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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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14762
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Andrew
Leigh
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"Beauty Too Rich for Use": Billionaires' Assets and Attractiveness
We examine how the net worth of billionaires relates to their looks, as rated by 16 people of different gender and ethnicity. Surprisingly, their financial assets are unrelated to their beauty; nor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 73, 102153)
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J24, J40, C24
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14761
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Oded
Stark
Wiktor
Budzinski
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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566)
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C43, D01, D31, D63, I31, P46
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14760
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Micheline
Goedhuys
Michael
Grimm
Aline
Meysonnat
Eleonora
Nillesen
Ann-Kristin
Reitmann
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Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number ...
(published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964)
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C43, D91, D39, J13
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14758
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David
Card
Fabrizio
Colella
Rafael
Lalive
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Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity
In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 21 August 2024)
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J16, J68, J63
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14755
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Joop
Adema
Till
Nikolka
Panu
Poutvaara
Uwe
Sunde
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On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172)
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D12, D91, G50
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14754
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Joan
Costa-Font
Nilesh
Raut
Courtney
Van Houtven
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Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers
Health insurance expansions can exert wellbeing effects on individuals who provide informal care to their loved ones, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084)
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I18
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14753
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Joan
Costa-Font
Nilesh
Raut
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Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation ...
(published online in: Health Economics,15 March 2025 )
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I18, H11, H24
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14751
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Michael
Pesko
Casey
Warman
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Re-Exploring the Early Relationship between Teenage Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use Using Price and Tax Changes
In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (2),137 - 153)
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I18, H71
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14750
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Rama
Dasi
Mariani
Furio
C.
Rosati
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Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (4), 503 - 533)
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D12, F22, J13, J61
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14748
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Tatyana
Deryugina
David
Molitor
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The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (4), 147–170)
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I10, R10
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14745
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Hannes
Schwandt
Janet
Currie
Marlies
Bär
James
Banks
Paola
Bertoli
Aline
Bütikofer
Sarah
Cattan
Beatrice
Zong-Ying
Chao
Claudia
Costa
Libertad
González
Veronica
Grembi
Kristiina
Huttunen
René
Karadakic
Lucy
Kraftman
Sonya
Krutikova
Stefano
Lombardi
Peter
Redler
None
None
Ana
Rodríguez-González
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Paula
Santana
Josselin
Thuilliez
Eddy
van Doorslaer
Tom
Van Ourti
Joachim
Winter
Bram
Wouterse
Amelie
Wuppermann
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Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018
Although there is a large gap between Black and White American life expectancies, the gap fell 48.9% between 1990-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific ...
(published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (40), e210468411)
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I14
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14743
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Sarah
Flood
Joel
McMurry
Aaron
Sojourner
Matthew
Wiswall
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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (2), 199–222)
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I24, J13
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14742
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Eric
Bonsang
Eve
Caroli
Clémentine
Garrouste
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Gender Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Hypertension
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 10171)
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I10, I12, J18
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14741
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Claus
Thustrup
Kreiner
Torben
Heien
Nielsen
Benjamin
Ly
Serena
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Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality
We provide a novel decomposition of changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (2), 566 - 575)
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I14, J10
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14737
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Nicolas
Herault
Dean
R.
Hyslop
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Roger
Wilkins
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Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
We use a new Australian longitudinal income tax dataset, Alife, covering 1991–2017, to examine levels and trends in the persistence in top-income group membership, focussing on the top 1%. We ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (1), 154-186)
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D31, I31, C81
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14735
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Pelin
Akyol
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data
Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), ...
(published as 'Compulsory Schooling Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 150, 104313.)
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I21, I28, J12, J16, J24, O15, O18
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14733
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Nick
Drydakis
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Social Rejection, Family Acceptance, Economic Recession and Physical and Mental Health of Sexual Minorities
Utilizing two panel datasets covering the periods 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the study examines whether social rejection, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated ...
(published in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2022, 19, 1318–1340)
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J70, I14, O52
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14732
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Christian
Grund
Katja
Rebecca
Tilkes
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Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction - The Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender
Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023, 34, 4003-4025. )
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J22, J28, J81, M5
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14731
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Claryn
S. J.
Kung
Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Economic Gradients in Social Health in Britain
Studies have found that loneliness is as bad as smoking or obesity for mortality risk, and the prevalence of loneliness is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and ...
(published as 'Economic gradients in loneliness, social isolation and social support: Evidence from the UK Biobank' in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 306, 115122)
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I1, J1
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14729
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Oded
Stark
Marcin
Jakubek
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Employer Sanctions: A Policy with a Pitfall?
This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be ...
(published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.): World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Volume 1: Immigration and the Labor Market: A Global View of Assimilation and its Aftermath, 2024, 205–223)
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D21, I38, J21, J61, K31, L51
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14728
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Pia
Schilling
Steven
Stillman
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The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country
Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102465)
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J15, J61, Z13
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14726
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Sule
Alan
Gozde
Corekcioglu
Matthias
Sutter
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Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention
We evaluate the impact of a program aiming at improving the workplace climate in corporations. The program is implemented via a clustered randomized design and evaluated with respect to the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (1), 151-203)
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C93, M14, M53
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14725
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John
T.
Giles
Xiaoyan
Lei
Gewei
Wang
Yafeng
Wang
Yaohui
Zhao
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One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (2), 188-210)
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J26, O15, O17, O53
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14724
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Hannah
Illing
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
Simon
Trenkle
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 5, 2108–2147)
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J63, J22, J23, J16
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14723
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Noemi
Mantovan
Robert
M.
