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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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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
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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
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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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11876
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Lucía
Del Carpio
Maria
Guadalupe
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More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational choices. We implement two field experiments with potential applicants to a ...
(published in: Management Science, 2024, 68 (5), 3196–3218)
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J16, J24, D91
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11874
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Zahra
Siddique
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Violence and Female Labor Supply
This paper explores whether fear and safety concerns have an impact on behavior such as female labor supply in a developing country context. The effect of media reported physical and sexual assaults ...
(published as 'Media reported violence and female labor supply' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (4), 1337-1365.)
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J16, J22
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11873
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Marcus
Tamm
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Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation
This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and ...
(revised version published as 'Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and labor market participation' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 184 - 197)
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H31, J13, J22
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11872
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Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
Grace
Lordan
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Cross Cohort Evidence on Gendered Sorting Patterns in the UK: The Importance of Societal Movements versus Childhood Variables
We consider the extent to which societal shifts have been responsible for an increased tendency for females to sort into traditional male roles over time, versus childhood factors. Drawing on three ...
(published as 'Documenting Occupational Sorting by Gender in the UK across Three Cohorts: Does a Grand Convergence Rely on Societal Movements? in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65, 2215–2256)
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J16, J4
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11871
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Lutz
Bellmann
Olaf
Hübler
Ute
Leber
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Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction
This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. ...
(revised version published as 'Works council and training effects on satisfaction' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26(14), 1177-1181)
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J24, J28, J53
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11870
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Corinna
Ghirelli
Enkelejda
Havari
Giulia
Santangelo
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Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper evaluates the impact of a vocational training programme on the labour market outcomes of unemployed youth in Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period ...
(revised version published as 'Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 677 - 717 )
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J01, J08, J18, J24
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11868
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James
J.
Heckman
Sidharth
Moktan
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Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 58 (2), 2020, 419 - 70)
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A14, I23, J44, O31
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11866
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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A General Weighted Average Representation of the Ordinary and Two-Stage Least Squares Estimands
It is standard practice in applied work to study the effect of a binary variable (“treatment”) on an outcome of interest using linear models with additive effects. In this paper I study the ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 13283)
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C21, C24, C26, C31
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11865
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Marco
Alberto
De Benedetto
Maria
De Paola
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Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation: Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy
We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows mayors in municipalities with a population size lower than 3,000 inhabitants to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 196-211)
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C21, D72, H70, J78
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11864
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German
Blanco
Xuan
Chen
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
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Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance
We consider the problem of assessing the effects of a treatment on duration outcomes using data from a randomized evaluation with noncompliance. For such settings, we derive nonparametric sharp ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (4), 901 - 920)
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C21, C24, C41, J64
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11862
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Arun
Advani
Toru
Kitagawa
Tymon
Sloczynski
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Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
Currently there is little practical advice on which treatment effect estimator to use when trying to adjust for observable differences. A recent suggestion is to compare the performance of estimators ...
(published as 'Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34(6), 893–910)
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C15, C21, C25, C52
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11861
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Teamwork, Leadership and Gender
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader. About 430 students from an Italian University took an intermediate exam that was ...
(published as 'Female leadership: effectiveness and perception' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 201, 134-162.)
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J16, M12, M54, C93
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11860
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Michael
Barry
Alex
Bryson
Rafael
Gomez
Bruce
E.
Kaufman
Guenther
Lomas
Adrian
Wilkinson
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The
Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 60-90 )
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J53, J58, J83
|
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11858
|
Britta
Gehrke
Wolfgang
Lechthaler
Christian
Merkl
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The German Labor Market during the Great Recession: Shocks and Institutions
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 78, 192-208)
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E24, E32, E62, J08, J63
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11856
|
Margarida
Madaleno
Max
Nathan
Henry
Overman
Sevrin
Waights
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Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2022, 59 (2) 281-300)
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L26, O32, R30, R58
|
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11855
|
Andrea
Geraci
Mattia
Nardotto
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Fabio
Sabatini
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Broadband Internet and Social Capital
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578 )
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C91, D9, D91, Z1
|
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11854
|
Jens
Ruhose
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Insa
Weilage
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The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 166-186, )
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J24, I21, M53
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11853
|
Giuseppe
Moscarini
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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On the Job Search and Business Cycles
We propose a highly tractable way of analyzing business cycles in an environment with random job search both off- and and on-the-job (OJS). Ex post heterogeneity in productivity across jobs generates ...
(published in: Revue économique, 2024, 75 (1), 73-11)
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E24, E32
|
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11852
|
Andreas
Kettemann
Andreas
I.
Mueller
Josef
Zweimüller
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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data
This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1807-1841)
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E24, J31, J63
|
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11851
|
Andreas
Kuhn
Stefan
Staubli
Jean-Philippe
Wuellrich
Josef
Zweimüller
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Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality
We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104087)
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I10, I12, J14, J26
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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