Mariotti
Karen
A.
Mumford
Yolanda
Pena-Boquete
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Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited
We analyse the migration movements of power couples (couples where both members have at least a college degree), half power and no-power couples within Australia. We explicitly allow for potential ...
(published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 6 (1), 1-18)
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J3, J7
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9055
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Christian
Pfeifer
Inna
Petrunyk
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Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239)
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D63, I31, P36, P46
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9054
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Guyonne
Kalb
Daniel
Kühnle
Anthony
Scott
Terence
Chai
Cheng
Sung-Hee
Jeon
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What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying ...
(published as 'What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches' in: Health Economics, 2017, 27 (2), e101 - e119)
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I11, J22, J44, J21
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9053
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Brian
Duncan
Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl
Studies have estimated the relationship between psychological stress and birth weight by exploiting natural disasters and terrorist attacks, both of which could affect fetal health through other ...
(published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978)
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I12, J13
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9052
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Susan
L.
Averett
Erin
K.
Fletcher
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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the ...
(published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.)
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I12, J13
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9051
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Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Lucia
A.
Reisch
Karin
Bammann
Gabriele
Eiben
Yiannis
Kourides
Eva
Kovács
Fabio
Lauria
Kenn
Konstabel
Alba
M.
Santaliestra-Pasias
Krishna
Vyncke
Iris
Pigeot
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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152)
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I12, J13, J22
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9050
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Giovanni
S. F.
Bruno
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Orietta
Dessy
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Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
In this paper we explore recent ISFOL-PLUS 2006-2008-2010 data available for Italy about height and weight of young workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity ...
(published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8)
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J28, J81, I14
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9049
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Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the ...
(published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56)
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C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
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9048
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Esther
Hauk
Javier
Ortega
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Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach
We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166)
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D02, I2, N00, O14
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9047
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Anders
Stenberg
Olle
Westerlund
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Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86)
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H30, H52, I20, J24, O30
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