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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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17560
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Gabrielle
Pepin
Yulya
Truskinovsky
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Not Just for Kids: Child and Dependent Care Credit Benefits for Adult Care
As the U.S. population ages, family caregivers face substantial out-of-pocket costs and financial risks while providing the majority of long-term care. The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a ...
(forthcoming in: National Tax Journal)
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H24, J14
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17556
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
Dhritiman
Gupta
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On the Relative Sequencing of Internal and External Rent-Seeking Contests
We consider rent-seeking contests between and within two equal-sized groups. Each group adopts one of three sequences: first internal then external contest, first external then internal contest, and ...
(forthcoming in: Public Choice, 2026)
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D70, D72, D74
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17553
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Barry
Eichengreen
Anastasia
Litina
Cem
Özgüzel
Chan
Yu
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Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants
Scholars and politicians have expressed concern that immigrants from countries with low levels of political trust transfer those attitudes to their destination countries. Using large-scale survey ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103440)
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Z1, D73
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17548
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Mathieu
Le Moal
Roy
Thurik
Olivier
Torrčs
Guillaume
Soenen
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Small Business Owners and Daily Recovery Experiences: The Link with Well-Being and Burnout
We analyse the links between daily recovery experiences after work (detachment, relaxation, mastery and control) and mental health (well-being and burnout) based on four surveys of French small ...
(forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, 2026)
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I12, I31, L26
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17544
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Wojciech
Szymczak
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Automation, Trade Unions and Atypical Employment
We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies – industrial robots, and software and databases – on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 EU countries between 2006 and 2018. We ...
(published online in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 08 December 2025)
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J23, J51, O33
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17538
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Gabrielle
Pepin
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What Is the Value of the Child and Dependent Care Credit?
The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC) subsidizes child care costs for working families. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 increased the CDCC's generosity ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 120-125)
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H24, J13
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17525
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Andrew
Leigh
Stephen
Robson
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The Rise of Social Media and the Fall in Mental Wellbeing among Young Australians
Using multiple sources, we document a substantial worsening in the mental wellbeing of Australians aged 15-24, as measured by surveys, self-harm hospitalisations and suicide deaths. The shift began ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2025, 58 (1), 33-38)
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D91, I12, L82
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17521
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Solomon
Polachek
Kenneth
Romano
Ozlem
Tonguc
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Homo-Silicus: Not (Yet) a Good Imitator of Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus
Do large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, and Google's Gemini 1.0 Pro—simulate human behavior in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game with varying stake sizes? This ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of the Economic Science Association)
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D01, C72, C90
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17516
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Nick
Drydakis
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Small Enterprises' Digital Competencies and Financial Performance
In the contemporary business landscape, digital competencies have become a crucial factor for small enterprises to remain competitive and thrive. The present study examines how a business ...
(published in: V. Aranitou, A. Angelakis, and M. Manioudis (eds), The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Analytical Approaches to Growth and Innovation Challenges Amid Crises in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2025, 55–68)
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D25, O14, M53
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17509
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Alicia
De Quinto
Libertad
González
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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Family-Friendly Policies on Mothers' Employment
Countries often encourage part-time work among new parents as part of their family policies, aiming to foster mothers' labor market attachment. However, this approach may unintentionally impede ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102672)
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J08, J13, J16, J18
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17506
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Oded
Stark
Lukasz
Balbus
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Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As explained in the body of the paper, we diverge from a result reported in Stark ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392)
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D01, D64, D81, G41
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17499
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Désirée
I.
Christofzik
Angela
Fuest
Robin
Jessen
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Macroeconomic Effects of the Anticipation and Implementation of Tax Changes in Germany: Evidence from a Narrative Account
This paper quantifies the dynamic macroeconomic effects of tax changes in Germany, allowing for anticipation effects of preannounced tax reforms. Identification is achieved using a narrative ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 62-81.)
