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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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15154
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Jérôme
Adda
Christian
Dustmann
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Sources of Wage Growth
This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 456 - 503)
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J2, J3, J6
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15153
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
Tiit
Tammaru
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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3 (S1), i634-i641)
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I30, J60, P46, R23
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15151
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Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Knowledge of treatment effect heterogeneity or "essential heterogeneity" plays an important role in our understanding of how programs work and in the design of systems to allocate them among the ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 652 - 677)
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C10, C41
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15150
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented level of job losses in the U.S., where a job loss is also associated with the loss of health insurance. This paper uses data from the 2020 Household ...
(published in: SSM Population Health, 2022, 20, 101279)
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I12, I18, J6
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15148
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Govert
Bijwaard
Jackline
Wahba
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Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration and controlling for total earnings. We use Timing-of-Events models and control ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667)
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F22, J61, C41
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15146
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Kirk
Doran
Alexander
Gelber
Adam
Isen
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2501–2533)
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J00, J08, J15, J23, J24, J48
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15145
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Anna
Adamecz
Nikki
Shure
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The Gender Gap in Top Jobs – The Role of Overconfidence
There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings, and also have more job security and better career trajectories. Recent literature ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102283)
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I24, I26, J24
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15144
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Mireille
Kozhaya
Fernanda
Martínez Flores
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Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age
This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39 (1), 164–190,)
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I38, J22, J23, J82, O12
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15142
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Stepan
Mikula
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
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Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market
Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2022, 2, 373 - 388)
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C93, J08, J71
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15141
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Simon
Briole
Marc
Gurgand
Eric
Maurin
Sandra
McNally
Jenifer
Ruiz-Valenzuela
Daniel
Santín
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The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries
With the rise of polarization and extremism, the question of how best to transmit civic virtues across generations is more acute than ever. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that schools can be ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
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I20, I24, J24
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15139
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Aspasia
Bizopoulou
Rigissa
Megalokonomou
Stefania
Simion
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Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105214)
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J16, I21, I23
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15138
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages
Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 115–138)
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J12, J24
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15137
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Thomas
Dudek
Anne
Ardila
Brenře
Jan
Feld
Julia
Rohrer
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No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from ...
(published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (9), 1574 - 1587)
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J12, J16, J24
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15136
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Robert
E.
Hall
Marianna
Kudlyak
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The Unemployed with Jobs and without Jobs
Potential workers are classified as unemployed if they seek work but are not working. The unemployed population contains two groups—those with jobs and those without jobs. Those with jobs are on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102244)
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E32, J63, J64
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15135
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Robert
E.
Hall
Marianna
Kudlyak
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The Inexorable Recoveries of Unemployment
Unemployment recoveries in the US have been inexorable. Between 1948 and 2019, the annual reduction in the unemployment rate during cyclical recoveries was fairly tightly distributed around 0.1 log ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 131, 15 - 25)
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E32, J63, J64
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15134
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Michele
Di Maio
Francesco
Fasani
Valerio
Leone
Sciabolazza
Vasco
Molini
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Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State
We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 460-485)
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F22, J61, K37
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15133
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Hans
Henrik
Sievertsen
Sarah
Smith
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Male and Female Voices in Economics
Women's voices are likely to be even more absent from economic debates than headline figures on female under-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are ...
(updated version published as 'The gender gap in expert voices: Evidence from economics' in: Public Understanding of Science, 2025, 34 (4), 446-458.)
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A11, J16
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15132
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Jin
Zhou
James
J.
Heckman
Bei
Liu
Mai
Lu
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The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We ...
(earlier version of this paper available as IZA DP No. 13346. )
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J13, Z18
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15131
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Matthew
J.
Lindquist
Jan
Sauermann
Yves
Zenou
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Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile ...
(revised version available here)
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J24, M50
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15130
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Matěj
Bělín
Tomáš
Jelínek
Štepán
Jurajda
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Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust
Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent ...
(part of the paper published as 'Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023, 120 (29), e2221654120)
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Z1
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15129
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Serena
Canaan
Anne
Sophie
Lassen
Philip
Rosenbaum
Herdis
Steingrimsdottir
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Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries
Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn ...
(published in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2022)
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J08, J12, J13, J22, J23
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15128
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022)
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I21, J16, J24
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15126
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Giuseppe
Moscelli
Melisa
Sayli
Marco
Mello
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Staff Engagement, Job Complementarity and Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS Hospital Workforce
We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be ...
(updated version of this paper published as IZA DP No. 15638.)
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C33, C36, I11, J22, J28, J63
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15125
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Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
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Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity
We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023,106, 102078)
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D64, H2
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15124
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Santosh
Kumar Gautam
Kaushalendra
Kumar
Ramanan
Laxminarayan
Arindam
Nandi
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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression ...
(published in: Economic Papers, 2022, 41 (2), 144 - 175)
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I12, I15, I18, J13, J24, O12
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15123
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Holger
Görg
Alina
Mulyukova
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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104752)
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O18, O25, P25, R10, R58, R23, F21, F60
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15122
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Marie-Claire
Robitaille
Joniada
Milla
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Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania
The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (8), 1246- 1265)
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J13, J16
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15120
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Farzana
Afridi
Sisir
Debnath
Taryn
Dinkelman
Komal
Sareen
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Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production
In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 283–304)
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O13, J22
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15119
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Sascha
O.
