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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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12681
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Mehtabul
Azam
Luyi
Han
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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20(2), 20190302)
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J16, J82
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12680
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Clive
Bell
Hans
Gersbach
Evgenij
Komarov
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Untimely Destruction: Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024, 28 (7), 1451 - 1492)
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D91, E13, I15, I25, O11, O41
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12679
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Ronald
Bachmann
Peggy
Bechara
Christina
Vonnahme
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Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences
We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168(1), 79-108)
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J62, J63, P52
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12677
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Osea
Giuntella
Matthias
Rieger
Lorenzo
Rotunno
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Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico
In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 122, 103277)
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F60, F61, I10, I12
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12676
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Harold
E.
Cuffe
Jan
Feld
Trevor
O’Grady
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Returns to Teaching Repetition - The Effect of Short-Term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes
Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the ...
(published in: Education, Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (3), 516-532)
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I21, I23
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12675
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Michèle
Belot
Jonathan
James
Jonathan
Spiteri
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Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population
This paper tests an intervention aimed at facilitating (cognitively) the adoption of healthy dietary habits. We provide easy-to-understand information about the risks of developing diabetes or heart ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103550)
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I12, I18, H51, D83
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12674
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Michèle
Belot
Jonathan
James
Martina
Vecchi
Nicolai
Vitt
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Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-SES Mothers
We investigate whether short-term everyday stressors leads to unhealthier dietary choices among low socioeconomic status mothers. We propose a novel stress protocol that aims to mimic everyday ...
(published as 'Daily stressors and food choices: A lab experiment with low-SES mothers' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103754)
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I12, D91
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12670
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
Krystina
Titz
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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal ...
(published in: Journal of Participation & Employee Ownership, 2020, 3, 29-50)
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M54, M12, J53, J83
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12669
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Asbjørn
Goul
Andersen
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101767)
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J23, J58, J65, H55
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12666
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Farzana
Afridi
Monisankar
Bishnu
Kanika
Mahajan
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What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms
We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 55 - 87)
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E24, J22, J16
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12665
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Cem
Mete
Laurent
Bossavie
John
T.
Giles
Harold
Alderman
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Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?
Marriages between blood relatives – also known as consanguineous unions – are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia and most parts of South Asia. Researchers have suggested that ...
(published in: Population Studies, June 2020, 74 (2): 139-159.)
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I15, J12
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12663
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Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Santiago
Budría
Ana
I.
Moro-Egido
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Job Insecurity, Debt Burdens and Individual Health
Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (4), 872-899.)
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G01, I14, I22
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12662
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Francesco
Pastore
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The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy
This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020, 42 (6), 1248-1269.)
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H44, H52, H76, I38, J68, R23
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12659
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Giovanni
Facchini
Tommaso
Frattini
Anna
Rosso
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Are Political and Economic Integration Intertwined?
Economic incentives play a key role in the decision to run for office, but little is known on how they shape immigrants' selection into candidacy. We study this question using a two-period Roy model ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (360), 1265 - 1306)
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F22, J45, P16
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12658
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Alicia
Adsera
Francesca
Dalla Pozza
Sergei
Guriev
Lukas
Kleine-Rueschkamp
Elena
Nikolova
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Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being
Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social ...
(published as 'Height and well-being during the transition from plan to market' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (105), 77 - 120)
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P36, I14, I31, O12
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12657
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Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
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Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap
Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1329-1355)
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J16, J31, M52, M54
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12654
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Yan
Liu
Xi
Chen
Zhijun
Yan
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Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China
While adverse health effects of ambient air pollution have been well documented, there is scarce evidence on the impact of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal ...
(published as 'Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 703, 134706)
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I31, Q51, Q53
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12652
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Patricio
Dominguez-Rivera
Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47
We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the voters in November 2014, the proposition redefined many less serious property and ...
(published as 'Decarceration and Crime: California’s Experience' in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar, 2022, 83 - 134)
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K40, K42, H11
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12651
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David
N.F.
Bell
Robert
A.
Hart
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The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline ...
(revised version published as 'The Decline of Paid Overtime in Britain' in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 2, 235-258 )
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J21, J22, J31, J52
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12649
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Ben
G.
Li
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Extreme Weather and Long-term Health: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites
Modern technology empowers human beings to cope with various extreme weather events. Using Chinese historical data, we examine the impact of extreme weather on long-term human health in an ...
(published as 'Extreme Weather and Mortality: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102401.)
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I15, N35
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12648
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Elizabeth
Dhuey
Jean
Eid
Christine
Neill
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Parental Employment Effects of Switching from Half‐Day to Full‐Day Kindergarten: Evidence from Ontario's French Schools
Full-day kindergarten programs are expanding across North America, driven by a policy focus on early childhood development. These programs also affect parents' budget sets and may lead to changes in ...
(published in: Candadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politique, 2020, 46 (1), 145 - 174)
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I28
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12647
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Michael
Johannes
Böhm
Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
Felix
Schran
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Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (1), 201–243)
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J21, J23, J24, J31
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12646
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Andrea
Kutinova Menclova
Steven
Stillman
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Maternal Stress and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from an Unexpected Earthquake Swarm
We examine the impact of a major earthquake that unexpectedly affected the Canterbury region of New Zealand on a wide-range of birth outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age and an indicator ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29 (12), 1705 - 1720)
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I12, J13, I31
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12645
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Eric
Maurin
Nicolas
Navarrete H.
