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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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14156
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Richard
McManus
Karen
A.
Mumford
Cristina
Sechel
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Measuring Research Excellence Amongst Economics Lecturers in the UK
Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics Lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these Lecturers were ...
(pubished in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022, 74 (2), 386 - 404)
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J00, J44, J71
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14155
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Marc
Kaufmann
Joël
Machado
Bertrand
Verheyden
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Why Do Migrants Stay Unexpectedly? Misperceptions and Implications for Integration
Empirical evidence suggests that a large proportion of immigrants who initially intended to stay temporarily in the destination country end up staying permanently, which may lead to suboptimal ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2025, 117, 103099.)
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F22, D91, J61
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14153
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Employee Training and Firm Performance: Evidence from ESF Grant Applications
As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102056)
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J24, H43, M53
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14152
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Delia
Furtado
Haiyang
Kong
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How Do Low-Skilled Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence Using English Language Proficiency
This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104681)
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J15, J61, J24, F16
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14151
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Carlos
Rodriguez Castelan
Rogelio
Granguillhome
Ochoa
Samantha
Lach
Takaaki
Masaki
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Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in ...
(published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 68, 101845)
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C25, C52, D12, L86, O55
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14150
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Tilbe
Atav
Egbert
L. W.
Jongen
Simon
Rabat
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Increasing the Effective Retirement Age: Key Factors and Interaction Effects
We study the effects of the recent increase in the statutory retirement age (SRA) in the Netherlands, using RDD and rich administrative data on the universe of the Dutch population. We find large ...
(published as 'Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (1), 259-291.)
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J14, J26
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14149
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Julian
Emmler
Bernd
Fitzenberger
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Temporary Overpessimism: Job Loss Expectations Following a Large Negative Employment Shock
Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany after reunification with West Germany. Though experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (3), 621 - 661)
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D84, J64, J63, P20
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14148
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Dominique
Meurs
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process
Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102482)
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H83, J45, J71, M51
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14146
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Daniela
Scur
Raffaella
Sadun
John
Van Reenen
Renata
Lemos
Nicholas
Bloom
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World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward
Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (2),231 - 258)
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L2, M2, O14, O32, O33
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14145
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Jacob
Nielsen
Arendt
Iben
Bolvig
Mette
Foged
Linea
Hasager
Giovanni
Peri
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Language Training and Refugees' Integration
We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 23 June 2023 (adults) and as 'Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104840 (children / intergenerational effects))
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J60, J24, E64, I30
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14144
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Priti
Kalsi
Soohyung
Lee
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Gender Norm Conflict and Marital Outcomes
We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual agreement regarding the role of husband and wife, we hypothesize that a person who ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (4), 537 - 560)
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J12, J16, J24
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14143
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Works Councilors in Germany
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2024, 45 (1), 38 - 115)
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J30, J51, J53, J83, K31
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14142
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740)
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A12, C70, D91
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14141
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Peng
Ge
Wenkai
Sun
Zhong
Zhao
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Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change
Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs ...
(slightly revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 168 - 190 )
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J21
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14140
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Maria
Polipciuc
Frank
Cörvers
Raymond
Montizaan
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Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102486)
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D72, I24, J15
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14137
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Eric
Bonsang
Eve
Caroli
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Cognitive Load and Occupational Injuries
We investigate the relationship between cognitive load and occupational injuries. Cognitive load is defined in the literature as a tax on bandwidth which reduces cognitive resources. We proxy ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60(2), 219-242.)
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J28, J81, D91
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14136
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Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Mette
Thorsager
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The Importance of Peer Quality for Completion of Higher Education
Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the period 1985 to 2010, we investigate the importance of a student's peers in higher ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 83, 102120)
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I21, I24
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14135
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Kristian
B.
Karlson
Rasmus
Landersø
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The Making and Unmaking of Opportunity: Educational Mobility in 20th Century-Denmark
We study intergenerational educational mobility in Denmark over the 20th century during which the comprehensive Danish welfare state was rolled out. While mobility initially was low, schooling ...