Sauer
John
Wilson
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The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees
Recent trends in the labor market see increasing numbers of workers having to deal with "schedule precarity" including volatile hours, rotating shift work, unpredictable work hours and lack of choice ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 536-562)
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J10, J20, J30
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14722
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Lucía
Macchia
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations
Rationale: Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. Objective: This paper reports the first cross-country study of the links ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 287, 114332)
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I10, I31
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14720
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Kalvin
Bahia
Pau
Castells
Genaro
Cruz
Takaaki
Masaki
Carlos
Rodriguez Castelan
Viviane
Sanfelice
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Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 235–256)
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F63, I31, L86, O12
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14718
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Luna
Bellani
Stefano
Ceolotto
Benjamin
Elsner
Nico
Pestel
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Air Pollution Affects Decision-Making: Evidence from the Ballot Box
Does poor air quality affect decision-making? We study this question based on elections, in which millions of people decide on the same issue on the same day in different locations. We use ...
(published as 'The Political Fallout of Air Pollution' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(18), e2314428121)
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D70, D72, D91, Q53
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14717
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Catia
Batista
David
McKenzie
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Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab
We test different classic migration theories by using incentivized laboratory experiments to investigate how potential migrants decide between working in different destinations. We test theories of ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103826)
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F22, O15, C91
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14716
|
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
Ismet
Koc
Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
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School Integration of Refugee Children: Evidence from the Largest Refugee Group in Any Country
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the ...
(published as 'School Integration of Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85 102448.)
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F22, I21, I28, O15
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14715
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
Erwin
Wong
Jonathan
Yeo
Qi
Yu
Chan
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When Face Masks Signal Social Identity: Explaining the Deep Face-Mask Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2021, 16(6), e0253195)
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C9, I1
|
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14713
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Asadul
Islam
Debayan
Pakrashi
Soubhagya
Sahoo
Liang
Choon
Wang
Yves
Zenou
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Gender Inequality and Caste: Field Experimental Evidence from India
Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 190, 111-124.)
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J16, J15, I15, O12
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14712
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Vladimir
Otrachshenko
Milena
Nikolova
Olga
Popova
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Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36(3), 1139–1185)
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D60, I31, N00, P26, P36, P52
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14711
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Taiyo
Fukai
Masato
Ikeda
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Shintaro
Yamaguchi
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COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, ...
(published as 'COVID-19 and the employment gender gap in Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2023, 68, 101256.)
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D13, J13, J16, J21
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14710
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Xun
Li
Weizheng
Lai
Qianqian
Wan
Xi
Chen
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Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy response and performance for disease control and prevention within and across ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101733)
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I18, H12, H75, P41
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14709
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Thomas
Hofmarcher
Erik
Plug
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Specialization in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples
We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 101995.)
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D13, J15, J22
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14708
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Petter
Lundborg
Erik
Plug
Astrid
Würtz
Rasmussen
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On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children
We introduce a novel strategy to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital, net of genetic skill transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 05 December 2024)
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I24, J62
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14707
|
Kerstin
Unfried
Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Tilman
Poser
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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 113, 102633)
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D74, Q25, Q54
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14706
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Alex
Bryson
Andrew
E.
Clark
Colin
P.
Green
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Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211 )
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J28, J33, J54, J63, J81, M52
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14705
|
Silvia
Marchesi
Tania
Masi
Saumik
Paul
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Project Aid and Firm Performance
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We ...
(published online as 'Aid Projects and Firm Performance' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024)
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F35, O19, D22
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14704
|
Nick
Drydakis
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Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' ...
(published in: Culture Health and Sexuality, 2022, 24 (11), 1514 - 1530)
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J81, G01, I10, I12, I18
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14703
|
Peter
Brummund
Joshua
D.
Merfeld
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Should Farmers Farm More? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households
According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence ...
(published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (2), 289 - 306)
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J24, J43, O13, Q12, R23
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14702
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Nathan
Kettlewell
Agnieszka
Tymula
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The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey
This paper describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The dataset comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity ...
(published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2021, 24 (6), 365-370)
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D90, D91, I10, Y90
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14701
|
Imran
Aziz
Matias
Cortes
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Between-Group Inequality May Decline despite a Rising Skill Premium
A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102063.)
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J31, J21, J24
|
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14700
|
Nick
Drydakis
|
Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece
The study examines whether adverse working conditions for immigrants in Greece bear an association with deteriorated physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings ...
(published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022, 95 (2), 539 - 556)
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J81, O15, E24, I14
|
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14698
|
Henning
Hermes
Philipp
Lergetporer
Frauke
Peter
Simon
Wiederhold
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Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the ...
(this is an earlier version of: IZA DP No. 16915: Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment)
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I21, J13, J18, J24, C93
|
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14697
|
John
Forth
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
Alex
Bryson
|
The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials
Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (2), 259-290 )
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J16, J31, M52, M54
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14696
|
Valentine
Fays
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
|
Wage Differences According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Working More Upstream in GVCs
This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to ...
(published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2023, 37 (2), 319-342)
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J15, J31, F16
|
|
14695
|
Apostolos
Davillas
Andrew
M.
Jones
|
The Implications of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height for Measurement Error in BMI
We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110101)
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I10, C18, C50
|
|
14694
|
Gabriel
Burdin
Takao
Kato
|
Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems: International Evidence
We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of complementarity in organizations. Specifically, rather ...
(revised version published as 'Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems' in: Zimmermann K. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer Nature, 2022)
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M5, J5
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