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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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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
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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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14975
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Michael
McKelligott
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910
In the mid-19th century, the urban milk supply in the United States was regularly skimmed or diluted with water, reducing its nutritional value. At the urging of public health experts, cities across ...
(published in: American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 188-192.)
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I18, J1, N31
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14974
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Gregory
Casey
Stephie
Fried
Matthew
Gibson
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Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment
Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 167, 104799)
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O13, O44, Q56
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14973
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Murat
Demirci
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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The Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106138)
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F22, J21, J61, O15
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14972
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Selcen
Çakır
Elif
Erbay
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Syrian Refugees and Human Capital Accumulation of Native Children in Turkey
Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. The arrival of Syrian refugees has significantly changed the relative abundance of different skill groups in Turkey and the labor market ...
(published as 'Syrian Refugees and Human Capital Accumulation of Working-age Native Children in Turkey' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17(4), 557-592.)
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I25, J61
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14970
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Michael
Jetter
Rafat
Mahmood
David
Stadelmann
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Income and Terrorism: Insights from Subnational Data
To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions in 75 countries between 1970 and 2014. Results consistently imply an inverted ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2024, 68 (2-3), 509 - 533)
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D74, O11
|
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14969
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Luna
Bellani
Andrea
Fazio
Francesco
Scervini
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Collective Negative Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany
Using new data from a three-wave panel survey administered in Germany between May 2020 and May 2021, this paper studies the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 68 (2-3), 509-533. )
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D31, D63, D72
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14967
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Ulugbek
Aminjonov
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Tanguy
Bernard
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Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic
Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104507)
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H12, I12, I18, I38, O15
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14966
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Louis
Lippens
Siel
Vermeiren
Stijn
Baert
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The State of Hiring Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of (Almost) All Recent Correspondence Experiments
Notwithstanding the improved integration of various minority groups in the workforce, unequal treatment in hiring still hinders many individuals' access to the labour market. To tackle this ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151, 104315)
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J71, J23, J14, J15, J16
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14964
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Brad
J.
Hershbein
Shawn
Martin
Kevin
Stange
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College Majors and Skills: Evidence from the Universe of Online Job Ads
We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 1-17)
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I26, J23, J24
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14963
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Simon
Jäger
Christopher
Roth
Nina
Roussille
Benjamin
Schoefer
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Worker Beliefs about Outside Options
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, 139 (3), 1505–1556, )
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D91, E03, E24, J3, J31, J42, J6
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14961
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Ozan
Isler
Simon
Gächter
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Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation
Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 75-86, )
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C91, J16
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14959
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Carlo
Ciccarelli
Alberto
Dalmazzo
Tiziano
Razzolini
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Sicilian Sulphur and Mafia: Resources, Working Conditions and the Practice of Violence
This paper reconsiders the nexus between the abundance of resources and the origins of Sicilian mafia by exploiting a new set of historical data on the Sicilian sulphur industry in the late 19th ...
(substantially revised version published in: Cliometrica, 2024,18, 531–565)
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H75, J28, K42
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14958
|
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Emilia
Brito
Damian
Clarke
Pilar
Larroulet
Francisco
J.
Pino
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Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile
We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence (DV). Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 9 February 2024)
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J12, I38, H53
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14957
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Ryota
Nakamura
Andrea
Albanese
Emma
Coombes
Marc
Suhrcke
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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024, 187 (2), 305–320)
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D04, I12, R48
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14956
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Hartmut
Egger
Elke
J.
Jahn
Stefan
Kornitzky
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How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?
We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 194 (2), 244-263)
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C23, J31, L23
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14954
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Eduardo
Ferraz
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Juan
Vargas
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Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime
Intuitively, by increasing the opportunity cost of engaging in criminal activities, positive economic shocks should reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic ...
(published in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds). A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Elgar Modern Guides, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 184-204)
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K42, J30, D74, F16
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14952
|
Shuaizhang
Feng
Jun Hyung
Kim
Zhe
Yang
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Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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I21, D62, O15
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14951
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Top-Income Adjustments and Official Statistics on Income Distribution: The Case of the UK
UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20, 151 - 168)
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D31, C81
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14950
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Oriana
Bandiera
Nidhi
Parekh
Barbara
Petrongolo
Michelle
Rao
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Men Are from Mars, and Women Too: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Overconfidence Experiments
Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (S1), 38 - 70)
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C91, J16
|
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14949
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Jennifer
Louise
Roff
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The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the ...
(published online in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25 November 2024)
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J12, J22, K36
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14948
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Runjing
Lu
William
Mullins
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Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections
Changes in political leadership drive sharp changes in public policy and partisan beliefs about the future. We exploit the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2022, 4 (4), 473-493)
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J13, D72
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14947
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Artyom
Jelnov
Pavel
Jelnov
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Vaccination Policy and Trust
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in countries with more transparent and accountable governments. The mechanism that ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105773)
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I18
|
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14946
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Alexander
Karaivanov
Dongwoo
Kim
Shih En
Lu
Hitoshi
Shigeoka
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a ...
(published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2022, 6, 1615–1624)
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I18, I12, C23
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14944
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Francesco
Carbonero
Jeremy
Davies
Ekkehard
Ernst
Frank
M.
Fossen
Daniel
Samaan
Alina
Sorgner
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2023, 33, 707-736)
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J22, J23, O14, O33
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14943
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Effrosyni
Adamopoulou
Francesco
Manaresi
Omar
Rachedi
Emircan
Yurdagul
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Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm
Minimum wages alter the allocation of firm-idiosyncratic risk across workers. To establish this result, we focus on Italy, and leverage employer-employee data matched to firm balance sheets and ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2027)
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E24, E25, E64, J31, J38, J52
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14941
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Jun
Yeong
Lee
John
V.
Winters
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Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment across the United States
Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2024, 38 (4), 249-270.)
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J61, L26, R23
|
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14940
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Sofie
Cairo
Robert
Mahlstedt
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Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers
We study how the transparency of welfare systems affects labor market outcomes of unemployed workers in a large-scale field experiment. Our low-cost information intervention uses a personalized ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987)
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J68, D83, C93
|
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14939
|
Mehrzad
B.
Baktash
John
S.
Heywood
Uwe
Jirjahn
|
Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence
While performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages, it has also been associated with a deterioration of worker health. The transmission mechanisms for this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 201, 276-291)
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J33, I31, J32
|
|
14936
|
Jorge
Garcia-Hombrados
Marta
Martínez Matute
|
Specialized Courts and the Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Spain
This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialized intimate partner violence (IPV) courts on the reporting and incidence of these crimes. To achieve this goal, we exploit the sequential ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105243)
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J12, J16, K14, K38
|
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14935
|
Juan
J.
Dolado
Airam
Guerra
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Uncovering the Roots of Obesity-Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics
This paper investigates the roots of labour market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between body fat percentage and wages. Using a large panel dataset of individuals drawn from the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102425)
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J71, J15, J31
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