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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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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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12989
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Alexander
Paul
Dorthe
Bleses
Michael
Rosholm
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Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions
Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 September 2023)
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I18, I28, I38
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12988
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Catalina
Herrera-Almanza
David
E.
Sahn
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Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal
BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2020, 43 (45), 1335 - 1366)
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O15, R23, J13, N37
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12987
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Joan
Costa-Font
Paola
Giuliano
Berkay
Özcan
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The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior
Traditional economic interpretations have not been successful in explaining differences in saving rates across countries. One hypothesis is that savings respond to cultural specific social norms. A ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2019, 13 (9), e0202290)
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Z1, D0
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12986
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Ziting
Wu
Xi
Chen
Guoxing
Li
Lin
Tian
Zhan
Wang
Xiuqin
Xiong
Chuan
Yang
Zijun
Zhou
Xiaochuan
Pan
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The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders
This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders ...
(published as 'Attributable risk and economic cost of hospital admissions for mental disorders due to PM2.5 in Beijing' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 718, 137274)
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Q51, Q53, I24, I31, G11, G41, J24
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12985
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Lee
Crawfurd
Todd
Pugatch
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Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries
The types of workers recruited into teaching and their allocation across classrooms can greatly influence a country's stock of human capital. This paper considers how markets and non-market ...
(published in: Brian P. McCall (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022)
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J44, J45, J31, J21, J23, I28
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12984
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective
This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1): 48-76)
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F22, F24, F64, P28, R11, R23
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12983
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Cher
H
Li
Basit
Zafar
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Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College
Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes. These gender ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 359 - 394)
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C9, I2, J7
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12982
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Andres
Dean
Sebastian
Fleitas
Mariana
Zerpa
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Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
Many defined-benefit pension systems in developed and developing countries use a small set of final years of earnings to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 762–777.)
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J26, H26, H55, O15, O17
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12980
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kyutaro
Matsuzawa
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use
The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents of cigarette taxes warn that tax hikes will cause youths to substitute toward ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2020, 73 (2), 475-510)
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I12, I18, K42
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12979
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Olivier
Coibion
Dimitris
Georgarakos
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Michael
Weber
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2131–217)
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E31, C83, D84
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12978
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Nicole
L.
Hair
Anja
Gruber
Carly
Urban
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Personal Belief Exemptions for School-Entry Vaccinations, Vaccination Rates, and Academic Achievement
Nonmedical exemptions from school-entry vaccine mandates are receiving increased policy and public health scrutiny. This paper examines how expanding the availability of exemptions influences ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 78, 102464)
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H75, I12, I18, I21, I24 I28
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12976
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Giovanni
Peri
Zachariah
Rutledge
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Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States
Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13:3)
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J3, J6
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12975
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Kusum
Mundra
Fernando
Rios-Avila
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Education-Occupation Mismatch and Social Networks for Hispanics in the US: Role of Citizenship
In this paper we examine the education and occupation mismatch for Hispanics in the US using a novel objective continuous mismatch index and explore the role of immigrants' social networks on this ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (2), 185 - 209)
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J15, J24, J61
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12973
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Price
Fishback
Andrew
Seltzer
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The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968
Minimum wages have been among the most controversial government interventions in labor markets. There have been several waves of minimum wage activity over the past century, beginning with a 1912 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 73 - 96)
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N32, N42, J88
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12971
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Paul
E.
Peterson
Laura
M.
Talpey
Ludger
Woessmann
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17 (4), 608-640)
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H4, I24, J24
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12969
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Jaime
Arellano-Bover
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Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size
I study the long-term effects of landing a first job at a large firm versus a small one using Spanish social security data. Size could be a relevant employer attribute for inexperienced workers since ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 549-589.)
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E24, J23, J24, J31, J62
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12967
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Fabio
Montobbio
Jacopo
Staccioli
Maria
Enrica
Virgillito
Marco
Vivarelli
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Robots and the Origin of Their Labour-Saving Impact
This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, ...
(published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 174, 21122)
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O33, J24, C38
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12961
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Pablo
de Pedraza
Martin
Guzi
Kea
Tijdens
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Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency
Di Tella et al. (2001) show that temporary fluctuations in life satisfaction (LS) are correlated with macroeconomic circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 42 (3), 341-355 )
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E24, J21
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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