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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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18440
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Eric
Bartelsman
Sabien
Dobbelaere
Alessandro Zona
Mattioli
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Intangible Assets and Imperfections in Product and Labor Markets
This paper develops a micro-founded framework linking price-cost and wage markups to intangible assets. Intangible assets, once created, are a source of firm rents. Owing to limits to enforceable ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2026, 186: 105309)
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J41, L10, O30
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18415
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Sabrina
Genz
Terry
Gregory
Florian
Lehmer
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AI-Powered Skill Classification: Mapping Technology Intensity in the German Labor Market
The rapid evolution of technology is reshaping labor markets by altering skill demands and job profiles. This paper introduces a novel skill-based measure of occupational technology intensity – the ...
(forthcoming in: Fiscal Studies, 2026)
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JEL, J21, J24, O33
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18396
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Kadir
Atalay
Anita
Staneva
Rong
Zhu
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Integration or Isolation? The Impact of Retirement on Social Capital
This paper examines the causal impact of retirement on social capital using nationally representative Australian panel data. Exploiting the eligibility age for the Age Pension, we find that ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2026)
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H55, I10, I31, J26
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18383
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Martijn
J.
Burger
Sarah
Courchesne
Talita
Greyling
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
Stephanie
Rossouw
Francesco
Sarracino
Ruut
Veenhoven
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Using Subjective Well-Being as a Headline Indicator in Dashboards to Track Human Progress
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has long been used as a proxy for human progress, despite growing recognition of its limitations. Recently, numerous "beyond GDP" initiatives have emerged, promoting ...
(published in Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-026-10576-9)
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I31, D60, O10
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18326
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Sylvie
Démurger
Carl
Lin
Achim
Schmillen
Dewen
Wang
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Falling into Poverty or Escaping from It? The Effect of the Minimum Wage in Urban China
Minimum wages are found to have an inconclusive impact on poverty. Using China’s individual-level panel dataset combined with county-level minimum wages, our paper shows that minimum wages have a ...
(published in: World Development, Volume 198, February 2026, 107227)
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I32, J3, J88
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18312
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Santiago
Budría
Carlos
Martínez de Ibarreta
Alejandro
Betancourt-Odio
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Does Host Language Proficiency Among Immigrants Reduce Energy Poverty? Evidence from Australia
Reducing energy poverty is a critical priority for policymakers in both developed and developing nations. Immigrants are often considered a high-risk group due to their heightened vulnerability. ...
(a revised version published in Economic Analysis and Policy, Volume 89, January 2026.)
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F22, I31, C36
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18307
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Silke
Anger
Bernhard
Christoph
Agata
Galkiewicz
Shushanik
Margaryan
Malte
Sandner
Thomas
Siedler
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Online Tutoring, School Performance, and School-to-Work Transitions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Tutoring programs for low-performing students, delivered in-person or online, effectively enhance school performance, yet their medium- and longer-term impacts on labor market outcomes remain less ...
(forthcoming in: European Economic Review)
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C93, I20, I24
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18304
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Joan
Costa-Font
Anna
Nicinska
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Long Lasting Health Effects of Soviet Education
Education systems serve various purposes, including the enhancement of later-life health, though its effect can differ by socio-political regime. This paper examines the effects of exposure to ...
(published in: Economica, 2 February, 2026.)
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I18, I26, P36
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18287
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Joan
Costa-Font
Richard
Frank
Nilesh
Raut
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The Effects of Wealth Shocks on Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance
The financing of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) relies heavily on self-insurance in the form of housing or financial wealth. Exploiting both local market variation in housing prices and ...
(published online in: Journal of Health Economics, 26 November 2025)
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I18, J14
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18282
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Radim
Bohacek
Michal
Myck
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Economic Consequences of Political Persecution (updated research)
We examine the consequences of political persecution under the communist regime on labor market outcomes using life history data from the Czech sample of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement ...
(This Discussion Paper updates and extends the analysis presented in IZA DP 11136.)
