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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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11850
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Lucía
Gorjón
Sara
de la Rica
Antonio
Villar
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The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach
This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional ...
(published as 'The Cost of Unemployment from a Social Welfare Approach: The Case of Spain and Its Regions' in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 150, 955–976)
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J64, J65, I31
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11849
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Marco
Vivarelli
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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Impact on Employment and Skills
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may ...
(published in: Foster-McGregor, N. - Alcorta, L. - Szirmai, A. - Verspagen, B. (eds.), New Perspectives on Structural Change: Causes and Consequences of Structural Change in the Global Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 25.)
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O14, O33
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11847
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Damian
Clarke
Gustavo
Cortés Méndez
Diego
Vergara Sepúlveda
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Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health outcomes at birth. We consider both the equity and efficiency implications of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 883-956)
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H23, O15, I14, H43, O38, H51
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11844
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Le
Wen
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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Job Mismatches and Career Mobility
Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education leads to a higher level of occupational advancement and wage growth over time, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2018, 51 (10), 1010–1024)
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J24, J31, J60
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11843
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Maria
Laura
Di Tommaso
Anna
Maccagnan
Silvia
Mendolia
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The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability
In most OECD countries, girls outperform boys in all subjects except mathematics. Usually, only test scores are utilised as a measure of mathematical skills. In this paper, we argue that in order to ...
(published as 'Going Beyond Test Scores: The Gender Gap in Italian Children's Mathematical Capability' in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (3), 161-187)
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J16, I24, C31
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11842
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V. Joseph
Hotz
Emily
Wiemers
Joshua
Rasmussen
Kate
Maxwell
Koegel
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The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and Its Consequences
This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing decisions, graduation, and quality of college attended, and whether parental ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1850-1880)
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I2, I22, I243
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11841
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William
E.
Even
Austin
C.
Smith
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Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings
Using records from a large public university, we examine the impact of Greek life on academic performance and salaries. To isolate the causal effect of Greek life, we exploit a university policy ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (3), 998-1032;)
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I23
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11840
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Hoang
Khieu
Klaus
Wälde
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Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
In this paper, we develop and numerically solve a model of idiosyncratic labour income and idiosyncratic interest rates to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour ...
(published in: Economic Modelling , 2023, 122, 106243)
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C02, D31, E21
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11839
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Hector
Sala
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A Fresh Look at Fiscal Redistribution and Inequality in the US across Electoral Cycles
The evolution of the ratio of direct taxation (characterized by progressive rates) over indirect and payroll taxation (characterized by flat rates) is examined together with its distributional ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 195 - 206)
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H20, H31, E25
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11838
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Charlotte
Bartels
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79 (3), 669-707)
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D31, D63, J31, N30
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11837
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David
J.
Bjerk
Eric
Helland
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What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us about Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?
We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2020, 63 (2), 341 - 366)
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K4
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11836
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Adriana
Hernández Catańeda
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S.
Marriage patterns of immigrants are an important indicator of the degree of immigrant integration into their host countries. Literature on the economics of the household has focused on the role of ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2019, 2 (1-2), 20 - 42)
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F22, J11, J12
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11831
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Han
Ye
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design
This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I ...
(published as 'The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1048 -1094 )
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H55, J18, J21, J26
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11829
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach
This paper focuses on identifying determinants of 'automatability risk', namely the propensity of EU employees being in jobs with high risk of substitutability by machines, robots or other ...
(published as 'Risks posed by automation to the European Labour Market ' in: Hogarth, T. (ed) Economy, employment and skills: European, regional and global perspectives in an age of uncertainty, Rome, 2018, 45 - 74)
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J01, J21, J24
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11828
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Denis
Fougčre
Erwan
Gautier
Sébastien
Roux
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Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France
This paper examines empirically the dynamics of wage floors defined in industry-level wage agreements in France. It also investigates how industry-level wage floor adjustment interacts with changes ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 72-97)
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J31, J51, E24
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11826
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Daniel
Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne
Lalé
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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101940)
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E24, E32, J21
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11825
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Benjamin
Artz
Amanda
H.
Goodall
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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How Common Are Bad Bosses?
Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (1), 3-39)
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J28, I31, M54
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11823
|
Karina
Doorley
Arnaud
Dupuy
Simon
Weber
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The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models
This note investigates the extent to which structural estimates of marital surplus are informative about subjective well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 176, 51-54)
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C78, D1
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11822
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Louis-Philippe
Morin
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Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation
We investigate the potential channels that drive female labor force participation to rise in response to unbalanced sex ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One ...