Becker
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Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research
Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes ...
(published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2022, 62 (1), 2-25)
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F22, R23, D74, Q54, N30
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15118
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Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
Victoria
Vernon
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Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015–2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565 )
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D13, J22, J29
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15117
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
W.
Kip
Viscusi
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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 83-116)
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J17, I18, H40, K32, J28
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15114
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Tatiana
Abboud
Andriana
Bellou
Joshua
Lewis
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The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and labor market outcomes. Our analysis exploits cross-state variation in the rollout of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066)
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I18, I12, J20
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15112
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Boris
Hirsch
Philipp
Lentge
Claus
Schnabel
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Uncovered Workers in Plants Covered by Collective Bargaining: Who Are They and How Do They Fare?
In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (4), 929-945)
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J31, J53
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15111
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Ho
Fai
Chan
Zhiming
Cheng
Silvia
Mendolia
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Massimiliano
Tani
Damon
Proulx
David
Savage
Benno
Torgler
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Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have struggled to find the right balance between restrictive measures to contain the spread of the virus, and the effects of these measures on people's ...
(published in: Scientific Reports, 2024,14,1790 )
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I0, I14
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15110
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Dennis
H.
Meier
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Johannes
Trunzer
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The Financial Situation of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Many university students depend on employment during their studies. The closing of universities and the loss of many typical student jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected their ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Soziale Welt)
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I23, I24
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15109
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Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Marius
Opstrup
Morthorst
Peter
Rřnř
Thingholm
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Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102843)
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I10, I18, I12, I14
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15108
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Loredana
Cultrera
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Guillaume
Vermeylen
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Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 561-573)
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J21, J24.
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15107
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Aino-Maija
Aalto
Dagmar
Müller
Lucas
Tilley
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From Epidemic to Pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on High School Program Choices in Sweden
We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102346)
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I20, J24
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15106
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Colin
P.
Green
Luke
B.
Wilson
Anwen
Zhang
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Beauty, Underage Drinking, and Adolescent Risky Behaviours
Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 215, 153 - 166)
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I12, J10
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15104
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Analia
Schlosser
Yannay
Shanan
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Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT
The long-term unemployed sometimes lack basic soft skills needed to enter and succeed in the labor market. We examine whether it is possible to develop or enhance these skills among adults by using a ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources)
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J24, J64
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15103
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Suman
Banerjee
Saul
Estrin
Sarmistha
Pal
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Corporate Disclosure, Compliance and Consequences: Evidence from Russia
Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and therefore earnings quality and firm performance? We explore these questions for an ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2022, 28 (17), 1770-1802)
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G3, K29, O38
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15101
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Atsushi
Inoue
Ryuichi
Tanaka
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Do Teachers' College Majors Affect Students' Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross-Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31(5), 617-631)
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H75, I21, J24
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15098
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Bilge
Erten
Pinar
Keskin
Silvia
Prina
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Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19
We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 262 - 266)
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J12, J15, I18
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15096
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Michael
Haylock
Patrick
Kampkötter
Mario
Macis
Jürgen
Sauter
Susanne
Seitz
Robert
Slonim
Daniel
Wiesen
Alexander
H.
Schmidt
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Improving the Availability of Unrelated Stem Cell Donors: Evidence from a Major Donor Registry
The unavailability of potential stem cell donors poses a critical challenge for donor registries worldwide. This study investigates the impact of initiatives of a stem cell donor registry to enhance ...
(published online in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024.)
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I12, I18
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15092
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Mingqi
Fu
Jing
Guo
Xi
Chen
Boxun
Han
Farooq
Ahmed
Muhammad
Shahid
Qilin
Zhang
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American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19: Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, ...
(published in: Frontiers in Public Health, 2022, 9, 778084)
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J14, D91, I14
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15091
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Mariana
Viollaz
Mauricio
Salazar-Saenz
Luca
Flabbi
Monserrat
Bustelo
Mariano
Bosch
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The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Labor Supply Impact by Gender
We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2023, 14 (1))
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J6, J16, J46, O10, O17
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15090
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Sebastian
Link
Andreas
Peichl
Christopher
Roth
Johannes
Wohlfart
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Information Frictions among Firms and Households
We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among the two groups. First, firms' expectations about macroeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023,135, 99-115)
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D83, D84, E71
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15089
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Christopher
Birdsall
Seth
Gershenson
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The Pro Bono Penalty: Extracurricular Activities and Demographic Disparities in Bar Exam Success
Demographic disparities in bar exam pass rates are problematic but poorly understood. We investigate a possible explanation: participation in extracurricular activities, which could either distract ...
(published in: Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender & Social Justice, 2022, 12 (1), Article 4)
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I23, I24
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15086
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Jason
Faberman
Andreas
I.
Mueller
Aysegül
Sahin
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Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the COVID Pandemic?
We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102275)
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E24, J21, J60
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15085
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Apostolos
Davillas
Victor
Hugo
de Oliveira
Andrew
M.
Jones
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Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS
We capitalise on an opportunity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which asks respondents the same SAH question with identical wording two times. This is done once with a self-completion and ...
(revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101219)
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C10, C33, C83, I10
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