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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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15329
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Almudena
Sevilla
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Work Effort in the UK: Trends and Explanations
This paper links detailed 24-hour diary surveys in the United Kingdom (UK) over the last four decades to provide evidence on the increase in work effort in three specific dimensions: timing, nature, ...
(published as 'Trends in effort at work in the UK' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (3), 628–646, )
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D63, J22, J23, J24, J31, J62
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15328
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Henry
Saffer
Markus
Gehrsitz
Michael
Grossman
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The Effects of Alcohol Excise Tax Increases by Drinking Level and by Income Level
The alcohol industry argues that alcohol excise taxes do not reduce heavy drinking because of substitutions to lower-cost products and that these taxes disproportionately burden low-income drinkers. ...
(published online in: National Tax Journal, 18 October 2024)
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I18, H20
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15326
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Trong-Anh
Trinh
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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis
Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on ...
(forthcoming as ''Impacts of Global Warming on Subnational Poverty and Inequality' in: Nature Climate Change, 2025 (with Stephane Hallegatte, and Minh Cong Nguyen))
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Q54, I32, O1
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15325
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Jeff
E.
Biddle
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Days of Work over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-Day Week
We examine work patterns in the U.S. from 1973-2018, with the novel focus on days per week, using intermittent CPS samples and one ATUS sample. Among full-time workers the incidence of four-day work ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2025, 78 (1), 37-61)
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J11, J22
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15324
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Caio
Piza
André
Portela Souza
Patrick
M.
Emerson
Vivian
Amorim
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The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 351–370)
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C21, J08, J22, J24, K31
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15323
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Johnathan
G.
Conzelmann
Steven
W.
Hemelt
Brad
J.
Hershbein
Shawn
Martin
Andrew
Simon
Kevin
Stange
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Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2025, 44 (3), 741-763)
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I23, I25, J21, J40, J61
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15322
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Simon
Gächter
Felix
Kölle
Simone
Quercia
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Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods
We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 135, 338-355.)
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C92, H41
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15319
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Ali
Fakih
Nathir
Haimoun
Anastasia
Sleiman
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What Drives Demand for Private Tutoring in the Middle East and North Africa Region? Evidence from a Youth Survey
This paper examines the determinants of private tutoring in five major Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper uses data extracted from ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2022, 34 (2), 268-279)
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I21, I22, I24
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15318
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Jani-Petteri
Ollikainen
Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Roope
Uusitalo
Hanna
Virtanen
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Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102603)
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J24, I21
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15317
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.)
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F62, H60, J61
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15312
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Hélène
Turon
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The Labour Supply of Mothers
This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers’ labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
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J12, J22, J38
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15311
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Tushar
Bharati
Michael
Jetter
Muhammad
Nauman
Malik
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Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict
This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 170, 103312)
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D74, L82, O14
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15310
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Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
Matti
Sarvimäki
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Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
We examine the intergenerational effects of an integration program that increased language training and improved labor market outcomes of adult immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in ...
(this version: August 2024, published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, September 16 2024)
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J61, J68, J13, H53
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15309
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Xinwei
Dong
Dean
R.
Hyslop
Daiji
Kawaguchi
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Training, Productivity and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency
Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to ...
(published as 'Skill, Productivity, and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (S1), 133-181.)
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J24, J42
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15308
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Almudena
Sevilla
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Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being in the US
This paper analyses detailed 24-hour diary data from the United States to provide evidence on the relationship between workers' effort and well-being while at work. In doing so, we first measure ...
(published as 'Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being' in: Hamermesh, D.S. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Time Use in Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 51), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 35-53)
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D60, J22, J24
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15307
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Abi
Adams-Prassl
Teodora
Boneva
Marta
Golin
Christopher
Rauh
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Perceived Returns to Job Search
In this paper we provide the first evidence on workers' perceptions of the returns to job search effort. The perceived job finding probability is nearly linear in hours searched and only slightly ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102307)
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J62, J64
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15306
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Ferdi
Botha
Sarah C.
Dahmann
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Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes
We provide the first empirical evidence on the direct link between locus of control and self-control, and how they interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey ...
(published in: SSM - Population Health, 2024, 25, 101566)
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D91, I12, I31
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15305
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Peng
Nie
Qiaoge
Li
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China
Using the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of housing unaffordability on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adolescents aged 10-15. Using a combined ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024)
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D10, I10, I31, J13, R21
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15304
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María
Padilla-Romo
Cecilia
Peluffo
Mariana
Viollaz
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Parents' Effective Time Endowment and Divorce: Evidence from Extended School Days
Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105302)
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J12, J13, J18
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15303
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Ronald
Bachmann
Myrielle
Gonschor
Piotr
Lewandowski
Karol
Madoń
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The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe
We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2024, 70, 422-441)
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J24, O33, J23
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15299
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Yu
Zhu
Lei
Xu
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Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums
This paper reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
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I26, I23, I24
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15298
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Marco
Alfano
Joseph-Simon
Goerlach
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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (2), 727–763)
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D74, L82, F52, I21
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15297
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Haci
M.
Karatas
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The Effect of Higher Education on Women's Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in Turkey
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 123, 106-286. )
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I12, I21, I23, I26, C26
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15291
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Samuel
Baker
Pietro
Biroli
Hans
van Kippersluis
Stephanie
von Hinke
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Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive ...
(published as 'Advantageous early-life environments cushion the genetic risk for ischemic heart disease' in: PNAS, 2024, 121 (27), e2314056121)
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I10, I14, I19
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15290
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Wei
Shi
Yun
Qiu
Pei
Yu
Xi
Chen
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Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design ...
