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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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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
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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
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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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13327
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Guyonne
Kalb
Jordy
Meekes
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Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018
This paper investigates how wage growth varies among Australian employees with different individual characteristics and job characteristics, and how the role of these characteristics has changed over ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54 (1), 76-93)
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J31, J53, L24
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13326
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 29, 953–984)
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D13, D31, H21, H24, H31
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13325
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Matthias
Doepke
Ruben
Gaetani
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Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 268–309)
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E24, J24, J31, O15
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13324
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Marios
Michaelides
Peter
R.
Mueser
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 162-185)
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J6, H4
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13322
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Cecily
Josten
Grace
Lordan
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The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we exploit variation ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100899)
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C23, D04, I10, I12, I18, H75
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13319
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Timo
Mitze
Reinhold
Kosfeld
Johannes
Rode
Klaus
Wälde
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Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of Covid-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits regional variation in the point in time when face ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (5), 32293-32301)
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I18, C23
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13318
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Ezgi
Kaya
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The Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from Northern Ireland?
Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 94–114)
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J16, J31, J24
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13315
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Long
T.
Giang
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Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in ...
(published in: Sustainability, 2021, 13 (19), 10664)
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I1, I3, J01, J08, O1
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13313
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Sofoklis
Goulas
Silvia
Griselda
Rigissa
Megalokonomou
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Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM
Why are females compared to males both more likely to have strong STEM-related performance and less likely to study STEM later on? We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1937-1980)
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I21, I24, J24
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13311
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first ...
(published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740)
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J15, J16, L26
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13310
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Alina
Kristin
Bartscher
Sebastian
Seitz
Sebastian
Siegloch
Michaela
Slotwinski
Nils
Wehrhöfer
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Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102531)
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D04, A13, D91, H11, H12, I10, I18
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13308
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Patrick
Arni
Davide
Dragone
Lorenz
Götte
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence
This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425)
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C93, D03, D83, I12
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13307
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Ludo
Visschers
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2021, 91 (3), 1119-1153)
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E24, E30, J62, J63, J64
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13306
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Should We Cheer Together? Gender Differences in Instantaneous Well-Being during Joint and Solo Activities
The COVID-19 pandemic has confined millions in their homes, representing an unprecedented case for spending more time together with family members. This situation is a challenge for households, given ...
(published as 'Should we cheer together? Gender differences in instantaneous well-being: An application to COVID-19 lockdowns' in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 529 - 562)
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D10, J16, J22
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13305
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Macarena
Kutscher
Shanjukta
Nath
Sergio
Urzua
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Centralized Admission Systems and School Segregation: Evidence from a National Reform
This paper investigates whether centralized admissions systems can alter school segregation. We take advantage of the largest school-admission reform implemented to date: Chile's SAS, which in 2016 ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 221, 104863)
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I20, I24, I28
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13304
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Resul
Cesur
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Erdal
Tekin
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Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans
Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans. Nevertheless, there is scant causal evidence for this claim. We exploit the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2022, 65 (2), 279–310 )
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H56, K14
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13303
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Tomáš
Jagelka
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Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach
This paper proposes a method for empirically mapping psychological personality traits to economic preferences. Careful modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 910–970)
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D91, D80, D01
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13302
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Almudena
Sevilla
Sarah
Smith
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Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (S1), S169–S186,)
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J21, J22, J24, J33, J63
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13300
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Simon
D.
Woodcock
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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a ...
(published as 'The determinants of displaced workers’ wages: Sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 568-595)
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J65, J64, J62, J68, J63, J31, C23
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13299
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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How Gender and Prior Disadvantage Predict Performance in College
Much research has shown that having a better class of degree has significant payoff in the labour market. Using administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 189 -239 )
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I23, I24, J16, J24
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13298
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Kashif
Mansoor
Donal
O'Neill
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Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages
Minimum wages are increasingly being used in developing countries as a policy to combat exploitation of workers and raise living standards. However, in many developing countries there is a ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105653)
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J38, O15
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13297
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Ulugbek
Aminjonov
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries
In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in ...
(published as 'Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America' in: World Development, 2021, 142, 105422)
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E71, H12, I12, I18, O15
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13295
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Tsenguunjav
Byambasuren
Nancy
H.
Chau
Neha
Khanna
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Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India
Indoor air pollution (IAP)–predominantly from the use of solid fuel for cooking–is a global health threat, particularly for women and young children, and one of the leading causes of infant deaths ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 222, 240-265)
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I18, N35, Q53
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13293
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Nikos
Askitas
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
Bertrand
Verheyden
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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic ...
(published in: Nature Journal: Scientific Reports , 2021, 11, 1972, (appeared also in CEPR's: Covid Economics: Vetted and Real Time Papers, 2020, 23))
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I12, I18, C23
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13292
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Lanlin
Ding
Andrew
M.
Jones
Peng
Nie
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Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health among the Elderly in China: A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers
We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60+ and decompose the contributions of different sets of circumstances. Data are ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (4), 922-950)
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D63, I12, I14
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13291
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Adam
Tyner
Seth
Gershenson
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Conceptualizing Grade Inflation
Evidence of grade inflation in U.S. high schools is often misinterpreted due to confusion about how grade inflation is, or should be, defined. This note clarifies the implications of recent research ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102037)
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I26, Q54
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