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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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14292
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana
Thirty-six states have legalized medical marijuana and 14 states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. In this paper, we review the literature on the public health ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (1), 86-143.)
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I1, H7, K42
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14290
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance
Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential ...
(revised version published as 'Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe' in: Manchester School, 2024, 92 (1), 40-66.)
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J20, J50
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14287
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Andrew
Leigh
Adam
Triggs
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Common Ownership of Competing Firms: Evidence from Australia
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2021, 97 (318), 333-349 )
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L11, L12, D42, D43
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14284
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Michael
Gibbs
Tim
Perri
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Dodging a Draft: Gary Becker's Lost Paper on Conscription
Gary Becker wrote what may be the first economic analysis of conscription. Less than a decade later, economists played a key role in an important public policy debate during the Vietnam War, which ...
(published in: Willieam Taylor (ed.), The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, University of Kansas Press, 2023)
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M5
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14283
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David
Card
Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Wage Flexibility under Sectoral Bargaining
Sectoral contracts in many European countries set wage floors for different occupation groups. In addition, employers often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 2062 - 2097)
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J31, J41, J51
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14282
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Tony
Fang
Morley
Gunderson
Byron
Lee
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Can Older Workers Be Retrained? Canadian Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked Data
Based on Statistics Canada's worker-firm matched Workplace and Employee Survey, our econometric analysis indicated that the average probability of receiving training was 9.3 percentage points higher ...
(published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2021, 76 (3), 429-453.)
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J14, J18, J24
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14281
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Onur
Altindag
Bilge
Erten
Pinar
Keskin
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Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey
Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health consequences of an extended period of tight mobility restrictions on senior adults. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 320–343)
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I18, I31, O15
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14280
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Kari
Dalane
Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Charter Schools and the Segregation of Students by Income
The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools during the past several decades. Recent work has demonstrated that segregation is ...
(published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 13 February 2023 )
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I24, I28, I21
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14278
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Robert
Duval Hernández
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By Choice or by Force? Exploring the Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico
Using a special module of the 2015 Mexican Labour Force Survey with information on workers' preferences for jobs with social security coverage, I estimate that 80 per cent of informal workers in ...
(published as 'Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1349-1362)
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O17
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14275
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Stefani
Milovanska-Farrington
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Do Parents Expect Too Much or Is It All about Grades? The Discrepancy between Parents' Aspirations and Child's Academic Performance, and Parental Satisfaction with the School
Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to ...
(published in: Cogent Economics and Finance, 2022, 10 (1), 2079178)
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J01, J13, I21, I31, D10
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14274
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Stefani
Milovanska-Farrington
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The Effect of Child Benefits on Financial Difficulties and Spending Habits: Evidence from Poland's Family 500+ Program
In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2022, 19, 719 - 739)
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I38, D10, P46, J13
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14273
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Stefani
Milovanska-Farrington
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Job Loss and Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2023, 50 (2), 300-323)
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J63, J60, I19, D12
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14272
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Stefani
Milovanska-Farrington
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The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from COVID-19
With more than 29 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. and 119 million cases worldwide, the pandemic has affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of ...
(updated version published as 'The Effect of Covid-19 as an Economic Shock on the Gender and Ethnic Gap in Labor Market Outcomes' in: Studies in Microeconomics, 2021, 9 (2), 227–255)
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J70, J71, J01, J15, J23
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14271
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Stefani
Milovanska-Farrington
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The Effect of Parental and Grandparental Supervision Time Investment on Children's Early-Age Development
This article explores the impact of grandparents' supervision time input relative to the effect of parents' childcare provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2021, 75 (3), 286 - 304)
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J12, J13, J01, I21, I10, C33
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14270
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Stefani
Milovanska-Farrington
Stephen
Farrington
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Happiness, Domains of Life Satisfaction, Perceptions, and Valuation Differences Across Genders
Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), ...
