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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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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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12960
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David
A.
Jaeger
John
M.
Nunley
R. Alan
Seals Jr.
Eric
J.
Wilbrandt
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The Demand for Interns
We describe the demand for interns in the U.S. using ads from an internship-specific website. We find that internships are more likely to be paid when more closely associated with a specific ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 372 - 390)
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J23, I23
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12959
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Maria
De Paola
Rosetta
Lombardo
Valeria
Pupo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment
Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 102001)
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D91, C93, M50, J56
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12958
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Breno
Braga
Olga
Malkova
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Hope for the Family: The Effects of College Costs on Maternal Labor Supply
We examine the effects of college costs on the labor supply of mothers. Exploiting changes in college costs after the roll-out of nine generous state merit aid programs from 1993 to 2004, we analyze ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (1), 230-262)
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I22, J22, J13
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12955
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Raymond
Robertson
Gladys
Lopez-Acevedo
Matias
Morales
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The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia
This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from ...
(published in: Contemporary South Asia, 2023, 31 (3), 371 - 389)
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J21, F51, O53
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12954
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Bin
Huang
Yu
Zhu
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Higher Education Expansion, the Hukou System, and Returns to Education in China
China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the expansion has exacerbated ...
(revised version published as: 'Huang, B., Tani, M., Wei, Y. & Y. Zhu: Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the Great Higher Education Expansion' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 74, 101804. )
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I26, I23
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12953
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Gaurab
Aryal
Manudeep
Bhuller
Fabian
Lange
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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (5), 1669-1702)
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J24, J31, D83
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12952
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (4), 1499-1522)
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J15, J12, I14
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12951
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Quint
Wiersma
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2025, 34 (1), 210 - 233)
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F14, F16, L11, P31
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12949
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Paolo
E.
Giordani
Fabio
Mariani
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Unintended Consequences: Can the Rise of the Educated Class Explain the Revival of Protectionism?
This paper provides a rationale for the revival of protectionism, based on the rise of the educated class. In a trade model with heterogeneous workers and entrepreneurs, globalization generates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2022, 200, 105385.)
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D72, F68, I24, J24, O40
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12947
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Yann
Bramoullé
Habiba
Djebbari
Bernard
Fortin
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Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey
We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2020, 12, 603 - 629)
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J15, J12, I14
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12946
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René
Böheim
Mario
Lackner
Wilhelm
Wagner
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Raising the Bar: Causal Evidence on Gender Differences in Risk-Taking from a Natural Experiment
We analyze data from top-tier professional athletes and find that female and male athletes differ in the timing and in the extent of their reactions to a change of the rules which increased the risk ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2022, 23 (4), 460 - 478)
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J16, J44
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12945
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Matteo
Bobba
Veronica
Frisancho
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Self-Perceptions about Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mexico City
A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 58 - 73)
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C93, D80, D83, D84, I24
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12986Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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