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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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13210
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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The Causal Effect of Education on Climate Literacy and Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global ...
(published as 'Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: a nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales' in: Ecological Economics, 2021, 181, 106931.)
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I26, Q54
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13207
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Martin
Abel
Willa
Brown
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Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models
In public good provision and other collective action problems, people are uncertain about how to balance self-interest and prosociality. Actions of others may inform this decision. We conduct an ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101942)
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H41, I21, K30, O15
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13206
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Perline
A.
Demange
Margherita
Malanchini
Travis
T.
Mallard
Pietro
Biroli
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Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction
Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we ...
(published in: Nature Genetics, 2021, 53, 35 - 44)
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J24, I24, E24, I14
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13205
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Ulugbek
Aminjonov
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Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socioeconomic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required for collective survival. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316)
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E71, H12, I12, I18, Z18
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13204
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Abel
Brodeur
Andrew
E.
Clark
Sarah
Flčche
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104346)
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I12, I31, J22
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13203
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Miguel
Urquiola
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Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
Around 1870 the U.S. had no research universities of note, while today it accounts for the largest number in the world. Many accounts attribute this transformation to events surrounding World War II. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 185 - 205)
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J24, J44
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13202
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Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
Chi
Trieu
Jana
Willrodt
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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies
Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (656), 3099 - 3135)
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C91, D02, D63
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13200
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
Xiao
Wang
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The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1393 - 1402)
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I13, I18, N32, N52
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13198
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Markus
Gehrsitz
Henry
Saffer
Michael
Grossman
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The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption
We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204,104520)
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I12, H21, D12, D62
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13196
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Fernando
Rios-Avila
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Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings
Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109253)
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C81, C83, D31
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13194
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Plamen
Nikolov
Nusrat
Abedin
Jimi
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The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Numerous studies have considered the important role of cognition in estimating the returns to schooling. How cognitive abilities affect schooling may have important policy implications, especially in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101849. )
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I21, F63, F66, N37
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13193
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Francesco
Cinnirella
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Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86 (3), 259-290.)
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J13, J15, I21, N33, Z12
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13191
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Felipe
Carozzi
Sefi
Roth
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Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities
In this paper we study the effect of urban density on the exposure of city dwellers to air pollution using data from the United States urban system. Exploiting geological features to instrument for ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102767.)
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Q53, R11, I10
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13190
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Dhaval
M.
Dave
Andrew
I.
Friedson
Kyutaro
Matsuzawa
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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When Do Shelter-In-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity across States and Adoption Time
Shelter in place orders (SIPOs) require residents to remain home for all but essential activities such as purchasing food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 29 - 52)
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H75, I18
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13189
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Stefano
DellaVigna
Jörg
Heining
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
Simon
Trenkle
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Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then exhibits a spike at the benefit exhaustion point. A range of theoretical ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (2), 1181 - 1232)
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J64, J65, D91
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13188
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Asadul
Islam
Sungoh
Kwon
Eema
Masood
Nishith
Prakash
Shwetlena
Sabarwal
Deepak
Saraswat
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When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short
In this study, we use at scale randomized control trial among 18,000 secondary students in 181 schools in Tanzania (Zanzibar) to examine the effects of personal best goal-settings on students' ...
(published as 'All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test score' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102594)
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D9, I20, I25, O15, O55
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13187
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Milena
Nikolova
Boris
Nikolaev
Olga
Popova
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The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836)
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E24, I10, I31, J28, L26
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13184
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Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
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Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?
We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore allowing individuals to withdraw a proportion of their pension savings after their ...
(revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (4), 1783-1794)
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I10, H55, D15
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13183
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Abi
Adams-Prassl
Teodora
Boneva
Marta
Golin
Christopher
Rauh
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 189, 104245)
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J21, J22, J24, J33, J63
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13182
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Barbara
A.
Butrica
Nadia
S
Karamcheva
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Is Rising Household Debt Affecting Retirement Decisions?
Household debt among older Americans approaching retirement has increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. Older households have become increasingly more indebted and more leveraged. ...
(published in: Olivia Mitchell and Annamaria Lusardi (eds.), Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020)
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J21, J26
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13180
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Levent
Neyse
Magnus
Johannesson
Anna
Dreber Almenberg
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2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. ...
(revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43)
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J23, L26
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13179
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Robert
Duval Hernández
Gary
S.
Fields
George
H.
Jakubson
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Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities
The question of who benefits from economic growth is usually assessed by using cross section data to calculate changes in income inequality. An alternative is to assess patterns of panel income ...
(published as 'Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities' in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (1), 295-324.)
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J31, D63
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13178
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Tim
Kaiser
Annamaria
Lusardi
Lukas
Menkhoff
Carly
Urban
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Financial Education Affects Financial Knowledge and Downstream Behaviors
We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. The ...
(published in: Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 145 (2), 255-272)
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D14, G53, I21
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13176
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Sergio
Firpo
Antonio
F.
Galvao
Martyna
Kobus
Thomas
Parker
Pedro
Rosa-Dias
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Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions
In this paper we develop theoretical criteria and econometric methods to rank policy interventions in terms of welfare when individuals are loss-averse. The new criterion for "loss aversion-sensitive ...
(published online in: Journal of Econometrics, 21 December 2023, 104543)
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C12, C14, I30
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13175
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John
H.
Pencavel
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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (1), 139 - 167.)
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J31, J51, N32
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13174
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Ina
Ganguli
Ricardo
Hausmann
Martina
Viarengo
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Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law ...