(published in: Acta Psychologica, 2022, 230, 103720)
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D60, I31, J16, D03
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14269
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Allan
Webster
Sangeeta
Khorana
Francesco
Pastore
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The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19: Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe
This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (4), 1054 - 1082)
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I18, J23, J28, J65
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14268
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Alexander
Mosthaf
Thorsten
Schank
Stefan
Schwarz
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Do Supplementary Jobs for Welfare Recipients Increase the Chance of Welfare Exit? Evidence from Germany
Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (3), 291-324)
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C33, J60, I38
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14267
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Doğu
Tan
Aracı
Murat
Demirci
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104132.)
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J61, O15, F22, R23, R58
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14265
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Amit
Loewenthal
Sami
H.
Miaari
Anke
Hoeffler
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Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza
In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (8), 1187–1212. )
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D72, D74, H56
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14263
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Takashi
Kurosaki
Saumik
Paul
Firman
Witoelar
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Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where ...
(published as 'In pursuit of power: Land tenancy contracts and local political business cycles in Indonesia' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 227, 106764)
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D72, H77, H83, O17, O18
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14261
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George
J.
Borjas
Anthony
Edo
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Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2026)
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E24, F22, J21, J23
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14258
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Emmanouil
Benetos
Alessandro
Ragano
Daniel
Sgroi
Anthony
Tuckwell
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Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music
National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a ...
(published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092 )
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C8, N3, N4, O1, D6
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14257
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David
Ronayne
Daniel
Sgroi
Anthony
Tuckwell
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Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect
We provide experimental evidence of behavior consistent with the sunk cost effect. Subjects who earned a lottery via a real-effort task were given an opportunity to switch to a dominant lottery; 23% ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 318 - 327)
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D91, C83, C90
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14255
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Akin
A.
Cilekoglu
Rosina
Moreno
Raul
Ramos
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The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing
This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2024, 53 (3), 104953)
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F14, F23, L23
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14253
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Sarah
Dong
Mathias
Sinning
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Trying to Make a Good First Impression: A Natural Field Experiment to Engage New Entrants to the Tax System
Very little is known about the compliance behavior of first-time taxpayers although their tax paying habits may affect the long-run functioning of a tax system. This paper studies the compliance ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 100, 101900)
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C93, H25, H26
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14252
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Mathias
Sinning
Yinjunjie
(Jacquelyn)
Zhang
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Social Norms or Enforcement? A Natural Field Experiment to Improve Traffic and Parking Fine Compliance
Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 210, 43-60)
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H26, K42, C93
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14247
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Agnese
Romiti
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International Student Applications in the United Kingdom after Brexit
On June 23, 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. We examine how this decision (henceforth, Brexit) has impacted international student applications in the United ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, 24 (5), 637–662, )
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F22, I20, O15, I28, J61
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14246
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Jan
Marcus
Thomas
Siedler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (3), 128-165)
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I12, I14, I18, I28, I38, Z28, H71
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14244
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Michal
Myck
Monika
Oczkowska
Izabela
Wowczko
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Gender Preferences in Central and Eastern Europe as Reflected in Partnership and Fertility Outcomes
The decisions of parents following the birth of their first child concerning subsequent fertility, and the stability of their relationship can be used as a reflection of broader gender preferences. ...
(revised version published as 'Parental gender preferences in Central and Eastern Europe and differential early life disadvantages' in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2024, 32 (1), 237–263)
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J13, J16
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14243
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Yatang
Lin
Thomas
K. J.
McDermott
Guy
Michaels
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Cities and the Sea Level
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 143, 103685)
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R11, Q54, R14
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14242
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Britta
Butz
Pablo
Guillen Alvarez
Christine
Harbring
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Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2024, 18, 2925 - 2951)
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C72, C92, D64, D70, J33, M52
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14241
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Matteo
Picchio
Raffaella
Santolini
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The COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects on Voter Turnout
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102161)
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D72, D81, H70
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14239
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Juliane
Hennecke
Clemens
Hetschko
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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 516–536)
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I31, J12, J21, J44, M51
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14238
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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COVID-19, Race, and Gender
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and ...
