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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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12163
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Moussa
Blimpo
Pedro
Carneiro
Pamela
Jervis
Todd
Pugatch
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Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia
This paper studies two experiments of early childhood development programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 70 (4), 1479 – 1529)
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I25, I38, O15, O22
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12162
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Sara
Burrone
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
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Does Child Labor Lead to Vulnerable Employment in Adulthood? Evidence for Tanzania
This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to contribute to the literature that focuses on the obstacles to the formation early in life ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2235-2250)
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J13, J21, J24
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12161
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Mahmoud
Arayssi
Ali
Fakih
Nathir
Haimoun
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Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?
This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26 (19), 1579-1585)
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G2, O16, P48, N25
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12160
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Antonio
Di Paolo
Aysit
Tansel
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English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate ...
(published in: Empirica, 2019, 46 (4), 669-690.)
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J16, J24, J31, O15, Z13
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12159
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Andreas
Kuhn
Jürg
Schweri
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training
Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 75, 102226)
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D22, D63, H41, I22, J24
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12158
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Seth
Gershenson
Morgan
S.
Polikoff
Rui
Wang
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When Paywall Goes AWOL: The Demand for Open Access Education Research
As universities cut library funding and forego expensive journal subscriptions, many academic organizations and researchers, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), are moving ...
(published in: Educational Researcher, 2020, 49(4): 254-261.)
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L17, O33
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12157
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Katja
Görlitz
Merlin
Penny
Marcus
Tamm
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The Long-Term Effect of Age at School Entry on Competencies in Adulthood
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study ...
(revised version published as 'The long-term effect of age at school entry on cognitive competencies in adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 91 - 104)
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I21, J21, J31
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12155
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Daniele
Checchi
Alberto
Ciolfi
Gianni
De Fraja
Irene
Mazzotta
Stefano
Verzillo
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Have You Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm
This paper determines the ranking of the publications units of assessment which were submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have been obtained if their ...
(published in Economica, 2021, 88 (352), 1107-1129)
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I23, I28
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12154
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David S.
Lee
Pauline
Leung
Christopher
J.
O'Leary
Zhuan
Pei
Simon
Quach
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Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.)
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C14, C20, C31, H2, H23, J64, J65, J68
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12151
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Bruce
D.
Meyer
Nikolas
Mittag
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An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
Survey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 224 (2), 286-305)
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C18, C81, C83, D31, I38
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12149
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Terra
McKinnish
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Overwork in Spouse's Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women
This paper estimates the effect of overwork and underwork in husband's undergraduate degree field on the labor market outcomes of skilled married women using 2009-2015 ACS data. Overwork and ...
(published as 'Prevalence of Long Work Hours by Spouse’s Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women' in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 898-919)
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J16, J22
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12147
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Zhengyu
Cai
Heather
M.
Stephens
John
V.
Winters
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Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates
Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (3), 611-629)
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J13, J22, L26
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12143
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Nils
van Damme
Stijn
Baert
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Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?
We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural ...
(revised version published in: Economics, 2019, 13 (1), 20190050)
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L83, J44, Z00
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12142
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Olivier
Verstraeten
Stijn
Baert
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Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer
We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was ...
(revised version published in: Plos One, 2020, 15 (2), e0227758)
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L83, J44, Z00
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12141
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Wim
Naudé
Aleksander
Surdej
Martin
Cameron
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The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?
In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak ...
(published as 'Ready for Industry 4.0? The Case of Central and Eastern Europe' in: Mohammad Dastbaz, Peter Cochrane (eds.), Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future, Springer International, 2019, 153-175)
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O14, O25, O33, O52, P27
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12140
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Bas
van der Klaauw
Lennart
Ziegler
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A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers
We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of labor market speeddates where unemployed workers meet temporary employment agencies. Our analysis shows that participation in such ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2022)
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J64, J65, C21, C93
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12139
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Tyler
Ransom
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Labor Market Frictions and Moving Costs of the Employed and Unemployed
This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S137-S166)
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C35, E32, J22, J61, J64, R23
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12138
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Carole
Chartouni
Robert
Holzmann
Gustavo
N.
