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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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13766
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Marie
Bjřrneby
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Rřed
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Does the Wealth Tax Kill Jobs?
Fueled by increasing inequality and rising fiscal deficits, the interest in wealth taxation has increased over the last years, both in the public debate and in academia. Yet, knowledge about the ...
(revised version published as 'An Imperfect Wealth Tax and Employment in Closely Held Firms' in: Economica, 2023, 90 (358), 557-583.)
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H21, J23, G11
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13764
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Judit
Albiol Sanchez
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Mercedes
Teruel
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The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries
Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being skill-mismatched in comparison with salaried employees. The ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 957-977)
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L26, J24, B23
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13763
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Dripto
Bakshi
Indraneel
Dasgupta
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A Subscription vs. Appropriation Framework for Natural Resource Conflicts
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and ...
(published in: A. Markandya and D. Rübbelke (eds.), Climate and Development; World Scientific, 2021)
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D72, D74, O10, O20
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13762
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Claudia
Hupkau
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Work, Care and Gender during the COVID-19 Crisis
We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies,2020, 41 (3), 623 - 652)
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J13, J16, J22, J31
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13761
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Oded
Stark
Grzegorz
Kosiorowski
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An Adverse Social Welfare Effect of Quadruply Gainful Trade
Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We ...
(published in: East Asian Economic Review, 2020, 24 (3), 207-235)
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D31, D63, F10, F15, R12
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13759
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Patricia
Cortes
Jessica
Pan
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Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1359 - 1409)
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J16, J24, J31, J13
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13758
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Helena
Hernandez-Pizarro
Catia
Nicodemo
Guillem
López
Casasnovas
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Discontinuous System of Allowances: The Response of Prosocial Health-Care Professionals
This paper examines the unintended strategic effects of non-linear incentives in public policies. A system of health care subsidies structured in discrete intervals may lead to strategic behaviour. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 190, 104248)
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D63, D82, D61, H510, I380
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13757
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Catia
Nicodemo
Samira
Barzin
Daniel
S.
Lasserson
Francesco
Moscone
Stuart
Redding
Mujaheed
Shaikh
Nicolň
Cavalli
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Measuring Geographical Disparities in England at the Time of COVID-19: Results Using a Composite Indicator of Population Vulnerability
Objectives – The growth of COVID-19 infections in England raises questions about system vulnerability. Several factors that vary across geographies, such as age, existing disease prevalence, ...
(published in: BMJ open, 2020,10, e039749.)
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C55, J61, J28, I1
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13755
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Anthony
Edo
Lionel
Ragot
Hillel
Rapoport
Sulin
Sardoschau
Andreas
Steinmayr
Arthur
Sweetman
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An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries
The share of the foreign-born in OECD countries is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1365-1403. .)
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F22, J15, J61
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13754
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Barbara
Biasi
Heather
Sarsons
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Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (1), 215 - 266)
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J31, J71, J45
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13752
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Kerstin
F.
Hansen
Alois
Stutzer
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Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being across Countries
Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 600-617)
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D1, I3, J6
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13751
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Hessel
Oosterbeek
Simon
ter Meulen
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Long-Term Effects of School-Starting-Age Rules
To study the long-term effects of school-starting-age rules in a setting with early ability tracking, we exploit the birth month threshold used in the Netherlands. We find that students born just ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84,102144 )
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I21, I24, I26
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13750
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Paul
Bisschop
Bas
ter Weel
Jelle
Zwetsloot
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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168 (4), 577-598)
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J15, J2, J70
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13748
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
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U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Using the 2005-2014 waves of the American Community Survey –a period characterized by the rapid expansion of interior immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the ...
(published as 'Immigration policy and fertility: Evidence from undocumented migrants in the U.S' ´in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 189, 274 - 297)
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J13, J15, K37
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13747
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Erling
Barth
Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?
Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 229, 106855)
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J01, J08, J50, J51
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13746
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Volker
Hahn
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Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks
Leaks are pervasive in politics. Hence, many committees that nominally operate under secrecy de facto operate under the threat that information might be passed on to outsiders. We study theoretically ...
(published in: Journal of Politics, 2023, 85 (3), 1107–1122)
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C92, D71, D82, J45
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13743
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Dany
Bahar
Ana
Maria
Ibanez
Sandra
V.
Rozo
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Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151, 102652)
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F22, O15, R23
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13742
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Kadir
Atalay
Rebecca
Edwards
Stefanie
Schurer
David
Ubilava
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Lives Saved during Economic Downturns: Evidence from Australia
Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (10), 2452 - 2467)
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I12, E32, E24
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13741
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Olga
B.
Stoddard
Christopher
F.
Karpowitz
Jessica
Preece
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Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Policy interventions to increase women's presence in the workforce and leadership positions vary in their intensity, with some including a lone or token woman and others setting higher quotas. ...
(updated version available as DP 16625)
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J16
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13737
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Charles
Gottlieb
Jan
Grobovsek
Markus
Poschke
Fernando
Saltiel
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Working from Home in Developing Countries
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 133, 103679)
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J21, J22, O1
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13735
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Nick
Obradovich
Ömer
Özak
Ignacio
Martín
Edmond
Awad
Manuel
Cebrián
Rubén
Cuevas
Klaus
Desmet
Iyad
Rahwan
Ángel
Cuevas
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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 2022, 190, 1920220085)
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C80, F1, J1, O10, R10, Z10
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13733
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Caroline
Wehner
Andries
de Grip
Harald
Pfeifer
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Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186)
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J23, D91, M51
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13732
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Todd
Pugatch
Nicholas
Wilson
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Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education
More than two of every five students who enroll in college fail to graduate within six years. Prior research has identified ineffective study habits as a major barrier to success. We conducted a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (5), 1637-1682)
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A22, D91, I23, M31
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13728
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Zhiming
Cheng
Ben
Zhe
Wang
Zhou
Jiang
Lucy
Taksa
Massimiliano
Tani
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having ...
(published online as 'English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia' in: International Migration, 19 June 2021, )
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F22, I26, J24, J61
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13725
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Fabrizio
Mazzonna
Franco
Peracchi
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Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision Making
We investigate whether older people correctly perceive their own cognitive decline, and the potential financial consequences of misperception. First, we document the fact that older people tend to ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 1793-1830)
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J14, J24, C23
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13724
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Luciana
C.
Fiorini
Michael
Jetter
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
Christopher
Parsons
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The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany
Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents ...
(revised version published as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594)
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D61, D72, H11, N44
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13723
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Ruben
C.
Arslan
Martin
Brümmer
Thomas
Dohmen
Johanna
Drewelies
Ralph
Hertwig
Gert
G.
Wagner
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How People Know Their Risk Preference
People differ in their willingness to take risks. Recent work found that revealed preference tasks (e.g., laboratory lotteries)—a dominant class of measures—are outperformed by survey-based stated ...
(published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365)
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D80, D81, D91, D01
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13722
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Gautam
Hazarika
Sourabh
Bikas
Paul
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India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle: Insights From the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases
Between the early 1970s and very nearly the present, Indians' per capita calorie consumption declined. This decline, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 60, 2993 - 3010)
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I32, O1
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13720
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David
W.
Johnston
Claryn
S. J.
Kung
Michael A.
Shields
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Who is Resilient in a Time of Crisis? The Importance of Financial and Non-Financial Resources
We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK data, we compare psychological distress observed before COVID-19 with distress ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (12), 3051 - 3073)
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I10, C2, C5
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13717
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Filippo
Belloc
Gabriel
Burdin
Fabio
Landini
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Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the ...
(published as 'Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2023, 19 (6), 729 - 746)
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J51, L23, M11
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13715
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SangNam
Ahn
Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health during COVID–19: A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using ...
