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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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16957
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Li
Dai
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Does Vocational Education Pay off in China? Evidence from City-Level Education Supply Shocks
China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2024, 140, 106863)
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I26, I25, J24, J31, C36
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16955
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Stefan
C.
Wolter
Thea
Zöllner
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Are Parents an Obstacle to Gender-Atypical Occupational Choices?
Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a persistent concern for policymakers and academics globally. We contribute to the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025)
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J24, J16
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16947
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Michael
Jetter
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On the Post-Enlightenment Evolution of Moral Universalism
Is humanity's circle of moral concern expanding, as often claimed? I explore frequencies of morally universal language in 15m book publications in American English, British English, French, Spanish, ...
(advanced version published online in: Economic Journal, 18 June 2025 )
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N30, Z12, Z13
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16946
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Hideo
Akabayashi
Ryuichi
Tanaka
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The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Estimates from the Nationwide Expansion
We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (5), 581-598)
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I22, I28, H75
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16945
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Janine
Albiez
Maurizio
Strazzeri
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
We examine the association between the personality trait grit and post-compulsory educational choices and trajectories using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting ...
(published online in: , 16 September 2025)
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D01, I20
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16944
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Maximilian
Kasy
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Algorithmic Bias and Racial Inequality: A Critical Review
Most definitions of algorithmic bias and fairness encode decisionmaker interests, such as profits, rather than the interests of disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial minorities): Bias is defined as a ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40 (3), 530–546)
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J7, O3
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16939
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Alena
Bičáková
Štepán
Jurajda
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COVID-19 and Political Preferences through Stages of the Pandemic: The Case of the Czech Republic
We track the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on political preferences through 'high' and 'low' phases of the pandemic. We ask about the effects of the health and the economic costs of the pandemic ...
(published online as 'Political Preferences Through Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Political Research Quarterly, 12 March 2025)
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D72
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16935
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Lucas
Guichard
Joël
Machado
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The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy
We analyze the externalities arising from a bilateral asylum policy - the list of safe origin countries - relying on a tractable model. Using self-collected monthly data, we estimate that including ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 59–74)
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F22, K37, J61
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16929
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Adam
Levai
Riccardo
Turati
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International Immigration and Labor Regulation
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (4), 809-851)
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J61, K31, F22
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16928
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David
Blazar
Max
Anthenelli
Wenjing
Gao
Ramon
Goings
Seth
Gershenson
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Disparate Pathways: Understanding Racial Disparities in Teaching
Mounting evidence supporting the advantages of a diverse teacher workforce prompts policymakers to scrutinize existing recruitment pathways. Following four cohorts of Maryland public high-school ...
(forthcoming in: Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 2025)
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I2, J2, J4
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16926
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Tim
Kaiser
Annamaria
Lusardi
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education: An Overview
This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic ...
(forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook of Banking (eds. Berger et al.))
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G53, D14
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16922
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Ivan
Petkov
Francesc
Ortega
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Flood Risk and Insurance Take-up in the Flood Zone and Its Periphery
Many studies have investigated flood risk and insurance coverage in the 100-year flood zone, but much less is known about the periphery of the flood zone. We present a new approach to estimate flood ...
(published as 'Learning from experience: Flooding and insurance take-up in the flood zone and its periphery' in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2025, 92 (2), 312-356)
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Q54, G22
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16921
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Thomas
Siedler
Silke
Anger
Bernhard
Christoph
Agata
Galkiewicz
Shushanik
Margaryan
Frauke
Peter
Malte
Sandner
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War, International Spillovers, and Adolescents: Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Using novel longitudinal data, this paper studies the short- and medium-term effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 on social trust of adolescents in Germany. Comparing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 181-193)
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C23, H75, I14, N44
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16918
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Gender Differences in Graduate Degree Choices
While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 230, 106882)
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J16, J24, I21, I23, I24, I26
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16916
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Wim
Naudé
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Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?
This paper presents tentative evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of ...
(published as 'Business and entrepreneurship is declining as scholarly field: Empirical evidence' in: PLOS ONE, 2025, 20 (5), e0323297)
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L26, O30, B40, J24
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16915
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Henning
Hermes
Philipp
Lergetporer
Frauke
Peter
Simon
Wiederhold
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Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
Why are children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) substantially less likely to be enrolled in child care? We study whether barriers in the application process work against lower-SES children — ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (3), 1133 -1172)
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I21, J13, J18, J24, C93
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16914
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Moustafa
Feriga
Nancy
Lozano Gracia
Pieter
Serneels
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The Impact of Climate Change on Work Lessons for Developing Countries
This paper identifies five areas where climate change may impact work and draws lessons for developing countries by reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2025, 40 (1), 104–146)
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Q54, J01, O1
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16907
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Mathias
Huebener
Sevrin
Waights
C.
