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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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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
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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
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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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15241
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Tymon
Sloczynski
Derya
Uysal
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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Abadie's Kappa and Weighting Estimators of the Local Average Treatment Effect
In this paper we study the finite sample and asymptotic properties of various weighting estimators of the local average treatment effect (LATE), several of which are based on Abadie (2003)'s kappa ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2024, 43 (1), 164–177)
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C21, C26
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15240
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Josh
Kinsler
Tyler
Ransom
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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences
Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023, 1 (4), 615–668.)
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I23, I24, J15
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15239
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Jinyang
Yang
Xi
Chen
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Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China
We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (4), 1881–1921)
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H23, H31, H55, I38, J22, O15
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15237
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Barbara
Sadaba
Suncica
Vujic
Sofia
Maier
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Characterizing the Schooling Cycle
This paper develops a novel and tractable empirical approach to estimate the cycle in schooling participation decisions, which we denominate the schooling cycle. The estimation procedure is based on ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling , 2024, 132, 106649.)
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E3, I2, J2, C32
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15235
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Sabrine
Ferjani
Sami
Saafi
Ridha
Nouira
Christophe
Rault
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The Impacts of the Dollar-Renminbi Exchange Rate Misalignment on the China-United States Commodity Trade: An Asymmetric Analysis
Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and ...
(published in: Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2022, 20 (3), 507-554)
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F14, F31, C10
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15233
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Rufei
Guo
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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The Child Quantity–Quality Trade-off
This chapter reviews the growing literature on the child quantity–quality (QQ) trade-off. During the transition from the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022 )
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D10, J13
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15232
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Herwig
Immervoll
Raphaela
Hyee
Rodrigo
Fernandez
Jongmi
Lee
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How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the ...
(updated and extended version published as: IZA DP No. 17477, 2024)
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H53, H31, D31, I38, C31, C53
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15231
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Andrea
Bassanini
Giulia
Bovini
Eve
Caroli
Jorge
Casanova
Ferrando
Federico
Cingano
Paolo
Falco
Florentino
Felgueroso
Marcel
Jansen
Pedro
S.
Martins
António
Melo
Michael
Oberfichtner
Martin
Popp
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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe
We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, ...
(revised version published online in: Journal of Human Resources, July 2025,)
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J31, J42, L41
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15230
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Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Christophe
Gaillac
Arnaud
Maurel
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Partially Linear Models under Data Combination
We consider the identification of and inference on a partially linear model, when the outcome of interest and some of the covariates are observed in two different datasets that cannot be linked. This ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2025, 92(1), 238-267)
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C14, C21, J62
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15229
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Brent
Meyer
Emil
Mihaylov
José
María
Barrero
Steven
J.
Davis
David
Altig
Nicholas
Bloom
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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022, 15 (8), 338)
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D80, E22, E32
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15228
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Rainer
Kotschy
David
E.
Bloom
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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems
This paper investigates challenges of aging for long-term care. Our analysis proceeds in three steps. In the first step, we estimate the prospective care demand for 30 developed countries based on ...
(published in: International Social Security Review, 2022, 75 (3-4), 47-69)
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JII, I18, I38, H51, H75
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15227
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Maddalena
Ferranna
J.P.
Sevilla
Leo
Zucker
David
E.
Bloom
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Patterns of Time Use among Older People
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation ...
(published in: David E. Bloom, Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Uwe Sunde (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing, Routledge, London, 2023)
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D13, D15, J14, J22
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15226
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Tony
Fang
Na
Xiao
Jane
Zhu
John
Hartley
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Employer Attitudes and the Hiring of Immigrants and International Students: Evidence from a Survey of Employers in Canada
What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are they related to hiring outcomes? Our analysis based on a 2019 random, ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2022, 48,17-37.)
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J23, J61, J63, J68
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15225
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Jo
Blanden
Matthias
Doepke
Jan
Stuhler
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Educational Inequality
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from ...
(published in: E. A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam and Oxford, 2023, 6, 405-497)
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I21, I24, J62
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15224
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Matthias
Doepke
Anne
Hannusch
Fabian
Kindermann
Michèle
Tertilt
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The Economics of Fertility: A New Era
In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in ...
(published in: Handbook of the Economics of the Family, 2023, 1 (1), 151-254)
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D13, J13, J16
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15220
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Helge
Liebert
Beatrice
Mäder
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Physicians and the Production of Health: Returns to Health Care during the Mortality Transition
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024)
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I10, I18, N34
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15219
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Yudan
Zhang
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Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018
Household income per capita among the rural Yi, Manchurian ethnic minority groups and the Han majority is studied using data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity ...
(published in: China Quarterly, 2023, 253, 197 - 213. )
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H31, J15, P36
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15218
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Kerstin
Unfried
Feicheng
Wang
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Importing Air Pollution? Evidence from China's Plastic Waste Imports
Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, 125, 102996)
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F18, F64, Q53, Q56
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15217
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Shelly
Lundberg
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Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities
The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably in recent years, fueled in part by new sources of data, including from experimental studies of gender differences in preferences and other ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 151-189)
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J16
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15213
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Sandra
McNally
Luis
Schmidt
Anna
Valero
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Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education?
Further Education colleges are a key way in which 16-19 year olds acquire skills in the UK (much like US Community Colleges), especially those from low income backgrounds. Yet, little is known about ...
(published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (363), 740-769)
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I20, J24
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