(published as 'JUE insight: COVID-19, race, and gender' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 141, 103484)
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I14, J15, J16, J21, R38
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14237
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Fabio
Mariani
Marion
Mercier
Luca
Pensieroso
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Left-Handedness and Economic Development
This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2023, 28, 79 - 123)
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O11, O14, O33, O40, J13, J24, Q57
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14235
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Two-Way Commuting: Asymmetries from Time Use Surveys
Daily commuting of workers is a complex phenomenon that has attracted research attention for many years and, despite the significant literature acknowledging differences between morning and evening ...
(published in: Journal of Transport Geography, 2021, 95, 103146)
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R40, O57
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14234
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Amanda
Agan
Jennifer
Doleac
Anna
Harvey
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Misdemeanor Prosecution
Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. So far there has been little empirical evidence to inform policy in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1453–1505)
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K4
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14233
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Victor
Stephane
Jérôme
Valette
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Another Brick in the Wall. Immigration and Electoral Preferences: Direct Evidence from State Ballots
Using information on actual ballots rather than survey data, we investigate the impact of immigration on both electoral outcomes and immigrant-related motives underlying political preferences. We ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2022, 30 (5), 1452-1477)
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F22, D31
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14232
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Ahmed Mushfiq
Mobarak
Iffath
Sharif
Maheshwor
Shrestha
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Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery
We follow 3,512 (of 1.4 million) applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis for low-skilled, temporary labor contracts in Malaysia. Most lottery winners migrate, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (4), 353–388)
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F22, O12, O15
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14231
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Hans
R.A.
Koster
Ceren
Ozgen
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Cities and Tasks
This paper explores the relationship between routine-biased technological change and agglomeration economies. Using administrative data from the Netherlands, we first show that in dense areas, jobs ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 103386)
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R30, R33
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14230
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Sandip
Datta
Geeta
G.
Kingdon
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Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?
This paper examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India. It uses a credible identification strategy to address the endogeneity of ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (1), 24–48, )
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I20, I21
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14229
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Nicolas
Ajzenman
Tiago
Cavalcanti
Daniel
Da Mata
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More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
This paper investigates if the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, in-person card transactions, and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 351–371)
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D1, D72, I12, I31
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14228
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Martin
Kahanec
Lukáš
Lafférs
Bernhard
Schmidpeter
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The Impact of Mass Antigen Testing for COVID-19 on the Prevalence of the Disease
More than 100 million people have been infected and 2.5 million people have died of COVID-19 globally as of February 2021. Mass antigen testing could help to mitigate the pandemic and allow the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 1105 - 1140)
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D04, I18, J22
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14227
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Todd
E.
Elder
Judith
K.
Hellerstein
Scott A.
Imberman
Chiara
Orsini
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Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 10, 322–356)
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I1, J1
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14226
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Christian
Bredemeier
Jan
Gravert
Falko
Juessen
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Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023, 51, 547-578)
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D13, D15, J12, J22, E21, E24
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14224
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Osea
Giuntella
Lorenzo
Rotunno
Luca
Stella
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Trade Shocks, Fertility, and Marital Behavior
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to trade on the fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in ...
(published in: Demography, 2022, 59 (6), 2135-2159)
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F14, F16, J13
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14223
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Titan
Alon
Sena
Coskun
Matthias
Doepke
David
Koll
Michèle
Tertilt
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From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate ...
(published in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2022, 362022, 83–151)
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D13, E32, J16, J20
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14220
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Rachel
Knott
Benno
Torgler
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Resilience to Disaster: Evidence from Daily Wellbeing Data
As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. ...
(published in: Global Environmental Change, 2023, 79, 102639)
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I31, I38
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14219
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Danilo
Cavapozzi
Marco
Francesconi
Cheti
Nicoletti
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The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134)
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J12, J16, J22, J24, J31, Z13
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14215
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Fabio
Mariani
Marion
Mercier
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Immigration and Crime: The Role of Self-Selection and Institutions
Contrary to popular perception, empirical evidence suggests that immigrants do not necessarily commit more crimes than natives, in spite of having lower legitimate earning opportunities. To make ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 538-564)
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F22, K42, O17
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