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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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13135
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Wendelin
Schnedler
Nina
Lucia
Stephan
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Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness
Previous experiments observe a chain of unkindness: unkindly treated people treat an innocent third party unkindly. As a remedy, it has been proposed that the unkindly treated person engages in ...
(published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2020, 72, 347–364 )
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D91, C91, D03
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13134
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Damian
Clarke
Viviana
Salinas
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Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile
We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of ...
(published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (6), 2291 - 2314. )
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I18, J13, K38, H75
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13130
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Nicolas
Ajzenman
Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Sergei
Guriev
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Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship
Does exposure to mass migration affect economic behavior, attitudes and beliefs of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102899)
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F22, L26, D91, O15, O10
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13129
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Jaime
Arellano-Bover
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The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills
This paper studies the impact of labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition on workers' long-term skill development. Using representative survey data on measures of work-relevant ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5), 1028-1045)
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J24, J23, E24
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13128
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Alessandro
Cigno
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A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough
We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour originally justified on comparative- advantage ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1-13)
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C78, D02, J16, J61
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13127
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Cynthia
Bansak
Xuan
Jiang
Guanyi
Yang
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Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger ...
(published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873)
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E24, C68, J30
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13125
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Zohal
Hessami
Mariana
Lopes da Fonseca
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Female Political Representation and Substantive Effects on Policies: A Literature Review
The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is the first paper to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101896)
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D78, H00, J16, J18
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13124
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Orazio
Attanasio
Richard
Blundell
Gabriella
Conti
Giacomo
Mason
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Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104171)
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J13, J24, I14, I24, C38
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13123
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Maria
Cotofan
Lea
Cassar
Robert
Dur
Stephan
Meier
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Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
Preferences for monetary and non-monetary job attributes are important for understanding workers' motivation and the organization of work. Little is known, however, about how those job preferences ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 467–473)
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D9, E7, J2, M5
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13122
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Yun
Pei
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Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries
Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between ...
(published in: Asian Development Review, 2020, 37 (2), 225 - 263)
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F22, F43, J11, J24, O15
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13119
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Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Gilbert
Gonzales
Tara
McKay
Dario
Sansone
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
A large body of research documents that the 2010 dependent coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act was responsible for significantly increasing health insurance coverage among young adults. No ...
(published in: Demography , 2021, 58 (5), 1897-1929)
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H75, I13, I18, J10
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13118
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Kai
Hong
Peter
A.
Savelyev
Kegon
T.K.
Tan
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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect while controlling for latent skills and unobserved heterogeneity. We decompose ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 371 - 400)
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C41, I12, J24
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13117
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Andrew C.
Johnston
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Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are, therefore, highest for firms after downturns, potentially hampering labor-market ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (1), 266 - 293)
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D22, H22, H25, H71, J23, J32, J38, J65
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13116
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Egidio
Farina
Colin
P.
Green
Duncan
McVicar
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Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
The increasing numbers of workers in employment with little to no job security, so-called precarious employment, has led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect ...
(published as 'Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK' in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (1), 50-71)
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J21, J48, M55
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13112
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Milena
Nikolova
Femke
Cnossen
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What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847)
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J01, J30, J32, J81, I30, I31, M50
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13110
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Wim
Naudé
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Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides ...
(published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35 (3), 761-765)
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O32, O39, I19, O20
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13109
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Paul
Redmond
Seamus
McGuinness
Claire
Keane
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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents
This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (2), 346 - 370)
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H20, H31, J01, J68
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13108
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Tobias
J.
Klein
Martin
Salm
Suraj
Upadhyay
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The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible: Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design
We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 210, 104660)
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I13, H51
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13107
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Chung
Choe
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
Francesco
Renna
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Income Taxation and Dual Job Labour Supply
This paper examines the effects of increasing marginal tax rates on labour supply in a setting in which workers may hold two jobs and may be constrained in their weekly hours on their main jobs. A ...
(published online as 'Income taxation and dual job labour supply among male workers in the UK' in: Applied Economics, 11 November 2024 )
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J01, J22, H24
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13106
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Hamid
R.
Oskorouchi
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
David
E.
Bloom
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The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 88, 102293)
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I12, I18, I21
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13104
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Ali
Fakih
Paul
Makdissi
Walid
Marrouch
Rami
V.
Tabri
Myra
Yazbeck
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Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon
This paper uses the 2013 World Value Survey, as well as the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Arab Barometer, to analyze the dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 228 (1), 205-227)
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D72, O53, P16, P40
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13102
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Daniela
Del Boca
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
Giuseppe
Sorrenti
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children ...
(published as 'Conditional cash transfer programs and household labor supply' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103755)
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I10, I20, J24, I31
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13101
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Erich
Battistin
Carlos
Lamarche
Enrico
Rettore
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Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention
We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1045-1064)
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C13, C21, I14, J18
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13100
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Anna
Werbeck
Ansgar
Wübker
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 1325-1350)
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I14, I11, I18
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13099
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Marc
Beltempo
Georges
Bresson
Guy
Lacroix
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Using Machine Learning to Predict Nosocomial Infections and Medical Accidents in a NICU
Background: Adult studies have shown that nursing overtime and unit overcrowding is associated with increased adverse patient events but there exists little evidence for the Neonatal Intensive Care ...
