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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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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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12610
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Enrico
Moretti
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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in "Computer Science", "Semiconductors" and "Biology and Chemistry", accounting for ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3328 - 3375)
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J01, R00
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12609
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Vidhya
Soundararajan
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Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market
Labor market subcontracting is a global phenomenon. This paper presents a theory of wage fairness in a subcontracted labor market, where workers confront multi-party employment relationships and deep ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 24 - 42)
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J41, J48, O43
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12608
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Joni
Hersch
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Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019, 10 (3), 503 - 553)
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D61, I24, I26, J24, J31, J44
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12607
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Marco
Caliendo
Maximilian
Göthner
Martin
Weißenberger
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Entrepreneurial Persistence beyond Survival: Measurement and Determinants
Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly-renewed active engagement in a new business venture ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2020, 58 (3), 617-647. )
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L26, M13
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12605
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Laura
M.
Argys
Susan
L.
Averett
Muzhe
Yang
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Residential Noise Exposure and Health: Evidence from Aviation Noise and Birth Outcomes
Exploiting recent concentration of flight patterns under a new Federal Aviation Administration policy (called NextGen), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020, 103, 102343)
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I10, I18, Q53, Q58, R11
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12604
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Emanuele
Ciani
Adeline
Delavande
Ben
Etheridge
Marco
Francesconi
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Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations
Subjective expectations about future policy play an important role in individuals' welfare. We examine how workers' expectations about pension reform vary with proximity to reforms, information cost, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649), 98-129)
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C8, D84, D91, J14
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12602
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Wim
Naudé
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The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?
Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I ...
(published as ' From the entrepreneurial to the ossified economy' in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, 46 (1), 105 - 131)
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O47, O33, J24, E21, E25
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12600
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Cristina
Bellés Obrero
María
Lombardi
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Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru
We study the impact on student achievement of a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program implemented in Peruvian public secondary schools in 2015. Schools compete in a tournament primarily ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (4), 1631–1669)
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I21, M52, J4
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12599
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Terra
McKinnish
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Locus of Control and Marital Satisfaction: Couple Perspectives Using Australian Data
We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 74, Article 102205.)
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D1, J12
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12598
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
Helen
Gray
Lucy
Stokes
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Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?
Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (4), 532 - 562, )
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J21, J23, J24, J63, L25, M51
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12597
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Lutz
Bellmann
Olaf
Hübler
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Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health
Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured by the Big Five, collegiality, commitment and job characteristics. Among the ...
(published as 'Personality traits, working conditions and health: an empirical analysis based on the German Linked Personnel Panel, 2013 - 2017 ' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 283 - 318)
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I12, J53, J54
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12595
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Gabriela
Galassi
David
Koll
Lukas
Mayr
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The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Is There a Role for Work Culture?
We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102596)
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E24, J21, J22, J62
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12594
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Haodong
Qi
Nahikari
Irastorza
Henrik
Emilsson
Pieter
Bevelander
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Does Integration Policy Integrate? The Employment Effects of Sweden's 2010 Reform of the Introduction Program
Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a concern about the labour market integration of these newcomers. This paper ...
(published as 'Integration policy and refugees’ economic performance: Evidence from Sweden’s 2010 reform of the introduction programme' in: International Migration, 2021, 59 (4), 42 - 58)
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J62, J68
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12593
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Pablo
Agnese
Jana
Hromcová
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Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism
We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring ...
(published as 'Offshoring, welfare, and flexibility in the context of US Protectionism' in: International Economic Journal, 2021, 35 (4), 391 - 410)
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F66, J64, F16, F17
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12592
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Simon
Burgess
Ellen
Greaves
Richard
J.
Murphy
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102253)
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J33, I28
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12591
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Marco
Alberto
De Benedetto
Maria
De Paola
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External Monitors and Score Manipulation in Italian Schools: Symptomatic Treatment or Cure?
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We ...
(published as 'Does monitoring deter future cheating? The case of external examiners in Italian schools' in: Economics Letters, 2021, 201, 109742)
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H52, I2
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12590
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Teresa
Molina Millán
Karen
Macours
John
Maluccio
Luis
Tejerina
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Experimental Long-Term Effects of Early-Childhood and School-Age Exposure to a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
Numerous evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs show positive short-term impacts, but there is only limited evidence on whether these benefits translate into sustained longer-term ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102385)
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I25, I28, I38, O15
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12589
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Lajos
Kossuth
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Donna
Harris
Nick
Chater
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Does It Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment
This paper examined whether people gained significant emotional benefits from not engaging in emotional hedging – betting against the occurrence of desired outcomes. Using the 2018 FIFA World Cup ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 35-58. )
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G41, I31
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12588
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Morag
Henderson
Nikki
Shure
Anna
Adamecz
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'First in Family' University Graduates in England
Universities around the world are attempting to increase the diversity of their student population. This includes individuals who are 'first in family' (FiF), those who achieve a university degree, ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Education, 2020, 46 (6), 734-751)
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I21, I23, I24
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12587
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David J.
Cooper
Krista
Saral
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Why Join a Team?
We present experiments exploring why high ability workers join teams with less able co-workers when there are no short-term financial benefits. We distinguish between two explanations: pro-social ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6980-6997 )
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C92, D23, M52, M53, J24
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12585
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Andrés
Hojman
Florencia
López Bóo
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Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers
This paper evaluates the impacts of a public program that introduced access to part-time childcare centers for children younger than four years of age in poor urban areas in Nicaragua. We explore the ...
(published as 'Public childcare benefits children and mothers: Evidence from a nationwide experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 212, 104686)
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C21, I28, I38
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12583
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Oded
Stark
Lukasz
Byra
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Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?
Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2020, 183, 29 - 41)
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D81, E21, F22, J61, J78
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12582
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Anne
Ardila
Brenře
Ulf
Zölitz
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Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1009-1054)
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I21, J16, J31
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12579
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Idriss
Fontaine
Ismael
Galvez-Iniesta
Pedro
Maia
Gomes
Diego
Vila-Martin
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Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector
For the period between 2003 and 2018, we document a number of facts about worker gross flows in France, the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States, focussing on the role of the public sector. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101770)
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E24, E32, J21, J45, J60
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12576
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
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Accounting for Skewed or One-Sided Measurement Error in the Dependent Variable
While classical measurement error in the dependent variable in a linear regression framework results only in a loss of precision, non-classical measurement error can lead to estimates which are ...
(published in: Political Analysis, 2022, 30, 66-88)
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C18, C51
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12574
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Gregor
Jarosch
Jan Sebastian
Nimczik
Isaac
Sorkin
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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
We build a model where firm size is a source of labor market power. The key mechanism is that a granular employer can eliminate its own vacancies from a worker's outside option in the wage bargain. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (6), 3569 - 3607)
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J31, J42
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12573
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Tho
Pham
Oleksandr
Talavera
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Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing
This paper aims to quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 95, 228 - 254)
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I23, O39
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12571
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Janice
Compton
Robert
Pollak
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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses
Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2021, 16, e0250564)
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J1
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12570
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John
Chiwuzulum Odozi
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare
Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of African Development, 2026)
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I10, I30, O1, D74
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