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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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12803
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Oded
Stark
Marcin
Jakubek
Krzysztof
Szczygielski
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The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit
We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2023, 156, 133-152)
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D60, F02, F22, I31, J61, J68
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12802
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Felix
Wellschmied
Emircan
Yurdagul
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Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs
US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 79-99)
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E23, J22, J23, L26
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12801
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Yang
He
Otávio
Bartalotti
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Wild Bootstrap for Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs: Obtaining Robust Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals
This paper develops a novel wild bootstrap procedure to construct robust bias-corrected (RBC) valid confidence intervals (CIs) for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs, providing an intuitive ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2020, 23 (2), 211–231)
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C14, C21, C26
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12800
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Panu
Poutvaara
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration ...
(revised version published as 'Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 152, 102681)
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F22, J15, J16, J24, O15
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12799
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Simon
Jäger
Benjamin
Schoefer
Jörg
Heining
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Labor in the Boardroom
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136 (2), 669-725.)
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J0, J53, J54
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12798
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Brandyn
F.
Churchill
Andrew
Dickinson
Taylor
Mackay
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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The Effect of E-Verify Laws on Crime
E-Verify laws, which have been adopted by 23 states, require employers to verify whether new employees are eligible to legally work prior to employment. In the main, these laws are designed to reduce ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (5), 1294-1320.)
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K14, J61
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12796
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Rania
Gihleb
Osea
Giuntella
Ning
Zhang
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Neonatal Outcomes
Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, 81, 103497)
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I10
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12795
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Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Guillaume
Vermeylen
Mélanie
Volral
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Productivity, Wages and Profits: Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed ...
(published as 'Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-level Upstreamness: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data' in: World Economy, 2022, 45 (7), 2222 - 2250)
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F61, J24, D30, D40, J50
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12793
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Bruno
Crépon
Patrick
Premand
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships
Traditional apprenticeships based on private arrangements are widespread in developing countries. Public interventions have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae094, 10 October 2024)
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D22, J23, J24, O12, C93
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12792
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Lindsey
Macmillan
Emma
Tominey
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Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1513–1543)
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I24, J13, D10
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12791
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Matteo
Picchio
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Mental Health Effects of Retirement
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 419-452 )
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H55, J14, J26
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12790
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Olga
Malkova
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Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms
This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104111)
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J18, J26, H55
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12789
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Marco
Bertoni
Roberto
Nistico
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Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
We use data from two experiments that randomly assign students to groups to show that, so long as ordinal rank has a causal effect on educational achievement, estimates of the effects of peer ability ...
(published as 'Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, 104797)
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I21, I24, J24
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12788
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Kristiina
Huttunen
Krista
Riukula
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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by ...
(published in: Labour Economics. 2024, 90, 102578)
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I24, J24, J63
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12787
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José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Climbing the Ladders of Job Satisfaction and Employees' Organizational Commitment: A Semi-Nonparametric Approach
Researchers and human resource practitioners are nearly unanimous that satisfied and committed employees can play a major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further ...
(published as 'Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employee organizational commitment: cross-country evidence using a semi-nonparametric approach' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2023, 26 (1), 2163581.)
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J50, J53
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12786
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Abhir
Kulkarni
Barry
Hirsch
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Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys
Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 948-976)
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J31, J51, J65
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12783
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Daniel
I.
Rees
Tianyi
Wang
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Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938
According to Troesken (2004), efforts to purify municipal water supplies at the turn of the 20th century dramatically improved the relative health of blacks. There is, however, little empirical ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, 103329.)
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I18, J11, J15, N3
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12782
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David
Masclet
David
L.
Dickinson
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Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions
We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material ...
(published online in: Theory and Decision, 28 August 2024)
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B3, D6, D9
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12780
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Mathias
Huebener
Astrid
Pape
C.
Katharina
Spieß
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Parental Labour Supply Responses to the Abolition of Day Care Fees
This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 510-543)
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J13, J22, J38
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12778
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Brecht
Neyt
Dieter
Verhaest
Stijn
Baert
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The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2022, 68 (2), 127–154)
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I21, I26, J21, J24
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12777
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
Mona
Said
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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380)
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L53, O12, J4
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12776
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Erica
L.
Groshen
Harry
J.
Holzer
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Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets: An Introduction
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st ...
(published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (1), 1-19;)
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J01, J08, J2, J5
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12775
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Pierre
Koning
Heike
Vethaak
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Decomposing Employment Trends of Disabled Workers
Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of these trends, this paper estimates Age-Period- Cohort (APC) models on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21 (4), 20210010)
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H75, J21, C23
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12774
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Gerald
J.
Pruckner
Nicole
Schneeweis
Thomas
Schober
Martina
Zweimüller
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Birth Order, Parental Health Investment, and Health in Childhood
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment using administrative data from Austria. We find ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102426)
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I10, I12, I14, J12, J13
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12773
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Maurizio
Conti
Giovanni
Sulis
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Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from ...
(revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972)
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J42, J63, J65, M53
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12772
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Mallory
Avery
Osea
Giuntella
Peiran
Jiao
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Why Don't We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment among College Students
Sleep deprivation is a risky behavior prevalent in modern societies, leading to negative health and economic consequences. However, we know little about why people decide to sleep less than the ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022 )
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B49, C93, I1
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12769
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Enrico
Moretti
Claudia
Steinwender
John
Van Reenen
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The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers
In the US and many other OECD countries, expenditures for defense-related R&D represent a key policy channel through which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 6 February 2023)
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O30
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12768
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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Math Matters! The Importance of Mathematical and Verbal Skills for Degree Performance
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 186, 1-5)
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I23
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12767
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Arnd
Kölling
Claus
Schnabel
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Owners, External Managers, and Industrial Relations in German Establishments
Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed effects, this paper finds a negative relationship between the existence of ...
(substantially revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (2), 424-443)
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J53, M54, G32
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12765
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Jordy
Meekes
Wolter
Hassink
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Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies
This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2023, 57 (1), 13 - 25)
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R12, R23, J31, J6
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12764
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Yaxi
Li
Qian-Li
Xue
Michelle
C.
Odden
Xi
Chen
Chenkai
Wu
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Early Life Environments and Frailty in Old Age among Chinese Older Adults
Exposures in childhood and adolescence may impact the development of diseases and symptoms in late life. However, evidence from low- and middle- income countries is scarce. In this study, we examined ...
(published as 'Linking early life risk factors to frailty in old age: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study ' in: Age and Ageing, 2020, 49 (2), 208 - 217)
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I10, I14, I18
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12763
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Giorgio
Brunello
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia
Terskaya
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Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity
We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic predisposition to high BMI – measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102349)
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D62, I1, I12
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12761
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Milena
Nikolova
Olga
Popova
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Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
After the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. However, it remains unclear whether this ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (4), 1783-1800)
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L26, P20, P31
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12760
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Karen
A.
Kopecky
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The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
The 19th and 20th centuries saw a transformation in contraceptive technologies and their take up. This led to a sexual revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, ...
(published in: A. Bison; F. Giovanni (eds.), Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021.)
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J11, J12, N3, O3
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12758
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Shahar
Sansani
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Immigrant Examination Behavior
In this paper, we estimate differences in examination behavior between immigrants and natives, by examining differences in the propensity to forego a passing grade on a final exam in order to retake ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 28 (2), 136–155)
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J15, I23, D81
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12757
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James
Elwell
Kevin
Corinth
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
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Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama: The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census ...
(published in D. Furchtgott-Roth (ed.), United States Trends in Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Well-Being; OUP, Oxford, 2020, 90-124. )
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D31, C81
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12756
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Oded
Stark
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Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Risky Behaviors
Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and ...
(published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2021, 37, 817–835)
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D01, D81, D91, I12
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12755
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Marco
Caliendo
Stefan
Tübbicke
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 517-554)
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C14, L26, H43, I31, J68
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12753
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James
J.
Heckman
Tomáš
Jagelka
Tim
Kautz
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Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality
This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes ...
(published in: O. P. John and R. W. Robins (eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed., Guilford Press, 2021, 853–892)
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D91, D12, C93, C91, D9
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12752
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Philip
Ushchev
Yves
Zenou
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Social Norms in Networks
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104969.)
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D85, J15, Z13
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12751
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Yasuhiro
Sato
Yves
Zenou
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Assimilation Patterns in Cities
We develop a model in which ethnic minorities can either assimilate to the majority's norm or reject it by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103563.)
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J15, R14, Z13
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12750
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Josh
Kinsler
Tyler
Ransom
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Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants
Over the past 20 years, elite colleges in the US have seen dramatic increases in applications. We provide context for part of this trend using detailed data on Harvard University that was unsealed as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102255)
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I23, I24
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12749
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Maria Alejandra
Cattaneo
Philipp
Lergetporer
Guido
Schwerdt
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries
Do differences in citizens' policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101876)
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H52, I22, D72, D83
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12748
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Chiara
Ardito
Fabio
Berton
Lia
Pacelli
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Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD
Two decades of unsuccessful marginal labour market reforms provided the political support to reduce the flexibility gap between temporary and open-ended workers by means of a retrenchment of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 925–954 )
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J08, J63
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12746
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Brecht
Neyt
Stijn
Baert
Jana
Vynckier
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Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
Research exploiting data on classic (offline) couple formation has confirmed predictions from evolutionary psychology in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2022, 170, 435 - 458)
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J12, J16, J13, C93
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12744
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Stefan
Etgeton
Björn
Fischer
Han
Ye
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The Effect of Increasing the Early Retirement Age on Savings Behavior Before Retirement
Facing a reduction in pension generosity, individuals can compensate the loss by working longer or saving more. This paper shows that the impact of changes in pension generosity on saving crucially ...
(published as 'The Effect of Increasing Retirement Age on Households' Savings and Consumption Expenditure' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 221, 104845)
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D14, J14, J26
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12743
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Thomas
Hintermaier
Winfried
Koeniger
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Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Quantitative Economics, 2025)
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D14, D15, D31, E21, E43, G11
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12742
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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What Makes an Employer?
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and ...
(revised version published as 'Personality characteristics and the decision to hire' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 31 (3), 736-761)
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J22, J23, L26
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12741
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Sebastian
Till
Braun
Nadja
Dwenger
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Settlement Location Shapes Refugee Integration: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 77, 101330)
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N34, J15, J61
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12740
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Bhashkar
Mazumder
Ashley
Wong
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States: A Latent Variables Analysis
Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29 (3), 367-381)
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I1, I14
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