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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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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
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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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14918
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Bilge
Erten
Pinar
Keskin
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Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia
We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia’s WTO accession to assess how ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (2), 322–333.)
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F16, O15, J12, J16
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14917
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Anna
Bindler
Randi
Hjalmarsson
Nadine
Ketel
Andreea
Mitrut
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Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 95–134)
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K42, K36, J13, I12, I14
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14914
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David
Dorn
Peter
Levell
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3, 1042-1068)
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E31, F13, F14, F16, F23, I14, I38, J21, J23, J31, J61, J62, R11
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14912
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Andrea
Bassanini
Cyprien
Batut
Eve
Caroli
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Labor Market Concentration and Stayers' Wages: Evidence from France
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative ...
(updated and replaced by 'Labour Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires', IZA Discussion Paper 15910)
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J31, J42, L41
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14911
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Luca
Bonacini
Marina
Murat
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Adams and Eves: The Gender Gap in Economics Majors
We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major ...
(published as 'Adams and Eves: High school math and the gender gap in Economics majors' in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (4), 798-817)
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A22, I23, J16
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14910
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Philippe
Coulangeon
Denis
Fougère
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Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?
This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, ...
(published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022, 43 (7), 1052–1075.)
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I21, I29, Z11, Z18, C21
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14909
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Milena
Nikolova
Boris
Nikolaev
Christopher
Boudreaux
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Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a ...
(published in: Small Business Economics. 2023, 60, 463–483)
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I31, L26, M10
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14908
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Rebecca
Schrader
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Reforms of an Early Retirement Pathway in Germany and Their Labor Market Effects
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22(3), 304-330.)
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H55, J26, C21
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14907
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Sungwoo
Cho
Felipe
Gonçalves
Emily
Weisburst
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Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian ...
(This version: 8/2022; First version (IZA Working Paper): 12/2021.)
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J15, J18, K42
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14906
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Jonas
Fluchtmann
Anita
Marie
Glenny
Nikolaj
Harmon
Jonas
Maibom
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The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 182–219)
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E24, J29, J31, J71
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14905
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Peng
Nie
Lu
Wang
Davide
Dragone
Haiyang
Lu
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708)
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I12, I18, P46
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14904
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Josep
Amer-Mestre
Alaitz
Ayarza-Astigarraga
Marta
C
Lopes
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E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance
We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 337–359)
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C31, C81, I24, H75
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14903
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Francesco
Sarracino
Talita
Greyling
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
Chiara
Peroni
Stephanié
Rossouw
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A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
In this article, we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. ...
(published in: PLos ONE, 2023, 18(2), e0275028.)
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C55, I10, I31, H12
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14902
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Rebecca
Kamb
Marcus
Tamm
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The Fertility Effects of School Entry Decisions
School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30 (8), 1145-1149 )
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I21, J24
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14901
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Nathan
Kettlewell
Yuting
Zhang
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Age Penalties and Take-up of Private Health Insurance
Penalty mandates are used in many countries to encourage people to purchase health insurance. But are they effective? We use a large administrative dataset for a 10% random sample of all Australian ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (4), 636-651)
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I13, I18, I12
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14900
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Bo
Yu
Trang
Tran
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Green Infrastructure and Air Pollution: Evidence from Highways Connecting Two Megacities in China
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 122, 102884)
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L92, O18, Q53, Q54, R41
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14899
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Paula
Gonzalez
Gabriel
V.
Montes-Rojas
Sarmistha
Pal
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Managing Dual Practice of Health Workers: Evidence from Indonesia
Managing dual practice of health workers has often proved to be challenging, especially in emerging countries characterized by weak monitoring and low motivation. This paper exploits an exogenous ...
(published as 'Impact of Private Practice of Public Health Workers on Public Health Provision: Evidence from A Natural Experiment' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2025, 366, 117625)
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I10, I18, J2, J44, J45, O1
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14897
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Kailing
Shen
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Gender Discrimination
This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured ...
(published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 28 January 2022 )
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J16, J12, J13
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14895
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Simon
Gächter
Kyeongtae
Lee
Martin
Sefton
Till
O.
Weber
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Risk, Temptation, and Efficiency in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how a PD's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we ...
(revised version published as 'The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 166, 104753,)
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A13, C91
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14893
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Mara
Barschkett
Johannes
Geyer
Peter
Haan
Anna
Hammerschmid
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The Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age on Health – Evidence from Administrative Data
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches – a ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100403)
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I10, I12, I18, J14, J18, J26
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14892
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Michael
Grimm
Sidiki
Soubeiga
Michael
Weber
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Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the ...
(published as 'Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171.103344.)
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D22, O12, Q13
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14891
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Mobarak
Hossain
Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
Peter
Toth
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The Cost of Health Insurance and Entry into Entrepreneurship
Unavailable or expensive health insurance may hinder the transition of individuals from paid employment to entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 383-405)
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I13, I11, J22, J23, L26
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14890
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D. Mark
Anderson
Ron
Diris
Raymond
Montizaan
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment
There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It is not clear, however, whether these phenomena are causal. We use data on Dutch ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 91, 102774.)
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I1, I12, I18
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14889
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Emanuele
Brancati
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R&D Plans, Expectations, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the COVID-19 Shock in Italy
This paper takes advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to explore the determinants of firms' R&D choices around an exogenous shock. We make use of unique panel data on 7,800 Italian companies between ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2023, 67, 303-318)
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O3, D22, D84
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14887
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Rania
Gihleb
Osea
Giuntella
Jakub
Lonsky
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104447)
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J1, J23, J24, R2
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14884
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Mario
Lackner
Uwe
Sunde
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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COVID-19 and the Forces behind Social Unrest
The unprecedented consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have raised concerns about intensified social unrest, but evidence for such a link and the underlying channels is still lacking. We use a ...
(published as 'The forces behind social unrest: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Plos One, 2025, 20 (1), e0314165)
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H
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14883
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Alan
Auerbach
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Peter
B.
McCrory
Daniel
Murphy
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Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession
In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022, 126, 102669)
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E62, E32, H3
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14882
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Vibeke
Jakobsen
Hanna
Mac Innes
Peder
J.
Pedersen
Torun
Österberg
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Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Many European high-income countries face a rapid increase in the number of immigrants from low- and middle-income countries reaching the normal pension age. Thus, it is increasingly relevant to ask: ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (19), 4648 - 4669)
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I32, J14, J15, J61
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14881
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Maja
Adena
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Michal
Myck
Monika
Oczkowska
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Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time
Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 813 - 838)
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I31, I19, J14
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14880
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Jocelyn
Wikle
Riley
Wilson
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Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
We explore how access to Head Start impacts maternal labor supply. By relaxing child care constraints, public preschool options like Head Start might lead mothers to reallocate time between ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 1081–1127)
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J13, J22, H4, I28, H52, I38
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