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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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13442
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Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
James
Reeves
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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1769-1794)
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D72, I18
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13441
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Victor
Ronda
Esben
Agerbo
Dorthe
Bleses
Preben
Bo
Mortensen
Anders
Břrglum
David
M.
Hougaard
Ole
Mors
Merete
Nordentoft
Thomas
Werge
Michael
Rosholm
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Family Disadvantage, Gender and the Returns to Genetic Human Capital
This paper relies on a large-scale sample of genotyped individuals linked with detailed register data in Denmark to investigate the context-dependence of genetic influences on human capital ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (2), 550-578)
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I1,I21,I24
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13440
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Felipe
Carozzi
Sandro
Provenzano
Sefi
Roth
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Urban Density and COVID-19
This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) ...
(published as 'Urban density and COVID-19: understanding the US experience' in: Annals of Regional Science, 2024, 72, 163–194)
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I12, R12
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13438
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Malak
Kandoussi
François
Langot
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Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics
Recent events suggest that uncertainty changes play a major role in U.S. labor market fluctuations. This study analyzes the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 201, 110760)
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E24, E32, J64
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13437
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Franz
Buscha
Emma
Gorman
Patrick
Sturgis
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Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move On?
Social mobility—the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins—has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and ...
(published as 'Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: a sub-national analysis of differences and trends over time' in: British Journal of Sociology, 2021, 72 (5), 1378 - 1393)
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J62, J61, J21, I24, I26, R12
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13434
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Lídia
Farré
Yarine
Fawaz
Libertad
González
Jennifer
Graves
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How the COVID-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain
The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown ...
(published as 'Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid-19 Times' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (2), 323-347)
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D13, J13, J16
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13433
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Colin
P.
Green
Jon
Marius
Vaag Iversen
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Refugees and the Educational Attainment of Natives
There has been a recent rapid increase in immigration into Europe, specifically in the form of refugees and asylum seekers. This raises a range of social challenges and a particular focus is ...
(published as 'Refugees and the educational attainment of natives: Evidence from Norway' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102258)
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J15, I21
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13432
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Masato
Oikawa
Ryuichi
Tanaka
Shun-ichiro
Bessho
Haruko
Noguchi
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Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for COVID-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area
We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84 (4), 449-579)
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I18, I21, I28
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13430
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Denni
Tommasi
Lina
Zhang
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Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
In empirical research, measuring correctly the benefits of welfare interventions is incredibly relevant for policymakers as well as academic researchers. Unfortunately, the endogenous program ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556)
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C14, C21, C26, C35, C51
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13429
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Carsten
Feuerbaum
Fabian
Gaessler
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Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105136)
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O31, O33, J61
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13428
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David
Adler
Edson
Severnini
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Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations
Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant health consequences from short-term exposure, and as such has been regulated in the U.S. since the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 223, 104905)
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Q53, Q58
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13425
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Gregory
Verdugo
Guillaume
Allčgre
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Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession
We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation between men and women during the Great Recession in Europe. We first highlight ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101881)
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J21, J23, J24
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13424
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
RaeAnn
Halenda
Robinson
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Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social ...
(published as 'Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406)
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N31, J16, J21, J82
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13422
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Girum
Abebe
Margaret
McMillan
Michel
Serafinelli
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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926)
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F21, O18, D24
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13420
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Devashish
Mitra
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Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market
We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by ...
(published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2020, 102 (3), 237-253)
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F1, F2, J4, J8
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13419
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Stefano
Baruffaldi
Felix
Poege
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A Firm Scientific Community: Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion
We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference ...
(published online as 'Like Stars: How Firms Learn at Scientific Conferences' in: Management Science, 24 May 2025)
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O33, O32, D22
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13418
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Nico
Pestel
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Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 108, 102448)
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I12, I18, Q53
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13417
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Michael
F.
Lovenheim
Nikolaj
Siersbćk
David
N.
Wasser
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Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes
We estimate the effect of housing price changes on fertility and early-life child health in Denmark. Using rich population register data among women aged 20-44 who own a home, we find that for each ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104366)
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J13
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13416
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Jens
Ruhose
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Insa
Weilage
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Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive ...
