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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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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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12465
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Laura
Magazzini
Marco
Stampini
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Exploiting Information from Singletons in Panel Data Analysis: A GMM Approach
We propose a novel procedure, built within a Generalized Method of Moments framework, which exploits unpaired observations (singletons) to increase the efficiency of longitudinal fixed effect ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 186, 108519)
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C23, C33, C51
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12463
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J. Catherine
Maclean
Sebastian
Tello-Trillo
Douglas
A.
Webber
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Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations: Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment
We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health – mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) – community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 508-527)
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I1, I11, I18
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12462
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Mian
Huang
Chunbing
Xing
Xiaoyong
Cui
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Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates? Evidence from China
Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP ...
(published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (3), 135 - 160)
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J13, J16, J61, J24
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12461
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Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Jesse
Matheson
Réka
Plugor
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Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services: Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
We study the effect of reducing barriers to accessing non-police services on the demand for police services in cases of police-reported domestic violence. Variation comes from a large randomized ...
(published as 'The Impact of Improving Access to Support Services for Victims of Domestic Violence on Demand for Services and Victim Outcomes' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (1), 292–324)
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I18, J12, H75
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12459
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Good Schools or Good Students? The Importance of Selectivity for School Rankings
This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics, including early measures of cognitive and non-cognitive skills, to estimate the value added of second-level schools in Ireland. ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Education, 2022, 48 (6), 804 - 826)
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I210, I280
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12455
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Pierre
Mouganie
Yaojing
Wang
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High-Performing Peers and Female STEM Choices in School
Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (3), 805 - 841)
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I21, I24, I26, J24
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12454
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Maria
W. J.
Jansen
Dave
H. H.
Van Kann
Annelore
Verhagen
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Does Stimulating Physical Activity Affect School Performance?
This paper investigates whether encouraging children to become more physically active in their everyday life affects their primary school performance. We use data from a field quasi-experiment called ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (1), 64-95)
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I12, C93, I20
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12453
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Iga
Magda
Katarzyna
Salach
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Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms
We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 61, 2237–2263 )
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F23, J16, J31, J71
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12451
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Evelina
Björkegren
Mikael
Lindahl
Mĺrten
Palme
Emilia
Simeonova
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Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 112-142)
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I10, I14
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12450
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Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Edward
Miguel
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Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 127, 103493)
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C83, D90
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12449
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Nicola
Gagliardi
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
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Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All?
This paper provides first evidence on the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers' wages. It also ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (1), 52-83)
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F61, F66, J16, J31
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12448
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Gabriella
Conti
Giacomo
Mason
Stavros
Poupakis
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Developmental Origins of Health Inequality
Building on early animal studies, 20th-century researchers increasingly explored the fact that early events – ranging from conception to childhood – affect a child's health trajectory in the ...
(published in: the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, 2019)
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I14, J13, J24
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12446
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Kathrin
Manthei
Dirk
Sliwka
Timo
Vogelsang
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Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We investigate the causal effect of conversations about performance and performance pay implementing a 2x2 field experiment in a retail chain. In the performance pay treatments, managers receive a ...
(published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216 )
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J3, L2, M5, C93
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12444
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Didier
Fouarge
Merve
Nezihe
Özer
Philipp
K.
Seegers
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Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance
This paper investigates the relationship between Big Five personality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate in countries that vary in their culture. Using data collected from university ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2425-2454.)
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D91, J61, Z1
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12442
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Ronald
D.
Lee
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Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics
Paul Samuelson made a series of important contributions to population theory for humans and other species, evolutionary theory, and the theory of age structured life cycles in economic equilibrium ...
(published in: Robert A. Cord, Richard G. Anderson, William A. Barnett (eds.), Paul Samuelson Master of Modern Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 471-495)
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J11, J18, Q57, H55, D64
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12441
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Paolo
Martellini
Guido
Menzio
Ludo
Visschers
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Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment
We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (637), 2203-2232.)
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E24, J63, J64
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12438
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Philipp
Grunau
Lutz
Bellmann
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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability
Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works ...
(revised version published as 'Works Council "Disaffection" and Establishment Survivability" in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 70 (1), 38 - 67)
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J51, J53, J65
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12436
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Thomas
Breda
Elyčs
Jouini
Clotilde
Napp
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Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math
While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers. Using data from five successive waves of ...
(published in: Science Magazine, 2018, 359 (6381), 1219-1220)
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I24, J16, Z1
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12435
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Three Revolutions of the Modern Era
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (4), 521–530)
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N30, I31,I15, C21
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12434
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Per-Anders
Edin
Tiernan
Evans
Georg
Graetz
Sofia
Hernnäs
Guy
Michaels
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Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
What are the earnings and employment losses that workers suffer when demand for their occupations declines? To answer this question we combine forecasts on occupational employment changes, which ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (654), 2178–2209)
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O33, J24, J62
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12433
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Andrey
Stoyanov
Nick
Zubanov
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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications
Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23 (2), 233-274)
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D24, D58, J2
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12432
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Gloria
Moroni
Cheti
Nicoletti
Emma
Tominey
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Child Socio-Emotional Skills: The Role of Parental Inputs
Informed by the psychological literature and our empirical evidence we provide new insights into the technology of socio-emotional skill formation in middle childhood. In line with economic evidence, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2025, 19 (3), 435-663.)
