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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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17146
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James
Flynn
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Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?
This paper uses the implementation of a privately funded family planning program in Colorado to demonstrate that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 8 May 2024)
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J13, I18, I12
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17145
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Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
Stefano
Bartolini
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Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (3), 749-774)
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I21, I31, J24
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17142
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Štepán
Jurajda
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The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison
Thanks to standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald's restaurants, the hourly wage of McDonald's Basic Crew enables wage comparisons under near-identical skill inputs and hedonic job ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 16 September 2024)
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J31
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17139
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Marianna
Kudlyak
Erin
L.
Wolcott
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Pandemic Layoffs and the Role of Stay-at-Home Orders
We compile a novel high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset on mass layoffs from U.S. state labor departments. Using recent advances in difference-in-difference estimation with staggered ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111894)
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E32, J63, J64
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17135
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Lei
Xu
Massimiliano
Tani
Yu
Zhu
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Can the Teaching Style Reduce Inequality in the Classroom? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
We investigate the effects of 'lecture-based' (LBT) – i.e. individual work and rote learning - versus 'discussion-based' (DBT) – i.e. participative and focused on student-centred learning - teaching ...
(published in: British Educational Research Journal, 2024, 50 (6), 2849 - 2874)
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I21, I24
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17132
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John
Forth
Carl
Singleton
Alex
Bryson
Van
Phan
Felix
Ritchie
Damian
Whittard
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The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility across Firms
In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 63 (4), 746-757)
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J23, J38, J68, J88
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17119
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Marco
Clemens
Jan
Sauermann
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Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity
Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity. Although workers' skills may directly matter for the cost of effort to reach performance goals, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102694)
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M52, J33, C23
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17111
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Pierre
Cahuc
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The Micro and Macro Economics of Short-Time Work
This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its ...
(published as 'Short-term work policies' in: C. Dustman, Lemieux, T. (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 5, Elsevier, 2024)
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J23, J41, J63
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17110
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Paola
Giuliano
Antonio
Spilimbergo
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Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs
A growing body of work has shown that aggregate shocks affect the formation of preferences and beliefs. This article reviews evidence from sociology, social psychology, and economics to assess the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 62 (2), 542–597)
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E00, P00, Z1
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17101
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Stephen
Hoskins
David
W.
Johnston
Johannes
S.
Kunz
Michael A.
Shields
Kevin
E.
Staub
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The Importance of Sampling Frequency for Estimates of Well-Being Dynamics
Using a high-frequency panel survey, we examine the sensitivity of estimated self-reported well-being (SWB) dynamics to using monthly, quarterly, and yearly data. This is an important issue if SWB is ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111880)
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I1, I3
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17097
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Maria Alejandra
Cattaneo
Christian
Gschwendt
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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How Scary Is the Risk of Automation? Evidence from a Large Scale Survey Experiment
Advances in technology have always reshaped labor markets. Automating human labor has lead to job losses and creation but most of all, for an increasing demand for highly skilled workers. However, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 235, 107034)
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J24, O33
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17096
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Catia
Batista
David M
Costa
Pedro
Freitas
Gonçalo
Lima
Ana B
Reis
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What Matters for the Decision to Study Abroad? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cape Verde
Study abroad migration is the fastest growing international migration flow. However, the college completion rates of students from low-income countries are often modest in OECD countries, raising the ...
(pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 173, 103401)
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O15, F22, J61, C91
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17094
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Delphine
Boutin
Laurene
Petifour
Yvonne
Allard
Souleymane
Kontoubré
Valéry
Ridde
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Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso
Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 371, 117870)
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I13, I15, O12, G21, O55
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17082
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Rafael
Perez
Ribas
Breno
Sampaio
Giuseppe
Trevisan
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The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
The ranking system within academic environments may impact future professional trajectories. Examining the influence of class rank on college students' managerial attainment is crucial for ...
(pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531)
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D91, I23, J16, J24, M51
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17079
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Marco
Fongoni
Daniel
Schaefer
Carl
Singleton
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Why Wages Don't Fall in Jobs with Incomplete Contracts
We investigate how the incompleteness of an employment contract - discretionary and non-contractible effort - can affect an employer's decision about cutting nominal wages. Using matched ...
(published in: Management Science, 2025, 71(8), 6319-6339.)
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E24, E70, J31, J41
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17076
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Joanna
Clifton-Sprigg
Eleonora
Fichera
Ezgi
Kaya
Melanie
K.
Jones
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Fathers Taking Leave: Evaluating the Impact of Shared Parental Leave in the UK
We study the effect of the introduction in 2015 of UK Shared Parental Leave policy on the up-take and the length of leave taken by fathers. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study and Regression ...