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J70, J31, N34, C21
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18256
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Rubí
Arrizaga
Damian
Clarke
Pedro
Cubillos
Cristóbal
Ruiz-Tagle
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Smoke Signals: Understanding Temporal Dynamics of Wildfire Exposure on Health and Education
We study the impacts of wildfires in Chile mapping local exposure to over 1,000 large wildfires occurring over 20 wildfire seasons. We consider both how very local exposure patterns owing to changes ...
(published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2026)
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Q54, I18, R11
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18255
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Marcello
Antonini
Joan
Costa-Font
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Healthy Self-Interest? Health Dependent Preferences for Fairer Health Care
Health status can alter individuals’ social preferences, and specifically individuals' preferences regarding fairness in the access to and financing of health care. We draw on a dataset of 73,452 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organsiation, 28 November 2025)
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I13, I14, I38
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18245
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Magdalena
Adamus
Martin
Guzi
Eva
Ballová Mikušková
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Evaluators’ Masculine Gender Identity May Drive Gender Biases in Peer Evaluation of Business Plans
The paper investigates gender biases and differential treatment of women and men in the business start-up phase. A sample of 498 entrepreneurs from Slovakia participated in an online experiment and ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, 102473.)
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J16, M13, L26
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18240
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Wen-Hao
Chen
Tony
Fang
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The Wage Effects of Restricting Temporary Foreign Workers: Evidence from Canada’s 2014 TFWP Reforms
This study examines the labor market impacts of Canada’s 2014 reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), which introduced stricter limits on hiring low-skilled foreign workers. Using a ...
(published online as 'Restricting temporary foreign labour: evidence on wage effects from Canada’s 2014 policy reform' in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24 October 2025)
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J61, J68, J31, J21, O15
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18232
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Gregory
Verdugo
Malak
Kandoussi
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Will You Follow Your Job to the Suburbs? Commuting, Locational Amenities and Wages in a Large Metro Area
We examine how relocations from the center to the suburbs of establishments employing mainly skilled workers affect the composition and wages of their employees. Using data from the Paris metro area, ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2025)
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J16, D13, J18
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18229
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Jan
Stuhler
Christian
Dustmann
Sebastian
Otten
Uta
Schönberg
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The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation
Most studies on the labor market effects of immigration use repeated cross-sectional data to estimate the effects of immigration on regions. This paper shows that such regional effects are composites ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025)
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J21, J23, J31, J61, R23
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18222
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Baris
Yörük
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Does Local Diversity Affect Charitable Giving?
How does diversity affect charitable giving? On the one hand, diversity can lead to increased charitable giving, as individuals may feel more connected to and invested in their community when they ...
(Published in: Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics, 2025, 119, 102467)
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J10, J18, H30
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18211
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Wiemer
Salverda
Joop
Hartog
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The Labor Market in the Netherlands 2001–2024: The Long Demise of a Centralized Model
The Netherlands has long been an example of a highly and centrally institutionalized labor market paying considerable attention to equity concerns. We describe how this model has been falling apart ...
(shortened version published as 'The Labor Market in the Netherlands 2001–2024' in: IZA World of Labor, 2025)
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J21, J31, J61
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18210
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Arnaud
Natal
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
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A Change Is Gonna Come: Universality, Stability, and Shocks in Personality Traits in Rural India
Taking the case of rural South India, we explore the universality of the Big Five personality traits and their stability over time. We then investigate the effects of two exogenous shocks on trait ...
(forthcoming in: The Journal of Development Studies, 2025)
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D91, G51, 012
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18204
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Jörn
Block
Miriam
Gnad
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Caroline
Stiel
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Decline in Job Satisfaction and How It Relates to Investment Decisions of the Self-Employed
Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the pandemic ...
