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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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12894
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Oded
Galor
Ömer
Özak
Assaf
Sarid
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110, 309-313)
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D91, I25, J16, J24, Z10, Z13
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12893
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Melisa
Bubonya
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
Our goal is to investigate the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations. We undertake a mediation analysis in which we not only calculate the intergenerational correlation in welfare, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102066)
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H53, I38, J62
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12892
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Henk-Wim
de Boer
Egbert
L. W.
Jongen
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Analysing Tax-Benefit Reforms in the Netherlands: Using Structural Models and Natural Experiments
We combine the strengths of structural models and natural experiments in the analysis of tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands. First we estimate structural discrete-choice models for labour supply. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (1), 179-209)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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12891
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Niklas
Gohl
Peter
Haan
Elisabeth
Kurz
Felix
Weinhardt
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Working Life and Human Capital Investment: Causal Evidence from Pension Reform
This paper presents a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provides a novel empirical test of human capital theory. We exploit a sizable pension ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102426)
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J24, J26, H21
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12890
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Andrea
Brandolini
John
Micklewright
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Tony Atkinson's New Book, Measuring Poverty around the World: Some Further Reflections
A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. We describe how we edited the incomplete manuscript that Atkinson left at his ...
(published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019-20, XLIX, 1-12)
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C80, I32
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12889
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Renato
Faccini
Eran
Yashiv
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The Importance of Hiring Frictions in Business Cycles
Hiring is a costly activity reflecting firms' investment in their workers. Micro-data shows that hiring costs involve production disruption. Thus, cyclical fluctuations in the value of output, ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (3), 1101 - 1143)
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E22, E24, E32, E52
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12888
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Karine
Torosyan
Norberto
Pignatti
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Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071)
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I31, J16, J21, J24
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12887
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Pavel
Jelnov
Yoram
Weiss
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Influence in Economics and Aging
We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 101992)
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J24
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12886
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Francesca
Modena
Enrico
Rettore
Giulia
Tanzi
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The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case
In this paper we evaluate the impact of need-based grants on university drop-out rates in the first year of enrollment, using student-level administrative data from all Italian universities in the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 343 - 370)
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I22, I23, C21, C35
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12884
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Seamus
McGuinness
Paul
Redmond
Judith
M.
Delaney
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Minimum Wage Non-Compliance: Evidence from Ireland
We use a unique question from the Irish Labour Force Survey that captures the reasons for workers being paid below the minimum wage. Compared to existing work, this allows us to more precisely ...
(published as 'Minimum Wage Non-Compliance' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1663 - 1666)
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J22, J23, J31, J32
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12883
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Siri
Terjesen
Jakub
Mazurek
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All on Board? New Evidence on Board Gender Diversity from a Large Panel of Firms
Using a unique database of over 20 million firms over two decades, we examine the industry sector and national institution drivers of the prevalence of women directors on supervisory and management ...
(published in: European Management Journal, 2020, 38 (4), 634 - 645)
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J7, P5
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12882
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James
J.
Heckman
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Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited
This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary ...
(published as 'Epilogue: Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited' in: Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, and François Roubaud (eds.), Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2020, 304 - 330)
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C93
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12880
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Katarina
Katz
Torun
Österberg
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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will ...
(published in: Poverty & Public Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 302 - 324.)
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I38, J15, R23
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12877
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Xin
Zhang
Yixuan
Wang
Xi
Chen
Xun
Zhang
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Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China
This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age ...
(published as 'Associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 713, 136472)
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I12, J13, I18, Q51
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12876
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
Chunbei
Wang
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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104242)
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J12, J15, K37
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12875
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Bart
Cockx
Michael
Lechner
Joost
Bollens
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Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
We investigate heterogenous employment effects of Flemish training programmes. Based on administrative individual data, we analyse programme effects at various aggregation levels using Modified ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102306)
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J68
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12874
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Hongjian
Wang
Plamen
Nikolov
Kevin
Acker
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The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China
Social status and political connections may confer large economic benefits on an individual. Previous studies focused on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2020, 25 (3), 309 - 338)
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D31, J31, P2
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12873
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Binjian
Yan
Xi
Chen
Thomas
M.
Gill
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Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health ...
(published in: Journal of The Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100237)
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I14, D63, I18, J13, J14
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12872
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Claudio
Deiana
Ludovica
Giua
Roberto
Nistico
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The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that ...
(published as 'Opium Price Shocks and Prescription Opioids in the US' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (3), 449 - 484)
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I11, I12, I18, L65
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12871
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Pietro
Garibaldi
Pedro
Maia
Gomes
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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Public Employment Redux
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To ...
(published in: Journal of Government and Economics, 2021, 1, 100003)
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E24, E62l, J20, J24, J31, J45
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12870
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Anne
Ardila
Brenøe
Serena
Canaan
Nikolaj
Harmon
Heather
Royer
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Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?
Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families – that is, mothers, fathers, and their children – ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (4), 1135–1174)
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H00, J2, J13
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12869
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Thomas
Garcia
Sebastien
Massoni
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020,124, 103412 )
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C91, D64, D81
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12868
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Monica
Deza
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Can Sanctuary Polices Reduce Domestic Violence?
Domestic violence remains a serious public problem, especially in Hispanic communities, where one in three women are victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Yet, less than 50 percent of ...