(published online in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 17 May 2024)
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H0, I0, J0
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14134
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Krzysztof
Karbownik
Umut
Özek
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Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design
Using a regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from an anonymous district in Florida, we identify externalities in human capital production function ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (5), 1567-1607)
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D13, I20, J13
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14133
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Reza
Arabsheibani
Alma
Kudebayeva
Altay
Mussurov
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Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women
Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for ...
(published as 'A note on bride kidnapping and labour supply behaviour of Kyrgyz women' in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (4), 00885)
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J01, J16, J22
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14132
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Justine
Hervé
Subha
Mani
Jere
R.
Behrman
Arindam
Nandi
Anjana
Sankhil Lamkang
Ramanan
Laxminarayan
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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural ...
(published as 'Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 193, 66 - 97)
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I21, I25, J13, J16, J24
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14131
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Jonas
Maibom
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Passthrough of Firm Performance to Income and Employment Stability
To what extent do firms pass through idiosyncratic shocks to their workers? In this paper, we investigate this question focusing on passthrough to income for workers that stay in the firm and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 30 - 43)
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C33, D22, J31, J33
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14130
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Fatos
Radoniqi
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Republic of Beliefs: An Experimental Investigation
The success of a country's anti-corruption policies can crucially depend on the citizens' beliefs about the existing legal environment. We test this key idea of Basu (2020) using a novel design which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 214, 30 - 43)
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C91, K42
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14127
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Krzysztof
Karbownik
Anthony
Wray
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Educational, Labor-Market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health
Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this question using inpatient hospital admission records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed effects ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources )
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I14, J62, N33
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14126
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Panka
Bencsik
Timothy
J.
Halliday
Bhashkar
Mazumder
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom
We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the ...
(published in:Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 92,102805)
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J62, I14
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14124
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Štepán
Jurajda
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Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants
We use price and wage data from McDonald's restaurants to provide evidence on wage increases, labor-saving technology introduction, and price pass-through by a large low-wage employer facing a flurry ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics (special issue in honor of Alan Krueger), 2022, 40 (S1), S179 - S201)
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J30, J23
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14123
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Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
Zhiming
Cheng
Ben
Zhe
Wang
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, ...
(revised version published as 'Social Assimilation and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 37 - 67)
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F22, J15, J16, J21, Z13
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14122
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Yen-Chien
Chen
Elliott
Fan
Jin-Tan
Liu
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Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. ...
(forthcoming in: Demography 2025, 62 (4))
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I20, J12, J64
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14120
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Volker
Lindenthal
Sharun
Mukand
Fabian
Waldinger
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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–43)
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I20, I23, I28, J15, J24, N34, N44
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14119
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Ashley
Burdett
Apostolos
Davillas
Ben
Etheridge
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Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
To reduce infection rates during the first UK wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, a first lockdown was announced on March 23, 2020, with a final easing of the restrictions on July 4, 2020. Among the most ...
(revised version published as 'Weather, mental health, and mobility during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (9), 2296-2306 )
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I10, I12, C23
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14118
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Terhi
Maczulskij
Jutta
Viinikainen
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Personality and Public Sector Employment
Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment ...
(published as 'Personality and public sector employment in Finland' in: Labor, 2024, 38 (1), 122-149)
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J23, J45
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14117
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Alpaslan
Akay
Gökhan
Karabulut
Levent
Yilmaz
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Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the ...
(published online in: Singapore Economic Review, 2021)
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I31, J64, J69
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14116
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
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COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2022, 185, 1178-1215)
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C18, H12, I18
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14113
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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COVID-19 and College Academic Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis
Using an unbalanced panel of close to 12,000 academic records, and difference-in-differences models and event study analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 ...