(published online as 'War-driven permanent emigration, sex ratios, and female labor force participation' in: Journal of Human Resources, October 2023)
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J21, J23, N34, J22
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11820
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Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
Bryson
Rintala
Nathan
Wozny
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The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students
Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than 70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2022, 75 (3), 693 - 715 )
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I20, J16, J24
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11819
|
Muhammad
Faress Bhuiyan
Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645)
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I31, J16, L26
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11817
|
Till
Seuring
Pieter
Serneels
Marc
Suhrcke
Max
Bachmann
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Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models
A diabetes diagnosis can motivate its recipients to reduce their health risks by changing lifestyles but can adversely affect their economic activity. We investigate the effect of a diabetes ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 29, 100925)
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D83, E24, F61, I12, I14, J24
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11815
|
Adrian
Bruhin
Ernst
Fehr
Daniel
Schunk
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (4), 1025–1069)
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C49, C91, D03
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11814
|
Michčle
Belot
Philipp
Kircher
Paul
Muller
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How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search: A Field Experiment
We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022, 14 (4), 1–67)
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J31, J63, J64, C93
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11813
|
Stephen
V.
Burks
Kristen
Monaco
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Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken? An Empirical Analysis Using Nationally Representative Data
The US trucking industry trade press often portrays the US labor market for truck drivers as not working, citing persistent driver shortages and high levels of firm-level turnover, and predicting ...
(shorter version published as 'Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken?' in: Monthly Labor Review, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March, 2019)
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J62, J49, R49, J24
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11812
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Patricia
Yanez-Pagans
Daniel
Martinez
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
Lynn
Scholl
Antonia
Vazquez
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Urban Transport Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Lessons Learned
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system ...
(revised version published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28, 5 (2019) )
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O18, R15, R42
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11811
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Catia
Nicodemo
Josep
M.
Raya
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Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?
Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. ...
(published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2020, 56 (5), 1581–1604)
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R1, R3, J7
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11810
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Agustín
Indaco
Francesc
Ortega
Süleyman
Taspinar
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The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets
We analyze the role of flood insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel-level dataset including the universe of residential sales for three coastal urban ...
(published in: Cityscape, 2019, 21 (2), 129-156.)
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H56, K42, R33
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11809
|
Niaz
Asadullah
Saizi
Xiao
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Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China: An Update
We re-examine the economic returns to education in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using data from the China General Social Survey 2010. We find that the conventional ordinary least squares ...
(published in: Asian Development Review, 2019, 36(1), 80–111)
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I26, J30
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11808
|
Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Richard
J.
Murphy
Felix
Weinhardt
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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics 2023, 105 (6), 1426–1441.)
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I20, I23, I28
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11806
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Slobodan
Djajic
Frédéric
Docquier
Michael S.
Michael
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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (4), 271-303.)
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F22, J24, O15
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11805
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Brian
Bell
Rui
Costa
Stephen
Machin
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Why Does Education Reduce Crime?
Prior research shows reduced criminality to be a beneficial consequence of education policies that raise the school leaving age. This paper studies how crime reductions occurred in a sequence of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65 )
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I2, K42
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11804
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Michal
Burzynski
Christoph
Deuster
Frédéric
Docquier
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Geography of Skills and Global Inequality
This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102333)
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E24, J24, O15
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11803
|
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi
Iyer
Joseph
Vecci
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Leader Identity and Coordination
This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.)
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P16, D70, D91, J78
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11802
|
Frédéric
Docquier
Riccardo
Turati
Jérôme
Valette
Chrysovalantis
Vasilakis
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period
This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20 (2), 321 -354)
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F22, J61
|
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11801
|
N.
T. Khuong
Truong
Arthur
Sweetman
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Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants
Male immigrants are observed to be disproportionately employed in ICT information and communication technology (ICT) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2018, 44 (S1), S91 - S112)
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J24, J31
|
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11800
|
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Colm
P.
Harmon
Anita
Staneva
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The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development
In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 10 (1) )
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I20, J24, D10
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11799
|
Elisabeth
Grewenig
Philipp
Lergetporer
Lisa
Simon
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?
A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in ...
(published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382)
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C83, D91, I20
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12984Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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