(published in: American Law and Economic Review, 2022, 24 (1), 116 - 170)
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D1, I1, J1, K14
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12867
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Francesco
Fallucchi
Daniele
Nosenzo
Ernesto
Reuben
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Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions
We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants' agreement with the statement "Competition brings the best out of me", ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 402-423)
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C91, D90, D91
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12865
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Eline
Moens
Stijn
Baert
Elsy
Verhofstadt
Luc
Van Ootegem
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Does Loneliness Lurk in Temp Work? Exploring the Associations between Temporary Employment, Loneliness at Work and Job Satisfaction
This research contributes to the limited literature concerning the determinants of loneliness at work, as well as to the literature on psychological outcomes associated with temporary work. More ...
(revised version published in: Plos One, 2021, 16 (5), e0250664)
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J28, J41, I31
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12863
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Ramona
Rekers
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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 201, 104663)
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H76, K42, R41
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12862
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Simon
Amez
Suncica
Vujic
Lieven
De Marez
Stijn
Baert
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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: First Evidence from Longitudinal Data
To study the causal impact of smartphone use on academic performance, we collected – for the first time worldwide – longitudinal data on students' smartphone use and educational performance. For ...
(revised version published in: New Media & Society, 2023, 25(3), 584-608.)
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I23, J24
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12861
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Andreas
Kuhn
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (1), 101-124)
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J16, J24
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12860
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Anna Maria
Mayda
Christopher
Parsons
Han
Pham
Pierre-Louis
Vézina
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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156, 102818)
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F21, F22, F23
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12858
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Michalis
Drouvelis
Bilal
Malaeb
Michael
Vlassopoulos
Jackline
Wahba
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Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.)
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D91, J5, F22
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12857
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Pal
Schone
Marte
Strom
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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101983)
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J21, J22, J61
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12854
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Enrico
Bertacchini
Alessandra
Venturini
Roberto
Zotti
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Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
The paper aims to explore the drivers of immigrants' participation to cultural and leisure activities in host countries. First, we discuss how the main analytical approaches on cultural participation ...
(published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2022, 46, 57 - 100)
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Z11, J15, J61
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12853
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Megan
T.
Stevenson
Jennifer
Doleac
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Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
We evaluate the impacts of adopting algorithmic predictions of future offending (risk assessments) as an aid to judicial discretion in felony sentencing. We find that judges' decisions are influenced ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (4), 382–414)
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K4
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12851
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Uwe
Blien
Wolfgang
Dauth
Duncan
H.W.
Roth
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Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs
This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101953)
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J24, J63 O33
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12849
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Hannah
Van Borm
Ian
Burn
Stijn
Baert
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What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?
Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102003)
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J71, J14, J24, J23
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12847
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Semih
Tumen
Hakan
Ulucan
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Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence
This paper estimates the causal effect of a targeted panic button program–implemented in two Turkish provinces between 2012 and 2016–on domestic violence against women. Diff-in-diff and synthetic ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1423–1459)
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J12, J16, K36
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12846
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice
Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate whether, conditional on absolute achievement, within school-cohort rank in ...
(published as 'High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101969)
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I2, J1
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12845
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Damian
Clarke
Joseph
P.
Romano
Michael
Wolf
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The Romano-Wolf Multiple Hypothesis Correction in Stata
When considering multiple hypothesis tests simultaneously, standard statistical techniques will lead to over-rejection of null hypotheses unless the multiplicity of the testing framework is ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 13 (4), 812-843)
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C12, C15, C63, C87
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12844
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Insan
Tunali
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
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Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013
We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use ...
(published as 'Down and up the 'U' - A synthetic cohort (panel) analysis of female labor force participation in Turkey, 1988-2013' in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105609 )
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J21, C18
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12843
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Xi
Chen
Lipeng
Hu
Jody
L.
Sindelar
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Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 15, 100233)
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J14, J18, R23, R28
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12842
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Thomas
C.
Buchmueller
Helen
Levy
Robert
G.
Valletta
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Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed
We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act – the expansion of Medicaid eligibility – affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S575–S617)
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J64, J68, I13, I18
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12841
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Michael
Leith
Cowling
Mark
Wooden
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Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?
This paper examines the extent to which solo self-employment serves as a vehicle for job creation. Using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101942)
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L26
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12837
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Maya
Rossin-Slater
Molly
Schnell
Hannes
Schwandt
Sam
Trejo
Lindsey
Uniat
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Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the impacts of these events on the mental health of surviving youth. Using ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (38), 23484 - 23489)
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I18, J13
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12836
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Kyle
Herkenhoff
Gajendran
Raveendranathan
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Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry
How are the welfare costs from monopoly distributed across U.S. households? We answer this question for the U.S. credit card industry, which is highly concentrated, charges interest rates that are ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae098, 24 October 2024)
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D14, D43, D60, E21, E44, G21
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12835
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Iris
Kesternich
Gerrit
Müller
Bettina
M.
Siflinger
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Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106706)
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J16, J24, N44, D90, J64
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12834
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Paul
McNamee
Silvia
Mendolia
Oleg
Yerokhin
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Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100992)
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I10
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12833
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Tatiana
Abboud
Andriana
Bellou
Joshua
Lewis
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The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent binge drinking on later- life health and labor market outcomes. Our analysis exploits cross-state variation in the rollout of "Zero ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066)
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I18, I12, J20
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12832
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Haiyang
Lu
Peng
Nie
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China
Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child ...
(published in: Child Indicators Research, 2021, 14, 117–137.)
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I21, I30, J13
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12831
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Lucas
Ronconi
Ravi
Kanbur
Santiago
López-Cariboni
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Who Demands Labour (De)Regulation in the Developing World? Insider–Outsider Theory Revisited
Contrary to the predictions of the insider–outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2023, 162 (2), 223-243)
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J4, J8, O17
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12829
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José
J.
Escarce
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Effect of Immigration on Depression among Older Natives in Western Europe
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021, 20, 100341)
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I12, I14, J61
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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