(published as 'Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with older individuals' healthcare utilization and self-reported health status: a longitudinal analysis from Singapore' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2022, 22(1), 66)
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I12, I18
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13714
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Emilia
Del Bono
Josh
Kinsler
Ronni
Pavan
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A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
In this paper we highlight an important property of the translog production function for the identification of treatment effects in a model of latent skill formation. We show that when using a ...
(published as 'Identification of dynamic latent factor models of skill formation with translog production' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (6), 1256 - 1265)
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C13, C18, I38, J13, J24
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13712
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Farzana
Afridi
Monisankar
Bishnu
Kanika
Mahajan
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Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization
Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in ...
(published as 'Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (1), 52 - 75)
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J16, J23, J43, O33
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13711
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Farzana
Afridi
Amrita
Dhillon
Swati
Sharma
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The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 228, 470 - 485)
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Y40, Z13, J15, J24
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13710
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C. Justin
Cook
Manisha
Shah
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Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which provides up to 100 days of labor to rural laborers at the mandated minimum ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (4), 797 - 806)
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O11, O38, O47
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13709
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Jan
Bietenbeck
Jan
Marcus
Felix
Weinhardt
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Tuition Fees and Educational Attainment
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 154, 104431)
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I23, I22, I28
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13708
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
Urbain Thierry
Yogo
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Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa
In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 177 - 189)
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L2, G2, D22, C1
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13707
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727 - 740)
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J15, J16, L26
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13706
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Vera
Z.
Eichenauer
Jan-Egbert
Sturm
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Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103511)
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F4, N1, N4, O4
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13704
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James
Albrecht
Bruno
Decreuse
Susan
Vroman
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Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies
When vacancies are filled, the ads that were posted are often not withdrawn, creating "phantom" vacancies. The existence of phantoms implies that older job listings are less likely to represent true ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 837 - 869)
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J60, D83
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13702
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Terence
Chai
Cheng
Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore
We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey ...
(published as 'Life Satisfaction Changes And Adaptation In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Singapore' in: Singapore Economic Review, 2024, 69 (1), 1-34.)
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E2, I12, I31
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13701
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Matthew
Baird
Michael
S.
Kofoed
Trey
Miller
Jennie
Wenger
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Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post 9/11 GI Bill
In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from widely-varying by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This policy created exogenous variation in the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1012-1039.)
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I23, I28, H52, H56
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13699
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Sabine
Flamand
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Schools' Attitudes Towards Single Parents: Experimental Evidence
Single parenthood is on the rise everywhere in the world. While previous studies show that acceptance of single-parent households is increasing, some authors point out that single-parent families are ...
(published as 'Attitudes towards single parents’ children in private and state-dependent private schools: experimental evidence' in: SERIEs, 2023, 14, 223 - 242)
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I24, I29
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13696
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Clare
Leaver
Owen
Ozier
Pieter
Serneels
Andrew
Zeitlin
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Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were ...
(published in: American Economic Review 2021, 111 (7), 2213 - 2246)
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C93, I21, J45, M52, O15
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13695
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Neeraj
Kaushal
Ashley
N.
Muchow
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Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the ...
(published as 'Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.' in. Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 1445 - 1572)
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I1, I10, I18
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13694
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Jagori
Chatterjee
Joshua
D.
Merfeld
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Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and investigates how this relationship changes when households have access to ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105624)
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H53, I15, I38, O12
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13693
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Keith
A.
Bailey
James
R.
Spletzer
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A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy
We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102009)
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J2, J3
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13692
|
Arthur
Grimes
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Florencia
Tranquilli
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The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 309 - 330)
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D31, D63, I31
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13689
|
Sandro
Casal
Antonio
Filippin
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The Effect of Observing Multiple Private Information Outcomes on the Inclination to Cheat
This paper investigates experimentally how the inclination to cheat changes when agents report the result of multiple realizations of a (private information) stochastic event rather than a single ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 543 - 562)
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C81, C91, D82
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13687
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Joan
Costa-Font
Mario
Gyori
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The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353)
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I18, J16
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