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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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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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15212
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Stefano
Castriota
Sandro
Rondinella
Mirco
Tonin
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Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties
We investigate the relationship between social capital and the decision to flee after a fatal road accident. This event is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 329, 116011)
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Z13, D91, K42, R41
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15208
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Resul
Cesur
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Jennifer
Louise
Roff
David
Simon
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Domestic Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Using Difference-in-Differences models and event-study analysis, we estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the incidence and intensity of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Law and Economics)
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I10, I18, I3
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15205
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Simon
Georges-Kot
Dominique
Goux
Eric
Maurin
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The Value of Leisure Synchronization
This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (1), 351-76)
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J22, D13
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15204
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Nick
Drydakis
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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms
The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated ...
(published in: Sustainability, 2022, 14 (8), 4417.)
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M53, L26, O31, O33
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15200
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Orkun
Saka
Barry
Eichengreen
Cevat Giray
Aksoy
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Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2022, 54 (7), 1913 - 1940)
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G20, G59, I10
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15199
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Lars
Brausewetter
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Johannes
Trunzer
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Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts
Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional ...
(revised version published as 'Regional Supply and Demand Fundamentals in the German Housing Price Boom' in: German Economic Review, 2024, 25 (1), 1-36. )
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R23, R31
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15195
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Naci
Mocan
Eric
Osborne-Christenson
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In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges
We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (4), 731–766)
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K, J71
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15194
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Cloé
Garnache
Øystein
Hernaes
Anders
Gravir
Imenes
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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?
We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency ...
(published as 'Demand-Side Management in Fully Electrified Homes' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2025, 12 (2), 257–283 )
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C93, D12, L94, Q41
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15190
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Eline
Moens
Elsy
Verhofstadt
Luc
Van Ootegem
Stijn
Baert
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Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees: A Factorial Survey Experiment
This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2024,163 (2), 325 - 348)
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J24, J81, J31, J63, I31
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15189
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Claudio
Deiana
Ludovica
Giua
Roberto
Nistico
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Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty ...
(published in: Demography, 2025, 62 (3), 811–837.)
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J15, J61, K37
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15187
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Julián
Costas-Fernández
Greta
Morando
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The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 160, 104595)
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F22, I21, I23, I24, I26, J15, J24
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15186
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Robert
Dur
Carlos
Gomez-Gonzalez
Cornel
Nesseler
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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (1), 175 - 191)
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C93, J15, Z29
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15184
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Mingyu
Chen
Jessica
Howell
Jonathan
Smith
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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102385)
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I21, I23, F22, J15
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15183
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Alberto
Salamone
Grace
Lordan
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Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers
We conducted a field experiment in a small electronics manufacturing firm in the US with the specific aim to improve minutes worked, punctuality, tardiness and safety checks. Our intervention was to ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (7), 302655)
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J10
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15182
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Grace
Lordan
Eliza-Jane
Stringer
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People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction
This study explores the effect on mental health and life satisfaction of working in an automatable job. We utilise an Australian panel dataset (HILDA), and estimate models that include individual ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology 2022, 46, 101144)
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I10, J20
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15181
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Jonathan
Gruber
Grace
Lordan
Stephen
Pilling
Carol
Propper
Rob
Saunders
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The Impact of Mental Health Support for the Chronically Ill on Hospital Utilisation: Evidence from the UK
Individuals with common mental disorders (CMDs) such as depression and anxiety frequently have co-occurring long-term physical health conditions (LTCs) and this co-occurrence is associated with ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 294, 114675)
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I10
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15180
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Cecily
Josten
Grace
Lordan
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Automation and the Changing Nature of Work
This study identifies the job attributes, and in particular skills and abilities, which predict the likelihood a job is recently automatable drawing on the Josten and Lordan (2020) classification of ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (5), e0266326)
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J21, J00
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15179
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Alejandra
Abufhele
David
Bravo
Florencia
López Bóo
Pamela
Soto-Ramirez
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Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The learning and developmental losses from pre-primary program closures due to COVID-19 may be unprecedented. These disruptions early in life can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the ...
(published in: Comparative Education Review, 2024, 68 (3), 423 -442)
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I25, J13, O15, Z13
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15178
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Mike
Brewer
Thang
Dang
Emma
Tominey
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Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health
The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to sustainable employment. Exploiting a staggered roll-out, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102940)
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D61, I10, I14, I38
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15177
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Takahiro
Toriyabe
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Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102197.)
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D12, H24, J16, J12, J13, J16, J24
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15176
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Simona
Lorena
Comi
Mara
Grasseni
Federica
Origo
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Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition
This paper studies the impact on the length of school-to-work transition of a reform that extended from two to three years the short vocational track in Italy in the early 2000s. In the empirical ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7),1601 -1619)
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I26, I28, J24
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15175
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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The Determinants of Population Self-Control
This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of ...
(updated version published as 'Surveillance and self-control' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (660), 1666–1682)
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D90, C26
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15172
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Federico
Cingano
Filippo
Palomba
Paolo
Pinotti
Enrico
Rettore
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Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion
We estimate the employment effects of a large program of public investment subsidies that ranked applications on a score reflecting both objective criteria and local politicians' preferences. ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2025, 93 (3), 747-778)
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H25, J08
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15171
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Francesco
Sarracino
Talita
Greyling
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
Chiara
Peroni
Stephanié
Rossouw
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Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data
Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101412)
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D91, I18, H12
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15170
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Espen
S.
Dahl
Øystein
Hernaes
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Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making ...
(published in: Labour, 2023, 37 (1), 96-121)
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H55, I38, J18
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15168
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Lanlin
Ding
Peng
Nie
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. ...
(published in: Cities, 2024, 152, 105248.)
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D63, I10, I12, R21
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15164
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Pierre
Koning
Max
van Lent
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Workers' Moral Hazard and Insurer Effort in Disability Insurance
Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2024, 91 (4), 1049 - 1088)
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G22, G52, J3, J21
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15160
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Hale
Utar
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an ...
(published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 11 September 2024)
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L25, L60, O12, O14, O18, O19, R11, O54, F14
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15158
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Jeffrey
Clemens
Michael
R.
Strain
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Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?
In analyses of minimum wages, positive "ripple effects" and subminimum wages are difficult to distinguish from measurement error. Indeed, prior work posits that a simple, symmetric measurement ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 217, 1106368)
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J08, J38, K42
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15156
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Scott
R.
Baker
Steven
J.
Davis
Jeffrey
A.
Levy
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State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 132, 81-99)
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D80, E66, G18, H70, R50
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