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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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12319
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Harry
J.
Holzer
Zeyu
Xu
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Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students
In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired credentials and fields of study, as well as other choices and outcomes along the ...
(published in: Community College Review, 2021, 49 (4), 351 - 388)
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I2
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12318
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Rafat
Mahmood
Michael
Jetter
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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 787-811)
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C26, D74, F51, F52, H56, O53
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12316
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Mathias
Huebener
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Life Expectancy and Parental Education
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol. 232, 351-365)
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I12, I14, I26
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12314
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Angela
Cools
Raquel
Fernández
Eleonora
Patacchini
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Girls, Boys, and High Achievers
This paper studies the effect of exposure to female and male "high-achievers" in high school on the long-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the ...
(published as 'The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102287)
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I21, J16
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12313
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Xin
Zhang
Xi
Chen
Xiaobo
Zhang
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The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-being in China
This paper studies the impact of six main air pollutants on three key dimensions of subjective well-being (SWB) – life satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally ...
(longer version published in: D.Maddison, K. Rehdanz, H. Welsch (eds.): Handbook on Well-being, Happiness, and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)
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I31, Q51, Q53
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12312
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Hasan
Bilgehan
Yavuz
Francesco
Pastore
Ömer
Tuğsal
Doruk
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Intergenerational Mobility: An Assessment for Latin American Countries
This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and Brazil), which have been much neglected in the existing literature. Like other ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022, 60 (1), 141-157)
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J62, J60, D3, D6
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12310
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Richard
Blundell
David
Goll
Monica
Costa Dias
Costas
Meghir
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Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S1), S275–S315)
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J22, J24, J31
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12309
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
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How Stable Is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries
Labour market segmentation currently is at the forefront of national and European policy debates. While the European Commission and the OECD try to promote what they see as more inclusive policies, ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 27 (1), 93-110)
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J41, J42, J65
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12308
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ana
Fernandes
Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 139–152)
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C93, J16, J71
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12307
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Simon
Briole
Eric
Maurin
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class ...
(published as 'There's always room for improvement: the persistent benefits of a large-scale teacher evaluation system' in : Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1150 - 1179)
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I20, I28, J24
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12306
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Laura
Hospido
Luc
Laeven
Ana
Lamo
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The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (5), 981 - 996)
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J16, J31, J41, J63
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12305
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Sebastian
Butschek
Jan
Sauermann
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection
To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms' worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 09 May 2022)
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M51, D22, J24, J38
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12304
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Octave
De Brouwer
Elisabeth
Leduc
Ilan
Tojerow
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The Unexpected Consequences of Job Search Monitoring: Disability Instead of Employment?
This paper investigates how the implementation of Job Search Monitoring (JSM) programs over the last two decades could have impacted the rise of disability rates in OECD countries. To do so, we use ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 224, 104929)
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I13, J64
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12303
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Douglas
L.
Kruse
Joseph
Blasi
Dan
Weltmann
Saehee
Kang
Jung
Ook
Kim
William
Castellano
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Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?
A major theoretical objection against employee ownership is that workers become inadequately diversified and exposed to excessive financial risk. Recent theory concludes that 10-15% of a worker's ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (3), 716 - 740)
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J32, J33, J54, D31, P13
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12302
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Marco
Colagrossi
Beatrice
d'Hombres
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103600)
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J62, I24
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12301
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Irene
Mosca
Robert
E.
Wright
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The Long-Term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar
A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. Ireland had a Marriage Bar in place until the 1970s. In 2014/2015, women participating in the The ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (1), 1-34)
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J71, J78, J24
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12300
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Adrian
Adermon
Mikael
Lindahl
Mårten
Palme
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (5), 1523-48)
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I24, J62
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12298
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M.
Paula
Cacault
Christian
Hildebrand
Jérémy
Laurent-Lucchetti
Michele
Pellizzari
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Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) students use the live ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (4), 2322 - 2372)
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I20, I21, I23, I26
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12297
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Ramiro
de Elejalde
Eugenio
Giolito
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More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile
In this paper, we study the effect on cesarean rates of a policy change in Chile that decreased the cost of delivery at private hospitals for women with public health insurance. Using a ...
(revised version published as "A demand-smoothing incentive for cesarean deliveries" in: Journal of Health Economics 2021, 75, 102411)
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I11, I13, I18
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12296
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Olivier
Deschenes
Huixia
Wang
Si
Wang
Peng
Zhang
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The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China
We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey, which provides detailed longitudinal health and socioeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102461)
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I12, I15, Q53
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12295
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Christina
A.
Houseworth
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1-25)
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J12, J15, J16, J24
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12294
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Etienne
Lalé
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Search and Multiple Jobholding
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2025, 80, 891-939.)
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E24, J21, J62
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12293
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Daron
Acemoglu
Pascual
Restrepo
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Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (2), 3 - 30)
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J23, J24
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12292
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Daron
Acemoglu
Pascual
Restrepo
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The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35)
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J23, J24
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12291
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Egidio
Farina
Colin
P.
Green
Duncan
McVicar
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Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
This paper studies the prevalence and nature of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) in the UK labour market. The headline count of ZHC workers based on the Labour Force Survey has long underestimated and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531)
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J21, J48, M55
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12290
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Lu
Jinks
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
John
D.
Leeth
Anthony
T.
Lo Sasso
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Opting out of Workers' Compensation: Non-Subscription in Texas and Its Effects
Texas is the only state that does not mandate that employers carry workers' compensation insurance (WC) coverage. We employ a quasi-experimental design paired with a novel machine learning approach ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60(1), 53-76)
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C54, C55, I13, J32, J38
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12288
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Diane
Coffey
Dean
Spears
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Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition
We document a novel fact about neonatal death, or death in the first month of life. Globally, neonatal mortality is disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2478 - 2507)
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O15, I15
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12287
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Aurelie
Dariel
Arno
Riedl
Simon
Siegenthaler
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Hiring through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine ...
