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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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14675
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Samuel
Lüthi
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination
In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102457)
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C9, J16, J24
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14674
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Huifu
Nong
Qing
Zhang
Hongjia
Zhu
Rong
Zhu
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Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China
This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68, 951–969)
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I21, I32, I38
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14672
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Tushar
Bharati
Simon
Chang
Qing
Li
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The Effect of Tertiary Education Expansion on Fertility: A Note on Identification
We draw attention to two identification issues with previous studies that utilized tertiary education expansion to estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 212, 1029-1055)
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I23, J13
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14671
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Nick
Drydakis
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market against Gay Men
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments ...
(published in:Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1027 - 1058)
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C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71, J83
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14670
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Esra
Kose
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Head Start Funding Expansions and Program Inputs
Our paper provides some of the first evidence on the effect of the Head Start funding expansions on program inputs. We take advantage of the county-year variation in funding increases that were ...
(published in: Public Finance Review, 2024, 52 (1), 42-77)
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H52, I28
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14668
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Vitus
Püttmann
Jens
Ruhose
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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Academics' Attitudes toward Engaging in Public Discussions - Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Engagement Conditions
Academics are increasingly expected to engage in public discussions. We study how engagement conditions affect academics' engagement attitudes via a survey experiment among 4,091 tenured professors ...
(published online in: Research in Higher Education, 5 December 2022)
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I23, O33
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14666
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Monique
Löwe
Ulf
Rinne
Hendrik
Sonnabend
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Gender Role Models and Early Career Decisions
This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30 (11), 1526 - 1530)
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I21, J16, J24
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14665
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Silvia
Mendolia
Agne
Suziedelyte
Anna
Zhu
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Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing
Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110458)
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I10, I31, J13
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14661
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Emily
A.
Beam
Stella
Quimbo
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The Impact of Short-Term Employment for Low-Income Youth: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
We use a randomized field experiment to test the causal impact of short-term work experience on employment and school enrollment among disadvantaged, in-school youth in the Philippines. This ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1379–1393.)
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J24, J08, O15
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14660
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Manu
Raghav
Timothy
M.
Diette
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Greek Myth or Fact? The Role of Greek Houses in Alcohol and Drug Violations on American Campuses
Greek-letter student social groups, better known as fraternities and sororities, are a ubiquitous feature on many American higher education campuses. These organizations, especially fraternities, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 54 (55), 6406 - 6417)
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I23, K42
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14659
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Damian
Clarke
Manuel
Llorca-Jaña
Daniel
Pailañir
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The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History
Quantile regression and quantile treatment effect methods are powerful econometric tools for considering economic impacts of events or variables of interest beyond the mean. The use of quantile ...
(published in: Historical Methods, 2023, 56 (2), 115-132)
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N30, B41, C21, C22
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14658
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Marco
Mello
Giuseppe
Moscelli
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Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls
We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 1025 - 2052)
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C23, D72, H51, I18
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14657
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S.M.
Manzoor Ahmed
Hanifi
Nidhiya
Menon
Agnes
Quisumbing
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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh
This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 – 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 294, 114704)
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Q54, I15, O15, Q56, J13
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14656
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David
W.
Johnston
Nidhiya
Menon
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Income and Views on Minimum Living Standards
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on items and activities that no one in today's society should have to go without. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 199, 18 - 34)
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D31, D63, D64, H24, H31
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14654
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Terhi
Maczulskij
Mika
Haapanen
Antti
Kauhanen
Krista
Riukula
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Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work
Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101433)
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J31, J51, J52
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14653
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Weibo
Yan
Peng
Nie
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Child Education-Induced Migration and Its Impact on the Economic Behaviors of Migrated Households in China
Using the 2011-2013 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper utilizes the quarter of the year in which a child was born as an instrumental variable to measure child education shock and explores its ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (7), 691-709)
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O15, I28, D14
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14651
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Silvia
Granato
Enkelejda
Havari
Gianluca
Mazzarella
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications
Erasmus+ is one of the most popular programmes financed by the European Union. It provides international mobility grants to university students while staying enrolled at their home university. This ...
(published as 'Study abroad programmes and student outcomes: Evidence from Erasmus' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 99, 102510)
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I23, D04
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14650
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Feicheng
Wang
Zhe
Liang
Hartmut
Lehmann
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Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of ...
(thoroughly revised version appeared as 'Import Competition and the Rise of Precarious Employment. Evidence from Individual-level and Firm-level Data in China' in: Labour Economics , No. 97, December 2025.)
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F14, F16, F66, J46
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14648
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Rong
Zhu
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Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform
This paper examines the empirical link between retirement and the supply of volunteer labor, using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. To identify ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190, 674–690)
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H55, J22, J26
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14647
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
Ivan
Lopez
Cruz
Betül
Türküm
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The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime
Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 568 - 582)
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J15, K42, D74
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14646
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Francisca
M.
Antman
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De Facto Immigration Enforcement, ICE Raid Awareness, and Worker Engagement
We explore whether fear of apprehension affects immigrants' labor market engagement by examining how ICE removals due to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (1), 373 - 391)
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J15, J61, J2, J3
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14645
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 200 - 204)
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I31, D60, O10, O05
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14644
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Andrew
I.
Friedson
Moyan
Li
Katherine
Meckel
Daniel
I.
Rees
Daniel
W.
Sacks
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Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run
Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 222, 104877)
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H2, I10, I12
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14643
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Aboozar
Hadavand
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Wesley
W.
Wilson
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Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?
Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in other social sciences and finance. It is even relatively slower at the extremes. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (1), 269 - 293)
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A11, B20
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14640
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Franz
Buscha
Emma
Gorman
Patrick
Sturgis
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Selective Schooling Has Not Promoted Social Mobility in England
In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share ...
(published as 'Selective schooling and social mobility in England' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102336)
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I21, I24, I28, J18, J24
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14638
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Julia
Schmidtke
Clemens
Hetschko
Ronnie
Schöb
Gesine
Stephan
Michael
Eid
Mario
Lawes
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German ...
(revised version published as 'Does Worker Well-Being Adapt to a Pandemic? An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (3), 840 - 861)
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I31, I19
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14637
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Ingrid
Huitfeld
Andreas
Ravndal
Kostøl
Jan Sebastian
Nimczik
Andrea
Weber
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Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach
This paper develops a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 661-688)
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J31, J62, M5
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14636
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Christos
A.
Makridis
Barry
Hirsch
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The Labor Market Earnings of Veterans: Is Military Experience More or Less Valuable than Civilian Experience?
We assess the labor market experiences of military veterans, focusing on three major outcomes, among others, controlling for a wide array of demographic characteristics and industry and occupational ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2021, 42 (3-4), 303-333)
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J3, J4, J44
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14635
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Apostolos
Davillas
Andrew
Burlinson
Hui-Hsuan
Liu
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Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported ...
(revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2022, 106, 105794)
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I12, I31, I32, Q4
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14634
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Patrick
Kline
Evan
K.
Rose
Christopher R.
Walters
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Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (4), 1963 - 2036)
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C11, C9, C93, J7, J71, J78, K31, K42
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14633
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Eric
Bonsang
Joan
Costa-Font
Sonja
C.
de New
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Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 204, 466 - 489)
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I18, D15
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14632
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Jeffrey
R.
Bloem
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test
Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 689 - 710)
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C18, C25, I31, I39
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14631
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Peter
F.
Lanjouw
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Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad ...
(published as 'Regression-based imputation for poverty measurement in data-scarce settings' in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023, chapter 13)
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C15, I32, O15
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14630
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Maksim
Belitski
Christina
Guenther
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Roy
Thurik
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Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609)
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L26, J38, I18
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14628
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Andrew
Seltzer
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 91, 101553.)
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N94, J39, N34
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14621
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Alessandro
Cigno
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022)
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Z1, C78, D01, D02, D13, J13
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14619
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Jing
Liu
Michael
S.
Hayes
Seth
Gershenson
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From Referrals to Suspensions: New Evidence on Racial Disparities in Exclusionary Discipline
We use novel data on disciplinary referrals, including those that do not lead to suspensions, to better understand the origins of racial disparities in exclusionary discipline. We find significant ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 141, 103453)
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I2, J7
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14618
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
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What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (4), 1013 - 1048)
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J16, J63, J71
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14617
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Daron
Acemoglu
Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Matti
Sarvimäki
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The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform
Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural ...
(published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 24 June 2024)
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P16, I28, J26
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14616
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Sam
Parsons
Alex
Bryson
Alice
Sullivan
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Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?
Using data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970 we investigate the impact of teenage conduct problems on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 78 (1), 60 - 80)
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I12, J20, J64
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14615
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Attila
Gyetvai
Maria
Zhu
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Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
Which former coworkers help displaced workers find jobs? We answer this question by studying occupational similarity in job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this ...
(forthcoming in: Labour Economics)
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J64, D85, J24
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14614
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Philippe
Sterkens
Ralf
Caers
Marijke
De Couck
Michael
Geamanu
Victor
Van Driessche
Stijn
Baert
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Costly Mistakes: Why and When Spelling Errors in Resumes Jeopardise Interview Chances
Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 18 (4), e0283280)
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C91, I21, J24
|
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14613
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Chiara
Ardito
Fabio
Berton
Lia
Pacelli
Filippo
Passerini
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Employment Protection, Workforce Mix and Firm Performance
We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance, exploiting the Italian 2015 Jobs Act. Results indicate that firms (1) stabilize ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022, 22 (3), 611-621)
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J08, J21, J24
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14612
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Gabriella
Conti
Elena
Pizzo
Stephen
Morris
Mariya
Melnychuk
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The Economic Costs of Child Maltreatment in UK
Child maltreatment is a major public health problem with significant consequences for individual victims and for society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (12), 3087 - 3105)
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I18, J17, D61
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14611
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Hiromi
Hara
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan
We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender-stereotyped industrial arts and home economics classes in junior high schools led to behavioral ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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J22, J24, I2
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14610
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Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Alexander
Schiersch
Caroline
Stiel
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The Productivity Puzzle in Business Services
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for ...
(published as 'The productivity shock in business services' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 59 (3), 1273 - 1299)
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L84, O47, D24, L11
|
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14609
|
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Sophistication about Self-Control
We propose a broadly applicable empirical approach to classify individuals as time-consistent versus naïve or sophisticated regarding their self-control limitations. Operationalizing our approach ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105196)
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D91, D01
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14608
|
Michal
Bauer
Jana
Cahlíková
Julie
Chytilová
Gerald
Roland
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Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (652), 1626–1640)
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C93, D74, D91, J15
|
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14607
|
Vojtech
Bartos
Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Ian
Levely
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Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences
We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions about when to enjoy ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2357 - 2382)
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C93, D91, O12
|
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14606
|
Theresa
Beltramo
Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Ibrahima
Sarr
Paolo
Verme
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Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2024, 52 (1), 94-113)
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C15, F22, I32, O15, O20
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