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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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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
Mårten
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
Elyès
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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12410
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Charlie
Brown
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?
We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the U.S. and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. ...
(published in: RSF -The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (5), 68-87)
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J23, J18
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12409
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Andrew
Mountford
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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Trainspotting: 'Good Jobs', Training and Skilled Immigration
While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (359), 851-881)
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J6
|
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12408
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Giovanni
Dosi
Mariacristina
Piva
Maria
Enrica
Virgillito
Marco
Vivarelli
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Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2021, 50 (4), 10419)
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O14, O31, O33
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12405
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Marina
Della Giusta
Maria
Laura
Di Tommaso
Sarah
Jewell
Francesca
Bettio
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Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK
We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom, which moved from a relatively permissive regime under the Wolfenden Report of ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88 (2), 527-544)
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C35, J16, J22, K42
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12404
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Eva
Sierminska
Daniela
Piazzalunga
Markus
M.
Grabka
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Transitioning Towards More Equality? Wealth Gender Differences and the Changing Role of Explanatory Factors over Time
The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from ...
(published as 'Women’s Labour Market Attachment and the Gender Wealth Gap' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy,2024, 24 (4), 1045-1071.)
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D31, D13
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12403
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Francesca
Barigozzi
Helmuth
Cremer
Chiara
Monfardini
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The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy
Our model studies couples. time allocation and career choices, which are a¤ected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care ...
(published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.)
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D13, H23, J16, J22
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12402
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William
Cochrane
Jacques
Poot
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Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration
The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due ...
(published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284)
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J61, J64, R23, R31
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12401
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Fredrik W.
Andersson
Henrik
Jordahl
Jens
Josephson
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Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2019, 65 (4), 349–372, )
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D23, H11, L33
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12400
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Daniel
Kühnle
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How Effective Are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data
Studies examining the introduction of pictorial warnings on cigarette packages provide inconclusive evidence due to small samples and methodological issues. We use individual-level panel data from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102215)
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I12, I14, I18
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12399
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Alois
Stutzer
Michael
Baltensperger
Armando
N.
Meier
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Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 483-500)
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D03, D72, D78, H00
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12397
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Cristina
Sechel
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (1), 82-113)
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A1, A11, A2, I3, J01, J31, J7
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12395
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Gary
Charness
Thomas
Garcia
Theo
Offerman
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60, 99-123)
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C91, C93, D81
|
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12393
|
Orkun
Saka
Nauro
F.
Campos
Paul
De Grauwe
Yuemei
Ji
Angelo
Martelli
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Financial Crises and Liberalization: Progress or Reversals?
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 ...
(published in: Campos, N., P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds), Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 177 - 213 )
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G01, G28, P11, P16
|
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12392
|
Stephanie
Prümer
Claus
Schnabel
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Questioning the Stereotype of the "Malingering Bureaucrat": Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany
Public sector employees are often said to have excessive rates of absence from work. Using representative survey data for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2019, 72 (4), 570-603)
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I19, J22, H8
|
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12391
|
Andrea
Ichino
Martin
Olsson
Barbara
Petrongolo
Peter
Skogman
Thoursie
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Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms
We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024)
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D13, H24, J22
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