(published as 'Referral hiring and wage formation in a market with adverse selection' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 109 - 130)
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C92, D82, D85, E20
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12286
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Marcelo
Bergolo
Gabriel
Burdin
Mauricio
De Rosa
Matias
Giaccobasso
Martin
Leites
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Tax Bunching at the Kink in the Presence of Low Capacity of Enforcement: Evidence from Uruguay
By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual taxpayers respond to personal income taxation in a context with high sheltering ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (639), 2726 - 2762. )
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H21, H24, H30, J22
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12285
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Nathan
Kettlewell
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Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior
Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5) 1566-160)
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D91, I12, D14
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12284
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Maximilian
Sprengholz
Anna
Wieber
Elke
Holst
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Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review (SER), 2020, 18 (3), 1-23 )
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J16, J12, D10
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12283
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Oded
Stark
Wiktor
Budzinski
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Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and ...
(published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (2), 165-179 )
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D01, D31, J24, O15
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12280
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 58(2-3), 207-217 )
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D61, D91, J17, J31
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12279
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Tito
Boeri
Andrea
Ichino
Enrico
Moretti
Johanna
Posch
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
In many European countries, wages are determined by collective bargaining agreements intended to improve wages and reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining ...
(published in: Journal of the European Association, 2021,19 (6), 3249 - 3292)
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J20
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12278
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Wolfgang
Dauth
Sebastian
Findeisen
Enrico
Moretti
Jens
Suedekum
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Matching in Cities
In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using ...
(published in: Journal of the Europen Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1478 - 1521)
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J20
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12277
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Richard
Hornbeck
Enrico
Moretti
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Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth: Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024,106 (3), 587 - 607)
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J20
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12276
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David
Berger
Kyle
Herkenhoff
Simon
Mongey
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Labor Market Power
What are the welfare implications of labor market power? We provide an answer to this question in two steps: (1) we develop a tractable quantitative, general equilibrium, oligopsony model of the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (4), 1147 - 1193)
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E2, J2, J42
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12275
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Kortelainen
Liisa
Laine
Mikko
Nurminen
Tanja
Saxell
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Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology
We exploit a large-scale natural experiment – the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland – to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health ...
(published as 'Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 396 - 430)
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H51, H75, I12, I18
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12273
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Paolo
Acciari
Alberto
Polo
Giovanni L.
Violante
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'And Yet, It Moves': Intergenerational Mobility in Italy
We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (3), 118 - 163)
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J31, J61, J62, R1
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12272
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Krzysztof
Makarski
Joanna
Tyrowicz
Magda
Malec
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Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility
Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from longevity. However, an increased number of births implies immediate private ...
(published as 'Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Raised Fertility in Poland: Overlapping Generations Model Estimates' in: Population and Development Review, 2019, 45 (4), 795 - 818)
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H55, E17, C60 C68, E21, D63
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12271
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Gizem
Koşar
Tyler
Ransom
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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Understanding Migration Aversion Using Elicited Counterfactual Choice Probabilities
Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 123-147)
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J61, R23, D84
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12270
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Albrecht
Glitz
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Learning through Coworker Referrals
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 42, 37-71)
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J31, J63, J64
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12268
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William
G.
Morrison
Robert
J.
Oxoby
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Asset Integration, Risk Taking and Loss Aversion in the Laboratory
We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (3), 1460 - 1479)
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C91, D81
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12267
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Anastasia
Danilov
Bernd
Irlenbusch
Christine
Harbring
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Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives
We study how help can be fostered by means of a team bonus in the presence of rank-order tournaments. In a simple model we combine elements of relative rewards and a team bonus and study their effect ...
(published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135)
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M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
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12266
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Bruce
D.
Meyer
Nikolas
Mittag
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Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received ...
(published in: A. Y. Chun, M. Larson, J. Reiter and G. Durrant (eds.), Administrative Records for Survey Methodology, Wiley, 2021, 297 - 322)
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C18, C81, C83, D31, I32
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12265
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Patrick
Button
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Population Aging, Age Discrimination, and Age Discrimination Protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older ...
(published in: Czaja, S. J.; Sharit, J. and J. James (eds.), Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work, Springer: New York, 2020)
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J71, J78, J14, K31, J16, J26
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12264
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Anders
Frederiksen
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
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Responding to Regulation: The Effects of Changes in Mandatory Retirement Laws on Firm-Provided Incentives
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1978 expanded employee age protections to age 70, making the widespread practice by U.S. firms of mandating retirement at age 65 illegal. Building on the ...
(published as 'Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1011-1042 )
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M51, M52
|
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12263
|
Jeffrey
R.
Brown
Arie
Kapteyn
Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
Olivia
S.
Mitchell
Anya
Samek
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Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing
This paper examines two behavioral factors that diminish people's ability to value a life-time income stream or annuity, drawing on a survey of about 4,000 adults in a U.S. nationally representative ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3), 533–546.)
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D14, D91, G11, H55
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12262
|
Tony
Fang
Derek
Messacar
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Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Saving Plans: Evidence from Canada
This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2019, 45 (2), 239-261.)
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J26, J32, J63
|
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12261
|
Marco
Caliendo
Stefan
Tübbicke
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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies: Matching Estimates and Their Robustness
The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its institutional setup, adding an additional layer of selection and leading to ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59 (4), 1605-1631)
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J68, H43, C14, C26, L26
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