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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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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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11928
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Olukorede
Abiona
Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty: Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020,18, 435-464)
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G23, H31, I31, I32
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11927
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Robert
Dur
Max
van Lent
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Socially Useless Jobs
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 3-16)
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J2, J3, J4, J8, M5
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11926
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Hannes
Schwandt
Till
von
Wachter
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Unlucky Cohorts: Estimating the Long-term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-sectional Data Sets
This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S1), S161–S198)
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J2, J3, J6
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11925
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Nicole
Maestas
Kathleen
Mullen
David
Powell
Till
von
Wachter
Jeffrey
Wenger
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (7), 2007 - 2047)
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J13
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11923
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Francois
Gerard
Lorenzo
Lagos
Edson
Severnini
David
Card
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Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil
A growing body of research shows that firms' employment and wage-setting policies contribute to wage inequality and pay disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3418 -3457)
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E24, J15, J31
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11922
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Redzo
Mujcic
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Is Envy Harmful to a Society's Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults
Nearly 100 years ago, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell warned of the social dangers of widespread envy. One view of modern society is that it is systematically developing a set of ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 198, 103 - 111)
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I18, I31
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11921
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Xi
Chen
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Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making
Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019, 8 (2), 76 - 80)
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I24, Q53, Q51, G11, G41, J24
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11920
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David
B.
Huffman
Michael
L.
Bognanno
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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives
A previous literature cautions that paying workers for performance might crowd out non-monetary motives to work hard. Empirical evidence from the field, however, has been based on between-subjects ...
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.)
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D03, J22, J33
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11919
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Frederik
Graff
Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
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Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596)
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C91, D9, J33, M52
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11918
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Carlos
Alós-Ferrer
Ernst
Fehr
Nick
Netzer
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Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy
The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (6), 1828–1877)
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D11, D81, D83, D87
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