(substantially revised version published as 'COVID-19, College Academic Performance, and the Flexible Grading Policy: A Longitudinal Analysis' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 207, 104606)
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I24, I23, I22
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14111
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Nicolas
Ajzenman
Eleonora
Bertoni
Gregory
Elacqua
Luana
Marotta
Carolina
Méndez Vargas
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Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru
Inequality in access to high-quality teachers is an important driver of student socioeconomic achievement gaps. We experimentally evaluate a novel nation-wide low-cost government program aimed at ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1049–1091)
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I24, D91, I25
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14110
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Ray
Bachan
Alex
Bryson
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The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK
The gender wage gap has closed gradually in the United Kingdom, as in other countries, but convergence is slower among top earners. Using linked employer-employee data over two decades we examine the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102230)
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J16, J31, J44
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14107
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Lisa
Leschnig
Guido
Schwerdt
Katarina
Zigova
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Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC
Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102289)
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I20, J24, J31
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14106
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Alessio
Gaggero
Joan
Gil
Dolores
Jiménez-Rubio
Eugenio
Zucchelli
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Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis
We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design exploiting the exogenous ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2022, 314, 115420)
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C21, I10, I12
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14105
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Lester
Lusher
Geoffrey
C.
Schnorr
Rebecca
L.C.
Taylor
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Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data
We provide causal evidence of an ex ante moral hazard effect of Unemployment Insurance (UI) by matching plausibly exogenous changes in UI benefit duration across state-weeks during the Great ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 285 - 319)
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I38, J24, J38, J65, L81
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14104
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Alex
Bryson
Babatunde
Buraimo
Alex
Farnell
Rob
Simmons
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Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance
One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 71 (3), 295-322)
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63, Z22
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14103
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Miqdad
Asaria
Joan
Costa-Font
Frank
A.
Cowell
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How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?
We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy, and Germany, as well as the effect of personal shocks on employment ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2023, 61, 625–647)
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I18, I30, I38
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14101
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Minhyuk
Nam
Soohyung
Lee
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COVID-19 and Employment in South Korea: Trends and Comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use two complementary methods. First, using individual-level data without residence ...
(published in: Seoul Journal of Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 43 - 80)
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E3, J2, J6
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14100
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Paolo
Brunori
Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
This paper asks whether prioritarianism – the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse-off – is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim (eds.), Prioritarianism in Practice, Cambridge: CUP, 2022)
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D63, I31
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14099
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Farzana
Afridi
Kanika
Mahajan
Nikita
Sangwan
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Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection during a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential of social protection programs in mitigating labor market shocks. We examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2022, 1, odab003)
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J68, H31
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14098
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Yuting
Qian
Xi
Chen
Diwen
Tang
Amy
S.
Kelley
Jing
Li
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Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses among U.S. Older Adults
Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population. Early recognition of cognitive impairment may confer important advantages, allowing ...
(published as 'Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults With Early Symptoms of Cognitive Impairment' in: Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 2021, 76 (10), 1846 - 1853)
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I11, I14, J14, I18, R20
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14097
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Sven
Resnjanskij
Jens
Ruhose
Simon
Wiederhold
Ludger
Woessmann
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Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 1013-1062)
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I24, J24, H52
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14096
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Seth
Gershenson
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Identifying and Producing Effective Teachers
Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. ...
(published in: Economic Foundations of Education (Educational Foundations, 5), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 135-158.)
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I24, I21
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14093
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John
T.
Giles
Xin
Meng
Sen
Xue
Guochang
Zhao
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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.)
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H53, H55, J46, J61, O15, O17, O53, P35
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14092
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Margherita
Comola
Carla
Inguaggiato
Mariapia
Mendola
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Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil
We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on ...
(revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221, 17-34)
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C45, D85, J15, O33, Q15
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14091
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Michèle
Belot
Philipp
Kircher
Paul
Muller
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Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search
We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time. It relies on lottery tickets ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics)
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D90, J64
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