(forthcoming in: Fiscal Studies, 2025)
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D13, J08, J13, J18
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17075
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Wim
Naudé
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The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and empirical flaws in the first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI) that was launched in 2024. These flaws limit the usefulness of the ...
(published online in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 25 April 2025)
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L26, L53, O55, O435
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17074
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Krishna
Regmi
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Minimum Wages and the Uptake of Supplemental Security Income
This study investigates whether the minimum wage affects the uptake of Supplemental Security Income (SSI). To disentangle the effect of the minimum wage from underlying macroeconomic conditions, I ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102592)
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J08
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17072
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Pablo
Celhay
Sebastian
Gallegos
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Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025))
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J62, N36, I24, I25, I28
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17070
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Laura
Derksen
Jason
Kerwin
Natalia
Ordaz
Reynoso
Olivier
Sterck
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Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 136 (665), 81–118)
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D81, I15, O12
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17068
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Anthony
Lepinteur
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I Can't Forget about U: Lifetime Unemployment and Retirement Well-Being
It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1083-1100)
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J21, J63, I31
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17065
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Bo
Cowgill
Amanda
Agan
Laura
Katherine
Gee
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The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income
This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their ...
(published in: Organization Science, 2024, 35 (5), 1571–1588)
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D8, M51 J71
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17063
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Iga
Magda
Jacek
Bieliński
Marzena
Feldy
Anna
Knapińska
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The Gender Pay Gap at the Early Stages of Academic Careers
The number of countries that have devoted time and attention to establishing gender equality regulations in academia is increasing. However, various studies indicate that women remain ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 27 January 2025)
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J13, J16
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17055
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Trevor
McLemore
Alina
Sorgner
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Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship
This survey reviews emerging but fast-growing literature on impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on entrepreneurship, providing a resource for researchers in entrepreneurship and neighboring ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2024, 20 (8), 781-904)
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J24, L26, O30
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17054
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Andrés
García-Echalar
Sebastián
Poblete
Tomas
Rau
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Teacher Value-Added and the Test Score Gender Gap
This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical strategies from the value-added and labor economics literature to estimate teacher ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102588)
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I21, I24, J16
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17049
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Iris
Klinker
Bas
ter Weel
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Wages and Employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition ...
(published in: De Economist, 2024, 172 (3), 233-256)
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E24, E31, J21, J31
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17048
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Jonas
Fluchtmann
Anita
Marie
Glenny
Nikolaj
Harmon
Jonas
Maibom
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Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-for Jobs
Using data on applied-for jobs for the universe of Danish UI recipients, we examine variation in job search behavior both across individuals and over time during unemployment spells. We find large ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1175–1217)
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J64
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17047
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Gustaf
Bruze
Alexander
Kjćr
Hilslřv
Jonas
Maibom
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The Long-Run Effects of Individual Debt Relief
Individuals with extensive debt may be granted debt relief in court. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the Danish debt relief program with data from court records linked to nationwide register ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 October 2024)
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D14, D31, K35
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17044
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Oded
Stark
Julia
Wlodarczyk
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Rank, Stress, and Risk: A Conjecture
A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 350, 116841)
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D01, D31, D81, D87, D91, I12, I14
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17042
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Matthias
Fahn
Takeshi
Murooka
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Informal Incentives and Labor Markets
This paper investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal, self-enforcing, agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and show ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (665), 144–179)
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D21, D86, J21, J38, J61, J71
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17041
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Diane
Whitmore
Schanzenbach
Michael
R.
Strain
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Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence
The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 710 (1), 141-156)
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H31, J08
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17040
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Zhuoer
Lin
Justin
Ye
Heather
Allore
Thomas
M.
Gill
Xi
Chen
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Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition for Older Americans: The Importance of Educational Quality and Experiences
Given the critical role of neurocognitive development in early life, this study assesses how racial differences in early-life circumstances are collectively and individually associated with racial ...
(published as 'Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US' in: JAMA Internal Medicine, 2024, 184 (8), 904-914)
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J15, I14, J13, J14, I20, H75
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17039
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Germán
Reyes
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Coarse Wage-Setting and Behavioral Firms
This paper shows that the bunching of wages at round numbers is partly driven by firm coarse wage-setting. Using data from over 200 million new hires in Brazil, I first establish that contracted ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, June 2024)
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D22, E24, D91
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17036
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Ibrahima
Sarr
Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Carlos
Santiago Guzman
Gutierrez
Theresa
Beltramo
Paolo
Verme
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Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia
Household consumption or income surveys do not typically cover refugee populations. In the rare cases where refuges are included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2025, 177 (1), 207-251)
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C15, F22, I32, O15, O20
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17031
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André
Diegmann
Laura
Pohlan
Andrea
Weber
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Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the ...
