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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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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
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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
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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
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Mehrzad
B.
Baktash
John
S.
Heywood
Uwe
Jirjahn
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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
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14936
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Jorge
Garcia-Hombrados
Marta
Martínez Matute
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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
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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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14934
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Giovanni
Facchini
Timothy
J.
Hatton
Max
F.
Steinhardt
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Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act
The Immigration Act of 1965 marked a dramatic shift in policy and one with major long term consequences for the volume and composition of immigration to the United States. Here we explore the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84 (1), 232-270.)
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N12, F22, J68
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14931
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Chloe
Tergiman
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Way People Lie in Markets: Detectable vs. Deniable Lies
In a finitely repeated game with asymmetric information, we experimentally study how individuals adapt the nature of their lies when settings allow for reputation-building. While some lies can be ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (6), 3157-3758 )
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C91, D01, G41, M21
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14930
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Paolo
Berta
Massimiliano
Bratti
Carlo
V.
Fiorio
Enrico
Pisoni
Stefano
Verzillo
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Administrative Border Effects in COVID-19 Related Mortality
Does the organisation of healthcare systems affect health outcomes in a pandemic situation? To answer this question, we analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate ...
(revised version published oline in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series A ( Statistics in Society), 11 September 2024)
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I10, H12
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14928
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Uwe
Cantner
Philip
Doerr
Maximilian
Göthner
Matthias
Huegel
Martin
Kalthaus
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A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-off Creation: The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics
We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1555–1590)
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L26, O31, O33
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14927
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Harry
J.
Holzer
Glenn
Hubbard
Michael
R.
Strain
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Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Reduce Employment? Evidence from Early State-Level Expirations in June 2021
The generosity of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits was expanded during the pandemic (FPUC), along with the groups of workers eligible for benefits (PUA). These two programs were set to expire in ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (1), 24-38)
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J08, J65
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14926
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Marco
Caliendo
Linda
Wittbrodt
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Did the Minimum Wage Reduce the Gender Wage Gap in Germany?
In many countries, women are over-represented among low-wage employees, which is why a wage floor could benefit them particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102228)
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J16, J31, J38, J71
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14925
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Paolo
Brunori
Apostolos
Davillas
Andrew
M.
Jones
Giovanna
Scarchilli
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Model-Based Recursive Partitioning to Estimate Unfair Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study
We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data- driven empirical approach. We explain health variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 543-565)
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I14, D63
|
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14924
|
Nauro
F.
Campos
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The EU Anchor Thesis: Transition from Socialism, the Institutional Vacuum and Membership in the European Union
One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions ...
(published in: Elodie Douarin and Oleh Havrylyshyn (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics, Springer, 2021, 353–368)
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01, P2
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14923
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Christina
Korting
Carl
Lieberman
Jordan
Matsudaira
Zhuan
Pei
Yi
Shen
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Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Despite the widespread use of graphs in empirical research, little is known about readers' ability to process the statistical information they are meant to convey ("visual inference"). We study ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1977–2019, )
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A11, C10, C40
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14920
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative data. We use the well-established Brief Self-Control Scale to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744)
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D91, D01, J24
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