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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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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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12718
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Francesca
Barigozzi
Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Having It All, for All: Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled
We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care. The sorting of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 176, 188--211)
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D13, H23, J16, J22
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12717
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Jamie
Mullins
Corey
White
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Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test ...
(published as 'Can access to health care mitigate the effects of temperature on mortality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104259)
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I10, I14, I18, Q50, Q52, Q54, Q58
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12716
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Grace
Lordan
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People versus Machines in the UK: Minimum Wages, Labor Reallocation and Automatable Jobs
This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled ...
(published in: PLoS, 2019, 14 (12), e0224789)
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J23, J38
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12715
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Italo
Colantone
Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility
We study how firms and industries adjust to increasing international trade in intermediate inputs. In particular, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (2), 423–457.)
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J01, J31, F14
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12714
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
Francesco
Vona
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The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages
A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor ...
(published as 'The institutional wage adjustment to import competition: evidence from the Italian collective bargaining system' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (3), 631 - 651)
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J50, F16, J31, J24
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12713
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Robert
M.
Sauer
John
Wilson
Noemi
Mantovan
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The Economic Benefits of Volunteering and Social Class
A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in labour market situation) is tested using seven waves of longitudinal data from the ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2020, 85 (1), 102368)
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H4, J31
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12712
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Fabio
Berton
Anna
Carreri
Francesco
Devicienti
Andrea
Ricci
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Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation: New Results from Mixed Methods
Among the steps to improve a country's competitiveness, several commentators and international institutions include a general emphasis on deregulation and decentralization of industrial relations. In ...
(published as 'The collective voice of unions and workplace training in Italy: new insights from mixed methods' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 595 - 622)
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J24, J52
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12710
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Anne
Ardila
Brenøe
Thomas
Epper
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Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
We study the intergenerational transmission of time preferences in a setting without reverse causality concerns. We find substantial transmission of patience from parents to children, which is ...
(published as 'Parenting values and the intergenerational transmission of time preferences' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104208)
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D15, J12, J24, J62
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12709
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Bryan
Andrew
Stuart
Evan
J.
Taylor
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Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 134 - 175)
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J61, N32, O15, R23, Z13
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12708
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Rachel
A.
Gordon
Robert
Crosnoe
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'O Youth and Beauty:' Children's Looks and Children's Cognitive Development
We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children from ages 6 months through 15 years. Observers rated videos of them, obtaining ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 212, 275–289)
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J71, I26, I24
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12707
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Yossef
Tobol
Ronen
Bar-El
Yuval
Arbel
Ofer
H.
Azar
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Gender Differences in the Effect of Employee-Manager Friendships on Salary Dynamics in CPA Firms
We study the effect of employee-manager relations on salary increases. We use data obtained from a longitudinal survey, carried out among auditing team members in leading Israeli CPA firms (which are ...
(published in: Heliyon, 2019, 5 (10), e02658)
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C33, D03, J31, J71
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12706
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Valentine
Fays
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Mélanie
Volral
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Wage Discrimination Based on the Country of Birth: Do Tenure and Product Market Competition Matter?
Using a merged employer-employee panel dataset of 13,000 firms for the 1999-2010 period, this paper aims to quantify wage discrimination against migrant workers based on their countries of birth, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (13), 1551-1571)
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J24, J71, D41
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12705
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Valentine
Jacobs
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Mélanie
Volral
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and over-education, taking advantage of access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. ...
(published as 'Over-education Among Immigrants: The Role of Demographics, Time, and Firm Characteristics' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (1), 61-78)
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I21, J15, J24, J61, J71
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12704
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Brian
Duncan
Jeffrey
Grogger
Ana
Sofia
Leon
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans
U.S.-born Mexican Americans suffer a large schooling deficit relative to other Americans, and standard data sources suggest that this deficit does not shrink between the 2nd and later generations. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101771)
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J15, J61, J62
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12703
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Paul
Redmond
Seamus
McGuinness
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Explaining the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction
In general, women report greater job satisfaction than men. The existing literature cannot fully explain the nature of this difference, as the gap tends to persist even when controlling for job ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (17), 1415 - 1418)
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J16, J28, J24
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12700
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Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
Stefanie
Schurer
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants: New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect unobservable migrant quality. Little empirical evidence exists on this hypothesis. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 107-124)
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F22, J61, J24, J31, J62, O15
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12699
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Enrico
Moretti
Daniel
Wilson
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Taxing Billionaires: Estate Taxes and the Geographical Location of the Ultra-Wealthy
We study the effect of state-level estate taxes on the geographical location of the Forbes 400 richest Americans and its implications for tax policy. We use a change in federal tax law to identify ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 424 - 466)
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J01, R10, H10
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12697
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Excess Churn in Integrated Labor Markets
The common European labor market encourages worker mobility that enhances allocative efficiency, but certain institutional features may trigger inefficient migration. As a job in one of Europe's ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 865-892)
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F22, D62, E24
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12696
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Kai
A.
Konrad
Ray
Rees
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Passports for Sale: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation in a Meta-Club
Some of the member states of the European Union sell citizenship or residence to wealthy foreign investors. We analyse these "golden-passport" programs as a study in the political economy of conflict ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 62, 101855)
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F15, F53, H77
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12695
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Nick
Drydakis
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Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction
For trans people (i.e. people whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth) evidence suggests that transitioning (i.e. the steps a trans person may take to live in the gender ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, New York: Springer, First Online: 04 March 2020)
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D91, I10, J12, J10, J28, K38
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