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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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11798
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Ellen
Garbarino
Robert
Slonim
Marie Claire
Villeval
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A Method to Estimate Mean Lying Rates and Their Full Distribution
Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4 (2), 136-150.)
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C91, C81, D03
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11797
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Olivier
Deschenes
Kyle
C.
Meng
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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other ...
(published in: Handbook of Environmental Economics, 2018, Volume 4, 285-332)
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C21, H23, H41, Q50, Q51, Q52, Q53, Q54
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11796
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Abel
Brodeur
Nikolai
Cook
Anthony
Heyes
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Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics
The economics 'credibility revolution' has promoted the identification of causal relationships using difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV), randomized control trials (RCT) and ...
(published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660)
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A11, B41, C13, C44
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11795
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Mathias
Huebener
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The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective
This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 10 November 2022)
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I12, I24, I26
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11794
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Mathias
Huebener
Daniel
Kühnle
C.
Katharina
Spieß
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Parental Leave Policies and Socio-Economic Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from a Substantial Benefit Reform Using Administrative Data
This paper examines the effects of substantial changes in paid parental leave on child development and socio-economic development gaps. We exploit a German reform from 2007 that both expanded paid ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101754)
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J13, J18, J22, J24
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11793
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Ramon
Caminal
Lorenzo
Cappellari
Antonio
Di Paolo
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Linguistic Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language
We investigate the pattern of intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society. We consider the case of Catalonia, where the two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are of ...
(published as 'Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101975)
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I28, J13, J24, J62, Z13
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11792
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Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Benjamin
M.
Marx
Lesley
J.
Turner
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ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare
We estimate effects of the Pell Grant - the largest U.S. federal grant for college students - using administrative data from Texas public colleges and a discontinuity in grant generosity for ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (3), 193-224)
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H52, I22, I26
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11790
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Sónia
Cabral
Pedro
S.
Martins
Joăo
Pereira dos Santos
Mariana
Tavares
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Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – at Home and Abroad
The increased range and quality of China's exports is a major ongoing development in the international economy with potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct effects of ...
(published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (350), 570-600)
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F14, F16, F66, J31
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11789
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Agne
Kajackaite
Dirk
Sliwka
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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value
Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 172, 217-235)
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C91, D03, D21, J33, M52
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11787
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Marcus
Tamm
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Training and Changes in Job Tasks
This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data from Germany covering detailed information on tasks performed at work at the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 137-147)
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J24, J62, O33
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11785
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Laura
Armey
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
John
D.
Leeth
Ryan
Sullivan
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Combat, Casualties, and Compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan
Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data from the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and Social Security Administration ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2022, 40 (1), 66-82.)
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H56, J17, J28, J31
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11784
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Ujjayant
Chakravorty
Marie-Helene
Hubert
Beyza
Ural Marchand
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, 10(3), 2019, 1153-1193)
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D31, O12, Q24, Q42
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11782
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Laszlo
Bruszt
Nauro
F.
Campos
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Economic Integration and State Capacity: Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our ...
(published as 'Economic Integration and State Capacity' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019, 15 (3). 449-468. )
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D72, D78, H23, P11, P16
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11779
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Salwan
Saif
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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in ...
(published in: Labour, 2019, 33 (1), 48 - 76)
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J61, J15, C26
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11778
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Anthony
Edo
Hillel
Rapoport
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101753)
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F22, J61
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11777
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Catia
Batista
Julia
Seither
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks
What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343)
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D72, D83, F22, O15
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11776
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Bruce
D.
Meyer
Nikolas
Mittag
Robert
M.
Goerge
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Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation
Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when studying disadvantaged populations and the programs that serve them. The Food Stamp Program is especially ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5), 1605-1644.)
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C81, D31, I32, I38
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11774
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Joan
Costa-Font
Sergi
Jimenez-Martin
Cristina
Vilaplana-Prieto
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Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers
We study the effect of demand-side subsidies to old age care recipients on both caregiving and intergenerational transfer decisions. We exploit two quasi-natural experiments referring to the ...
(revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639)
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I18, D14, G22
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11773
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality
Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and ...
(published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 126-157.)
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I15, I18
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11771
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Sarah
Brown
Mark
N.
Harris
Preety
Srivastava
Karl
Taylor
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Mental Health and Reporting Bias: Analysis of the GHQ-12
Measures of mental wellbeing are heavily relied upon to identify at-risk individuals. However, self-reported mental health metrics might be unduly affected by mis-reporting (perhaps stemming from ...
(published as 'Mental health, reporting bias and economic transitions' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (2), 541-564)
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C3, D1, I1
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12984Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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