(revised version published as 'No mental retirement: estimating voluntary adult education activities of older workers' in: Education Economics, 2023, 32 (4), 440–473. )
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J14, J24, J26
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13414
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Ege
Can
Frank
M.
Fossen
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The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah
The economic effects of non-compete agreements have received increasing attention from academics and policymakers. This paper investigates how non-compete policies affect different types of ...
(revised version published as 'The Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts' in: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022, 11 (2/3), 223-252)
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L26, O38, J23
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13412
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Maciej
Albinowski
Piotr
Lewandowski
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The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland
Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (2), 237 - 267)
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J21, J23, J38
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13411
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Abel
Brodeur
David
M.
Gray
Anik
Islam
Suraiya
Jabeen
Bhuiyan
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A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35(4), 1007-1044)
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E00, I15, I18, J20
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13410
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Balázs
Muraközy
Álmos
Telegdy
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The Effects of EU-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
This paper investigates the effects of non-repayable enterprise grants financed from the European Union's Structural and Cohesion Funds on firm outcomes in Hungary using firm- and worker-level ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (1), 216-234)
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H25, D22, O16, J21
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13409
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Daniela
Del Boca
Noemi
Oggero
Paola
Profeta
Mariacristina
Rossi
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Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, before and during COVID-19
Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently, with a greater impact on male-dominated sectors. The current COVID-19 crisis ...
(published as 'Women's and men's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1001 - 1017 )
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J13, J16, J21
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13408
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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Working at Home in Greece: Unexplored Potential at Times of Social Distancing?
This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the ...
(published in: Monastiriotis, V. and Katsinas, P. (eds.) The Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Greece, Hellenic Observatory, LSE, 2020, 70 - 128)
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C25, J01, J23, J24, J31
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13407
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Christopher
Hoy
Luke
McKenzie
Mathias
Sinning
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Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea
This paper studies the impact of "nudges" on taxpayers with varying tax compliance histories in Papua New Guinea. We present the results from two population-wide randomized controlled trials in a ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (2), 691–723)
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C93, D91, H2, H20, O1, O17
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13406
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Agnieszka
Tymula
Xueting
Wang
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Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers
Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation methods using monetary rewards, with ...
(revised version published as 'Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1202–1233 )
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C91, D12, D80, D91
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13405
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Smriti
Sharma
Naveen
Sunder
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Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work
In predominantly agrarian economies with limited irrigation, rainfall plays a critical role in shaping households' incomes and subsequently their spending decisions. This study uses household-level ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (3), 1041 - 1063)
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D13, I21, J16, O12
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13403
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Nathan
Kettlewell
Jack
Lam
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Retirement, Social Support and Mental Wellbeing: A Couple-level Analysis
Social support is increasingly acknowledged as an important resource for promoting wellbeing. We test whether social support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 511–535 )
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I10, H55, J14, J26
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13400
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Michael
Grimm
Nathalie
Luck
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Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia
In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. ...
(published as 'Experimenting with a green 'Green Revolution'. Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia' in: Ecological Economics, 2023, 205, 107727)
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C93, O12, O33, Q12, Q16
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13399
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Katharina
Dyballa
Kornelius
Kraft
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(In)Efficiency of Employment Offices: A Study on Welfare Benefits Determination – Is There a Trade-off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Decisions?
This study investigates the efficiency of the process of benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenter ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2021, 77 (2), 141-171 )
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J65, I38, H53, H55, C54
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13398
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Pietro
Biroli
Steven
J.
Bosworth
Marina
Della Giusta
Amalia
Di Girolamo
Sylvia
Jaworska
Jeremy
Vollen
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Family Life in Lockdown
We present findings from a novel survey of Italian, British, and American families in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic of spring 2020. A high percentage report disruptions in the patterns of ...
(published in: Frontiers in Psychology, 2021,12, 687570. )
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D13, J12, J22
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13396
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Ulf
Zölitz
Jan
Feld
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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School
Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where ...
(published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6936-6979)
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I21, I24, J24
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13395
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Alexander
Ahammer
Martin
Halla
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Administrative Data
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (11), 2425-2444)
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I12, I14, I18, J62
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13392
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Colin
P.