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H20, H30, E32, E62
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17498
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Robin
Jessen
Johannes
König
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Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle
We decompose earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125( 4), 956–996.)
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D31, J22, J31
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17492
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Xueying
Liu
Zhong
Zhao
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Does Social Pension Insurance Increase the Efficiency of Household Financial Portfolios?
This study investigates the impact of social pension insurance on the efficiency of household financial portfolios, utilizing data from the 2019 wave of the China Household Finance Survey. Our ...
(published in: Finance Research Letters, 2025, 81, 107323)
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G59, J24, I28
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17490
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Joan
Costa-Font
Cristina
Vilaplana-Prieto
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The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe
The hidden value of adult informal care (IC) refers to the unaccounted value of informal care in overall costs of long-term care (LTC) estimates. This paper estimates the net value of adult IC in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34 (4), 791-812)
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I18, J17, J18
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17483
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Stephen
Machin
Matteo
Sandi
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Crime and Education
Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the big increase of publication and research interest in the economics of crime field. This work demonstrates a ...
(published online in: Annual Review of Economics, 4 April 2025)
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K42
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17482
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Arnaud
Natal
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
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Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
The relationship between personal debt and cognition has received limited attention, especially, in developing countries. This study focuses on India and examines the relationship between Big Five ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2025, 61 (7), 1042 - 1057)
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D14, D91, G51, O1
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17479
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Agata
Galkiewicz
Jan
Marcus
Thomas
Siedler
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E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?
To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side effects of question ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital)
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A22, I23
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17478
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Xinyu
Li
Wendelin
Schnedler
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Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Teams are formed because input from different people is needed. Providing incentives to team members, however, can be diffcult. According to received wisdom, declaring all members responsible fails ...
(published online in: Management Science, 24 January 2025)
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M54, D23, D86, L23, K12, K13
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17475
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Vladimir
Otrachshenko
Olga
Popova
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Environment vs. Economic Growth: Do Environmental Preferences Translate Into Support for Green Parties?
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the drivers of electoral support for Green parties and the environmental actions they promote, which is key to ensuring the long-term feasibility ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2026, 239, 108779)
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D72, H11, Q56, Q58
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17473
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Matthias
Collischon
Kamila
Cygan-Rehm
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Subsidized Small Jobs and Maternal Labor Market Outcomes in the Long Run
This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, ...
(published online in: Socio-Economic Review, 28 February 2025)
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J22, J13, J18
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17469
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Prashant
Loyalka
Dinsha
Mistree
Robert
W.
Fairlie
Saurabh
Khanna
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Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India
Low-income individuals in developing countries are often inadequately prepared for employment because they lack key labor market skills. We explore how employability and wage outcomes are related to ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change)
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C93, I25, I26, J24, O15
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17466
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Zhuoer
Lin
Yi
Wang
Thomas
M.
Gill
Xi
Chen
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School Racial Segregation and Late-Life Cognition
Disparities in cognition persist between non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences ...
(published in: JAMA Network Open, 2025, 8 (1), e2452713)
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I14, I24, I10, J14, J15, H75
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17459
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Rose
Camille
Vincent
Emilie
Caldeira
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Shine a (Night)Light: Decentralization and Economic Development in Burkina Faso
Decentralization, championed by international institutions, has been one of the most prominent public sector reforms of the last decades, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, few studies ...
(published in: World Development, 2025, 187, 106851)
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H00, H70, H71, H72, O10
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17441
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
Ryan
Sullivan
W.
Kip
Viscusi
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The Military VSL
Our research reviews theory and empirical evidence in the economics literature and provides a standard value of a statistical life (VSL) applicable to the Department of Defense (DOD). We follow ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis. 2025)
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H56, I18, J17, J28
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17439
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Joan
Costa-Font
Frank
A.
