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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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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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13018
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Simone
Bertoli
Herbert
Brücker
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
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Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?
More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination-specific policy measures in shaping their location choices. We bring to the data a ...
(revised version published as 'Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 93, 103771)
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F22, K37
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13016
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Iván
Fernández-Val
Franco
Peracchi
Aico
van Vuuren
Francis
Vella
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Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016
We examine the impact of annual hours worked on annual earnings by decomposing changes in the real annual earnings distribution into composition, structural and hours effects. We do so via a ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 39 (4), 659 - 678)
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C14, I24, J00
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13015
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Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation
We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2021, 49, 41-65 )
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J28, J51, J81, L23, O31
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13012
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Sher
Afghan
Asad
Ritwik
Banerjee
Joydeep
Bhattacharya
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Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy
We study possible worker-to-employer discrimination manifested via social preferences in an online labor market. Specifically, we ask, do workers exhibit positive social preferences for an out-race ...
(published as 'Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? Evidence from an online platform economy' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 216, 221 - 242)
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J71, D91, C93
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13011
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Ralitza
Dimova
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Household Behavioral Preferences and the Child Labor-Education Trade-off: Framed Field Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child ...
(published as 'Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia ' in: Journal of African Economis, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45)
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C93, J43, O55
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13010
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Sally
Evans
Peter
Siminski
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The Effect of Outside Temperature on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions
Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the ...
(published in: SURE Journal, 2021, 21 (1))
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K14, K41, Q54
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13009
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Eleanor
J.
Choi
Jaewoo
Choi
Hyelim
Son
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The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis in ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101926)
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E32, J10, E21, J20, J31
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13008
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Andrea
Albanese
Giovanni
Gallo
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Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality
We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2020, 64, 101814)
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J31, J41, C31, J21
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13004
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Céline
Piton
François
Rycx
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The Heterogeneous Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Belgium
This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly ...
(published as 'A Broken Social Elevator? Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-generation Immigrants in Belgium' in: De Economist, 2021, 169 (3), 319-365)
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J15, J16, J21, J24, J61
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13003
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Mario
Bossler
Thorsten
Schank
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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased during the first years of this period, it recently returned to its initial ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (3), 813 - 857 )
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J31, J38
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13002
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Bart
Cockx
Koen
Declercq
Muriel
Dejemeppe
Leda
Inga
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101816 )
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J64, J65, J68
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13001
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Isha
Agarwal
Grace
Weishi
Gu
Eswar
Prasad
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The Determinants of China's International Portfolio Equity Allocations
We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows has shifted from accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by the central bank ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2020, 68, 643 - 692)
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F2, F3, F4
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12999
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Sander
Wagner
Diederik
Boertien
Mette
Gřrtz
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The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of ...
(published in: Demography, 2020, 57 (5), 1809 - 1831)
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D31, J12, J60
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12998
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Katharina
Lima de Miranda
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and ...
(published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867)
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I31, O11, D63, D91, A13, B55, F01, F60, H11
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12996
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Elif
Kara
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Class Size Effects in Higher Education: Differences across STEM and Non-STEM Fields
In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102104)
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I21, I23, I28
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12995
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Cristina
Bellés Obrero
Emma
Duchini
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Who Benefits from General Knowledge?
While vocational education is meant to provide occupational-specific skills that are directly employable, their returns may be limited in fast-changing economies. Conversely, general education should ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 85, 102122)
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I26, I28, J24
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12994
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Dany
Bahar
Prithwiraj
Choudhury
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947)
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O31, O33, F22
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12993
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Peter
Eibich
Thomas
Siedler
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Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 124, 1-41)
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J13, J14, J22, J26
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12992
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Brice
Corgnet
Simon
Gächter
Roberto
Hernán
González
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Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction
People are generally assumed to shy away from activities generating stochastic rewards, thus requiring extra compensation for handling any additional risk. In contrast with this view, neuroscience ...
(revised version published online as 'No rest for the weary: Pay uncertainty reduces engagement in recovery' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2025 )
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C92, D87, D91, M54
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12991
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Maria
De Paola
Roberto
Nistico
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Fertility Decisions and Employment Protection: The Unintended Consequences of the Italian Jobs Act
We study the effect of a reduction in employment protection on fertility decisions. Using data from the Italian Labor Force Survey for the years 2013-2018, we analyze how the propensity to have a ...
(published as 'Employment protection and fertility decisions: the unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (108), 735 - 773)
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J13, J65, J41, M51, C31
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12986Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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