(published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (349), 104 - 128)
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I26, J16, J62, M51, Z1
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13173
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Jeffrey
Traczynski
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Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, 2020, 5 (2), 337 - 359)
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K35, K36, L26, M13
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13172
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Josh
Kinsler
Tyler
Ransom
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 144, 104079)
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I23, I24, J15
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13168
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Shuaizhang
Feng
Jiandong
Sun
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Misclassification-Errors-Adjusted Sahm Rule for Early Identification of Economic Recession
Accurate identification of economic recessions in a timely fashion is a major macroeconomic challenge. The most successful early detector of recessions, the Sahm rule, relies on changes in ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, 75, 101319)
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J64, E32
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13167
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Emma
Gorman
Ian
Walker
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Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England
Schools vary in quality, and high-performing schools tend to be oversubscribed: there are more applicants than places available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102082)
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I21, I24, J24, H44, D47
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13166
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Alberto
Prati
Claudia
Senik
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Feeling Good or Feeling Better?
Can people remember correctly their past well-being? We study three national surveys of the British, German and French population, where more than 50,000 European citizens were asked questions about ...
(published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (11), 1828–1841)
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I31, D91
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13165
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Yun
Qiu
Xi
Chen
Wei
Shi
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Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China
This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and February 29 in 2020. We examine the role of various socioeconomic mediating factors, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 1127 - 1172)
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I18, I12, C23
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13164
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Stijn
Baert
Louis
Lippens
Eline
Moens
Philippe
Sterkens
Johannes
Weytjens
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How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?
This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant ...
(revised version published as 'How do employees think the COVID-19 crisis will affect their careers?' in: Plos One, 2021, 16( 5), e0246899)
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J63, J62, J30, J41, J15, J16
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13163
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Thomas
Breda
Julien
Grenet
Marion
Monnet
Clémentine
Van Effenterre
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Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools
This paper, based on a large-scale field experiment, tests whether a one-hour exposure to external female role models with a background in science affects students' perceptions and choice of field of ...
(published as 'How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools'in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (653), 1773-1809 )
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C93, I24, J16
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13162
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Simon
Chang
Kamhon
Kan
Xiaobo
Zhang
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Too Many Men, Too Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality
Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 604-626)
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I1, J1
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13159
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Louis-Philippe
Béland
Abel
Brodeur
Taylor
Wright
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The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response
In this ongoing project, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document
the impact of ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0270341)
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I15, I18, J21
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13158
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Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
Radost
Holler
Lena
Janys
Bettina
M.
Siflinger
Christian
Zimpelmann
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Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations
Using a survey module administered in late March 2020, we analyze how working
hours change under the social distancing regulations enacted to fight the CoViD-19
pandemic. We study the Netherlands, ...
(revised version (IZA DP 14382) published as 'Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 73, 102055)
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J22, J65, J40
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13157
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Elena
Bastianelli
Zsuzsa
Blaskó
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Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Policies supporting international student mobility prepare young people for the challenges
of global and multicultural environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower
participation rates ...
(revised version published online as 'What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK' in: European Education Research Journal, 2024, 23 (4), 479 - 502)
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I23, I24, D63, D02
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13155
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Kyoji
Fukao
Cristiano
Perugini
Fabrizio
Pompei
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Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing
In this paper we analyse how labour market institutions and technology affect wage
determination through rent sharing. To this aim we first extend the theoretical framework
of Estevao and Tevlin ...
(published as 'Labour market regimes, technology and rent-sharing in Japan' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 112, 105856)
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J30, J41, C23
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13154
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Pierre
Cahuc
Jeremy
Hervelin
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Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment
In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employment
rate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students.
Despite this ...
(published as 'The effect of workplace vs school-based vocational education on youth unemployment: Evidence from France' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 162, 104637)
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J24, M53, M51
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13153
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Peter
Eibich
Angelo
Lorenti
Irene
Mosca
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Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.
Voluntary work is an important contribution for many non-profit organizations, such as charities, political and religious organizations. Older individuals make up a sizable share of the volunteer ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 76, 102185)
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J22, J26
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13152
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Jean-Victor
Alipour
Oliver
Falck
Simone
Schüller
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Germany's Capacities to Work from Home
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151,104354 )
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D24, J22, J24, O33, R12
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13151
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Jean
Roch
Donsimoni
René
Glawion
Bodo
Plachter
Constantin
Weiser
Klaus
Wälde
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Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects
Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (2), 115–133)
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I18, E17, C63
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13149
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Francesco
Fasani
Tommaso
Frattini
Luigi
Minale
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Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes
This article investigates the medium to long-term effects on refugee labour market outcomes of the temporary employment bans being imposed in many countries on recently arrived asylum seekers. Using ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2803 - 2854)
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F22, J61, K37
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13145
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Semih
Tumen
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Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration
Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102603)
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F22, H76, Q53
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13144
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Anthony
Lepinteur
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A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France
Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility amongst the employed. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax, paid by large ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104, 386-398)
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I38, J13, J18
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13143
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Barbara
Petrongolo
Maddalena
Ronchi
|
Gender Gaps and the Structure of Local Labor Markets
In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101819)
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J16, J21, J31, J61
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13142
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Georg
Graetz
|
Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and the creation of new ones, as well as the reallocation of labor across ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2021, 2, 00007)
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J23, O33
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13140
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. ...
(published as 'Life satisfaction, loneliness and togetherness, with an application to Covid-19 lock-downs' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 983 - 1000)
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I12, J22, I31
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13137
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Leonardo
Baccini
Abel
Brodeur
|
Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of implementing stay-at-home orders, focusing on governors' characteristics. In our ...
(published in: American Politics Research, 2021, 49 (2), 215-220)
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H51, I15, P16
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