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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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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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12229
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Horst
Entorf
Martin
Lange
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Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany
In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 101, 103913)
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J15, R23, K42
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12226
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Giorgio
Brunello
Elisabetta
Lodigiani
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find that an increase of the local supply of low skilled immigrants by one thousand ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, 85, 103582)
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J61
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12225
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Patrick
Button
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Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives
I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339. )
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H25, H71, R38, L82, Z11
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12223
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Benjamin
Davies
David
C.
Maré
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Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment shares, and use this measure to estimate city and activity complexity. Our ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2021, 55 (3), 479-494)
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R11, R12
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12222
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Michal
Myck
Mateusz
Najsztub
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Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development
On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (4), 559–579)
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P30, R11, R50
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12221
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Marek
Góra
Edward
Palmer
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NDC: The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme
This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer, Robert Palacios, and Stefano Sacchi (eds.), Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Pension, Vol. 1, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, Washington DC, 2020, 167 - 188)
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D6, D62, D81, E62, G22, G28, H23, H55, J14, J18
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12218
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Wim
Naudé
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The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term ...
(published as 'Artificial intelligence: neither Utopian nor apocalyptic impacts soon' in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30 (1), 1-23.)
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O47, O33, J24, E21, E25
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12217
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Elisabeth
Grewenig
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
Philipp
Lergetporer
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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments
A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326)
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D83, C83, C90
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12216
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Trust and Workplace Performance
This study explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.)
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J50
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12214
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Iga
Magda
Jan
Gromadzki
Simone
Moriconi
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Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 499 - 552 )
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D22, J31, J40
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12213
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Max
Nathan
Anna
Rosso
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Innovative Events
We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative activity. We combine UK administrative microdata, media and website content to ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (1), 104373)
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C55, L86, O81
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12212
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Quentin
Lippmann
Alexandre
Georgieff
Claudia
Senik
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Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (629), 1445 - 1470)
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D13, I31, J16, P51, Z1
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12211
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Danula
K.
Gamage
Almudena
Sevilla
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Gender Equality and Positive Action: Evidence from UK Universities
This paper examines the impact of the Athena Scientific Women's Academic Network (SWAN) Charter on the wages and employment trajectories of female faculty. The Athena SWAN Charter is a gender ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 105–109)
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I23, J16, J31, J44
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12209
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Michele
Di Maio
Roberto
Nistico
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The Effect of Parental Job Loss on Child School Dropout: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
We study the effect of parental job loss on child school dropout in developing countries. We focus on Palestinian households living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and having the household ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102375)
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H56, I20, J63
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12205
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Atila
Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua
Angrist
Yusuke
Narita
Parag A.
Pathak
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Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design
Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (1), 117–151)
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I21, C78, C13, C18, C21, C26
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12204
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Paul
N.
Thompson
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Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on Student Achievement: Evidence from Oregon
Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these ...
(published as 'Is four less than five? Effects of four-day school weeks on student achievement in Oregon' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104308)
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I21
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12203
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Adam
M.
Lavecchia
Philip
Oreopoulos
Robert
S.
Brown
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Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support: Evidence from Pathways to Education
We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2020, 2 (2), 209–224)
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I2, I26, I28, J18
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12202
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Ingo
E.
Isphording
Elena
Lisauskaite
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Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices
We study the effect of ethno-linguistic classroom composition in college on educational performance, educational choices and post-graduation migration in a setting of quasi-random assignment to ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101833)
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I21, I24, J15
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12201
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Alberto
Jacinto
Seth
Gershenson
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching
Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic ...
(published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2021, 58 (3), 635-672. )
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I20, J62, J45
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12200
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Michela
Braga
Daniele
Checchi
Christelle
Garrouste
Francesco
Scervini
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Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools
Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76, 101986)
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H52, I21, I28, J44
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12199
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Beyza
Ural Marchand
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Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions
This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, 123-152. )
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D31, F14, I30, O12
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12198
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini
This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. ...
(published in: A. Bullough, D. Hechavarria, C. Brush and L. Edelman (eds.), Programs, Policies, & Practices: Fostering High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019)
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L53, O12
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12193
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Marco
Bertoni
Luca
Corazzini
Silvana
Robone
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Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost: Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy
We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 372-409.)
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C93, H51, I11, I18
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12192
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Neil
Davies
Matt
Dickson
George
Davey
Smith
Frank
Windmeijer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age
We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2023, 52 (6), 1878–1886,)
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H52, I12, I21, I28
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12191
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Johan Moritz
Kuhn
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Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data
We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine ...
