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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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15045
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 257-261)
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F22, J61, O15
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15043
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Harald
Pfeifer
Arne
Uhlendorff
Caroline
Wehner
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Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments
We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616)
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J24, D22, D91
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15042
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
Gian Luca
Tedeschi
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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39, 42-60)
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J15, K37, N57, O15, Z13
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15041
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Deepti
Goel
Rosa
Abraham
Rahul
Lahoti
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Improving Survey Quality Using Paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey
We describe the design and implemention of a paradata based method to reduce interviewer induced measurement error in a household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant ...
(published as 'Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from a field survey in India' in: Development Policy Review, 2025, 43, e12813,)
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C83
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15040
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Niklas
Gohl
Peter
Haan
Claus
Michelsen
Felix
Weinhardt
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House Price Expectations
This study examines short-, medium-, and long-run price expectations in housing markets. We derive and test six hypothesis about the incidence, formation, and relevance of price expectations. To do ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 218, 379-398 )
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R21, D84
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15039
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Serena
Canaan
Pierre
Mouganie
Peng
Zhang
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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and ...
(published online in: JJournal of Policy Analysis and Management , 20 August 2024)
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I21, I24, I26, J24
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15038
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Xi
Chen
Yun
Qiu
Wei
Shi
Pei
Yu
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Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 73, 101800)
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C21, I18, D85, H75
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15037
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Anirban
Mukherjee
Sarani
Saha
Divya
Shukla
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Caste, Courts and Business
We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts ...
(published in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 333-365)
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K12, L26, O17
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15034
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Fanny
Landaud
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Transfers from parents-either in the form of gifts or inheritances-have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (3), 1060–1094)
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G51, J01, J1
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15033
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Antoine
Bertheau
Edoardo
Acabbi
Cristina
Barcelo
Andreas
Gulyas
Stefano
Lombardi
Raffaele
Saggio
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2023, 5 (3), 393-408)
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J30, J63, J64
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15032
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Gianluca
Grimalda
Fabrice
Murtin
David
Pipke
Louis
Putterman
Matthias
Sutter
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The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104472.)
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D01, D72, D91, I12, I18, H11, H12
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15031
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Online Teaching, Procrastination and Students’ Achievement: Evidence from COVID-19 Induced Remote Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102378.)
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I21, I23, I28, D90, L86
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15030
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Antoine
Bertheau
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias
The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important labor market indicators. However, Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions are hard ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102130)
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E24, E32, J63
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15029
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Mariana
Viollaz
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Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2023, 51 (3), 252-279)
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J16, J21, J22, O12
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15028
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Iván
Fernández-Val
Aico
van Vuuren
Francis
Vella
Franco
Peracchi
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Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S.
We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the years 1975 to 2020. We account for the ...
(published as 'Selection and the distribution of female real hourly wages in the United States' in: Quantitative Economics, 2023, 14 (2), 571-607)
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C14, I24, J00
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15026
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Cecilia
Machado
Germán
Reyes
Evan
Riehl
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Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action
We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative ...
(published as 'The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 391–431)
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I23, I26, J31
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15024
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Matteo
Balliauw
Marco
Verheuge
Stijn
Baert
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Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 30 (12), 1692–1695)
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L830, Z220, Z260
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15021
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Yyannu
Cruz Aguayo
Pedro
Carneiro
Ruthy
Intriago
Juan
Ponce
Norbert
Schady
Sarah
Schodt
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When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country
Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. We designed a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2022, 3, 100012)
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I20
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15020
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Mark
Duggan
Audrey
Guo
Andrew C.
Johnston
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Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers?
The tax base for state unemployment insurance (UI) programs varies significantly in the U.S., from a low of $7,000 annually in California to a high of $52,700 in Washington. Previous research has ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 107–111)
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D22, H22, H25, H71, J23, J32, J38, J65
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15019
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Kalena
E.
Cortes
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The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation
We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature American, 2023, 61 (3), 888–905)
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I24, I26, J15, J18
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15018
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Tilman
Drerup
Matthias
Wibral
Christian
Zimpelmann
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Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice
Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26, 107 - 144)
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D14, D84, G02, G11
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15016
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1352–1365.)
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N33, I15, Q25, Q56
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15015
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Enrico
Santarelli
Jacopo
Staccioli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Automation and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base
Using the entire population of USPTO patent applications published between 2002 and 2019, and leveraging on both patent classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current ...
(published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2023, 48, 779-813)
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O33
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15014
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Niklas
Engbom
Christian
Moser
Jan
Sauermann
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Firm Pay Dynamics
We study the nature of firm pay dynamics. To this end, we propose a statistical model that extends the seminal framework by Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) to allow for idiosyncratically ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (1), 396 - 423)
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J31, D22, D31, E24, M13
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15013
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Titan
Alon
Matthias
Doepke
Kristina
Manysheva
Michèle
Tertilt
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Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 272 - 276)
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E32, J16, J20, O10
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15011
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Robert
Mahlstedt
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The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023)
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J61, J68, D04, C21
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15010
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Joseph
G.