(published in: Health & Technology, 2023, 13, 75–87)
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I1, J2, C11, C14, C23
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13097
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Marislei
Nishijima
Sarmistha
Pal
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Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities
We examine if compulsory schooling laws (CSL) necessarily lower crimes. We focus on violent youth crime (homicides by assault and guns) among 15-19 years age group in all Brazilian municipalities ...
(published as 'Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (10), 1589–1607)
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H41, I21, K30, O15
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13096
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Christian
Belzil
Arnaud
Maurel
Modibo
Sidibé
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Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021,39 (2), 361-395.)
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I22, I23, J24
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13095
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Raymond
Robertson
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Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia
The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created ...
(published in: Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022)
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F16, F66, F23, J8
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13094
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Jean
Roch
Donsimoni
René
Glawion
Bodo
Plachter
Klaus
Wälde
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Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany
We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states: healthy ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2020, 21 (2), 181-216.)
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I18, E17, C63
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13093
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Matthew
Comey
Amanda
Eng
Pamela
Meyerhofer
Alexander
Willén
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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (4), 907-958)
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J13, J15, J16, J22
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13092
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Guglielmo
Briscese
Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Mirco
Tonin
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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration
We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions enacted in Italy in response to the COVID-19 crisis respond to the length of their possible extension. Based on a survey of a ...
(published as ' Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 103, 101983)
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H12, I12, I18, D84, D91
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13089
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Laura
Ansala
Olof
Aslund
Matti
Sarvimäki
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Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
This paper studies the relationship between past immigration experiences of the host country and the way new immigrants enter the labor market. We focus on two countries—Finland and Sweden—that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (3), 581-604 )
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J61, J62
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13087
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Giuseppe
Sorrenti
Ulf
Zölitz
Denis
Ribeaud
Manuel
Eisner
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The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae018, 22 February 2024 )
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C93, I21, I24, I26, J24
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13086
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Andri
Chassamboulli
Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay
We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 142, 331-347)
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E24, J31, J45, J64
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13085
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Subha
Mani
Joseph
Vecci
Tomáš
Želinský
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Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
In an unique lab-in-the-field experiment we design a novel labor market environment, the Game of Prejudice, to elicit preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
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C9, D3, I1, O1
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13083
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Lucas
Guichard
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Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 126, 103364)
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F22, D81, D83
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13081
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Plamen
Nikolov
Matthew
Bonci
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Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967)
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D64, H31, H55, J14, J22, J26, O15, O16, R2
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13080
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Prashant
Loyalka
Scott
Rozelle
Yue
Ma
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Isolating the 'Tech' from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (4), 1923–1962)
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I21, O15
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13079
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Cheti
Nicoletti
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?
Increasing mothers' labour supply in a child's preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that lead to a negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (2), 389–429)
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I22, I24
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13078
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Dany
Bahar
Hillel
Rapoport
Riccardo
Turati
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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with ...
(published as 'Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence' in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (8), 103991)
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F22, O31, O33
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13076
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Andres
Drenik
Simon
Jäger
Pascuel
Plotkin
Benjamin
Schoefer
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Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
We estimate how much firms differentiate pay premia between regular and outsourced workers. We study temp agency work arrangements where pay setting has previously escaped measurement because ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 206–216.)
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J31, J53, L24
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13075
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Teevrat
Garg
Ajay
Shenoy
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The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies
Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103 (4), 1239-1250)
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Q53, O40, Q56, H54
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13073
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Ning
Jia
Belton
M.
Fleisher
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Economic Incentives and the Quality of Return Migrant Scholars: The Impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program
We study the effect of the Thousand Young Talents Program (TYTP) on the academic quality of return migrant scientists to China. Using a unique dataset of the top Chinese mathematics departments' new ...
(latest version available here)
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J61, O31, O38
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13071
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Ashani
Amarasinghe
Roland
Hodler
Paul
A.
Raschky
Yves
Zenou
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Key Players in Economic Development
This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 223, 40-56)
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O13, O55, R12
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13070
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Gabriel
Burdin
Mauricio
De Rosa
Andrea
Vigorito
Joan
Vilá
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Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016
To contribute to the debate on the recent inequality fall in Latin America, we provide evidence on the primary income distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing ...
(revised version published as 'Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data' in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105783)
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D31, H24, O54
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13069
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Kerstin
Unfried
Krisztina
Kis-Katos
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this paper, we identify under which conditions and to what extent armed conflicts harm the long-run educational attainment of children in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining 66 rounds of DHS ...
(published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2023, 60 (6), 968-984.)
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I25, D74, O12
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13067
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Giorgio
Brunello
Áron
Gereben
Christoph T.
Weiss
Patricia
Wruuck
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Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on ...
(published as 'Do investments in human and physical capital respond differently to financing constraints?' in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 158, 10(2022))
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J24
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13066
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Niaz
Asadullah
Liyanage
Devangi
Perera
Saizi
Xiao
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Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment: A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox
This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – consistently high student achievement despite being the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2020, 42 (5), 913-932.)
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A20, I21, I28
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13065
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Simon
Chang
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nicolás
Salamanca
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Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications
We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to ...
(publisehd in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 419 - 446)
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D10, I21, I24
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13064
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
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Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 119-141)
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I10, J13, I28, C93
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