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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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13987
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Alexander
Ahammer
Stefan
Bauernschuster
Martin
Halla
Hannah
Lachenmaier
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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102571)
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I12, I18, H75, J13
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13986
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Semih
Tumen
Belgi
Turan
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The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65 (4), 1855-1894)
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J21, J22, J13, J31
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13985
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Pelin
Akyol
Naci
Mocan
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (1), 114 - 171)
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I18, I26, I21, J1, Z1
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13984
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Alexander
Ahammer
Dominik
Grübl
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Health Externalities of Downsizing
We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML ...
(published online as 'The Health Effects of Downsizing Survival' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
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J63, I12, J23
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13983
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Marina
Della Giusta
Steven
J.
Bosworth
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Bias and Discrimination: What Do We Know?
The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 925-943.)
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D9, J7
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13982
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Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
Muserref
Kucukbayrak
Semih
Tumen
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The Impact of Age-Specific Minimum Wages on Youth Employment and Education: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
We exploit an age-specific minimum wage rule – which sets a lower minimum wage for workers of age 15 than that for workers of age 16 and above in Turkey – and its abolition to estimate the causal ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (6), 1352-1377)
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J21, J24, J31, J38
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13981
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Oluwasheyi
S.
Oladipo
Katarzyna
Platt
Hyoung
Suk
Shim
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Managerial Performance of a Female-Owned and Home-Based Firm
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but ...
(published online in: Small Business Economics, 17 January 2023)
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L25, L26, J16
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13977
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Fabio
Galeotti
Valeria
Maggian
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2508-2528. )
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C93, K42, D02, D91
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13976
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Colin
P.
Green
Lana
Krehic
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An Extra Hour Wasted? Bar Closing Hours and Traffic Accidents in Norway
Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major cause of fatalities worldwide. There have been a range of legislative and policy interventions that aim to address this. Bar closing hours is one ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (8), 1752 - 1769)
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I18, R41
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13975
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José-Ignacio
Antón
Enrique
Fernández-Macías
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 232 - 256)
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J24, J81, O33
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13973
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Gender Differences in College Applications: Aspiration and Risk Management
We study gender differences in decision-making strategy when applying for college using applications data for all college applicants in Ireland over the 2015-17 period. Detailed information on high ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102077)
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I2
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13971
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Pierre
Koning
Paul
Muller
Roger
Prudon
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Do Disability Benefits Hinder Work Resumption after Recovery?
While a large share of Disability Insurance recipients are expected to recover, outflow rates from temporary disability schemes are typically negligible. We estimate the disincentive effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102593)
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J08, I1, J22
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13970
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John
V.
Winters
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Problem on the Plains: College Earnings Premiums in Small Metropolitan Areas
I use the American Community Survey to examine how college earnings premiums differ across small metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the U.S. I document that the West North Central Division ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 2021, 51 (1), 1-13)
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J20, J30, R10
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13969
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Ibrahim
Alhawarin
Ragui
Assaad
Ahmed
Elsayed
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Migration Shocks and Housing: Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
This paper investigates the impact of migration shocks on housing conditions and rental prices for the local population. The identification comes from the regional variation in the large influx of ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2021, 53, 101761)
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O18, R21, R23
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13968
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Simone
Balestra
Aurélien
Sallin
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates
This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources 2023, 58 (2), 633-665;)
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I21, I24, I26, J24
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13967
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Farzana
Afridi
Sisir
Debnath
E.
Somanathan
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption
Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign ...
(published in Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151, 102675)
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D10, D90, I15, Q53
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13964
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Manuel
Bagues
Christopher
Roth
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Interregional Contact and National Identity
We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts ...
(published as 'Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 322–350)
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R23, D91, Z1
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13963
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Francesco
Fasani
Jacopo
Mazza
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Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic
We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (5), 890-918)
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F22, J61, J20
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13962
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Kai
Ingwersen
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany
Workload and its physical and mental burden can have detrimental effects on individual health. As different jobs are associated with specific patterns of health development, occupational selection of ...
(published in: BMC Public Health, 2024, 24, 2164 .)
