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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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11991
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Alison
L.
Booth
Xin
Meng
Elliott
Fan
Dandan
Zhang
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The Intergenerational Behavioural Consequences of a Socio-Political Upheaval
Social scientists have long been interested in the effects of social-political upheavals on a society subsequently. A priori, we would expect that, when traumas are brought about by outsiders, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 931-958.)
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C91, N4
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11990
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Luca
Fumarco
Stijn
Baert
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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence
This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country ...
(revised version published as 'Younger, Dissatisfied, and Unhealthy? Relative Age and Life-satisfaction in Adolescence' (with additional coauthor: Francesco Sarracino) in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 168, 313 - 337)
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C26, I21, I31, Z13
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11989
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Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Christophe
Gaillac
Arnaud
Maurel
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Rationalizing Rational Expectations? Tests and Deviations
In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (3), 817 - 842)
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C12, D15, D84
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11988
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Shan
Huang
Martin
Salm
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The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market
Starting from December 2012, insurers in the European Union were prohibited from charging gender-discriminatory prices. We examine the effect of this unisex mandate on risk segmentation in the German ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 3-17)
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I13, D82, H51
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11986
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Carl
Lin
Yana
van der Meulen Rodgers
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Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China
This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Health and Labor Markets), 2019, 47, 281-310)
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I10, J61
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11985
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James
Gordon
Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Who's Minding the Kids? Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Child Care Quality
Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving the quality of child care is increasingly ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102076)
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I21, I28, J01, J23, J24
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11984
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Matias
Berthelon
Dante
Contreras
Diana
Kruger
María Isidora
Palma
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Violence during Early Childhood and Child Development
We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood development. We contribute to the literature providing estimates of the effects of violence (verbal and/or physical) that control ...
(published as 'Harsh parenting during early childhood and child development' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 36, 100831)
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O15, J12, J13, I31
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11983
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Luca
Pellerano
Eleonora
Porreca
Furio
C.
Rosati
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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?
The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this ...
(published in. IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2020, 11:11)
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H, C93, I28, J1, J24
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11981
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Alberto
Alesina
Michela
Carlana
Eliana
La Ferrara
Paolo
Pinotti
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Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (7), 1915 - 1948)
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I24, J15
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11980
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Shushanik
Margaryan
Annemarie
Paul
Thomas
Siedler
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Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446-479)
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I26, J15, J62
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11979
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Marianna
Brunetti
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads ...
(substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174)
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F22, G11, D14, E21, J15
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11978
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Guido
Friebel
Miriam
Manchin
Mariapia
Mendola
Giovanni
Prarolo
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International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes
Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 148, 103878.)
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K23, K42
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11977
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Ruchir
Agarwal
Patrick
Gaule
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Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we ...
(published: American Economic Review: Insights, 2020, 2 (4), 409 - 424)
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O31, J24, I25
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11975
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Jan
Feld
Nicolás
Salamanca
Ulf
Zölitz
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Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions—small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 836-863)
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I21, I24, J24
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11974
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Shelly
Lundberg
Jenna
Stearns
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Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perpectivesm 2019, 33 (1), 3 - 22)
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J16, J71, J21
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11973
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Michela
Bia
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Andrea
Mercatanti
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Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the ...
(published in: Observational Studies, 2022, 8 (1), 1- 44)
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C21, I38, J38
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11972
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Luca
Fumarco
Stijn
Baert
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Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents' Social Network
We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,, 2019, 168, 318-337.)
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I21
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11971
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Stijn
Baert
Dieter
Verhaest
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Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1024 - 1047)
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J23, J24, I23, C93
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11969
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Alex
Bryson
Lucy
Stokes
David
Wilkinson
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Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?
Linking the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys 2004 and 2011 to administrative data on pupil attainment in England we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (1), 129 - 144)
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I21
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11968
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Kevin
Stange
Fernando
Furquim
Andrew
Simon
John
E.
Sawyer
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Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education
The private return to postsecondary investment varies widely by field, but the resources required by different fields are not well known. This paper establishes five new facts about college costs ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39(2), 397-435)
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I21, I22, I23
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11966
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Anna
Sokolova
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Meta-Analysis
When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes in the minds of workers, employers gain wage-setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 72 (1), 27-55 )
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J42, C83
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11965
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links ...
(published in: F. Origio and S. Tomelleri (eds.), Rethinking entrepreneurial human capital, Springer, 2018, 43-62)
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J28, L23, M50, M54
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11964
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David
Card
Thomas
Lemieux
W. Craig
Riddell
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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (1), 140 - 173)
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J31, J45, J51
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11963
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Christine
Dauth
Pia
Homrighausen
Gesine
Stephan
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Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment
We analyze a German labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for workers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. This WeGebAU program reimburses training ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61, 162-178.)
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J24, J65
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11959
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Omoniyi
Alimi
David
C.
Maré
Jacques
Poot
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International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (3), 272-295)
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D63, F22, J15, R23
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11958
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Carina
Neisser
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis
The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (640), 3365- 3391)
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C81, H24, H26
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11957
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Abel
Brodeur
Joanne
Haddad
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Institutions, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the Gold Rush
This paper analyzes the determinants behind the spatial distribution of the LGBT population in the U.S. We relate the size of the present-day LGBT population to the discovery of gold mines during the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 92-110)
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O13, O18, J10, R23
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11956
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Giuseppe
Attanasi
Claire
Rimbaud
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Embezzlement and Guilt Aversion
Psychological game theory can contribute to renew the analysis of unethical behavior by providing insights on the nature of the moral costs of dishonesty. We investigate the moral costs of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 167, 409-429)
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C91
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11955
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Marco
Casari
Andrea
Ichino
Moti
Michaeli
Maria
De Paola
Ginevra
Marandola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Civicness Drain
Migration may cause not only a brain drain but also a civicness drain, leading to an uncivicness trap. We study this possibility using college choices of southern-Italian students classified as Civic ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133, 649, 323–354.)