Green
Swarnodeep
HomRoy
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Bringing Connections Onboard: The Value of Political Influence
In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using ...
(published as 'Incorporated in Westminster: Channels and Returns to Political Connection in the United Kingdom' in: Economica, 2022, 89 (354), 377-408)
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G14, D72, G18, G30
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13391
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Werner
Eichhorst
Anton
Hemerijck
Gemma
Scalise
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Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation
Barely having had the time to digest the economic and social aftershocks of the Great Recession, European welfare states are confronted with the even more disruptive coronavirus pandemic as probably, ...
(published in: M. R. Busemeyer, A. Kemmerling, K. Van Kersbergen, P. Marx (eds.), Digitalization and the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2022, 64–82)
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J21, J24, J42
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13390
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Massimo
Anelli
Gaetano
Basso
Giuseppe
Ippedico
Giovanni
Peri
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting ...
(published as 'Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (2), 218–252)
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J61, H7, O3, M13
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13387
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Armin
Falk
Fabian
Kosse
Pia
Pinger
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Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025)
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C90, I24, J24, J62
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13385
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Naomi
Friedman-Sokuler
Claudia
Senik
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From Pink-Collar to Lab Coat: Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms
The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 led to a massive migration wave from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel. We document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 11)
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Z1, I21, J16, J24, P30
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13384
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Albert
Park
Simone
Schotte
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The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-Routine Work
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this ...
(published as 'The global divergence in the de-routinisation of jobs' in: Gradín C., Lewandowski P., Schotte S., Sen K. (eds.), Tasks, Skills, and Institutions - The Changing Nature of Work and Inequality, Oxford University Press, 2023)
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J21, J23, J24
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13383
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Eberhard
Feess
Florian
Kerzenmacher
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Moral Transgressions by Groups: What Drives Individual Voting Behavior?
We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023,140, 380 - 400)
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C92, D02, D63, D71
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13382
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Matthias
Westphal
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Hendrik
Schmitz
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Marginal College Wage Premiums under Selection into Employment
In this paper, we identify female long-term wage returns to college education using the educational expansion between 1960-1990 in West Germany as exogenous variation for college enrollment. We ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2231 - 2272)
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C31, I26, J24
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13381
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Francesco
Campo
Mariapia
Mendola
Andrea
Morrison
Gianmarco
Ottaviano
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Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration
A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 1971-2021)
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F22, J61, O31
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13380
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Andreas
Kuhn
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences
Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 210-234)
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J16, J24, D91
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13379
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Olivier
Marie
Judit
Vall Castello
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If Sick-Leave Becomes More Costly, Will I Go Back to Work? Could It Be Too Soon?
We investigate the impact on work absence of a massive reduction in paid sick leave benefits. We exploit a policy change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the ...
(published as 'Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41, 923-956.)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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13378
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Miriam
Gensowski
Mette
Gřrtz
Stefanie
Schurer
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Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 46-77 )
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J24, I24, J62, I31, J16
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13377
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Cahit
Guven
Lan
Anh
Tong
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Australia's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes in a Family Context: Evidence from Administrative Data
This paper examines the efficacy of Australian points system in a family context among working-age permanent resident immigrants who arrived between 2000 and 2011 when there was a major focus on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (1), 50-77.)
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J12, J13, J24, J31, J61, J62
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13375
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Edoardo
di Porto
Paolo
Naticchioni
Vincenzo
Scrutinio
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Partial Lockdown and the Spread of COVID-19: Lessons from the Italian Case
This paper investigates the effect of the lockdown on COVID-19 infections. After the 22nd of March 2020, the Italian government shut down many economic activities to limit the contagion. Sectors ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102572)
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J18, I18
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13372
|
Lena
Janys
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Evidence for a Two-Women Quota in University Departments across Disciplines
Increasing diversity in higher tiers of occupations is a strongly debated topic and subject to legislation and reform in professional organizations in many countries. I use a novel method for ...
(published as 'Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 627–637)
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J71, C15
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13371
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Jared
Rubin
Ludger
Woessmann
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, ...
(published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639)
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Z12, N00, J15, I15, I25
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