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I14, J15, J81
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13960
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Grace
Chang
Marta
Favara
Rafael
Novella
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The Origins of Cognitive Skills and Non-cognitive Skills: The Long-Term Effect of in-Utero Rainfall Shocks in India
Skills are an important predictor of labour, education, and wellbeing outcomes. Understanding the origins of skills formation is important for reducing future inequalities. This paper analyses the ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 44, 101089)
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J24, I14
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13958
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Cuong Viet
Nguyen
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Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam
Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low mortality rate of 35 deaths to date (out of a population of approximately 100 ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 161, 106129)
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E24, I30, J21, O12
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13957
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Teresa
Molina
Mari
Tanaka
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Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women. Previous work has documented that exporting causally improved working conditions at ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71 (2), 519-565)
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J12, F66
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13955
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Pedro
Carneiro
Lucy
Kraftman
Giacomo
Mason
Lucie
Moore
Imran
Rasul
Molly
Scott
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The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life
We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained improvements in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (8), 2506–4259))
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I15, O15
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13954
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Nadja
Bömmel
Guido
Heineck
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Revisiting the Causal Effect of Education on Political Participation and Interest
A substantial number of studies suggests a strong relationship between education and aspects of political participation and interest. Only a small body of literature, however, addresses whether these ...
(substantially revised version published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (6), 664-682 )
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I2, H4, H23
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13953
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Yusuf
Emre
Akgündüz
Yusuf
Kenan
Bağır
Seyit
Mümin
Cilasun
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Consequences of a Massive Refugee Influx on Firm Performance and Market Structure
This study combines an administrative dataset of the full population of Turkish firms and the setting of the sudden mass migration of Syrian refugees to Turkey to identify the effect of migrants on ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103081.)
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J15, J61, F16, L11
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13951
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Johannes
König
Carsten
Schröder
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Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution
We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 66, 735–761)
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J22, J23, L26, D14
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13950
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Philippe
Askenazy
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Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity
This paper proposes a basic model with two types of capital: productive capital directly involved in the production process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 85–93)
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O33, O40, J20, J30
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13948
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Rossella
Calvi
Jacob
Penglase
Denni
Tommasi
Alexander
Wolf
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The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families
The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160, 102986)
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D13, D11, D12, C31, I32
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13946
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Marie
Briguglio
Teresa
García-Muñoz
Shoshana
Neuman
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Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization
Over the past half century, a literature has developed across a range of disciplines exploring the relationship between religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes ...
(published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2020, 15 (10), 15 104098)
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O13, P18, Q51, Z12
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13945
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Christian
Grund
Maike
Rubin
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The Role of Employees' Age for the Relation between Job Autonomy and Sickness Absence
We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical ...
(published in: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2021, 63 (9), 800-807.)
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J81, M12
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13944
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Joan
Costa-Font
Jorge
Garcia-Hombrados
Anna
Nicinska
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Long-Lasting Effects of Communist Indoctrination in School: Evidence from Poland
Education can serve skill formation and socialisation goals both of which are conducive to desirable economic outcomes. However, the political manipulation of the school curricula can give rise to ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104641)
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I28
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13943
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Vincenzo
Carrieri
Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
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The Health-Wealth Trade-off during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Matters
How do people balance health/wealth concerns during a pandemic? And, how does the communication of this trade-off affect individual preferences? We address these questions using a field experiment ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2021,16 (9), e0256103.)
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D04, D83, D84, D91, H12, I10, J10
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13942
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Raquel
Carrasco
J. Ignacio
Garcia Perez
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Worker Flows and Wage Dynamics: Estimating Wage Growth without Composition Effects
Wage dynamics is closely intertwined with job flows. However, composition effects associated to the different sizes and characteristics of workers entering/ exiting into/from employment that may blur ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (1), 94–114)
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J30, J31, J21
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13940
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Loren
Brandt
Thomas
G.
Rawski
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China's Great Boom as a Historical Process
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years ...
(published in: In: Ma, D, and von Glahn, R. (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of China, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 775-828 )
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L2, N1, N4, O4, O5, P3
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13936
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Smriti
Sharma
Saurabh
Singhal
Finn
Tarp
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Corruption and Mental Health: Evidence from Vietnam
While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between ...