(also available in: Spatial Data Lab, 2020, Webinars on Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic? Resources, Methodology and Applications, Harvard Dataverse, V4)
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I18, R1, C21, C6
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15289
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Herwig
Immervoll
Rodrigo
Fernandez
Raphaela
Hyee
Jongmi
Lee
Daniele
Pacifico
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De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy ...
(elements published in: Left on your own? Social protection when labour markets are in flux, OECD, 2019, and in two OECD country studies: Korea, 2023, United States, 2023)
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I38, J65, H55, H53, C31, C35
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15287
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Alison
Preston
Robert
E.
Wright
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Financial Literacy Amongst Young People: When Does the Gender Gap Begin?
Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique, this paper contributes to knowledge on gender-gaps in ...
(published as 'When Does the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy Begin?' in: Economic Record, 2024, 100 (328), 44-73)
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B54, D14, D31, G18, I30, J26
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15281
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Andreas
Leibing
Frauke
Peter
Sevrin
Waights
C.
Katharina
Spieß
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Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations
Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102398)
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I26, J31, D84
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15280
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Vitus
Püttmann
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the ...
(revised version forthcoming as 'The Microfoundations of Academics’ Engagement with Society' in: Technovation, 2025.)
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I23, O35, O36
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15279
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Maria
Cotofan
Richard
Layard
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The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education
Information on both earnings and non-pecuniary rewards is needed to understand the occupational dispersion of wellbeing. We analyse subjective wellbeing in a large UK sample to construct a measure of ...
(published as 'Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers’ rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations' in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 497-546)
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I31, J31
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15278
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Chandan
Jain
Shagun
Kashyap
Rahul
Lahoti
Soham
Sahoo
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Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India
Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are ...
(published as 'The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (3), 1068-1093)
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D72, H11, H41, O40
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15277
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Patrick
Balles
Ulrich
Matter
Alois
Stutzer
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Television Market Size and Political Accountability in the US House of Representatives
This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 80, 102459)
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D72, L82
|
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15276
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Marco
Francesconi
Jonathan
James
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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1118 - 1156)
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D12, D62, H23, K42, R41
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15275
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games. In this paper, we leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 761–786,)
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C72, C91
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15274
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Jens
Olav
Dahlgaard
Nicolai
Kristensen
Frederik
Kjøller
Larsen
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Reward or Punishment? The Distribution of Life-Cycle Returns to Political Office
How political office is remunerated will affect who decides to engage in politics. Even if average returns to office are positive, as unilaterally found in the literature, some office holders' ...
(published online in: Political Science Research and Methods, 06 January 2025 )
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J33, J4
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15272
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Hippolyte
D'Albis
Karina
Doorley
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest Is Empty
A significant literature in the social sciences addresses the impact of child-bearing and rearing on marital stability and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' ...
(published in: Molina, J.A. (eds), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer, 2022, 247 - 269)
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J12, J14, J22
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15271
|
Pedro
Luís
Silva
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Specialists or All-Rounders: How Best to Select University Students?
This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or based on a broader set of skills and knowledge. I show that even if broader ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18 (2), 227–271)
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I23, I24, I28, J24
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15268
|
Andrew
E.
Clark
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Do Individuals Adapt to All Types of Housing Transitions?
This paper provides one of the first tests of adaptation to the complete set of residential transitions. We use long-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 645–672)
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D19, R21
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15267
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Krishna
Regmi
Isaac
D.
Swensen
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Stable Income, Stable Family
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (3), 653–667.)
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J12, J13, J16, J65, H53, I38
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15266
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Ali
Moghaddasi
Kelishomi
Daniel
Sgroi
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The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation: Findings from the Field
We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 216, 110576)
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I11, I12, I18, C93, D03
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15260
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Marco
Caliendo
Daniel
Graeber
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Johannes
Seebauer
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Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2023, 47(3), 788–830)
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L26, D31, I14, I18, J16
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15259
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Nishith
Prakash
Soham
Sahoo
Deepak
Saraswat
Reetika
Sindhi
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When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India
This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close ...
(published online in: Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 30 August 2024)
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D72, D73, K42, O17
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15257
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Xiaoyue
Shan
Ulf
Zölitz
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Peers Affect Personality Development
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025)
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I21, I24, J24
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15255
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Bill
Dupor
Marios
Karabarbounis
Marianna
Kudlyak
M. Saif
Mehkari
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Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier
We use regional variation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009-2012) to analyze the effect of government spending on consumer spending. Our consumption data come from household-level ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (6), 2982–3021, )
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E21, E62, H31, H71
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15254
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Marianna
Kudlyak
Murat
Tasci
Didem
Tüzemen
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Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies
Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Using occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the ...
(This version: January 2023.)
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E24, E32, J30, J41, J63, J64
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15253
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Alison
Preston
Lili
Qiu
Robert
E.
Wright
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A Study of the Chinese Gender Gap in Financial Literacy
This paper uses data from the 2015 China Household Financial Survey to analyse the gender gap in financial literacy in China. The sample consists of 36,311 adult respondents. A variety of financial ...
(published as 'Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture' in: Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2024, 58 (1), 146-176)
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G53, I22
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15250
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Alison
Preston
Robert
E.
Wright
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Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings
Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey this paper examines the relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2023, 99 (324), 58-83)
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H53, J16, J32
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15249
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Jun
Du
Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
Ignat
Stepanok
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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?
China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 1007-1031)
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H25, H32, L25
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15246
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Edoardo
di Porto
Cristina
Tealdi
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Heterogeneous Paths to Stability
We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024, 187 (4), 1037–1064)
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J41, J63, J64
|
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15242
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Henri
Bussink
Tobias
Vervliet
Bas
ter Weel
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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 ...
(published in: De Economist, 2022, 170 (2), 279-303)
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J10, J23, I24
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