(published as 'Spin doctors vs the spawn of capitalism: Who founds university and corporate startups?' in: Research Policy, 2021, 50 (10), 104347 (with Alex Coad))
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L26, I23, O31, O32
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12190
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Mee Jung
Kim
Kyung Min
Lee
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms ...
(published in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 149-172. )
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F22, J15, J60, J61, L26, O15, O30, O31, O32
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12186
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Resul
Cesur
Pinar
Mine
Gunes
Erdal
Tekin
Aydogan
Ulker
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Socialized Healthcare and Women's Fertility Decisions
This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (3), 1028-1055; )
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I13, J13
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12185
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Ingvild
Almås
Andreas
Kotsadam
Espen
R.
Moen
Knut
Røed
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The Economics of Hypergamy
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 260-281)
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J12, D10, J22
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12184
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Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Daniel
Neururer
Matthias
Sutter
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Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media: A Natural Field Experiment
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is ...
(extended version published as 'Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104891 )
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C93, D82
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12183
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Stijn
Baert
Brecht
Neyt
Thomas
Siedler
Ilse
Tobback
Dieter
Verhaest
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Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation: A Field Experiment
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 83, 102141)
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C93, I21, J23, J24
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12182
|
Alison
L.
Booth
Jungmin
Lee
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Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show
We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance – in favour of boys ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447. )
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J16, I21, D9, L83, M5
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12181
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René
Böheim
Thomas
Leoni
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Absenteeism on Bridging Days
We estimate sickness absences on Mondays and Fridays which fall between a weekend and public holidays, so called "bridging days". Many public holidays change their day of the week over the years. We ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1667–1671)
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J22
|
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12178
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Karen
Clay
Margarita
Portnykh
Edson
Severnini
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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States
Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 33, 181-192)
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N52, Q53, Q56, R11, I15, I18, I25, I28
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12177
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities
Disparities in cross-city pandemic severity during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic remain poorly understood. This paper uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 36, 42-50)
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N32, N52, N72, Q40, Q53, O13
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12176
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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It's Not Just for Boys! Understanding Gender Differences in STEM
While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) college programmes. ...
(published as 'Understanding Gender Differences in STEM: Evidence from College Applications' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 219-238)
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J16, I2
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12175
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey ...
(now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991)
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I22, H52, D72, D83
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12174
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Kareem
Haggag
Richard
Patterson
Nolan
G.
Pope
Aaron
Feudo
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Attribution Bias in Major Decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy
Using administrative data, we study the role of attribution bias in a high-stakes, consequential decision: the choice of a college major. Specifically, we examine the influence of fatigue experienced ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104445)
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D91, I23, J24
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12173
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Satish
Chand
Michael
A.
Clemens
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103112)
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F22, J24, O15
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12172
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Jacobus
Cilliers
Isaac
M.
Mbiti
Andrew
Zeitlin
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Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania
In 2013, Tanzania introduced "Big Results Now in Education", a low-stakes accountability program that published both nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 655-685)
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I21, I25, I28, O15
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12171
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Andrea
Albanese
Corinna
Ghirelli
Matteo
Picchio
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Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101846)
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C31, C41, J21, J63, J65
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12170
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Shuaizhang
Feng
Naijia
Guo
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Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector
This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (4), 918-932)
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J64, J45, P23
|
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12169
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Wenjing
Duan
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Rent Sharing in China: Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers
Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60(1), 176-219)
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J31, J41, J50
|
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12168
|
Simone
Bertoli
Steven
Stillman
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants
Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality, but our understanding of the actual effects of selective policies is limited. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101749)
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F22, J24
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12167
|
Jeffrey
Clemens
Michael
R.
Strain
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Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
A holistic assessment of the labor market effects of minimum wage regulation requires understanding employer compliance. The economics literature has paid little attention to this issue. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102285)
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J08, J38, K42
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12166
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Chris
Doucouliagos
Jack
Hennessy
Debdulal
Mallick
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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality
We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental ...
(published in: Statistics in Society - Series A, 2021, 184 (2), 761-783)
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F35, I15
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12165
|
Peng
Nie
Qing
Li
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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In Search of China's Income-Health Gradient: A Biomarker-Based Analysis
Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (48), 5599 - 5618)
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I12, I14, I15
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12164
|
Mateus
Dias
Rudi
Rocha
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations
This paper assesses the impact of glyphosate use in agriculture on birth outcomes of human populations in surrounding areas. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Still, despite ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (6), 2943-2981)
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I18, Q53, Q15, O33
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