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J13, D10, I10, I31
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12431
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Eva
Van Belle
Ralf
Caers
Laure
Cuypers
Marijke
De Couck
Brecht
Neyt
Hannah
Van Borm
Stijn
Baert
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What Do Student Jobs on Graduate CVs Signal to Employers?
Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101979)
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C91, I21, J22, J24
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12430
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Anthony
Lepinteur
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The Causes and Consequences of Early-Adult Unemployment: Evidence from Cohort Data
We here use the employment-history data from the British Cohort Study to calculate an individual's total experience of unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 107-124)
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J21, J63, I31
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12429
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Valerie
Bostwick
Stefanie
Fischer
Matthew
Lang
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Semesters or Quarters? The Effect of the Academic Calendar on Postsecondary Student Outcomes
We examine the impact of US colleges and universities switching from an academic quarter calendar to a semester calendar on student outcomes. Using panel data on the near universe of four-year ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (1), 40–80)
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I2
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12428
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Melanie
Arntz
Terry
Gregory
Ulrich
Zierahn-Weilage
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Digitalization and the Future of Work: Macroeconomic Consequences
Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent ...
(published in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2020)
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J23, J31, O33
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12427
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Diane
Alexander
Hannes
Schwandt
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The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating
Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit the dispersion of emissions-cheating diesel cars - which secretly polluted up to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (6), 2872–2910)
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I10, I14, K32, J13
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12426
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Bryan
Andrew
Stuart
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The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (1), 42–74)
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E32, I20, I30, J13, J24
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12425
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Chung
Choe
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
Francesco
Renna
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Is There a Business Cycle Effect on the Incidence of Dual Job Holding?
This paper examines the extent to which the incidence of dual job holding is cyclically sensitive in the context of hours constraints on labor supply. Linear probability models of the incidence of ...
(published online in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 07 March 2023)
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J01, J22, J49
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12424
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Niall
O'Higgins
Giovanni
Pica
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Complementarities between Labour Market Institutions and Their Causal Impact on Youth Labour Market Outcomes
We analyse theoretically and empirically the effects on young people's labour market outcomes of two specific labour market institutions and their interaction: employment protection legislation ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (3), 20180165)
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J13, J63, J68
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12423
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Oded
Stark
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On Social Preferences and the Intensity of Risk Aversion
We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by his relative wealth, and by how concerned he is about having low relative ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 807 - 826)
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D31, D81, G11
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12422
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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Growing into Relative Income Poverty: Urban China 1988 to 2013
This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 147 (1), 73 - 94 )
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I3, I32
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12421
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Lanfang
Deng
Haizheng
Li
Zhiqiang
Liu
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The Impact of Family Co-Residence and Childcare on Children's Cognitive Skill
We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 55 (26), 3008–3025. )
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I21, I2
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12420
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Serena
Canaan
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Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being
Many countries offer new parents long periods of paid leave. Proponents argue that parental leave programs can reduce gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102127)
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J12, J13, J18, J22
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12419
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Serena
Canaan
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The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking
Grouping students by ability is a controversial issue, and its impacts are likely to depend on the type of tracking students are exposed to. This paper studies a reform that moved French schools from ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104206)
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I21, I28, J24
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12417
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Breno
Braga
Fredric
Blavin
Anuj
Gangopadhyaya
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The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Outcomes
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a central component of the U.S. safety net, benefiting about 27 million families. Using variation in the federal and state EITC, this paper evaluates the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104249.)
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H24, I12, I14
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12416
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Hans
Fricke
Susanna
Loeb
David
S.
Song
Ben
York
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When Behavioral Barriers Are Too High or Low: How Timing Matters for Parenting Interventions
The time children spend with their parents affects their development. Parenting programs can help parents use that time more effectively. Text-messaged-based parenting curricula have proven an ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102352)
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I21, I24, J18
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12415
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Serena
Canaan
Pierre
Mouganie
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Female Science Advisors and the STEM Gender Gap
In an effort to reduce the gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), policymakers often propose providing women with close mentoring by female scientists. ...
(published as 'The Impact of Advisor Gender on Female Students’ STEM Enrollment and Persistence' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (2), 593-632)
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I23, I24, J16
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12412
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Dany
Bahar
Cem
Özgüzel
Andreas
Hauptmann
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 2, 287-304 )
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O33, F14, F22
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12411
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Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Eric
R.
Eide
Merrill
Warnick
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Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?
College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed - since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (3), 1 - 29)
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I23, I21
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