Katharina
Spieß
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Well-Being throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Gendered Effects of Daycare and School Closures
In this chapter, we aim to improve the understanding of the well-being impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide an overview of the existing literature and carry out empirical analysis aimed at ...
(published in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 183 - 197)
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I31, I24, J1, I20
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16902
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Thomas
Goldring
David
C.
Ribar
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Equitable Use of Subsidized Child Care in Georgia
High-quality childcare services are vital to children's development and family wellbeing but are not equitably accessed by all children. Programs supported by the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2025, 70 , 65-78)
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J13, I38
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16897
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Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
Wonjun
Lyou
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The Effects of Patient Cost-Sharing on Adolescents' Healthcare Utilization and Financial Risk Protection: Evidence from South Korea
We examine the effects of patient cost-sharing on adolescents' healthcare utilization and out-of-pocket medical expenditures by exploiting the healthcare reform in South Korea that lowered the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (3), 1009-1023.)
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I12, I13, I18
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16892
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Dean
Jolliffe
Umar
Serajuddin
Brian
Stacy
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Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward
A country's statistical capacity takes an indispensable part in its development. We offer a comprehensive comparison between the World Bank's Statistical Performance Indicators and Index (SPI) and ...
(published in: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 2024, 40 (2), 211–225)
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C8, H00, I00, O1
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16888
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Marianna
Kudlyak
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How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?
In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 28 (2), 159–180)
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E24, E32, J30, J41, J63, J64
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16884
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Francesco
Fasani
Jacopo
Mazza
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Immigrant Key Workers: Their Contribution to Europe's COVID-19 Response
This paper contributes to the literature on the Covid-19 effects on workers and labor markets by focusing on the experience of migrant key workers in EU countries. Our analysis, based on survey data ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality)
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F22, J61, K37
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16883
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Christian
Grund
Anna
Nießen
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The Use of Performance Appraisals and Employees' Presenteeism Behavior
Presenteeism behavior, i.e. working despite illness, is a common phenomenon wordwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between ...
(forthcoming: British Journal of Industrial Relations)
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M5, I12, J22, J53
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16882
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Anna
Stansbury
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Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the US and UK
There is substantial evidence of minimum wage noncompliance in the US and the UK. In this paper, I compile new, comprehensive data on the costs minimum wage violators incur when detected. In both ...
(published as 'Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the United States and the United Kingdom' in: ILR Review, 2024, 78 (1), 190-216)
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J38, J58, K31
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16879
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Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
Kees
Van Gool
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Impact of Time of Diagnosis on Out-of-Pocket Costs of Cancer Treatment, a Side Effect of Health Insurance Design in Australia
The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical treatment. The EMSN works on a calendar ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2024, 145, 105055)
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I13, I14, I11
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16875
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Julija
Simpson
John
Wildman
Clare
Bambra
Heather
Brown
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Longer Working Hours and Maternal Mental Health: A Comparison of Single vs. Partnered Mothers
Single mothers have experienced increasing work requirements both in the UK and in other developed countries. Little is known how increasing working hours may have affected their mental health. We ...
(published as 'Do longer job hours matter for maternal mental health? A longitudinal analysis of single versus partnered mothers' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (12), 2742-2756 )
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J13, J16, J22
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16873
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Oded
Stark
Grzegorz
Kosiorowski
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An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220, 1 - 11)
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C54, D62, D78, E61, E65, F22, F62, F68, I31, I38, J15, J48, J68, O15
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16872
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Simon
Gächter
Esther
Kaiser
Manfred
Königstein
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Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation: Evidence from Gift-Exchange Experiments
Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2025, 28 (1), 75-106 )
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C70, C90
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16871
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Pim
Koopmans
Max
van Lent
Jim
Been
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Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market
The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and has been documented for many countries. Little is still known about the impact of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1359–1409)
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C33, D12, D13, J16, J22
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16870
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Gabriele
Cardullo
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Slouching Towards Decentralization. An Equilibrium Approach for Collective Bargaining.
Although European institutions and national governments have long pushed for a more decentralized wage bargaining structure, in some countries company or establishment-level negotiations struggle to ...
(published online in: Italian Economic Journal, 28 February 2025)
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J50, J52, J31, J64
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16867
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
W.
Kip
Viscusi
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A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution
The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for the working population. Regulatory analyses often must monetize risks to ...
(published in Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024, 15 (1), 204–222)
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J17, J28, I18, H40, K32
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16866
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Nick
Drydakis
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Artificial Intelligence Capital and Employment Prospects
There is limited research assessing how AI knowledge affects employment prospects. The present study defines the term 'AI capital' as a vector of knowledge, skills and capabilities related to AI ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (4), 901–919, )
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E24, I26, O14
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16863
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Khushboo
Aggarwal
Rashmi
Barua
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India
We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations in the geographical coverage and timing of construction of safe government ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 100, 102525)
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I15, I25, F63
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16856
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Oded
Stark
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A Note on Sen's Representation of the Gini Coefficient: Revision and Repercussions
Sen (1973 and 1997) presents the Gini coefficient of income inequality in a population as follows. "In any pair-wise comparison the man with the lower income can be thought to be suffering from some ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1061–1067)
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D31, D63, I31
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16854
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Grakolet
Gourene
Samia
Mansour
Hamouda
Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
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Trend in Energy Intensity and Carbon Performance in North Africa
Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and promoting both sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles is a challenge in ...
