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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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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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13063
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Fabrice
Etilé
Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
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Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we ...
(published as 'Measuring resilience to major life events' in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 598-619)
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I10, C2, C5
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13062
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David
Neumark
Maysen
Yen
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Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying out analyses of the impacts of these city minimum wages, as specified in a ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61 (2), 228-255 )
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J23, J38
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13061
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Scott
M.
Delhommer
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Same-sex couples' marital surplus, their excess total income over that predicted by their work times and predicted wages, increases little as the duration of their relationship lengthens. When/where ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40, 1120-1139.)
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J12, J16, K30
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13059
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Andrew C.
Johnston
Carla
Johnston
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Is Compassion a Good Career Move?: Nonprofit Earnings Differentials from Job Changes
We explore the nonprofit earnings penalty. To separate the influence of demand and supply, we leverage workers who change employers in administrative tax data. The average nonprofit worker earns 5.5 ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56, 1225 - 1253)
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J4, J31, L3
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13058
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Kseniya
Abanokova
Michael
Lokshin
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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Espańola / Review of Public Economics, 2023, 247 (4), 125-153.)
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D6, I3, O1
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13057
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for ...
(published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531)
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D31, D63, I31
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13056
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Adeline
Delavande
Paulino
Font
Gilabert
Joanna
Maselko
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Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 712–747 )
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I12, I15, J24
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13055
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Vikesh
Amin
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
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The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers
We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100895)
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I10, I12
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13054
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Michael
Jetter
Leandro
Magnusson
Sebastian
Roth
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Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis
This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the 2008 financial crisis. Studying ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 128, 103512)
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D81, G11, G14, G41, J16
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13053
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Vanessa
Burbano
Nicolas
Padilla
Stephan
Meier
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Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 61–94)
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D91, J16
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13052
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Anke
Becker
Benjamin
Enke
Armin
Falk
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Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
Variation in economic preferences is systematically related to both individual and aggregate economic outcomes, yet little is known about the origins of the worldwide preference variation. This paper ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 319–323)
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D01, D03
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13051
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Michael
C.
Knaus
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Double Machine Learning Based Program Evaluation under Unconfoundedness
This paper consolidates recent methodological developments based on Double Machine Learning (DML) with a focus on program evaluation under unconfoundedness. DML based methods leverage flexible ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2022, 25 (3), 602-627)
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C21
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13050
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Ömer
Tuğsal
Doruk
Francesco
Pastore
Hasan
Bilgehan
Yavuz
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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies: An Empirical Approach
Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2024, 48 (1), 101154)
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D60, I30, J24, J6, J62
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13049
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Giovanni
Peri
Derek
Rury
Justin
C.
Wiltshire
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The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria
Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1795-1829)
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F22, J15, J21, J61
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13048
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Lennard
Zyska
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Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence
This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil's expansion of the pension system to rural workers, whose pension wealth ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 126-165)
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J13, I38, H55, D15
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13046
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Marc
Beltempo
Georges
Bresson
Jean-Michel
Etienne
Guy
Lacroix
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Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model
The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and ...
(published as 'Infections, accidents and nursing overtime in a neonatal intensive care unit' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 627 - 643)
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I1, J2, C11, C14, C23
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13044
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Maurizio
Bussolo
Daniele
Checchi
Vito
Peragine
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Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in the four largest European economies (France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy). ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 277 - 323)
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D31, D63, E24, I24, J62
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13043
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Kseniya
Abanokova
Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Michael
Lokshin
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The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia
Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on ...
(published as 'Do Adjustments for Equivalence Scales Affect Poverty Dynamics? Evidence from the Russian Federation during 1994-2017' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (S1), S167 - S192)
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I30, J10, O15
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13040
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János
Köllő
István
Boza
László
Balázsi
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Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE ...
(published in: Journal for Labor Market Research, 2021, 55, 3 (2021))
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F23, J31, J62
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13039
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Aleksey
Oshchepkov
Maria Giulia
Silvagni
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Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly ...
(revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128)
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O47, R11, P2
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13038
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Vincenzo
Carrieri
Leonardo
Madio
Francesco
Principe
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Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, 102371)
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H51, H75, I18, K32, K42
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13037
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None
None
Kamila
Cygan-Rehm
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (3), 1201-1219)
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J21, J23, J38, C26
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13036
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Pierre
Mouganie
Ruba
Ajeeb
Mark
Hoekstra
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The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon
An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 March 2023)
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I18, H41
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13034
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Mariacristina
Piva
Massimiliano
Tani
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Productivity Impact of Business Visits across Industries
This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is ...
(published as 'The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility' in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 691 - 705)
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J61 , O33
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13033
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Daniel
Fackler
Lisa
Hölscher
Claus
Schnabel
Antje
Weyh
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Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?
Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (4), 2211-2233)
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J31, J63, L26, M51
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13032
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Lukas
Mergele
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171)
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D72, H11, P26, P36, N44
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13031
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Hannah
Van Borm
Marlot
Dhoop
Allien
Van Acker
Stijn
Baert
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What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men.
Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 753 - 777)
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J15, J71, J16, J24, J23
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13030
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Santiago
Budría
Carlos
Martínez de Ibarreta
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Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants: The Impact of Host Language Proficiency
This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in mismatched jobs. Using the 2003-2016 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...
(published as 'Education and skill mismatches among immigrants: The impact of host language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review 2021, 84, 102145.)
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F22, J24, J61
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13029
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Johan Moritz
Kuhn
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Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textuThe al Information for Startup Performance Prediction
Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2020, 14, e00179)
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L26, C53
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13028
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Francesca
Calamunci
Francesco
Drago
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The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy: Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms
We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2020, 6, 275 - 297)
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H00, H32, J00, K14
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13027
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Michael
Jetter
Teresa
Molina
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Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Can democratically elected politicians persuade their constituents to alter policy priorities? With little empirical support for this hypothesis to date, we propose that Rodrigo Duterte's ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156 ,102843)
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D72, H11, H75, I12, K42, N45
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13026
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Sergei
Guriev
Daniel
Treisman
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Politics, 2024, 86 (4), 1177 - 1191)
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D72, F14, G02, P16
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13025
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Andrew
Leigh
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The Second Convict Age: Explaining the Return of Mass Imprisonment in Australia
Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater share of the adult population than at any point since the late nineteenth century. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (313), 187-208 )
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I30, K14, N30
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13024
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Andrew
Leigh
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Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, ...
(published as 'Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, and the United States' in: Australian Economic History Review, 2020, 60 (2), 148-185 )
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I30, K14, N30
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13023
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Sarah
Brown
Mark
N.
Harris
Christopher
Spencer
Karl
Taylor
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Financial Expectations and Household Consumption: Does Middle Inflation Matter?
Using British panel data, we explore the finding that households often expect theirÂ…financial position to remain unchanged compared to other alternatives, using a generalised middle inflated ordered ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2024, 56 (4), 741-768.)
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C12, C35
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13021
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Paul
Frijters
Christian
Krekel
Aydogan
Ulker
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Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly ...
(published as 'Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 1 - 27)
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D1, I31, K0
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13020
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Ding
Liu
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data
Understanding the relationship between disability and employment is critical and has long been the subject of study. However, estimating this relationship is difficult, particularly with survey data, ...
(published as 'Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Misclassification' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30, 1628-1647)
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C14, C18, J14, J64
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