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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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7347
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Henry
S
Farber
Robert
G.
Valletta
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909)
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J64, J65
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7345
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Thomas
Deckers
Armin
Falk
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life
We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16, 1337–1358.)
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D60, C23, D31
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7343
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap
Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 323-345.)
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J42, J71
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7342
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution
Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 123-134)
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J42, J21
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7341
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Cross Sections Are History
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38, 302-308 )
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C2, O10, O57, J11, N0, I0
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7340
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Chad
Kendall
Tommaso
Nannicini
Francesco
Trebbi
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353)
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D72, D83
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7339
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David
Albouy
Walter
Graf
Ryan
Kellogg
Hendrik
Wolff
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Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life
We present a hedonic framework to estimate U.S. households' preferences over local climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3 (1), 205–246)
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H49, I39, Q54, R10
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7337
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Andreas
Landmann
Markus
Frölich
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 51-59)
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I13, J20, J82, O12
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7336
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Gustavo
Adolfo
Garcia
Catia
Nicodemo
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Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case
This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The ...
(published in: Developing Economies, 2015, 53 (2), 75 - 99)
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J64, J31, J24, P23, J6, J7, J0
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7335
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Solomon
Polachek
Tirthatanmoy
Das
Rewat
Thamma-Apiroam
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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital
We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ...
(published as 'Micro and Macro Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(6), 1410-1455 )
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J24, J29, J31, J39
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