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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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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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12568
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Elisabetta
De Cao
Barry
McCormick
Catia
Nicodemo
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102601.)
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E24, I10, I12, J13
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12565
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Ulrich
Volz
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The Yen Exchange Rate and the Hollowing Out of the Japanese Industry
Since the demise of the Bretton Woods system, the yen has seen several episodes of strong appreciation, including in the late 1970s, after the 1985 Plaza Agreement, the early and late 1990s and after ...
(published in: Open Economic Review, 2020, 31, 371 - 406)
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F31, O14
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12564
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Clemens
Domnick
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Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2021, 29 (3), 573 - 589)
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F14, F15, F21, F41
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12563
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Nicola
Barban
Elisabetta
De Cao
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment
We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102023)
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C36, D1, J1, J12
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12562
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Eva
Sierminska
Jacques
Silber
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The Diversity of Household Assets Holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: Measurement and Determinants
We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the distribution of individual asset holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009. We examine ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 599 - 634)
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D14
|
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12556
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Quinn
Keefer
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL: Short-Run and Career Consequences
Similar to other workers in industrial settings NFL running backs can choose to provide additional work effort with possible negative health consequences. We find that the most informative measure ...
(published as 'Performance and Pay in Professional Football' in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2022, 12 (4), 269-343.)
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Z21, Z22, C23
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12555
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Chunbei
Wang
Magnus
Lofstrom
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September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants
Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 5 - 33)
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J15, L26
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12554
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Jaime
Arellano-Bover
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Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment
One of the largest population displacement episodes in the U.S. took place in 1942, when over 110,000 persons of Japanese origin living on the West Coast were forcibly sent away to ten internment ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 126-174)
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J61, J62, N32, O15
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12553
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Maria
Bigoni
Stefania
Bortolotti
Efşan
Nas Özen
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Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment
Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a situation where only the rich can reduce inequality while the poor can express ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 387 - 401)
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C91, D63, D83, D84, D91
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12552
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Mark
Borgschulte
Jacob
Vogler
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 ...
(published in Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102333)
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H75, I13, I14, I18, I38
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12551
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Daniel
Masterson
Vasil
Yasenov
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Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban
Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073)
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F22, J15, K42
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12550
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Asadul
Islam
Wang-Sheng
Lee
Aaron
Nicholas
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The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102615)
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C93, D80, I21
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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