Cowell
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An Unconsidered Leave? Inequality Aversion and the Brexit Referendum
This paper examines a behavioural explanation for the Brexit referendum result, the role of an individual's inequality aversion (IA). We study whether the referendum result was an "unconsidered ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 85, 102648)
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H1, I18
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17436
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Marco
Caliendo
Nico
Pestel
Rebecca
Olthaus
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Long-Term Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage in Germany: New Data and Estimators
We investigate the long-term effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 and its subsequent increases on regional employment. Using comprehensive survey data, we are able to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102648)
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J23, J31, J38
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17431
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Jongrim
Ha
Dohan
Kim
M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
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Resolving Puzzles of Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets
Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 173, 104957)
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E31, E32, Q43
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17423
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Randi
Hjalmarsson
Stephen
Machin
Paolo
Pinotti
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Crime and the Labor Market
The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring the causes and consequences of criminal behavior. This paper surveys key ...
(published in: Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, 2024, 5, 679-759)
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K42
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17418
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Oded
Stark
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Stress in the Air: A Conjecture
The 1949 study The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Volume II, by Stouffer et al. presents detailed accounts of the attitudes of American fighter pilots toward the stress experienced by ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101430)
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D01, D23, D9, E7, H56, I12, I38, J28, J38, J48, J58, N42, N44
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17410
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Amrit
Amirapu
Niaz
Asadullah
Zaki
Wahhaj
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Can the Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from a Child Marriage Reform in Bangladesh
In developing countries, one in four girls is married before turning 18, with adverse consequences for themselves and their children. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization)
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J12, J16, K36
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17408
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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Incorporating Changes in Race, Gender, and Academic Field at Colleges and Universities - A Comment on 'The Ebbing Tide: How Will Higher Education Adapt to Demographic Change?'
Jacob L. Vigdor (2024)'s noteworthy contribution in "The Ebbing Tide: How Will Higher Education Adapt to Demographic Change?" estimates the impact of demographic change on colleges and universities. ...
(forthcoming in: John Y. Campbell and Kaye Husbands Fealing (eds.), Financing Institutions of Higher Education, University of Chicago Press for NBER.)
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J1, I2
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17403
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
Hermann
Riess
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Discrimination in the Austrian Rental Housing Market: The Effect of Information Concerning First and Second-Generation Immigrant Status
In this study, we conduct an email correspondence test to examine ethnic discrimination against males with different immigration backgrounds (Serbian, Turkish/Muslim and Syrian/Muslim) in the ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2024, 66, 102030)
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C93, R21, R31
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17400
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Silvia
Granato
Enkelejda
Havari
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Another Chance: Number of Exam Retakes and University Students' Outcomes
Exams play a key role in a student's learning process at university, and their organization may affect student performance. A high number of retakes, for instance, could encourage procrastination or ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2026, 183, 105222)
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I21, I23
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17399
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Bernardo
Fanfani
Filippo
Passerini
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Are Alternative Work Arrangements a Substitute for Standard Employment? Evidence from Worker-Level Data
This study analyses the impact of vouchers, an Italian alternative work arrangement, on earnings of atypical workers. We investigate whether this form of very flexible casual work substitutes for ...
(forthcoming in: International Journal of Manpower, 2025)
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J24, J22, D12, C13, C21
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17395
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Ludger
Woessmann
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Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital
The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2025, 17, 397-425)
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J24, I26
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17385
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Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Job Search, Efficiency Wages and Taxes
Norwegian workers' job mobility decisions are related to firms' wage policies, but also depend on the national tax schedule. By utilising Norwegian population-wide administrative linked ...
(forthcoming in: Labour Economics)
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H24, J42, J63, M12
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17378
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Werner
Eichhorst
Gemma
Scalise
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Revisiting Dualism? The Governance of the Low Pay-Low Skill Labour Market in Four European Countries
The permanent restructuring of the economy, exacerbated by the digital transition and combined with labour market dualization, is progressively increasing semi- and low-skilled workers' risk of ...