(published in: Applied Psychology, 2025, 74 (6), e70039)
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L26, J28, G11
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18198
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Keisuke
Kawata
Mizuki
Komura
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Only-Child Matching Penalty in the Marriage Market
This study explores the marriage matching of only-child individuals and the related outcomes. Specifically, we analyze two aspects: First, we investigate the marriage patterns of only children, ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2025)
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J11, J12, J16
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18162
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Cesar
Barreto
Christian
Merkl
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Ex Ante Heterogeneity, Separations, and Labor Market Dynamics
Our paper documents the importance of ex ante worker heterogeneity for labor market dynamics and for the composition of the unemployment pool over the business cycle. In recessions, the unemployment ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2025, 156, 103845)
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E24, J16, J31
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18160
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Frank
M.
Fossen
Ke
Lyu
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A Tale of Two Startups: The Loss and Gain of Startups in the U.S. Economy in the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered an unprecedented shock to business entry, with sharply contrasting effects on different types of startups. Using newly constructed administrative data from the ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-025-01171-7)
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L26, E32, M13
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18150
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Linlin
Da
Zhezheng
Jin
Qianhui
Xu
Lisa M.
Renzi-Hammond
Zhuo
Chen
M. Mahmud
Khan
Janani
Rajbhandari-Thapa
Xi
Chen
Bei
Wu
Suhang
Song
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation and Cognitive Decline Among Older Americans
This study examines how SNAP participation may affect age-related cognitive decline among cognitively intact older adults over 10 years. Leveraging a longitudinal survey of SNAP-eligible participants ...
(published online in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 25 September 2025)
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H53, I38, J14, I18, H75
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18146
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Jan
Stuhler
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Multigenerational Inequality
A growing literature provides evidence on multigenerational inequality – the extent to which socio-economic advantages persist across three or more generations. This chapter reviews its main findings ...
(published in Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality, 2024)
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J62, J12
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18129
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Fernando
Rios-Avila
Iva V.
Tasseva
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Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom Compared
We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components model to harmonised earnings data for Austria and the UK. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, Volume 264, May 2026, 112901)
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C81, C83, D31
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18120
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Andriana
Bellou
Emanuela
Cardia
Joshua
Lewis
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From Bust to Boom: The Great Depression and Women's Fertility
The United States experienced dramatic swings in fertility over the course of the early- and mid-20th century. This paper presents a novel explanation for these changes, linking the Great Depression ...
(this paper supersedes the work in ‘Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression’ (IZA Working Paper #8727) by Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia)
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None
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18118
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Jingyi
Ai
Xi
Chen
Jin
Feng
Yufei
Xie
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Early Effects of Cognitive-Impairment Friendly Community on Health Care Utilization in China: Evidence from Administrative Data
The study examines the early effects of cognitive-impairment (CI) friendly communities on health care utilization among older adults in Shanghai, China. By exploiting the rollout of CI-friendly ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 385, 118570)
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I18, J14, I11
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18116
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Santosh
Kumar Gautam
Ermal
Ilirjani
Patralekha
Ukil
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On the Road to Better Life? Rural Road and Economic Development in Albania
This study evaluates the impact of investment in rural roads on household welfare in Albania. Using a difference-in-differences method, we find that treated households experienced a 35-percentage ...
(Published in: European Journal of Development Research 37, 1071–1098 (2025))
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012, O18
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18111
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Michael
R.
Strain
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The Economic Benefits of a Strong US Military, Forward Presence, & International Alliances
When considering the benefits of a strong United States military, it is natural to think of the military’s crucial role in protecting Americans from foreign adversaries and providing security and ...
(forthcoming in: Mackenzie Eaglen (ed.), Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World)
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F52, F53, H56
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18104
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Tianli
Yang
Zhong
Zhao
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Long-Term Care Insurance Policy and Development of Elderly Care Enterprises in China
This paper examines the impact of Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) policy on the development of elderly care enterprises in China. Employing a policy shock and a difference-in-differences design, we ...
