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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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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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14089
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Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Parents' Labor Market Outcomes
We examine the labor market impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent mandate (ACA-DM), which has significantly increased dependent children's health insurance coverage through parents' ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102128)
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I18, J32, H51
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14088
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Sholeh
A.
Maani
Le
Wen
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Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis
Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (24), 2771 - 2790)
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C23, I21, J24, J31
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14086
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Yuko
Mori
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Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation
We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of indexation of the local minimum wage to the local cost of living. The revision of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 388-408.)
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J23, J38, J42, J64, J81
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14085
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Kurt
Mitman
Stanislav
Rabinovich
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Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19
We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The optimal policy with commitment follows a modified Baily-Chetty formula that ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104447)
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J65, E6, H1
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14084
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Francesco
Campo
Sara
Giunti
Mariapia
Mendola
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The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy
This paper examines how the 2014-2017 'refugee crisis' in Italy affected voting behaviour and the rise of right-wing populism in national Parliamentary elections. We collect unique administrative ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104826)
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D72, F22, O15, P16
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14083
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Alexia
Delfino
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Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
Traditionally female-dominated sectors are growing and male-dominated ones shrinking, yet sectorial male shares are not changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment ...
(published in: Amercian Economic Review, 2024, 114 (6), 1816 -1853)
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D23, D83, J24, J7, M5
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14082
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Philippe
Aghion
Antonin
Bergeaud
John
Van Reenen
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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2894 -2936)
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O31, L11, L51, J8, L25
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14081
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Eiji
Yamamura
Giorgio
Brunello
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The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2023, 37 (2), 149 - 163)
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J13, J14, J16, I31
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14080
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Bruna
Guidetti
Paula
Pereda
Edson
Severnini
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'Placebo Tests' for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure
When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 371 - 375)
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I15, Q53, Q56, O13
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14079
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Ruchir
Agarwal
Patrick
Gaule
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity—measured by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102591)
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O31, O38, J24
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14077
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Cristina
Borra
Maria
Iacovou
Almudena
Sevilla
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Adolescence Development and the Math Gender Gap
Using different production function models, we study the causal association between adolescence development and the increase in the gap in math performance between boys and girls. We use data from ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 158, 104542)
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I21, I24, J16
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14076
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Nora
Cheng
Elliott
Fan
Tsong-Min
Wu
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Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
This study investigates the sudden disappearance of foot-binding, a costly custom practiced for centuries in China and Taiwan prior to its demise. We estimate the numbers of women who unbound their ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 157, 102876.)
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J16, N35, Z13
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14075
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Phoebe
Kotlikoff
Ahmed
S.
Rahman
Katherine
Smith
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Minding the Gap: Academic Outcomes from Pre-college Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of assignment to a one-year college preparatory program on academic performance in college. To measure the value added from pre-college programs, we use a large ...
(published in: Education Economics 2022, 30 (19), 3-24 )
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I20, J24
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14074
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and achievement than males and this is particularly the case for children from less ...
(published as: The Economics of Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, August 2021)
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I24, J16
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14073
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Anirban
Mitra
Sarmistha
Pal
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Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities
We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination ...
(published as 'Ethnic Diversity, Social Norms and Elite Capture: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia' in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 947 - 996)
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D72, D74, H40
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14071
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Aaron
Yelowitz
Samuel
J.
Ingram
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How Does Occupational Licensing Affect Entry into the Medical Field? An Examination of EMTs
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to temporary suspensions of many occupational licensing laws, especially for health care professionals, in an effort to manage surges in health care demand. The ...
(published as 'How does occupational licensing affect entry into the medical field? An examination of emergency medical technicians' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 38 - 61)
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J44, K31, I13
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14070
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David
L.
Dickinson
Caleb
Garbuio
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The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task
This paper reports on a preregistered study aimed at testing for executive function differences across individuals who self-reported one of four distinct dietary patterns: No Diet, No Sugar, ...
(revised version published in: Health Science Reports, 2021, 4 (3), e369 )
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D90, C90, I10
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14069
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Michael
Jetter
Kieran
Stockley
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Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank
Although the gender gap in entrepreneurs' success rates to secure funding is staggering, we know little about its causes. This is because observing both sides of investor-entrepreneur interactions ...
(published as 'Gender match and negotiation: evidence from angel investment on Shark Tank' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1947 - 1977)
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D91, G11, G24, G41, J16
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14068
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Oded
Stark
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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of ...
(published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (1), 379 - 381)
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B54, D13, G51, J16, J61, O15, R23
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14066
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Bilge
Erten
Pinar
Keskin
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Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By ...
(pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102607)
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F22, J12, O15
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14064
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Claudio
Deiana
Andrea
Geraci
Gianluca
Mazzarella
Fabio
Sabatini
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COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures
We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian ...
(revised version published as 'Can relief measures nudge compliance in a public health crisis? Evidence from a kinked fiscal policy rule" in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 407-428 )
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D12, D83, H51, H31, I12, K40
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