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H, J6
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11954
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Murat
Iyigun
Jared
Rubin
Avner
Seror
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A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ...
(published as 'A Theory of Cultural Revivals' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 135, 103-134.)
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D02, N40, N70, O33, O38, O43, Z10
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11953
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Christian
Dustmann
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Markus
Zimmermann
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Housing Expenditures and Income Inequality
In this paper, we show that, in terms of real disposable income, changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbate the trend of income inequality that has risen sharply in Germany since the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (645), 1709 - 1736)
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D31, R21
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11952
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Thierry
Kamionka
Guy
Lacroix
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Homeownership, Labour Market Transitions and Earnings
The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the literature. Our analysis is cast within a dynamic setting and the endogeneity of ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 28 February 2024)
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J21, J64, J31, C33, C35
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11951
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Rui
Du
Junfu
Zhang
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2019, 98, 1517-1539.)
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R11, R12, N95
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11950
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Winfried
Koeniger
Marc-Antoine
Ramelet
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Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy ...
(revised version published as 'On the Transmission of Monetary Policy to the Housing Market' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104107 (with Benedikt Lennartz and Marc-Antoine Ramelet))
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E21, E52, R21
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11949
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Lena
Detlefsen
Andreas
Friedl
Katharina
Lima de Miranda
Ulrich
Schmidt
Matthias
Sutter
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Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings’ ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 69, 1-31)
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C93, D10, D90, J12
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11948
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Carly
Will
Sloan
George
S
Naufal
Heather
Caspers
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The Effect of Risk Assessment Scores on Judicial Behavior and Defendant Outcomes
The use of risk assessment scores as a means of decreasing pretrial detention for low-risk, primarily poor defendants is increasing rapidly across the United States. Despite this, there is little ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 May 2023)
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D81, K14, K42, L88
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11947
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Matthias
Sutter
Claudia
Zoller
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
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Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has
exploded in scope and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 98-121)
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C91, D01
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11946
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John
Ifcher
Homa
Zarghamee
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Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others
We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 77, 102180)
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D90
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11945
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Patrick
Balles
Ulrich
Matter
Alois
Stutzer
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Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (662), 2290 - 2320)
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D72, L82, L86
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11944
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Michal
Bauer
Jana
Cahlíková
Dagmara
Celik Katreniak
Julie
Chytilová
Lubomir
Cingl
Tomáš
Želinský
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Anti-Social Behavior in Groups
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A ...
(revised version published as 'Nastiness in Groups' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (5), 2075–2107)
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C92, C93, D01, D64, D74, D91
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11943
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Daniel
Dench
Michael
Grossman
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Health and the Wage Rate: Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question
We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National ...
(published in: Health and Labor Markets, Research in Labor Economics, 2019, 27, 1-47)
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I10, J24
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11942
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Jessica
Goldberg
Mario
Macis
Pradeep
Chintagunta
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Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection: A Field Experiment in India
Peer referrals are a common strategy for addressing asymmetric information in contexts such as the labor market. They could be especially valuable for increasing testing and treatment of infectious ...
(published as 'Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India' in: American Economic Review: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 259 - 291)
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O1, I1
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11941
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Wim
Naudé
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Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of ...
(published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158)
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O33, O14, O55, L52, L26
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11940
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David
E.
Bloom
David
Canning
Rainer
Kotschy
Klaus
Prettner
Johannes
Schünemann
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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage ...
(published in: World Development, 2024, 178, 106575)
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I15, I25, J11, O11, O15
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11938
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Gigi
Foster
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?
Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 63-96.)
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J12, J16, I31, Z13
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11934
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Tarun
Jain
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
Nishith
Prakash
Raghav
Rakesh
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Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy
This paper explores the association between studying science at the higher secondary stage and labor market earnings using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult ...
(published as 'Science Education and Labor Market Outcomes in a Developing Economy' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 741-763)
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I23, I26, J24
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11933
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Brecht
Neyt
Sarah
Vandenbulcke
Stijn
Baert
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Education Level and Mating Success: Undercover on Tinder
In this study, we examine the impact of an individual’s education level on her/his mating success by means of a field experiment on the mobile dating app Tinder, using a sample of 3,600 profile ...
(revised version published as 'Are Men Intimidated by Highly Educated Women? Undercover on Tinder' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101914 )
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C93, I26, J12
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11931
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Rebecca
Schrader
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Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment
We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions. We apply rich administrative data and exploit a difference-in-differences ...
(published as 'Institutional Reforms of 2006 and the Dramatic Rise in Old-Age Employment in Germany' in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1185-1225.)
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J14, J26
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11930
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Carl
Lin
Yan
Sun
Chunbing
Xing
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Son Preference and Human Capital Investment among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57 (12), 2077-2094)
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J13, J17, J61, J24
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11929
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Michael
Grimm
Renate
Hartwig
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Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso
We assess the willingness to pay (WTP) for eyeglasses in an adult population in rural Burkina Faso using a variant of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) method. We combine the BDM approach with video ...
(published as 'All Eyes on the Price: An Assessment of the Willingness-to-Pay for Eyeglasses in Rural Burkina Faso' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1347 - 1367)
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D11, D12, D83, I15
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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