(published online in: China Economic Review, 22 September 2025, 102564)
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H55, I28, J14, J26
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18100
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Kaushalendra
Kumar
Ashish
Singh
Santosh
Kumar Gautam
Abhishek
Singh
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Calorie Consumption and Wages: Evidence from India’s Labor Market
Using nationally representative data from India, this study estimates the effect of calorie intake on wages. To account for endogeneity and heterogeneity, we apply Instrumental Variable and ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2025, 152, 107279)
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I14, I15, J24, J31, O15
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18076
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Armando
N.
Meier
Jonathan
Levav
Stephan
Meier
Liora G.
Avnaim
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Early Release via Parole and Recidivism
Does early release decrease or increase the probability that ex-convicts will return to prison? We exploit unique data from Israeli courts, where appearance before the judge throughout the day has an ...
(this paper presents an update of the former IZA Discussion Paper No. 13035, titled 'Early Release and Recidivism')
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D9, K14, K40
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18074
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Yafei
Si
Yurun
Meng
Xi
Chen
Ruopeng
An
Limin
Mao
Bingqin
Li
Hazel
Bateman
Han
Zhang
Hongbin
Fan
Jiaqi
Zu
Shaoqing
Gong
Zhongliang
Zhou
Yudong
Miao
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Quality, Safety, and Disparities of AI Chatbots in Managing Chronic Diseases: Experimental Evidence
The rapid development of AI solutions reveals opportunities to address the underdiagnosis and poor management of chronic conditions in developing settings. Using the method of simulated patients and ...
(published online in: npj Digital Medicine, 25 September 2025)
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C0, I10, I11, C90, C93
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18072
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Bruno
Crépon
Ahmed
Elsayed
Jules
Gazeaud
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Unbiased and Accurate: Measuring Sensitive Outcomes Through Ballot-Bag Surveys
Prevailing methods for measuring sensitive outcomes confront researchers with an inherent bias-variance trade-off: direct questioning is prone to a sensitivity bias, while indirect methods such as ...
(Accepted in: American Economic Review- Insights)
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C83, C93, J61, O15, D83
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18067
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Kelvin
Seah
Jessica
Pan
Poh
Lin
Tan
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Depth or Diversity? Examining the Longer Run Impacts of College Curriculum Breadth
Existing research suggests that broad versus specialized university curricula does not significantly lead to differences in earnings and unemployment outcomes shortly after graduation. This paper ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 238, 107212)
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I21, J31
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18045
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Oded
Stark
Grzegorz
Kosiorowski
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A Demarcation of the Gini Coefficient
We specify the domain in the income distribution that includes the people to whom income transfers will not increase inequality in that income distribution. Inspired by Sen’s (1973, 1997) ...
(published as 'A foray into the demarcation of the Gini coefficient' in: Economics Letters, 2025, 254, 112405)
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C43, D31, D63, H11, H53, I31, I38, P46
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18041
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Frédéric
Docquier
Stefano
Iandolo
Hillel
Rapoport
Riccardo
Turati
Gonzague
Vannoorenberghe
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Populism and the Skill-Content of Globalization
We propose new ways to measure populism, using the Manifesto Project Database (1960-2019) as main source of data. We characterize the evolution of populism over 60 years and show empirically that it ...
(forthcoming at: The Economic Journal)
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D72, F22, F52, J61, P00
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18025
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Ryuichi
Tanaka
Tong
Wang
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How Do Classmates Matter for the Class-Size Effects?
This paper investigates the effect of class-size reduction on students’ academic outcomes, with a particular emphasis on its heterogeneity based on classmates’ characteristics. We estimate the causal ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, vol.108, Article 102689, October (2025))
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J13, J18, N35
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18023
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Dylan A.
Cooper
Tony
Fang
Vincent
Wan
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Employee Ownership and Promotive Voice: The Roles of Psychological Ownership and Perceived Alignment of Interests
Using a National Bureau of Economic Research dataset of employees of 14 United States companies with shared capitalism practices, we compare two prominent explanations of employee ownership’s ...
