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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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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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12920
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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VC - A Method For Estimating Time-Varying Coefficients in Linear Models
This paper describes a moments estimator for a standard state-space model with coefficients generated by a random walk. A penalized least squares estimation is linked to the GLS (Aitken) estimates of ...
(extended version published in: Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 2021)
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C2, C22, C32, C51, C52
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12919
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Suparee
Boonmanunt
Stephan
Meier
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The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand
In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.)
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C93, D64, D91
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12918
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Asbjørn
Goul
Andersen
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Pension Reform and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off: Impacts of Removing an Early Retirement Subsidy
We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102050)
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H55, D31, J22, J26
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12917
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Xi
Chen
Chih
Ming
Tan
Xiaobo
Zhang
Xin
Zhang
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The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Temperature Extremes on Birth Outcomes
This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth outcomes – specifically, the log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight – using a nationally ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 1263 - 1302)
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I15, Q54, Q51
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12916
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers: A Cross-Country Analysis
This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors ...
(published in: Transport Policy, 2022, 116, 327 - 342)
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R40, O57
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12915
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Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Dario
Sansone
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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults
We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom ...
(published inh: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 79, 102492)
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H20, H71, I12, I18
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12914
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Paul
Redmond
Karina
Doorley
Seamus
McGuinness
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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income
We use distributional regression analysis to study the impact of a six percent increase in the Irish minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (3),1034 - 1056)
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J31, J38, K31
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12913
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Nir
Jaimovich
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
Henry
E.
Siu
Yaniv
Yedid-Levi
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The Macroeconomics of Automation: Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis
The U.S. economy has experienced a significant drop in the fraction of the population employed in middle wage, "routine task-intensive" occupations. Applying machine learning techniques, we identify ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 122, 1-16)
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E22, E24, J23, J24
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12910
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Oded
Stark
Lukasz
Byra
Grzegorz
Kosiorowski
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On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 187, 108880)
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D31, D63, F22, O15, R23
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12909
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
J.
Peter
Hop
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Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach
Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully-funded occupational pension systems, mandatory social security ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 1-31)
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H55, H75, J1, J26
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12907
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Margaretha
Buurman
Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Robin
Zoutenbier
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When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101858)
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C93, I2, M5
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12906
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Luca
Piccoli
Silvia
Tiezzi
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Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test
This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its derived demand equation is not empirically distinguishable from models with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102546)
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C23, D03, D12
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12905
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Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Rainer
Michael
Rilke
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When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection
We analyze the effects of substitutability of social incentives on the labor supply of gigworkers (N=944) in a natural field experiment. In our treatments, we vary the proportion of the worker's wage ...
(revised version online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, 190, 553 - 568)
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C93, D23, M52
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12904
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Samuel
Berlinski
Maria
Marta
Ferreyra
Luca
Flabbi
Juan
David
Martin
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Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development
We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 2113–2177)
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J13, J22, L1
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12903
|
Felix
Stips
Krisztina
Kis-Katos
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Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany
Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal ...
(published as 'The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.' in: PLOS One, 2020, 15 (8), e0236996)
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F22, J61, R23
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12900
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Paola
Giuliano
Paola
Sapienza
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The Cost of Being Too Patient
We study the cost of being too patient on happiness. We find that the relationship between patience and various measures of subjective well-being is hump-shaped: it exists an optimal amount of ...
(published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318)
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A10, D9, Z1
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12899
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Charles
Courtemanche
Joshua
C.
Pinkston
Jay
Stewart
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Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100940)
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I10, C21
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12897
|
Bin
Huang
Xiaoyan
He
Lei
Xu
Yu
Zhu
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Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China
We explore recent policy changes which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the effect of access to quality education on house prices based on a unique dataset. ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2020, 50, 101730 )
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R21, I28, H44
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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