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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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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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11914
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Anne-Charlotte
Souto
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An Introduction to Nonparametric Regression for Labor Economists
In this article we overview nonparametric (spline and kernel) regression methods and illustrate how they may be used in labor economic applications. We focus our attention on issues commonly found in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2018, 39, 355-382 )
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C14, C26, I24, J24, J31
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11913
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Mette
Gørtz
Eva Rye
Johansen
Marianne
Simonsen
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Academic Achievement and the Gender Composition of Preschool Staff
This paper uses register based data covering the entire population of Danish children enrolled in preschool in 2006-2007 to investigate whether the gender composition of preschool staff members ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 241 - 258)
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J13
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11912
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Seth
Gershenson
Jessica
Rae
McBean
Long
Tran
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Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement
Credible evidence from a variety of contexts suggests that student absences harm academic achievement. However, extant studies focus entirely on the average effects of student absences, and how those ...
(published in: M. Gottfried; E. Hutt (eds.): Addressing Absenteeism, Cambridge, MA, 2019, 67-82)
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I2
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11911
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Long
Tran
Seth
Gershenson
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Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function
Student attendance is both a critical input and intermediate output of the education production function. However, the malleable classroom-level determinants of student attendance are poorly ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021, 43 (2), 183-199.)
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I2
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11909
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Jason
B.
Cook
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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries
We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to ...
(published as 'Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105237)
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I24, I26, I28, J15, J48
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11908
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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 ...
(updated version 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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11907
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Zoë
Kuehn
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Immigrants Move Where Their Skills Are Scarce: Evidence from English Proficiency
This paper studies whether individuals tend to migrate to countries where their skills are scarce or abundant. Focusing on English language skills, we test whether immigrants who are proficient in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101748)
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F22, I20, J24, J61
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11906
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Dries
Lens
Ive
Marx
Suncica
Vujic
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Does Migration Motive Matter for Migrants' Employment Outcomes? The Case of Belgium
Despite being one of the most prolific spenders on active labour market policies, and investing heavily in civic integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the ...
(published in: Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, François Levrau, Lore Van Praag, and Dirk Vanheule (eds.), Migration and Integration in Flanders: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesLeuven University Press, 2018, 245–272)
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F22, J15, J61
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11905
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Dries
Lens
Ive
Marx
Suncica
Vujic
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Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium
This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has offered relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees but they face ...
(revised version published as 'Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market' in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019, 10 (1))
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F22, J15, J61, J68
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11904
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Maria
F.
Hoen
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Immigration and Social Mobility
Using Norwegian administrative data, we examine how exposure to immigration over the past decades has affected natives' relative prime age labor market outcomes by social class background. Social ...
(published as 'Immigration and economic mobility' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1589 -1630 )
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J62, J15, J24
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11903
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Ghassan
Dibeh
Ali
Fakih
Walid
Marrouch
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Labor Market and Institutional Drivers of Youth Irregular Migration: Evidence from the MENA Region
Irregular migration became an alarming issue over the last decade for both developed and developing countries. A prevailing assumption in migration policy is that labor market and institutional ...
(published in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 61(2), 225-251)
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J61, O17
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11900
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings
Can media coverage of shooters encourage future mass shootings? We explore the link between the day-to-day prime time television news coverage of shootings on ABC World News Tonight and subsequent ...
(final version published as 'News coverage and mass shootings in the US' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 148, 104221)
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C26, D91, F52, L82
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11899
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Samantha
Rawlings
Zahra
Siddique
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Domestic Violence and Child Mortality
We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data across thirty two different developing countries. We start by ...
(revised from IZA DP 8566; published as `Domestic Violence and Child Mortality in the Developing World' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82 (4), 723-750.)
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I14, J12, J13
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11898
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D. Mark
Anderson
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Erdal
Tekin
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Child Access Prevention Laws and Juvenile Firearm-Related Homicides
Debate over safe-storage gun regulations has captured public attention in the aftermath of several high-profile shootings committed by minors. Whether these laws actually decrease youth gun violence, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 103387.)
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K4, H7
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11897
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Fabian
Dvorak
Sebastian
Fehrler
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Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions
Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 16 (3), 232 - 258)
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C72, C73, C92, D83
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11896
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Oliwia
Komada
Pawel
Strzelecki
Joanna
Tyrowicz
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A Regression Discontinuity Evaluation of Reducing Early Retirement Eligibility in Poland
The reform introduced in Poland in 2009 substantially and abruptly reduced the number of workers eligible for early retirement. This paper evaluates the causal effects of this reform on labor force ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (2), 286-303)
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J14, J26
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11895
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Aysit
Tansel
Halil
Ibrahim
Keskin
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
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Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060)
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C21, C23, J16, J31, J45
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11893
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Yanan
Li
Ravi
Kanbur
Carl
Lin
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Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China
The theory of fiscal and regulatory competition between jurisdictions is more advanced than its empirical testing. This is particularly true of labor regulation in general, and minimum wage ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55(12), 2479-2494)
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J38
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11892
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Huajing
He
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from China
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 168 - 179)
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H51, H43, O2
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11891
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Melisa
Bubonya
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Daniel
Christensen
Sarah
E.
Johnson
Stephen
R.
Zubrick
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The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia
This paper analyzes the effects of 'shocks' to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of ...
(published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (4), 537)
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I31, G01, D84
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11890
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Damian
Clarke
Hanna
Mühlrad
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Abortion Laws and Women's Health
We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76 (C), 102413)
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I18, J13, K38, H75
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11889
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Jacob
Kjær
Eskildsen
Anders
Frederiksen
Ann-Kristina
Løkke
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Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective
We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation ...
(published as 'Employee Absence in Public and Private Organizations' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (21), 2416-2432 )
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M12, M54
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11888
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Simone
Moriconi
Giovanni
Peri
Dario
Pozzoli
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The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms' Offshoring Decisions
The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms' potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. ...
(revised version published as 'The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53 (4), 1745 - 1792)
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F16, J38, J24
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11885
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Mizuki
Komura
Hikaru
Ogawa
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Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23(3), 1387-1413.)
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F15, F21, F66, J12, J13, J16
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11884
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Anthony
B.
Atkinson
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
This paper scrutinizes the conventional wisdom about trends in UK income inequality and also places contemporary inequality in a much longer historical perspective. We combine household survey and ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (2), 253-266 )
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C46, C81, D31
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11882
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Sarah
Bana
Kelly
Bedard
Maya
Rossin-Slater
Jenna
Stearns
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Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
California's Disability Insurance (DI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs have become important sources of social insurance, with benefit payments now exceeding those of the state's Unemployment ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 633 - 660)
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J31, J32, J38
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11881
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Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
Chiara
Rapallini
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Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices
In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 21 (2), 433-468 )
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D12, J16, I31
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11880
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Alexander
Konon
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin
The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (1), 1-20)
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C15, D81, L26
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11879
|
Seonghoon
Kim
Kanghyock
Koh
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Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform
We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly ...
(published as 'Health insurance and subjective well-being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (1), 233-249)
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I13, I18, I31
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11878
|
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
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The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090-3139)
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J12, J13, C13, D13, I12
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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