Altonji
John
Eric
Humphries
Ling
Zhong
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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and ...
(published in: Polachek, S.W. and Tatsiramos, K. (ed.) 50th Celebratory Volume (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 50), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 25-81)
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I21,I26,J16,J24,J28,J31
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15009
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Tatyana
Deryugina
Olga
Shurchkov
Jenna
Stearns
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Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner: Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 267 - 271)
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D10, J16, J44
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15008
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
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Worker Representation
We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the ...
(published in: T. Eriksson (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies , Edward Elgar, 2023, 237–241 )
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J5, J51, J52, J53, J83
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15006
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Michael
Kosfeld
Zahra
Sharafi
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The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran
We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024, 10, 152–164)
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C81, C83, C90, D01, D03
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15004
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Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
Assi
Okara
Massimiliano
Tani
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 23 (5), 457–488)
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F20, F22, J24, J61, O14, O55
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15001
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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The Variability and Volatility of Sleep: An Archetypal Approach
Using Dutch time-diary data from 1975-2005 covering over 10,000 respondents for 7 consecutive days each, we show that individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by ...
( published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 47, 101175)
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C22, J22, I14
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15000
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Nicole
Andelic
Julia
Allan
Keith
A.
Bender
Daniel
Powell
Ioannis
Theodossiou
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Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection
Much of the literature on performance-related pay (PRP) and poor health relies on self-reported data, and the relationship is particularly difficult to examine due to confounding variables. To ...
(published as 'Performance-related Pay, Mental and Physiological Health' in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (1), 3-25. )
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J33, M52, I1
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14998
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Ralph
De Haas
Mathias
Dolls
Lisa
Windsteiger
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Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments
We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 35 - 59)
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D91, J16, J71, O15
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14996
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Getting the Measure of Inequality
I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality – that it has changed little over the last 30 years – and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3 (S1), i156–i166)
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D31, C81
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14995
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Pablo
Celhay
Bruce
D.
Meyer
Nikolas
Mittag
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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such errors makes it difficult for data producers to reduce the extent of errors and for ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 238 (2), 105581)
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C18, H53, I3
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14992
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Claudio
Labanca
Dario
Pozzoli
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Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms
Although constraints on hours worked at the firm-level are viewed as an important determinant of firm wages, little direct evidence exists to support this view. In this paper, we use linked ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 07 November 2023,)
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J31, J33
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14991
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Ludger
Woessmann
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Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2025)
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H52, I22, D72
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14990
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
Hanna
Mühlrad
Mårten
Palme
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Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy Mandate
IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We ...
(revised version available from the authors)
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J13, I11, I12, I38, J24
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14989
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W.
Benjamin
Arold
Ludger
Woessmann
Larissa
Zierow
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Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 2025)
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Z12, I28, H75
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14987
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight: The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint
We examine the relationship between trait self-control and body weight. Data from a population representative household survey reveal that limited self-control is strongly associated with both ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 50, 101263)
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D91, I12
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14986
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Anders
Frederiksen
Daniel
Baltzer Schjødt
Hansen
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
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Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process
Group-based incentive pay is attractive in contexts where production is complex and interdependent, yet freeriding is a paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in ...
(published as ' Group-based incentives and individual performance: Unpacking the effort response' in: ILR Review, 2024, 77 (2), 273-293.)
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M5, J33, L23
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14985
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Timothy
F.
Harris
Aaron
Yelowitz
Jeffery
Talbert
Alison
Davis
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Adverse Selection in the Group Life Insurance Market
The employer-sponsored life insurance (ESLI) market is particularly susceptible to adverse selection due to community-rated premiums, guaranteed issue coverage, and the existence of a ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (5), 911-941)
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D82, G22, J33
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14984
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Andre
Kurmann
Etienne
Lalé
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School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during COVID-19: When, Where, and for Whom
We match cell phone data to administrative school records and combine it with information on school learning modes to study effective in-person learning (EIPL) in the U.S. during the pandemic. We ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 95 (C), 102422)
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E24, I24
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14983
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Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy: IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument
Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024, 24 (2), 425-461.)
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J13, J24, I21, C36
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14982
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Oriana
Bandiera
Ahmed
Elsayed
Andrea
Smurra
Celine
Zipfel
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Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (1), 81-100)
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J01, J08, J21, J24
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14981
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Thushyanthan
Baskaran
Zohal
Hessami
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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections
This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104111)
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D72, D78, J16
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14980
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Francesco
Sarracino
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. ...
(published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life Studies, 2023, 18, 9 - 41)
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I31, I10, P00, O10, Q50
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14978
|
Felix
Koenig
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Technical Change and Superstar Effects: Evidence from the Rollout of Television
Technical change that extends market scale can generate winner-take-all dynamics, with large income growth among top earners. I test this "superstar model" in the entertainer labor market, where the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 167, 104799)
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J31, J23, O33, D31
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14976
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nancy
Kong
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 95, 102599.)
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D91, D01
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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