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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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12527
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely ...
(published in: Labour, 2024, 38 (1), 102-121)
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I31, J45, M5
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12526
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Daniel
Goller
Michael
Lechner
Andreas
Moczall
Joachim
Wolff
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Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed
Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855)
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J68, C21
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12524
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Plamen
Nikolov
Alan
Adelman
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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Higher life expectancy and rapidly aging populations have led to the introduction of pension programs in developing countries in the last two decades. Using the introduction of a new public policy in ...
(updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).)
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J14, H55, H75, J26, J24, D91, O12, N35, O10
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12522
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Lukas
Kiessling
Pia
Pinger
Philipp
K.
Seegers
Jan
Bergerhoff
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Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 12522 )
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D81, D84, I21, I23, J13, J30
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12521
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Krishna
Regmi
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Labor Demand Shocks at Birth and Cognitive Achievement during Childhood
As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101917)
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J20, J21, I20, I30
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12519
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Paul
Dolan
Grace
Lordan
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Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045)
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D31, D63, I1,I14, J60
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12518
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Oded
Stark
Krzysztof
Szczygielski
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The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions
We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229)
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D21, D81, G32
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12517
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076 )
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J45, M5
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12516
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Shuai
Chen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.)
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D78, J12, J15, J16, K36
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12515
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Fabio
Berton
Stefano
Dughera
Andrea
Ricci
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Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have ...
(published as 'A simple model of holdup, union voice, and firm investments' in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo and G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace productivity and management practices (Research in Labor Economics, 49), 2021, 67 - 84)
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J51, O31, O32
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12514
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Nusrat
Abedin
Jimi
Plamen
Nikolov
Mohammad
Abdul
Malek
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55)
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E22, H81, Q12, D2, O12, O16
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12513
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
Kirsten
Thommes
Katja
Rebecca
Tilkes
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Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment
We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare ...
(published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61 )
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C9, M5
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12512
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James
Albrecht
Xiaoming
Cai
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Susan
Vroman
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Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power
We consider a labor market with search frictions in which workers make multiple applications and firms can post and commit to general mechanisms that may be conditioned both on the number of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121)
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C78, D44, D83
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12511
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Benoit
Dostie
Mohsen
Javdani
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Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data
Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study we use longitudinal Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.)
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J24, L22, M53
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12510
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Caterina
Alacevich
Catia
Nicodemo
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Immigration and Work-Related Injuries: Evidence from Italian Administrative Data
There is growing evidence that foreign-born workers are over represented in physically demanding and dangerous jobs with relatively higher injury hazard rates. Given this pattern, do increasing ...
(published as 'The Effect of Immigration on Occupational Injuries: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (2), 209-235)
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C55, J61, J28, I1
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12509
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Sophia
Schmitz
Felix
Weinhardt
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Immigration and the Evolution of Local Cultural Norms
We study the local evolution of cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high ...
(An updated version of this paper is available as IZA DP No. 16428.)
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J16, J21, D1
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12508
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Maoliang
Ye
Jie
Zheng
Plamen
Nikolov
Samuel
Asher
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One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?
This study investigates a potential mechanism to promote coordination. With theoretical guidance using a belief-based learning model, we conduct a multi-period, binary-choice, and weakest-link ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 66 (1), 113-129.)
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C91, C92, D03, D71, D81, H41
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12507
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Elizabeth
Dhuey
Jessie
Lamontagne
Tingting
Zhang
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The Impact of Full-Day Kindergarten on Maternal Labour Supply
We examine the impact of offering full-day as a replacement for half-day kindergarten on mothers' labour supply using the rollout of full-day kindergarten in Ontario, Canada. We find no impact on the ...
(published as 'Full-Day Kindergarten: Effects on Maternal Labor Supply ' in: Education Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (4), 533 - 557.)
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I28
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12506
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Pedro
Carneiro
Emanuela
Galasso
Italo
Lopez Garcia
Paula
Bedregal
Miguel
Cordero
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Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment
This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly ...
(revised version published as 'Impacts of a Large-Scale Parenting Program: Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (4), 1113–1161)
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H43, I10, I20, I38
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12505
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Hao
Li
Daniel
L.
Millimet
Punarjit
Roychowdhury
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Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach
We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2023, 186 (1), 84-109)
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C18, D31, I32
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12504
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Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Jesse
Matheson
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Secondary School Enrolment and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (4), 1019–1037)
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I20, I26, J13
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12503
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Thomas
Breda
Clotilde
Napp
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Girls' Comparative Advantage in Reading Can Largely Account for the Gender Gap in Math-Intensive Fields
Gender differences in math performance are now small in developed countries and they cannot explain on their own the strong under-representation of women in math-related fields. This latter result is ...
(published in: PNAS, 2019, 116 (31), 15435-15440)
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I24, J16
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12501
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Faical
Akaichi
Joan
Costa-Font
Richard
Frank
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2020, 173, 422-434)
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I18
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12500
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Antonia
Parera-Nicolau
Yolanda
Pena-Boquete
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Labour Supply and Childcare: Allowing Both Parents to Choose
We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for two parent families in Australia, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. Our main contribution is to ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(3), 577-602.)
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J00, J13, J22
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12499
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Frank
M.
Fossen
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Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition
Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 1837-1855)
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L26, J22, J23, M13
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12497
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Gopi
Shah Goda
Matthew
R.