Paez
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Not Everyone Is Engaged: An Innovative Approach to Measure Engagement Levels on the Labor Market
Individuals' level of engagement on the labor market is hypothesized to be of critical importance for labor market outcomes. Based on a recent labor market survey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2020 10:10.)
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C38, C43, J08
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12137
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Ernest
Boffy-Ramirez
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The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 54 (35), 4043 - 4059)
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J2, J3, J6
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12136
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Arezou
Zaresani
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Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program
How important are adjustment costs for individuals when they face a change in work incentives induced by a policy change? I provide the first estimate of heterogeneous adjustment costs by exploiting ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104223. )
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H53, J21, J18
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12134
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Nauro
F.
Campos
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B for Brexit: A Survey of the Economics Academic Literature
This paper surveys the economics academic literature on Brexit. It is organised in: pillars, channels, and consequences. The two building blocks to understand Brexit are the economic history of the ...
(published as 'The Economics of Brexit' in: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2019.)
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F22, F10
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12133
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Mary Kate
Batistich
Timothy
N.
Bond
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Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s
Many of the positive economic trends coming out of the Civil Rights Era for black men stagnated or reversed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (6), 2792–2821,)
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F14, J31, F14, N32, N62
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12132
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Clémence
Berson
Morgane
Laouénan
Emmanuel
Valat
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Outsourcing Recruitment as a Solution to Prevent Discrimination: A Correspondence Study
Many studies have proven the existence of discriminatory behavior from employers according to the origin of applicants. However, little is known about how these behaviors can be prevented. In this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101838)
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A13, C93, J21, J71, J78, O15
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12131
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Patrick
Button
Brigham
Walker
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Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101851. )
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J15, J7, C93
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12130
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Alberto
Alesina
Elie
Murard
Hillel
Rapoport
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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (6), 925–954, )
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D31, D64, I3, Z13
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12127
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Simon
Jäger
Benjamin
Schoefer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
We present a sharp test for the efficiency of job separations. First, we document a dramatic increase in the separation rate - 11.2ppt (28%) over five years - in response to a quasi-experimental ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (3), 1265–1303)
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J63, J65, J30, C52, C55
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12126
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Samuel
Bentolila
Juan
J.
Dolado
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Dual Labour Markets Revisited
This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are ...
(published in: Oxford Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2020)
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J41
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12125
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Michael
Elsby
Gary
Solon
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How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (3), 185–201)
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J3, E24
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12122
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Jenny
Williams
Don
Weatherburn
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Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?
This research evaluates the impact of electronic monitoring as an alternative to prison on reoffending. Leveraging plausibly exogenous variation in sentencing outcomes generated by quasi- random ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (2), 232–245.)
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K42
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12120
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Julien
Benistant
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 128-155)
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C92, M54, D63
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12118
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Luciana
Méndez-Errico
Xavier
Ramos
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Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 624-643)
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I20, I24, J13, J15, J24
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12117
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Todd
Pugatch
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Tropical Storms and Mortality under Climate Change
Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 172-182)
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I15, J10, O13
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12116
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Peter
Haan
Anna
Hammerschmid
Julia
Schmieder
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Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany
Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100182)
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I10, I14, J11
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12115
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Rui
Wang
Xi
Chen
Xun
Li
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Something in the Pipe: Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth
Flint changed its public water source in 2014, causing severe water contamination. We estimate the effect of in utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis ...
(published as 'Something in the pipe: the Flint water crisis and health at birth' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1723–1749)
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I14, I18, Q53, Q58
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12113
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Jens
Mohrenweiser
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1059-1094)
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I18, J28, J50, J81
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12112
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Luis
Serratos-Sotelo
Tommy
Bengtsson
Anton
Nilsson
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The Long-Term Economic Effects of Polio: Evidence from the Introduction of the Polio Vaccine to Sweden in 1957
This study explores the impact an exogenous improvement in childhood health has on later-life outcomes. Using extensive and detailed register data from the Swedish Interdisciplinary Panel, we follow ...