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Behind the Veil: The Effect of Banning the Islamic Veil in Schools
Immigration from Muslim countries is a source of tensions in many Western countries. Several countries have adopted regulations restricting religious expression and emphasizing the neutrality of the ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (113), 63-98)
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I21, J15
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12644
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Michel
Serafinelli
Guido
Tabellini
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Creativity over Time and Space
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of ...
(published as 'Creativity over time and space: A historical analysis of European cities' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2022, 27, 1-43)
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R10, O10, J61, J24
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12643
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Dominik
Buttler
Eva
Sierminska
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Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy
We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41, 70 - 95)
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D31, G11, J61
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12642
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Effrosyni
Adamopoulou
Ezgi
Kaya
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Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants
This paper explores the impact of the 2007 EU enlargement on the consumption behavior of immigrant households. Using data from a unique Italian survey and a diff-in-diff approach, we find that the ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1552-1598)
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D12, E21, F22
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12641
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cristina
Borra
Noelia
Rivera Garrido
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Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality
We examine the fertility impact of a change in immigration policy granting temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants based on their offspring nationality. The policy, intended to facilitate ...
(published as 'Fertility implications of family-based regularizations' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (2), 449 - 484)
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J13, J15, K37
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12638
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
Gary
Pisano
Pian
Shu
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2020, 2 (3), 357-374)
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F14, O30
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12637
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Oded
Stark
Wiktor
Budzinski
Marcin
Jakubek
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Pure Rank Preferences and Variation in Risk-Taking Behavior
Assuming that an individual's rank in the wealth distribution is the only factor determining the individual's wellbeing, we analyze the individual's risk preferences in relation to gaining or losing ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 184, 108636)
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D01, D31, D81, G32, G41
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12636
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Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Subjective Well-being
This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31(1), 233-249)
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I13, I18, I31
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12635
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Abel
Brodeur
Taylor
Wright
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Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval
Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 119-131)
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D74, K4, K37, P48
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12634
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Josh
Kinsler
Tyler
Ransom
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Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard
Applications to elite US colleges have more than doubled over the past 20 years, with little change in the number of available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (3). 653-683)
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I23, I24, J15
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12633
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Josh
Kinsler
Tyler
Ransom
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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 133-156)
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I23, I24, J15
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12632
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Steffen
Künn
Juan
Palacios
Nico
Pestel
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Indoor Air Quality and Cognitive Performance
This paper studies the causal impact of indoor air quality on the cognitive performance of individuals using data from official chess tournaments. We use a chess engine to evaluate the quality of ...
(revised version published as 'Indoor Air Quality and Strategic Decision Making' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (9), 5354-5377)
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D91, I1, J24, Q50, Z20
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12631
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Max
Nathan
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Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138)
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L53, L86, O31, R30, R50
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12629
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Zichen
Deng
Maarten
Lindeboom
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A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life: Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation we find strong positive ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102615)
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I15, J16, J24, O15
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12628
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Alessio
Gaggero
Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Does Class Size Matter in Postgraduate Education?
The paper examines the impact of class size on postgraduate grades using administrative data from one of the largest Schools of a Russell Group University in the UK. As well as estimating Fixed ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2019, 88 (3), 489-505.)
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I21, I23
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12626
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Plamen
Nikolov
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Time Delay and Investment Decisions: Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania
Attitudes toward risk underlie virtually every important economic decision an individual makes. In this experimental study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (2), 1124-1137. )
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D03, D81, D91, OI10, O12, O16
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12625
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Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Redistribution of Individual Pension Wealth to Survivor Pensions: Evidence from a Stated Preferences Analysis
Pension schemes in the Netherlands allow workers to redistribute their own pension wealth to increase the survivor pension of their partner. However, due to lacking communication and knowledge of ...
(published in: Journal of Behavior Economics and Organization, 2020, 173, 402-421.)
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J14, J26, D31
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12624
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Samuele
Giambra
David
McKenzie
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Self-Employment and Migration
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 141, 105362)
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F22, J61, O15
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12623
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Michal
Burzynski
Christoph
Deuster
Frédéric
Docquier
Jaime
de Melo
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Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on local, interregional, and international migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1145 - 1197)
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E24, F22, J24, J61, O15, Q54
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12622
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Alois
Stutzer
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Happiness and Public Policy: A Procedural Perspective
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based ...
(published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4 (2), 210-225)
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D60, D70, H11, I31
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12619
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John
V.
Winters
Zhengyu
Cai
Karen
Maguire
Shruti
Sengupta
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Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era
Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas ...
(published as 'Causal Effects of the Fracking Boom on Long-Term Resident Workers' in: Journal of Region Science, 2021, 61 (2), 387 - 406)
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J20, J30, Q40, R10
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12618
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Ali
Fakih
Pascal
L.
Ghazalian
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Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system and for better economic conditions. This paper investigates the perceptions of ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021, 48 (1), 1658-1676)
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A13, P48, Z13
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12615
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Brian
Duncan
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Incentives to Identify: A Comment
Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state ...
(shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 742)
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J15, I28, Z13
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12614
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Luyi
Han
John
V.
Winters
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Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust
This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101996)
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I20, J20, J60, R10
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12613
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Jing
Liu
Monica
Lee
Seth
Gershenson
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The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Secondary School Absences
We provide novel evidence on the causal impact of student absences in middle and high school on state test scores, course grades, and educational attainment using a rich administrative dataset that ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104441)
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I2
|
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12612
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Laura
Barbieri
Chiara
Mussida
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and ...
(published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market, Springer, Cham, 2020)
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O33
|
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12611
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Martin
Abel
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Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?
I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 470 - 501)
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J50, J70
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