Levy
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
Aaron
Sojourner
Joshua
Tasoff
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Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether this varies based on features of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321)
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D91, J26, J32, D14, D15, M52
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12496
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Seamus
McGuinness
Adele
Bergin
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The Political Economy of a Northern Ireland Border Poll
Given the increased prominence of a border poll in Ireland, particularly following the outcome of the Brexit referendum, this paper provides an initial assessment of some of the issues that are ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2020, 44 (4), 781 - 812)
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P52, J01, J10, R10
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12494
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Laura
Hospido
Carlos
Sanz
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Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences
We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015-2017), the Annual Meeting of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83(3), 590-618)
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A1, J16
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12493
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Cristina
Blanco-Perez
Abel
Brodeur
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Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings
In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce the extent of specification searching and reminds referees to accept studies ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (623), 1226-1247)
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A11, C13, C44, I10
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12491
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Jan
Feld
Nicolás
Salamanca
Ulf
Zölitz
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Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, Article 101912)
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I21, I24, J24
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12490
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
Hanna
Mühlrad
Mårten
Palme
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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply: Analysis of IVF Reform in Sweden
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be ...
(revised version available from the authors)
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J13, I11, I12, I38, J24
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12489
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Marcello
Perez-Alvarez
Marta
Favara
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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact ...
(published in: Journal Population Econonmics, 2023, 36, 1573–1606 )
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I15, I25, J13, J16, O15
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12488
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications
This paper studies self-control in a nationally representative sample. Using the well-established Tangney scale to measure trait self-control, we find that people's age as well as the political and ...
(updated version published as 'The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744)
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D91, J24
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12487
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Jonas
Jessen
Jochen
Kluve
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The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256 )
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C40, J08, J46, J48
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12486
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Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud
Maurel
Xiaoyun
Qiu
Yichong
Zhang
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Estimating Selection Models without Instrument with Stata
This article presents the eqregsel command for implementing the estimation and bootstrap inference of sample selection models via extremal quantile regression. The command estimates a semiparametric ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 20(2), 297-308)
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C21, C24, C87, J31
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12484
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Daniela
Del Boca
Enrica
Maria
Martino
Elena Claudia
Meroni
Daniela
Piazzalunga
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Early Education and Gender Differences
A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children cognitive and non-cognitive development in the short and medium run, and on a ...
(published in: Economica Italiana, 2019, 3, 11-36 )
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J13, J16
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12483
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Agnitra
Roy
Choudhury
Solomon
Polachek
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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations
Raising a new-born child involves not only financial resources, but also time investment from the parents. A time constraint can affect important decisions made by parents at the early stages of an ...
(published in: Vaccine, 2021, 39 (21), 2886-2893)
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D04, I12, I18, J18
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12481
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Nathaniel
L.
Schwartz
Susan
Dynarski
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Dual-Credit Courses and the Road to College: Experimental Evidence from Tennessee
Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (3), 686-719)
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I21, I23, I24, I28
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12480
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Nicole
B.
Simpson
Chad
Sparber
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Estimating the Determinants of Remittances Originating from U.S. Households using CPS Data
The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 (according to data from the World Bank). This paper is the first to use Current ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 161-189)
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F24, J61
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12479
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Manuel
Aepli
Andreas
Kuhn
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Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101979)
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D22, J23, J61, M53
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12478
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Shushanik
Margaryan
Nils
Saniter
Mathias
Schumann
Thomas
Siedler
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Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience in firms on earnings later in life. We use mandatory firm internships at German universities as an instrument for doing a firm ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1242-1275)
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I23, J01, J31
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12477
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Maik
T.
Schneider
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Buying Supermajorities in the Lab
Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the literature on vote-buying is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 127, 113-154)
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C92, D72
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12476
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Ram
Fishman
Stephen
C.
Smith
Vida
Bobic
Munshi
Sulaiman
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Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability; but ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (6), 1273–1288.)
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O13, O33, I32, Q12
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12475
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Giovanni
Gualtieri
Marcella
Nicolini
Fabio
Sabatini
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Repeated Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution
A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 167: 53-71 )
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H10, H53, D63, D69, Z1
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12474
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Agustín
Indaco
Francesc
Ortega
Süleyman
Taspinar
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Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses
This paper argues that increases in perceived flood risk entail a negative and persistent shock to local economic activity. Our analysis is based on a rich administrative dataset that contains all ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591)
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H56, K42, R33
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12472
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Jennifer
Hunt
Ryan
Nunn
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Is Employment Polarization Informative about Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing?
Equating a job with an individual rather than an occupation, we re-examine whether U.S. workers are increasingly concentrated in low and high-wage jobs relative to middle-wage jobs, a phenomenon ...
(published as 'Has U.S. employment really polarized? A critical reappraisal' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102117)
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J31, J62
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12471
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Eleonora
Nillesen
Michael
Grimm
Micheline
Goedhuys
Ann-Kristin
Reitmann
Aline
Meysonnat
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On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia
We use an implicit association test (IAT) to measure implicit gender attitudes and examine the malleability of these attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105263)
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C83, D91, O12
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12470
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Johan
Vikström
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Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings
We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (3), 1337-1354)
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C14, J3
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12468
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Felix
FitzRoy
Jim
Jin
Michael
A.
Nolan
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Higher Tax and Less Work: An Optimal Response to Relative Income Concern
There is much evidence that relative income concern reduces subjective wellbeing and raises labour supply – 'keeping up with the Joneses' (KUJ), while increasing use of social media and growing ...
(published as 'Higher tax and less work: reverse 'Keep up with the Joneses' and rising inequality' in: Journal of Economics, 2023, 139 (3), 177-190, )
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H240, D630
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12467
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Alessandro
Palma
Inna
Petrunyk
Daniela
Vuri
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Air Pollution during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes in Italy
We investigate the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on health outcomes at birth in Italy in the 2000s combining information on mother’s residential location from birth certificates with ...
(published as 'Prenatal air pollution exposure and neonatal health' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (5), 729-759)
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I18, J13, Q53, Q58
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