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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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8135
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Ghazala
Azmat
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 32-40)
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J16, J24, J71, C91, C92, C93
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8134
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L. Rachel
Ngai
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9, 1-44)
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E24, J22, J16
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8131
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Alois
Stutzer
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Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, ...
(published in: K. Sheldon and R.E. Lucas (eds.): Stability of Happiness, 2014)
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D03, D60, I31
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8130
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Thomas
Buser
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Erik
Plug
Juan
Ponce
José
Rosero
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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808)
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I14, H51, C31
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8129
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John
H.
Pencavel
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2052-2076)
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J24, J22, N34
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8128
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Roy
E.
Bailey
Timothy
J.
Hatton
Kris
Inwood
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Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century
We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2016, 69(1), 35–53)
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I12, J13, N33
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8127
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Mark
Wooden
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What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 107-126)
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I31, J71
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8126
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Naci
Mocan
Christian
Raschke
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The ...
(published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 1-63)
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J15, I30, Z10
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8125
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
José
Varejão
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Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11)
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J23, J3, J4, J5, D4, F66
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8123
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Eliav
Danziger
Leif
Danziger
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A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage
This paper shows that a graduated minimum wage, in contrast to a constant minimum wage, can provide a strict Pareto improvement over what can be achieved with an optimal income tax. The reason is ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 236–252)
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J30
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