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Title
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JEL Class.
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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
Gørtz
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
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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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13370
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Tyler
Ransom
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Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors
I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 142, 45-110)
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I2, J3, R1
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13369
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Hyejin
Ku
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Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
We examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual output is rigorously ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 325-359)
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J20, J38, M50
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13368
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Harald
Pfeifer
Bernhard
Wittek
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The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19
A firm's expectation about the future business cycle is an important determinant of the decision to train apprentices. As German firms typically train apprentices to either fill future skilled worker ...
(published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020, 12, Article 8 (2020))
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J23, J24, M53
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13367
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Matthew
A.
Cole
Ceren
Ozgen
Eric
Strobl
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Air Pollution Exposure and COVID-19
In light of the existing preliminary evidence of a link between Covid-19 and poor air quality, which is largely based upon correlations, we estimate the relationship between long term air pollution ...
(published as 'Air Pollution Exposure and Covid-19 in Dutch Municipalities' in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020, 76, 581-610)
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I21, I23, Q53
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13366
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Michèle
Belot
Syngjoo
Choi
Egon
Tripodi
Eline
van den Broek-Altenburg
Julian
C.
Jamison
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
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Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries
Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how ...
(published as 'Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 769–783)
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E24, I14, I31
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13365
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Abir
Abid
Christophe
Rault
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On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus: A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets
We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR perspective used for the first time in this context. Focusing on Emerging ...
(published in: Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2021, 19 (3), 403-425)
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G15, E44, C22
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13364
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Kelvin
Seah
Jessica
Pan
Poh
Lin
Tan
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Breadth of University Curriculum and Labor Market Outcomes
We explore whether the choice of broad versus specialized university curricula affects subsequent labor market outcomes, as measured by earnings, full-time permanent employment, and unemployment six ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, Article 101873)
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I21, J31
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13359
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Nicolas
Herault
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Roger
Wilkins
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What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?
The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (1), 1 - 33)
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D31, J16, C81
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13354
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Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
Xuan
Zhang
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Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore
We examine the short-term impact of COVID-19 on consumption spending and labor market outcomes. Using monthly panel data of individuals mainly aged 50–70 in Singapore, we find that COVID-19 reduced ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (Suppl. 1), 115–134. )
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E2, I12, H2, J01
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13352
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Toan
L. D.
Huynh
Manh-Hung
Nguyen
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Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Development, 2024, 26 (1), 2-18)
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D00, H00, I1, I3, O1
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13351
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Barry
Eichengreen
Orkun
Saka
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The Political Scar of Epidemics
What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (600), 1683–1700, )
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D72, F50, I19
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13349
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Maddalena
Davoli
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States
Using a US nationally representative sample of over 6,000 adults from 26 countries of ancestry, we find a strong association between their financial literacy in the US and the financial literacy ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013)
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D14, E2, I22, Z10
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13346
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James
J.
Heckman
Bei
Liu
Mai
Lu
Jin
Zhou
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
This paper evaluates the causal impacts of an early childhood home visiting program for which treatment is randomly assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children ...
(new version available here)
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J13, Z18
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13345
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Matthias
Stefan
Jürgen
Huber
Michael
Kirchler
Matthias
Sutter
Markus
Walzl
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Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect
Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 56, 104458)
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C93, D02, D91
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13344
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Parampreet
Christopher
Bindra
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Daniel
Neururer
Matthias
Sutter
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Reveal It or Conceal It: On the Value of Second Opinions in a Low-Entry-Barriers Credence Goods Market
Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment ...
(revised version published as 'On the value of second opinions: a credence goods field experiment' in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109925)
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C93, D82
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13343
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Georg
Graetz
Björn
Öckert
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Family Background and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023)
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I21, I23, J62
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13341
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David
Card
Andrew C.
Johnston
Pauline
Leung
Alexandre
Mas
Zhuan
Pei
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The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the ...
(published in: American Economics Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105 (5), 126-130)
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J64, J65, D91
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13338
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Eva
M.
Berger
Ernst
Fehr
Henning
Hermes
Daniel
Schunk
Kirsten
Winkel
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The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025)
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J24, I2, C93
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13337
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Kai
Barron
Heike
Harmgart
Steffen
Huck
Sebastian
O.
Schneider
Matthias
Sutter
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Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (4), 1008–1016.)
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C91, D90, J15, C93, J13
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13336
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Katarzyna
Lipowska
Iga
Magda
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The Gender Dimension of Occupational Exposure to Contagion in Europe
We study the gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route. We show that in Europe, women are more exposed to contagion, as they ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (1-2), 48 - 65)
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J01, I10, J44
|
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13333
|
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
Matthew
V.
Zahn
Michèle
Belot
Eline
van den Broek-Altenburg
Syngjoo
Choi
Julian
C.
Jamison
Egon
Tripodi
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Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Self-Protecting Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Disease spread is in part a function of individual behavior. We examine the factors predicting individual behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 691–738)
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I10, I14
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13332
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Louis-Philippe
Béland
Abel
Brodeur
Joanne
Haddad
Derek
Mikola
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COVID-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power
We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, Canadian Perspective Survey Series, that allow us to ...
(published as 'Determinants of Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak' in: Canadian Public Policy, 2021, 47 (3), 439-459)
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D03, I18, J12
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13331
|
Andrew C.
Johnston
Alexandre
Mas
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Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut
We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity ...
(pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2480-2522)
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J64, J65, D91
|
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13328
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
Sonia
Jaffe
Scott
Duke
Kominers
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Taxation in Matching Markets
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets where agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. Our model provides a continuous link between models of matching ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (4), 1591-1634)
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C78, D3, H2, J3
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