(published in: M. Arouri and M. Gomes (eds.), Handbook on Energy and Economic Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024)
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D22, G21, G32
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16852
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Cathal
O'Donoghue
Karina
Doorley
Denisa
M.
Sologon
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Gender Difference in Household Consumption: Some Convergence over Three Decades
The cost-of-living crisis has increased attention on consumption and how it differs for particular societal groups. There is much theoretical evidence that consumption patterns of men and women ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2024, 55(3), 357-386)
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E21, J16
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16851
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Yuejun
Zhao
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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School Starting Age and the Social Gradient in Educational Outcomes
Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school ...
(published online in: Education Economics, 09 April 2025)
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I24, I28
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16849
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Louise
Devos
Louis
Lippens
Dries
Lens
François
Rycx
Mélanie
Volral
Stijn
Baert
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Labour Market Disadvantages of Citizens with a Migration Background in Belgium: A Systematic Review
Labour markets struggle to be inclusive, while diversity is increasing. This literature review examines labour market challenges faced by first- and second-generation migrants in Belgium. We ...
(published in: De Economist, 2025, 173 (1), 121–175)
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J15, J18
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16848
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Dominique
Goux
Eric
Maurin
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Sick of Working from Home?
Driven by new information technologies, working from home has experienced unprecedented growth since the COVID pandemic. We contribute to the debate on the consequences of this development by drawing ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Journal, 2025)
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J81, J53, I19
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16844
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Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
Kees
Van Gool
Philip
Haywood
Jane
Hall
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Medicare Austerity Reforms and Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs: The Experience from Australian Cancer Patients
In this paper, we examine trends in provider fees charged, government expenditure on private out-of-hospital medical services, and out of pocket costs following policy changes intended to reduce ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2025, 155, 105296)
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I13, I14, I11
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16843
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Mathias
Huebener
Jonas
Jessen
Daniel
Kühnle
Michael
Oberfichtner
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Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms' Employment
Motherhood and parental leave are frequent causes of worker absences and employment interruptions, yet we know little about their effects on firms. Based on linked employer-employee data from ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (669), 1467–1495)
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J16, J18, J24
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16838
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José
M.
Aravena
Xi
Chen
Becca
R.
Levy
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Healthcare Quality and Dementia Risk
Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent ...
(published as 'Association between experiencing low healthcare quality and developing dementia' in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2024, 72 (7), 2126-2132)
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I11, I18, J14, J15, J18
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16837
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Mario
Bossler
Martin
Popp
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Labor Demand on a Tight Leash
We develop a labor demand model that encompasses pre-match hiring cost arising from tight labor markets. Through the lens of the model, we study the effect of labor market tightness on firms' labor ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review)
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J23, J60, J31, D23
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16836
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Luca
Fumarco
Neil
Longley
Alberto
Palermo
Giambattista
Rossi
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Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League
We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (4), 1189–1203)
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D82, J24, J33, M52, Z22
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16832
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Leila
Ben
Salem
Montassar
Zayati
Ridha
Nouira
Christophe
Rault
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Volatility Spillover between Oil Prices and Main Exchange Rates: Evidence from a DCC-GARCH-Connectedness Approach
This paper investigates the co-movements of oil prices and the exchange rates of 10 top oil-importing and oil-exporting countries. Firstly, we estimated the total static spillover index based on ...
(revised version published inn: Resources Policy, 2024, 91, 104880)
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C5, Q4, Q43
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16827
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Petri
Böckerman
Alex
Bryson
Ilari
Ilmakunnas
Pekka
Ilmakunnas
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Does High Involvement Management Make You Work Longer? Insights from Linked Survey and Register Data
The management practices employers deploy may affect the utility workers derive from their jobs, potentially affecting the types of jobs they enter and also their propensity to exit the workforce. ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2025, 30, 100549)
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J26, J32
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16824
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Xiaoming
Cai
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Spatial Search
This paper considers a random search model where some locations provide sellers with better chances of meeting many buyers than other locations (for example popular shopping streets or the first page ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, 224, 105976)
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C78, D44, D83
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16822
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Sarah
Auster
Piero
Gottardi
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection
We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which agents with private information can simultaneously contact multiple trading ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 27 February 2025)
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D82, D83, J64
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16814
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Simon
Gächter
Kyeongtae
Lee
Martin
Sefton
Till
O.
Weber
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The Role of Payoff Parameters for Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how a PD's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 166, 104753,)
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A13, C91
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