(published online in: Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 24 June 2025)
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J33, J54, J24, J26, J28
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18022
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Michal
Myck
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The Time Cost of a Disability
We consider how a physical disability alters patterns of time use. A disability may raise the time cost of all activities; of some—making them differentially less worth doing; or it may make ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 104, 103079)
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J14, I10, D13
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18020
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Tony
Fang
Morley
Gunderson
John
Hartley
Graham
King
Hui
Ming
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Determinants and Effects of Remote Work Arrangements: Evidence from an Employer Survey
Remote work arrangements are compelling examples of an organization’s ability to utilize digital technology. This study analyzes data from a representative survey of Atlantic Canadian employers to ...
(forthcoming in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management, 2025.)
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J22, J24, J28
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18012
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Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
Matti
Sarvimäki
Tuomo
Virkola
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Paths to Integration: Earnings, Skill Investments, and Outmigration Across Immigrant Admission Categories
We document substantial heterogeneity in labor market integration, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories. Using newly available data on residence permits in ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (4), 742-764)
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J61, J31, F22
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18001
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Evelyn
Skoy
Nicholas
E.
Flores
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Can Better Information Reduce College Gender Gaps? The Impact of Relative Grade Signals on Academic Outcomes for Students in Introductory Economics
This paper considers the impacts of grades and information on gender gaps in college major and college dropout rates at a large public flagship university. Observational and experimental results ...
(forthcoming in: Southern Economic Journal)
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I23, I24, J16
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17990
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Lei
Xu
Massimiliano
Tani
Yu
Zhu
Xin
Wen
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Formal and Informal Debt in China: Evidence from the 2014 Hukou Reform
We investigate the impact of China’s 2014 hukou reform - a major change allowing migrants living in small and medium-sized cities of less than 5 million people to apply for urban residence - on ...
(Published in: Emerging Markets Review 69, 101367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101367.)
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D14, G51
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17986
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Bin
Huang
Massimiliano
Tani
Lei
Xu
Yu
Zhu
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Does College Education Make Women Less Likely to Marry? Evidence from the Chinese Higher education Expansion
We study the impact of higher education (HE) on marriage incidence in China using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey. Taking advantage of the dramatic HE expansion starting in 1999, we explore ...
(published in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, 118, 102433. )
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I23, J12
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17985
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Christos
Mavrovitis (Mavis)
Sarmistha
Pal
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Can Politics Tame the Market? Market Responses to Government Control of Fully and Partially Privatized Firms in China
This study examines factors influencing full (FP) versus partial (PP) privatization and how markets respond to government control in PP and FP firms. Exploiting China’s 2005 NTS reform as a natural ...
(forthcoming in: European Financial Management Journal)
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G31, G38, L33
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17983
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Richard
Winter
Philipp
Doerrenberg
Fabian
Eble
Davud
Rostam-Afschar
Johannes
Voget
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The Asymmetric Incidence of Business Taxes: Survey Evidence from German Firms
We provide novel evidence on the incidence of business taxes using comprehensive survey and experimental data from German firms. Leveraging randomized variation in hypothetical tax changes, we find ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2026)
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D22, H00, H22, H25, J23, J30
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17980
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Yuheng
Lin
Dooruj
Rambaccussing
Yu
Zhu
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Returns to College Education of Chinese Manufacturing Employees: Who Benefits More?
Using the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) data, this study examines the returns to college education for employees across China’s manufacturing industry, most of them work in small and ...
(forthcoming in China Economic Review, 2026, SME SI, 102665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2026.102665.)
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I23, I26, J31, L60, O14
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17961
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Xin
Zhang
Xi
Chen
Hong
Sun
Yuanjian
Yang
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Blowin’ in the Wind: Smog and Suicidal Ideation among School-Age Children
This paper attempts to provide one of the first population-based causal estimates of the effect of air pollution on suicidal ideation—a key precursor to suicide attempt and completion—among ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2025, 93, 102478)
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I31, Q51, Q53
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13084Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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