(find an updated version of the paper here )
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O43, L25, D72
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17027
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Kevin
Pineda-Hernández
François
Rycx
Mélanie
Volral
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Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work
A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 445-465)
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21, I22, J15, J24, J61, J62, J71
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17025
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Andrew
Leigh
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Returns to Education in Australia 2001-2022
What are the economic returns to education in Australia? Using data from the 2018-2022 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking account of existing estimates ...
(published in: Economic Papers, 2025, 44 (1), 62-76)
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I28, J31
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17019
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Stefan
Flagner
Thomas
Meissner
Steffen
Künn
Piet
Eichholtz
Nils
Kok
Rick
Kramer
Wouter
van Marken-Lichtenbelt
Cynthia
Ly
Guy
Plasqui
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Cognition, Economic Decision-Making, and Physiological Response to Indoor Carbon Dioxide: Does It Really Matter?
This study provides novel evidence on the isolated effect of carbon dioxide on cognition, economic decision-making, and the physiological response in healthy office workers. The experiment took place ...
(published in: Indoor Environments, 2025, 2 (1), 100074)
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D87, J24, Q54
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17018
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Luis
Guirola
Laura
Hospido
Andrea
Weber
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Family and Career: An Analysis across Europe and North America
Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2024, 45 (2), 243 - 257)
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J12, J13, J16, J21, J22
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17016
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Riccardo
Marchingiglio
Mikhail
Poyker
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The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation
Using full count U.S. census data, we study the impact of early 20th-century state-industry-specific minimum wage laws that primarily targeted female employees. Our triple-difference estimates ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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J16, J23, N32
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17014
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Nikos
Askitas
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A Hands-on Machine Learning Primer for Social Scientists: Math, Algorithms and Code
This paper addresses the steep learning curve in Machine Learning faced by noncomputer scientists, particularly social scientists, stemming from the absence of a primer on its fundamental principles. ...
(test)
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C01, C87, C00, C60
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17012
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Matthew
Roskruge
Jacques
Poot
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The Relationship between Social Capital and Migrant Integration, Ethnic Diversity, and Spatial Sorting
In this paper, we present evidence from quantitative research over the last decade on how the social capital of individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, ...
(published online as 'Evidence of the effects of ethnic diversity, years of residence, and location on migrant bridging, bonding, and linking, social capital: a New Zealand synthesis' in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 29 June 2025 )
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F22, R11, Z13
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17010
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Oded
Stark
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The Modification of Social Space as a Tool for Lowering Social Stress
The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual's location in social space, and is the ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2024, 53, 101349)
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D01, D63, D91, I10, I14, I31, Z18
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17009
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Thushyanthan
Baskaran
Zohal
Hessami
Sebastian
Schirner
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Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics
Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 225, 88-106)
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D72, D78, H70, H72, J13, J14
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17008
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Baoling
Zou
Ashok
K.
Mishra
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Modernizing Smallholder Agriculture and Achieving Food Security: An Exploration in Machinery Services and Labor Reallocation in China
Worldwide, most farms are small and family-operated. This study discusses the future of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts ...
(published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2024, 46 (4), 1662-1691)
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Q12, C36, J22
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17005
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Susanne
Kohaut
Claus
Schnabel
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The Demise of Works Councils in Germany
This paper documents and analyses the demise of works councils in Germany in the period 2007-2022. Using representative panel data, we show that the share of plants with a works council has fallen ...
(forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen (German Journal of Industrial Relations), 2025)
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J53, M50
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17002
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Oded
Stark
Wiktor
Budzinski
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The Merger of Populations as a Revision of Comparison Space: Repercussions for Social Stress and Income Inequality
The merger of populations expands the comparison space of incomes. As a result, measures of the income-based social stress and of the income inequality of the constituent populations need to be ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 237, 111585)
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D31, D63, F02, F15
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17001
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Djavad
Salehi-Isfahani
Minh
N.N.
Do
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP ...
(forthcoming in: Middle East Development Journal, 2025)
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E24, I30, J21, O12
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16997
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Zhuoer
Lin
Xuecheng
Yin
Becca
R.
Levy
Yue
Yuan
Xi
Chen
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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk
Cognitive impairment poses considerable challenges among older adults, with the protective role of family support becoming increasingly crucial. This study examines the role of children's residential ...
(published as 'Association of Children's Residential Proximity and Spousal Presence with Lower Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment' in: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2024, 32 (10), 1187-1199)
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I12, J14, I18, I11
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16990
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Tsunao
Okumura
Yuko
Ueno
Emiko
Usui
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Effects of Mandatory Residencies on Female Physicians' Specialty Choices: Evidence from Japan's New Medical Residency Program
Female physicians remain underrepresented in surgical specialties in Japan. The 2004 New Postgraduate Medical Education Program mandated a two-year rotating residency that allowed residents to choose ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102566)
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J16, J24, J44
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