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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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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
Èric
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
Crocè
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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17319
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Micole
De Vera
Javier
Garcia-Brazales
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Establishment Size and the Task Content of Jobs: Evidence from 46 Countries
Using a mix of household- and employer-based survey data from 46 countries, we provide novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (366), 548-579)
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J24, J31, L25
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17314
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Zheyuan
Zhang
Hui
Xu
Ruilin
Liu
Zhong
Zhao
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Free Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills in Rural China
This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in 2006, as a natural experiment on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 29 (2025))
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H52, I24, J24
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17311
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Nikos
Askitas
Anoop
Bindra
Martinez
Fabio
Saia
Cereda
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The IZA / Fable Swipe Consumption Index
This paper introduces a novel monthly consumption indicator: the IZA / Fable Data consumption indicator for Germany. It is based on credit card transactions data collected and anonymised by Fable ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2025, 245 (4–5), 589–59)
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D12, E2, C8
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17305
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Herwig
Immervoll
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Financing Social Protection in OECD Countries: Role and Uses of Revenue Earmarking
In many OECD countries, the majority of social spending is financed from earmarked revenues, and a large share of revenues earmarked for any type of government spending is used for social purposes. ...
(forthcoming in: U. Gentilini (ed.), Scaling up: insights into the financing, political economy and delivery of social assistance (preliminary title), World Bank: Washington DC, 2024)
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H20, H50, I00, P52
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17303
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Katja
Görlitz
Pascal
Heß
Marcus
Tamm
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Should States Allow Early School Enrollment? An Analysis of Individuals' Long-Term Labor Market Effects
This study provides a policy evaluation of laws allowing early school enrollment of children, i.e., enrollment before the official school starting age. It investigates the effects of early enrollment ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2025, 68, 2383–2411)
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I28, J21, J24
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17296
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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The Pecuniary Costs of Early School Leaving and Poor Basic Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
We produce estimates of the pecuniary costs of inadequate investment in human capital for countries, macro regions and the world at large. These costs are borne by individuals (private costs), the ...
(also available as 'The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning', United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 2024)
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I24, I25
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17295
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lisa
M.
Lynch
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50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We ...
(published as 'Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership' in: ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 711 (1), 225-244)
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J0, J01, J10, J16, J2, J21, J24, J7, J70
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17294
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Matias
Busso
Sebastián
Montaño
Juan
S.
Muñoz-Morales
Nolan
G.
Pope
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The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from a Large-Scale Reform in Colombia
Teacher quality is a key factor in improving student academic achievement. As such, educational policymakers strive to design systems to hire the most effective teachers. This paper examines the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105238.)
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I25, I28, J24
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17293
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Malte
Sandner
Ipek
Yükselen
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Unraveling the Gender Wage Gap: Exploring Early Career Patterns among University Graduates
A large body of literature has shown that the gender wage gap is small in the first years after graduation and increases gradually with age, largely because of family decisions, i.e., a penalty ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 72 (2), e12405)
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I23, J16, J31, J71
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17291
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John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
Van
Phan
Felix
Ritchie
Carl
Singleton
Lucy
Stokes
Damian
Whittard
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Revisiting Sample Bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with Implications for Estimates of Low Pay and the Bite of the National Living Wage
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK's official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated ...
(published online as 'The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 August 2025)
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C81, C83, J31
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17283
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Matias
Busso
Sebastián
Montaño
Juan
S.
Muñoz-Morales
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Unbundling Returns to Postsecondary Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Colombia
Using longitudinal data of college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skills—including literacy, numeracy, foreign language, and ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2024, 33 (1), 1-18)
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I20, I24, J24, J31
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