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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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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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12739
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Serena
Canaan
Antoine
Deeb
Pierre
Mouganie
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Advisor Value-Added and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomly Assigned College Advisors
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor quality on student outcomes. To do so, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, 14 (4), 151–191)
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I23, I24, J16
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12738
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Mohsen
Javdani
Ha-Joon
Chang
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Who Said or What Said? Estimating Ideological Bias in Views Among Economists
There exists a long-standing debate about the influence of ideology in economics. Surprisingly, however, there is no concrete empirical evidence to examine this critical issue. Using an online ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2023, 47 (2), 309–339)
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A11, A14
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12737
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Mohsen
Javdani
Brian
Krauth
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Job Satisfaction and Coworker Pay in Canadian Firms
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 212-248)
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D31, D63, I30, J28, J31
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12736
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Mohsen
Javdani
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Visible Minorities and Job Mobility: Evidence from a Workplace Panel Survey
In this study we use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether visible minority Canadian-borns experience any differences in their inter-firm and intra-firm job mobility, as well as ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18, 491–524 )
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J15, J62, J71, M51
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12735
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Jan
Berkes
Frauke
Peter
C.
Katharina
Spieß
Felix
Weinhardt
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Information Provision and Postgraduate Studies
This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrollment intentions and realized ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (355), 627-646.)
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I21, I24, J24
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12734
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Michał
Brzeziński
Michal
Myck
Mateusz
Najsztub
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Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland: New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist ...
(revised version published as 'Sharing the gains of transition: evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102121)
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D31, D63, C46, P36
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12733
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Haapanen
Christopher
Jepsen
Alexandra
Roulet
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School Tracking and Mental Health
We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2021, 15 (2), 291-345)
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I12, I26, I28
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12732
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Vasiliki
Bozani
Nick
Drydakis
Katerina
Sidiropoulou
Benjamin
Harvey
Anna
Paraskevopoulou
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Workplace Positive Actions, Trans People's Self-Esteem and Human Resources' Evaluations
This study provides empirical patterns regarding trans people's self-esteem-oriented reflections during observations of positive workplace actions. The case of a 2015 UK workplace guide is utilized ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 809-83)
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K31, J11, D03, H11, H5, I18, J15, I31
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12731
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Kurt
Lavetti
Thomas
DeLeire
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2023, 90 (1), 155 - 183)
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H24, H41, H43, H51, I11, I18, J32, J33, J68
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12730
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Giulio
Zanella
Marina
M.
Bellani
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The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 675-697)
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O12, O43, Z1
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12728
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Abel
Brodeur
Hasin
Yousaf
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The Economics of Mass Shootings
We perform an empirical investigation of the socioeconomic determinants and consequences of all mass shootings in the U.S. from 2000 to 2015. We first manually search for and collect information on ...
(published online as 'On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022)
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D74, C13, P16
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12727
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Kyoji
Fukao
Saumik
Paul
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Baumol versus Engel: Accounting for 100 years (1885-1985) of Structural Transformation in Japan
This paper examines the drivers of the long-run structural transformation in Japan. We use a dynamic input-output framework that decomposes the reallocation of the total output across sectors into ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2021, 74 (1), 164-180)
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O40, O10
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12726
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Ulf
Rinne
Hendrik
Sonnabend
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Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930)
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D81, J16, J4, M12, Z29
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12725
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Heather
Joshi
Alex
Bryson
David
Wilkinson
Kelly
Ward
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The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958
Using data tracking all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 through to their mid-50s we observe an inverse U-shaped gender wage gap (GWG) over their life-course: an initial gap in ...
(published in: Gender, Work & Organization, 2021, 28, 397 - 415)
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J16, J31
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12724
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Monica
Bozzano
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Gender Gaps in Education
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.); Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020, 1-31)
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J1, N3, O1
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12723
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Simon
Amez
Stijn
Baert
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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Literature Review
We present the first systematic review of the scientific literature on smartphone use and academic success. We synthesise the theoretical mechanisms, empirical approaches, and empirical findings ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Educational Research, 2020, 103, 10161)
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I21, I23, L86
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12722
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Brandon
Martin
Steven
Raphael
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The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Involvement with the Criminal Justice System: The Case of California's Proposition 47
We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration rates experienced by California residents from different racial and ethnic groups. ...
(published in: Criminology & Public Policy, 2020, 19 (4), 1165-1207)
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K40, K42
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12721
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
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Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for ...
(published as 'Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 395 - 422)
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J12, J16, J15, K37
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12720
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Paul
Frijters
Andrew
E.
Clark
Christian
Krekel
Richard
Layard
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A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of ...
(published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165)
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I3, A10, H10, H83
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