( published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 185, 125-137)
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I3, I15, O12, D73, P3
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13935
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Ferdi
Botha
David
C.
Ribar
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For Worse? Financial Hardships and Intra-Household Resource Allocation among Australian Couples
This paper considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on ...
(published in: Economic Modeling, 2023, 119, 106114)
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D12, D13, I31
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13933
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Nick
Drydakis
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Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health: Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes?
Using panel data on immigrant populations from European, Asian and African countries the study estimates positive associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate ...
(published in: Computers in Human Behavior, 2021, 117, 106661)
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O3, O31, I1, J15
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13932
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Plamen
Nikolov
Alan
Adelman
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Pension Policies, Retirement and Human Capital Depreciation in Late Adulthood
Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation ...
(updated version of this paper published as DP15742 )
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O12, J24, J26, H55, H75, O15
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13931
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Matthew
Gudgeon
Simon
Trenkle
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The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand
This paper studies the speed at which workers' pre-tax earnings respond to tax changes along the intensive margin. We do so in the context of Germany, where a large discontinuity - or notch - in the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 793–835)
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H24, H31, J22, J23
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13930
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Magnus
Lofstrom
Chunbei
Wang
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Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, ...
(published in: ILR Review, LR Review, 2022, 75 (5), 1189-1214)
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J15, J23, K37
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13929
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Thomas
Le Barbanchon
Diego
Ubfal
Federico
Araya
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The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries
Shall we encourage students to work while in school? We provide evidence by leveraging a one-year work-study program that randomizes job offers among students in Uruguay. Using social security data ...
(revised version published as 'The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 14 (1), 383 - 410)
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J08, J22, J24, I21, I28
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13928
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Lara
Lebedinski
Cristiano
Perugini
Marko
Vladisavljevic
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Child Penalty in Russia: Evidence from an Event Study
Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has been identified as one of its key drivers. In this paper we investigate the ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 173 - 215)
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J16, J13, J31
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13926
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Petri
Böckerman
Liisa
Laine
Mikko
Nurminen
Tanja
Saxell
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Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2025, 60 (3), 1054 - 1092)
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H51, H75
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13925
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Catherine
Boulatoff
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The Effects of a Green Nudge on Municipal Solid Waste: Evidence from a Clear Bag Policy
We explore the power of behavioral economic insights to influence the level of households' recycling and Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) by examining the effectiveness of a green nudge, the adoption of a ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 106, 102404. )
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D12, D91, H23
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13924
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Luna
Bellani
Vigile
Marie
Fabella
Francesco
Scervini
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Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power
Policy reforms are often multifaceted. In the rent-seeking literature policies are usually taken as one-dimensional. This paper models policy formation using a political contest with endogenous ...
(revised version published as 'Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 77, 102283)
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D72, D86, H4
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13923
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
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The Easterlin Paradox
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, first Online: 06 November 2022 (latest version))
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I31, D60, O10, O5
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13922
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Taehoon
Lee
Giovanni
Peri
Martina
Viarengo
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The Gender Aspect of Immigrants' Assimilation in Europe
The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102180)
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J61, J00, J16
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13920
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
In 1966, Southern hospitals were barred from participating in Medicare unless they discontinued their long-standing practice of racial segregation. Using data from five Deep South states and ...
(forthcoming as 'Imposing Policy on Reluctant Actors: The Hospital Desegregation Campaign and Black Postneonatal Mortality in the Deep South' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025)
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I14, I18, N32
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13919
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George
Bulman
Robert
W.
Fairlie
Sarena
Goodman
Adam
Isen
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Parental Resources and College Attendance: Evidence from Lottery Wins
We examine U.S. children whose parents won the lottery to trace out the effect of financial resources on college attendance. The analysis leverages federal tax and financial aid records and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (4), 1201–1240)
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I20, I22, I24
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13918
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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The Duration of Compulsory Education and the Transition to Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Low-Income Countries
A straightforward way of keeping children in school is increasing the duration of compulsory education. Evidence of the impact of this type of policy in Western countries is abundant. However, its ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, 75, 102189)
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I21, I25, I28
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