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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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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
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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
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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
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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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12260
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Brigitte
Hochmuth
Britta
Kohlbrecher
Christian
Merkl
Hermann
Gartner
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Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation
This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114)
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E24, E00, E60
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12257
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Oliver
Krebs
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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On the Road (Again): Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany
This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics 2023, 99, 103874)
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F12, F14, R13, R23
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12255
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Michael
Nesbitt
Robert
J.
Oxoby
Meagan
Potier
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An Empirical and Qualitative Assessment of Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada since 2001: Shifting Away from the Fundamental Principle and Towards Cognitive Biases
In this paper, we take a comprehensive and multidisciplinary look at terrorism sentencing decisions over a 17-year period, between September 2001 when the ATA was first conceived of and September ...
(published as 'Terrorism Sentencing Decisions in Canada Since 2001: Shifting away from the Fundamental Principle and towards Cognitive Biases' in: UBC Law Review, 2019, 52 (2), Article 5)
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K14, K15
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12254
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Roswitha
M.
King
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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54(2), 559–584)
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F22, F24, J61, O52
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12251
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Varun
Gauri
Julian
C.
Jamison
Nina
Mazar
Owen
Ozier
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Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States
Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth, but little real-world evidence exists on how to improve it, especially in resource-constrained settings. We conducted a field ...
(published in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021, 163, 117-131)
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C93, D73, D91, I18, L38, O35
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12250
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Luigino
Bruni
Vittorio
Pelligra
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Matteo
Rizzolli
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The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-In
In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 166(3), 643-658 )
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B1, D03, J33
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12249
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Elisabeth
Grewenig
Philipp
Lergetporer
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543)
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D72, D83, H52, J13, I28, P16
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12248
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Xiahai
Wei
Tony
Fang
Yang
Jiao
Jiahui
Li
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Language Premium Myth or Fact: Evidence from Migrant Workers of Guangdong, China
Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry who are proficient in the local dialect earn lower wages than those who are not. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40, 356–386.)
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J32, J61, R23
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12246
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Ying
Ge
Tony
Fang
Yeheng
Jiang
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Access to Imported Intermediates and Intra-Firm Wage Inequality
We use Chinese firm-level data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey to examine the link between importing intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate ...
(published in: World Economy, 2019, 42 (8), 2364-2384.)
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F16, F63, F66
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12244
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
Tamara
Fioroni
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Endogenous Demographic Change, Retirement and Social Security
In this paper, we analyse the effects of demographic change on a PAYG pension system, financed with a defined contribution scheme. In particular we examine the relationship between retirement, ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2021, 25 (3), 609-631)
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J13, H2, H8, H55
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12243
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Michael
Johannes
Böhm
Christian
Siegel
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Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers
We argue that rising supply of experience not only reduces experienced workers' relative wages but also their relative labor market participation. From a theoretical model we derive predictions which ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (4), 1537 - 1568)
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J11, J21, J31
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12242
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Alina
Sorgner
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New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics in the U.S. labor market in the period from 2011-2018. We employ three measures ...
(revised version published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 175, 121381)
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J22, J23, O33
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12241
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Emma
Gorman
Colm
P.
Harmon
Silvia
Mendolia
Anita
Staneva
Ian
Walker
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The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of ...
(published as 'Adolescent School Bullying Victimization and Later Life Outcomes' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1048 - 1076)
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I21, I24, I26, J24
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12240
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Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Livia
Menezes
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Violence and Human Capital Investments
In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (3), 787 - 823.)
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I25, K42, O12
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12239
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Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Todd
R.
Jones
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Maxed Out? The Effect of Larger Student Loan Limits on Borrowing and Education Outcomes
Despite large and growing student loan balances, there is relatively little evidence on the effects of access to student loans on borrowing and educational outcomes. We examine the effect of access ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (4), 1113-1140)
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I22, D14
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12238
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Harry
Anthony
Patrinos
George
Psacharopoulos
Aysit
Tansel
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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (14), 1638-1658.)
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I21, I26, J24
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12237
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José
António Cabral
Vieira
Carolina
Constância
João
Teixeira
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Education and Risk Compensation in Wages: A Quantile Regression Approach
This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by educational classifications positively affects wages, while the skewness has a negative ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (3), 194 - 198.)
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J31, J33
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12236
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Martin
Biewen
Jakob
Schwerter
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Does More Math in High School Increase the Share of Female STEM Workers? Evidence from a Curriculum Reform
This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 54 (16), 1889–1911)
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I23, J16, J24
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12235
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Semih
Tumen
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Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools
Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 181, 154-159)
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I21, I24, H52
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12234
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Cornelia
Struewing
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Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This ...
(revised version by Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 853-881)
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J12, J13, P20
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12233
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Anuj
Gangopadhyaya
Fredric
Blavin
Jason
Gates
Breno
Braga
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Credit Where It's Due: Investigating Pathways from EITC Expansion to Maternal Mental Health
While Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions are typically associated with improvements in maternal mental health, little is known about the mechanisms through which the program affects this ...
(published in: Health Economics 29, no. 9, 2020)
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H24, I12, I14
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12232
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
Tianyi
Wang
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The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and Its Waning, 1910-1930
During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 78, 101341.)
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I10, I18, N3, Q54
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12231
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Armando
N.
Meier
Reto
Odermatt
Alois
Stutzer
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Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking
We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the staggered introduction of sales bans across Switzerland and the European Union from ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 998-1014)
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D12, I12, I18, K42
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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