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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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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
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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
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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
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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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12390
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Joan
Costa-Font
Frank
A.
Cowell
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The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?
Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20, 299–325)
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D63, H23, I18
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12389
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Alberto
Batinti
Joan
Costa-Font
Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European countries since the middle of the nineteenth century. We employ both cross ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 161-190 )
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H1, J18
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12386
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Petra
Persson
Maya
Rossin-Slater
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When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (4), 186–219)
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I12, I18, I31, J12, J13, J38
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12383
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Ayako
Kondo
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Impact of Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Payments on Employment and Wages in Formal Long-Term Care
This paper examines the effect of raising Long-term Care Insurance (LTCI) payments on employment and wages of workers in the long-term care (LTC) industry. Specifically, I use the change in the ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019, 53, 101034)
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I11, J30, J48
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12382
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Dany
Bahar
Prithwiraj
Choudhury
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 50 percent more likely ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947)
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O31, O33, F22
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12381
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Mutlu
Yuksel
Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Cahit
Guven
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Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (310), 279-300)
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J12, J13, J24, J31, J61, J62
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12380
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Rui
Costa
Swati
Dhingra
Stephen
Machin
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in ...
(published as 'New Dawn Fades: Trade, Labour and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024,152, 103993 )
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F14, F31, F66, J24, J31
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12377
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States
This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by private car, public transport, or with other physical modes of transport. Our ...
(published in: Energy Policy, 2019, 132, 324-331)
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D1, Q4, R4
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12376
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Brian
A.
Bourquard
Steven
Y.
Wu
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An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions
Due to high levels of obesity, various government interventions have been proposed to curb the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). The New York City "soda-ban," which proposed to limit ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102 (1), 169-185)
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D82, I18, I31
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12374
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Can
Tang
Liqiu
Zhao
Zhong
Zhao
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Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China
This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor. We exploit the cross-province variation in the roll-out of the reform and apply a ...
(published in:[Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 601–631 )
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I28, I38, O20
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12373
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Alessandro
Cigno
Alessandro
Gioffré
Annalisa
Luporini
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Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
How does the distribution of individual preferences evolve as a result of marriage between individuals with different preferences? Could a family rule be self-enforcing given individual preferences, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 935-958)
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C78, D13, J12
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12372
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Teevrat
Garg
Matthew
Gibson
Fanglin
Sun
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Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China
How do people in developing countries respond to extreme temperatures? Using individual-level panel data over two decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how ...
(published as 'Extreme temperatures and time use in China' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 309 - 324.)
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Q54, O13, H53
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12371
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Brindusa
Anghel
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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Culture, Gender, and Math: A Revisitation
Using five waves of PISA data spanning the period 2003-2015 and exploiting variation both across- and within-countries, we find that the positive association between the female-male gender gap in ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Gender Equality and the Math Gender Gap' in: Economics of Education Review. 2020, 79, 102064 )
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I1, Z1
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12367
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Markus
Poschke
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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that ...
(published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 12 September 2024, 103684)
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O40, L26, J64, J23
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12365
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Kurt
Mitman
Stanislav
Rabinovich
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Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries?
Countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions in the United States act as a propagation mechanism, contributing to both the high persistence of unemployment and its weak correlation with ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 05 September 2024, 104964)
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E24, E32, J65
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12364
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Barbara
M.
Fraumeni
Michael
S.
Christian
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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012: An Analysis by Gender
This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and ...
(published in: Barbara M. Fraumeni (ed.), Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions, Academic Press, 2020, 509-529)
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J24, J16, O47, J22, I26
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12361
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Oded
Stark
Wiktor
Budzinski
Grzegorz
Kosiorowski
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Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare
We use queuing-related behavior as an instrument for assessing the social appeal of alternative cultural norms. Specifically, we study the behavior of rational and sophisticated individuals who stand ...
(published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, 278 (3), 837 - 844)
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C72, D60, Z13
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12360
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Raquel
Fernández
Sahar
Parsa
Martina
Viarengo
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Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" ...
(published online as 'Coming out in America: thirty years of cultural change' in: Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 18 April 2024)
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J15, P16, Z13
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12358
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Kai
Ingwersen
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021, 19, 825-854.)
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J61, J31, J15
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12357
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Tatiana
Garanina
Alexander
Muravyev
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from Russia
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the ...
(revised version published in: Emerging Markets Review, 2021, 48, 100772)
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G34, J16
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12356
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Pavel
Jelnov
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The Marriage Age U-Shape
In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during the twentieth century. First, I show that the U-shaped dynamics have been ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (2), 211-252)
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J12, N32, N34
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12355
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Pavel
Jelnov
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Comparison Dimensions and Similarity: Addressing Individual Heterogeneity
How many comparison dimensions individuals consider when they are asked to judge how similar two different objects are? I address individual heterogeneity in the number of comparison dimensions with ...
(published in: Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 2020, 13(3), 141–149.)
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D12
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12354
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Artyom
Jelnov
Pavel
Jelnov
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Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party
In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in ...
(pablished as "Success, Survival and Probabilistic Voting: The Case of a ruling Party" in: Journal Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3), 209-226)
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D72
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12352
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Ria
Ivandic
Tom
Kirchmaier
Stephen
Machin
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Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime
Empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks are studied. Based upon rich administrative data from Greater Manchester Police, event studies of ...
(published as 'International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crimes' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (3), 589–610)
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K42
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12351
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Marco
de Pinto
Laszlo
Goerke
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Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly
In a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry and business stealing, output per firm is too low and the number of competitors excessive, assuming labor productivity to depend on the number of ...
(published in: B.E.Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2019, 19 (4), 20180236)
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D43, J31, L13
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12349
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Zhengyu
Cai
Karen
Maguire
John
V.
Winters
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Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas
This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2019, 84, 104515)
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J20, Q33, Q40, R10
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12348
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Matthias
Sutter
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How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior
Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 1-13.)
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C91, D03, D09
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12347
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Gary
Charness
Francesco
Feri
Miguel
A.
Meléndez-Jiménez
Matthias
Sutter
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An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games
The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1630 - 1543)
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C71, C91, D03, D85
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12346
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Giorgio
Brunello
Patricia
Wruuck
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Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatch in Europe: A Review of the Literature
Labour markets are currently in a phase of cyclical recovery and undergoing structural transformation due to globalisation, demographic trends, advancing digital technologies and automation and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35 (4), 1145-1167)
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J24
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