(published online in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 11. November 2025)
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J21, J31, J38
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17367
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Samuel
Mühlemann
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AI Adoption and Workplace Training
This paper investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in production processes on workplace training practices, using firm-level data from the BIBB establishment panel on ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Artifical intelligence adoption and workplace training' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 238, 107206.)
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J23, J24, M53, O33
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17361
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Winfried
Koeniger
Peter
Kress
Jonas
Lehmann
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Consumption Expenditures in Austria & Germany: New Evidence Based on Transactional Data
We analyze the novel transactional card expenditure data for Germany and Austria provided by Fable Data. We describe key features of the data in terms of the coverage of expenditure items, payment ...
(revised version published online in: German Economic Review, 28 July 2025)
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C80, D12, E21
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17356
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Simone
Bertoli
Melchior
Clerc
Jordan
Loper
Čric
Roca
Fernández
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Migration and the Epidemiological Approach: Time and Self-Selection into Foreign Ancestries Matter
Data on individuals of immigrant origin are used in the epidemiological approach in comparative development for understanding cultural persistence, the determinants of cultural norms, and the effects ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 176, 103505)
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F22, 012, Z10
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17350
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Kristina
Czura
Florian
Englmaier
Hoa
Ho
Lisa
Spantig
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Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership During Crisis
The positive role of transformational leadership for productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of ...
(published online in: Management Science, 6 Aug 2025)
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M54, M12, J53
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17341
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Nick
Drydakis
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Discrimination and Health Outcomes in England's Black Communities amid the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Evaluating the Role of Inflation and Bank Rates
This study utilised longitudinal data from Black History Month events in London from 2021 to 2023. Novel findings revealed that increased inflation and Bank Rates, related to the cost-of-living ...
(published online in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 October 2024)
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E31, E32, E43, I14, J71, J15
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17333
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Costanza
De Acutis
Andrea
Weber
Elisabeth
Wurm
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The Effects of Board Gender Quotas: A Meta-Analysis
We use a meta-analysis to summarize the recent literature evaluating effects of the introduction of gender quotas on company boards. We collect data from 51 studies on policies implemented in 11 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102634)
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C8, G3, J7
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17331
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Giorgio
Brunello
Clementina
Crocč
Pamela
Giustinelli
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes
We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 247, 112096)
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I20, I24
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17327
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Jed
DeVaro
Scott
Fung
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The Importance of Luck in Executive Promotion Tournaments: Theory and Evidence
We empirically test whether executives' increases in base salary when promoted to CEO result from the wage bids of competing firms (i.e., "market-based tournaments") or from the strategic choices of ...
(published in: JBFA Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2025, 52 (3), 1349-1373)
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G32, G39, J31, M12
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17324
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Charlotte
Bartels
Eva
Sierminska
Carsten
Schröder
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Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap from Bottom to Top and Young to Old
There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 246, 111997)
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D31, D63, J16
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17322
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Silke
Anger
Bernhard
Christoph
Agata
Galkiewicz
Shushanik
Margaryan
Frauke
Peter
Malte
Sandner
Thomas
Siedler
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A Library in the Palm of Your Hand? A Randomized Field Experiment with Low-Income Children
Reading comprehension is critical for academic success, yet children from disadvantaged backgrounds often engage in reading less frequently than their more advantaged peers. This study evaluates the ...
(This version: March 2025.)
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C93, I20, I24
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17321
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Nick
Drydakis
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Business Disruptions Due to Social Vulnerability and Criminal Activities in Urban Areas
This study investigates the relationship between social vulnerability, illegal activities, and location-based business disruptions in Athens, the capital of Greece. The research utilises repeated ...
(published in: Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024, 95, 102293)
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K4, K42, L26, I3, E32
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17320
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James
Flynn
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Contraceptive Access Creates Positive Selection in Infant Health
This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 104, 13081)
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J13, I18, I12
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