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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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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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13290
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Antonio
M.
Bento
Noah
Miller
Mehreen
Mookerjee
Edson
Severnini
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A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121, 102843)
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Q53, Q54, C51
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13289
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Alex
Bryson
Heather
Joshi
Bożena
Wielgoszewska
David
Wilkinson
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A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain
After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 836-854 )
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J16, J2, J3
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13288
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Nicolas
Herault
Guyonne
Kalb
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Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation
Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 341-363.)
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H31, J22, J31
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13283
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights
Applied work often studies the effect of a binary variable ("treatment") using linear models with additive effects. I study the interpretation of the OLS estimands in such models when treatment ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 501–509)
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C21, C31
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13282
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Louis-Philippe
Béland
Abel
Brodeur
Taylor
Wright
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COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we ...
(published as 'The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response' in: PLOS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0270341)
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I15, I18, J21
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13281
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Jiri
Branka
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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from ...
(also available as Cedefop working paper No. 6201, 2020)
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C21, J01, J24, J28
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13280
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Diogo
Britto
Paolo
Pinotti
Breno
Sampaio
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The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil
We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4), 1393-1423)
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K42, J63, J65
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13279
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity
We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 35 (7), 841-859)
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I2, J1, J3
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13277
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George
J.
Borjas
Hugh
Cassidy
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper ...
(published as 'The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Polachek, S.W. and Tatsiramos, K. (ed.) 50th Celebratory Volume (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 50), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 327-367)
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J21, J61
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13276
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Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work: Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey
We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2022, 16 (4), 526 - 555)
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H52, I21, J21, J22
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13275
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Gozde
Corekcioglu
Marco
Francesconi
Astrid
Kunze
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Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36(4), 882-902)
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J18, J21, J22, J24, M14
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13274
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Mehmet
Balcilar
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
Huseyin
Ozdemir
Mark
E.
Wohar
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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in ...
(published as 'Effectiveness of monetary policy under the high and low economic uncertainty states: evidence from the major Asian economies' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1741–1769)
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C32, E44, F42, G01
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13273
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Marco
Caliendo
Juliane
Hennecke
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Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2785 - 2815 )
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I12, D91
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13272
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Was the Mid-2000s Drop in the British Job Change Rate Genuine or a Survey Design Effect?
The year-on-year job change rate fell sharply, from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006, according to British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 194, 109383)
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J62, C25, C81
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13271
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Matthias
Collischon
Daniel
Kühnle
Michael
Oberfichtner
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Cash-For-Care, or Caring for Cash? The Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children's Development
How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy ...
(published as 'Who Benefits from Cash‐for‐Care? Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children’s Development' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1011-1051)
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J13, J18, J22
|
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13269
|
Abu
Siddique
Michael
Vlassopoulos
Yves
Zenou
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Market Competition and Discrimination
This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023)
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C93, J15, J43, J71, Q13, Z13
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13262
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Dhaval
M.
Dave
Andrew
I.
Friedson
Kyutaro
Matsuzawa
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Samuel
Safford
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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2022, 127, 103294)
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H75, I18
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