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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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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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13917
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Simone
Bertoli
Elsa
Gautrain
Elie
Murard
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Left Behind, but Not Alone: Changes in Living Arrangements and the Effects of Migration and Remittances in Mexico
We provide evidence that the occurrence of an international migration episode is associated with a variation in the living arrangements of the household members left behind. The migration of a ...
(revised version published as 'Left behind, but not immobile: Living arrangements of Mexican transnational households' in :Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71(4), 1359-1395)
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D10, F22, C83
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13916
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Ben
D'Exelle
Christine
Gutekunst
Arno
Riedl
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The Effect of Gender and Gender Pairing on Bargaining: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 237-269)
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C9, J16, O12
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13915
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Chiara
Pastore
Stefanie
Schurer
Agnieszka
Tymula
Nicholas
Fuller
Ian
Caterson
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Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment
We study economic decision-making of 284 people with obesity and pre-diabetes who participated in a 6-months randomised controlled trial to control weight and prevent diabetes. To elicit preferences, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (9), 2147-2167)
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C9, D9, D81, I12
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13914
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Panu
Poutvaara
Felicitas
Schikora
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First Time around: Local Conditions and Multi-Dimensional Integration of Refugees
We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 137, 103588)
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F22, J15, J24
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13912
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Timothy
F.
Harris
Aaron
Yelowitz
Charles
Courtemanche
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Did COVID-19 Change Life Insurance Offerings?
The profitability of life insurance offerings is contingent on accurate projections and pricing of mortality risk. The COVID-19 pandemic created significant uncertainty, with dire mortality ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2021, 88 (4), 831-861)
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D81, I13
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13911
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Anna
Adamecz
Morag
Henderson
Nikki
Shure
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The Labor Market Returns to 'First in Family' University Graduates
We exploit linked survey-administrative data from England to examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1395–1429)
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I24, I26, J24
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13910
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Apostolos
Davillas
Andrew
M.
Jones
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Unmet Health Care Need and Income-Related Horizontal Equity in Access during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1711 - 1716)
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C1, D63, I14
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13909
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Boris
Hirsch
Steffen
Müller
Georg
Neuschaeffer
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Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for ...
(substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (3), 396 - 427)
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J42, J50, J31, D22
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13908
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Brandyn
F.
Churchill
Yang
Song
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Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health
The past two decades have been characterized by an unprecedented increase in interior immigration enforcement and heightened stress due to fears of family separation and loss of income among ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 8 (3), 323–358)
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I10, I12, K37
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13907
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Jiang
Li
Benoit
Dostie
Gaëlle
Simard-Duplain
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What Is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada?
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, we examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. ...
(published as 'Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status', in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (1), 160-188)
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J16, J31, J51, J71
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13904
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Thomas
Breda
Elyès
Jouini
Clotilde
Napp
Georgia
Thebault
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Gender Stereotypes Can Explain the Gender-Equality Paradox
The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (49), 31063-3106)
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I24, I25, J16
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13903
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Joan
Costa-Font
Mario
Gyori
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Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 2005–2026)
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I12, I18, J30
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13901
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Eduardo
Fe
David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes
We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2643–2704)
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C91, D91, J24
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13900
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Andreas
Ravndal
Kostøl
Andreas
S.
Myhre
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Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule
While optimization frictions have been shown to attenuate earnings responses to financial incentives, less is understood about the individual factors shaping the response. The main contribution of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (11), 3733–3766)
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H20, H31, H55, J22, J26
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13898
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Francesco
Amodio
Miguel
A.
Martinez-Carrasco
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Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning
This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41 (2), 453-478)
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D22, D24, J24, J33, M11, M52, M54, O12
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13896
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Vasilisa
Petrishcheva
Gerhard
Riener
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Loss Aversion in Social Image Concerns
This paper explores whether loss aversion applies to social image concerns. In a simple model, we combine loss aversion in social image concerns and attitudes towards lying. We then test its ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26, 622–645.)
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C91, D91
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13895
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Grant
J.
Cameron
Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Mustafa
Dinc
James
Foster
Michael
Lokshin
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Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 870-896.)
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C8, H00, I00, O1
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13894
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Martha
Ottenbacher
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Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide an economics-based approach to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 549 - 580)
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D10, D91, J10, J12
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13893
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Hao
Dong
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions
Estimation of the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes often requires conditioning on covariates to address selection on observed variables. This is not straightforward when one or more of ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290)
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C18, C21, G21, G53
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13892
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Rishi
Sharma
Chad
Sparber
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Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Search Cost Externalities Induced by H-1B Policy
The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high-skilled foreign citizens. H-1B workers are highly concentrated among a small number of firms. We develop a theoretical ...
(published as 'Buying lottery tickets for foreign workers: Lost quota rents induced by H-1B policy' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 150, 103932)
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J61, J68, F22
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