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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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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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12944
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Ziteng
Lei
Shelly
Lundberg
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Vulnerable Boys: Short-Term and Long-Term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage
The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 242 -448)
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J24, J12, J16
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12942
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Sabrina
T.
Howell
J. David
Brown
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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms
This paper examines how employee earnings at small firms respond to a cash flow shock in the form of a government R&D grant. We use ranking data on applicant firms, which we link to IRS W2 earnings ...
(published in: Review of Financial Studies, 2023, 36 (5), 1889 - 1929)
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G32, G35, J31, J41
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12940
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Paul
Anand
Swati
Saxena
Rolando
Gonzales Martinez
Hai-Anh
H
Dang
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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.)
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I31, I32, O35
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12939
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Manuel
Hoffmann
Roberto
Mosquera
Adrian
Chadi
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Vaccines at Work
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may ...
(forthcoming in: Management Science)
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D90, I12, J01, N36
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12938
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Miloš
Fišar
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Fabio
Sabatini
Jiří
Špalek
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Media Bias and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence
We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure to biased news about government action affects compliance in a repeated ...
(revised version published as 'Media negativity bias and tax compliance: experimental evidence' in: International Tax and Public Finance , 2022, 29, 1160 - 1212)
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C91, D70, H26, H31
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12937
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Gabriella
Conti
Stavros
Poupakis
Malte
Sandner
Sören
Kliem
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The Effects of Home Visiting on Mother-Child Interactions: Evidence from a Randomised Trial Using Dynamic Micro-Level Data
Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their ...
(published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, 2021, 115, 105021)
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I14, J13, J24
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12935
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Corinna
Frodermann
Katharina
Wrohlich
Aline
Zucco
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Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102296)
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H31, J13, J22, J24, J31
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12934
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Catia
Batista
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2020, 110, 594 - 598)
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O16, O33, G20
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12933
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on ...
(published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741)
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J62, E24, D65
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12932
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Gunes
Gokmen
Tommaso
Nannicini
Massimiliano
Gaetano
Onorato
Chris
Papageorgiou
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Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2529-2552)
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E44, G01, L51, P16
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12931
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Lena
Hensvik
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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The Skill-Specific Impact of Past and Projected Occupational Decline
Using population-wide Swedish register data on cognitive abilities and productive personality traits, we show that employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102326)
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J21, J31
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12930
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Unal
Seven
Semih
Tumen
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Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence
We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2020, 65, 161-183)
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J43, Q14, Q18, O47
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12929
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Pierluigi
Balduzzi
Emanuele
Brancati
Marco
Brianti
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Populism, Political Risk and the Economy: Lessons from Italy
We study the effects on financial markets and real economic activity of changes in risk related to political events and policy announcements in Italy during the 2013-2019 period that saw the rise to ...
(published as 'Political Risk, Populism and the Economy' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (653),1677 - 1704)
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E44, G10, H62, H63
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12928
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Georges
Bresson
Guy
Lacroix
Mohammad
Arshad Rahman
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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 227 - 259)
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C11, C31, C33, C35, K14, K42
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12927
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Krzysztof
Karbownik
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The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover: Evidence from an Admission Reform
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results ...
(Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101960)
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I2, J2, J63
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12926
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
Fiona
Tregenna
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Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41 (1), 37 - 51)
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G21, L26, D24, O17
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12925
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Eugenio
Proto
Aldo
Rustichini
Andis
Sofianos
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Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
A large literature in behavioral economics has emphasized in the last decades the role of individual differences in social preferences (such as trust and altruism) and in influencing behavior in ...
(published as 'Intelligence, Errors, and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2723 - 2767)
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C73, C91, C92, B83
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12924
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Jérôme
Adda
Yarine
Fawaz
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The Health Toll of Import Competition
This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first show that import shocks affect employment and income, but only in areas where jobs ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (630), 1501 - 1540)
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F16, I12, I18
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12922
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Denis
Fougère
Nicolas
Jacquemet
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Policy Evaluation Using Causal Inference Methods
This chapter describes the main impact evaluation methods, both experimental and quasi-experimental, and the statistical model underlying them. Some of the most important methodological advances to ...
(published in: Nigar Hashimzade and Michael A. Thornton (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Microeconomics, Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)
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C1, C2, C3, C54
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12921
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Yael
Goldfarb
Shoshana
Neuman
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Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women
Low employability among specific populations (e.g., religious/traditional women, the elderly, disabled workers, immigrants) has unfavorable consequences on the: unemployed individual, society, and ...
(published as 'Labour-Market Integration by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Study of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women' in: Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 2020, 1 (1))
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D13, D91, I38, J08, J24, Z12
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12986Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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