(published in: SSM Population Health, 2020, 20 (11), 100589. )
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I18
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12109
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Florencia
López Bóo
John
Creamer
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Cash, Conditions and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer in Honduras
We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10000) on early childhood development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 ...
(published in: Economia, LACEA, 2019, 19 (2), 169 - 196)
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C93, J13, I25, I38
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12108
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Matthias
Doepke
Giuseppe
Sorrenti
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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The Economics of Parenting
Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2019, 11, 55-84)
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J13, J24, R20
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12107
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Norbert
Schady
Jere
R.
Behrman
Maria
Caridad Araujo
Rodrigo
Azuero
Raquel
Bernal
David
Bravo
Florencia
López Bóo
Karen
Macours
Daniela
Marshall
Christina
Paxson
Renos
Vakis
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Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and non-cognitive ability appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 446 - 463)
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I24, I25
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12105
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Osea
Giuntella
Giulia
La Mattina
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers
We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth: Fathers Matter Too!' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2021, 17 (2), 284–313)
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J1
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12104
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Stuart
Campbell
Ana
Nuevo-Chiquero
Gurleen
Popli
Anita
Ratcliffe
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development
We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a ...
(published as 'Parental identity and child test scores' in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (4), 851 - 881)
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I21, J13, J15
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12101
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Muhammad
Asali
Rusudan
Gurashvili
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Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy
Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition & Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (3), 515-533.)
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J71, O43, J15, J16
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12100
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Cornelia
Chadi
Uwe
Jirjahn
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Does Society Influence the Gender Gap in Risk Attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany
Previous international research has shown that women are more risk averse than men. This gives rise to the question whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 113, 102311)
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D91, J16, P51
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12099
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Agata
Maida
Andrea
Weber
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Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform
Over the last decade, several countries have followed the Norwegian example and introduced laws mandating gender quota for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (2), 488-515)
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J24, J7, J78
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12097
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Delia
Furtado
Kerry
L.
Papps
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up tends to increase during recessions. We exploit variation across immigrant groups in the non-pecuniary costs of participating in SSDI to examine ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 143, 103983)
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E32, J61, H55, I18
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12096
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Eric
M.
Gibbons
Allie
Greenman
Peter
Norlander
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs
Guest workers on visas in the United States may be unable to quit bad employers due to barriers to mobility and a lack of labor market competition. Using H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B program data, we ...
(published in: Antitrust Bulletin, 2019, 64 (4), 540-565)
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J42, F22
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12092
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Mattias
Engdahl
Mathilde
Godard
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (5) 1564-1598)
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E32, I26, J12, J13 J22, J31
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12091
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Matteo
Bobba
Luca
Flabbi
Santiago
Levy Algazi
Mauricio
Tejada
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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce output that depends both on match-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capital. The human capital is accumulated ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 223 (2), 433-453)
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J24, J3, J64, O17
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12090
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Egbert
L. W.
Jongen
Maaike
Stoel
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The Elasticity of Taxable Labour Income in the Netherlands
We study the elasticity of taxable labour income in the Netherlands. We use a large and rich data set, including both financial and demographic variables, for the period 1999–2005. The 2001 tax ...
(published in: De Economist, 2019, 167(4), 359-386. )
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H24, H31, J22
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12087
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J. David
Brown
Misty
L.
Heggeness
Suzanne
M.
Dorinski
Lawrence
Warren
Moises
Yi
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Estimating the Potential Effects of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
The self-response rate is a key driver of the cost and quality of a census. The addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census could affect the self-response rate. We predict the effect of the ...
(published as 'Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census' in: Demography, 2019, 56 1173–1194.)
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C8, F22, J1
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