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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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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
João
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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11769
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Ben
Baumberg Geiger
René
Böheim
Thomas
Leoni
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The Growing American Health Penalty: International Trends in the Employment of Older Workers with Poor Health
Many countries have reduced the generosity of disability benefits while making them more activating – yet few studies have examined how employment rates have subsequently changed. We present ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 82, 18–32, 2019)
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J14, J18, H55
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11767
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Jake
Bradley
Axel
Gottfries
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A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities
We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics 2021, 12 (4), 1399-1430)
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J31, J64
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11765
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Patrick
Arni
Amelie
Schiprowski
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Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes
How effective are effort targets? This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of job search requirements on effort provision and labor market outcomes. Based on large-scale register data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 169, 65-88)
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J64, J65
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11764
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Manuel
Denzer
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion
We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use ...
(published in: Information Economics and Policy, 2020, 100900.)
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J64, C26, L86
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11762
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Gopi
Shah Goda
Matthew
R.
Levy
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
Aaron
Sojourner
Joshua
Tasoff
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Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias
In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential-growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the tendency to neglect ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (3), 1636 - 1658 )
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D91, J26, D14, D15
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11761
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René
Böheim
Dominik
Grübl
Mario
Lackner
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Choking under Pressure: Evidence of the Causal Effect of Audience Size on Performance
We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 76–93)
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D03, J24, M54
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11760
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
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The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 555-574)
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H41, D03, D64, C93
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11759
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Magnus
Carlsson
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Far-right and far-left parties by definition occupy the fringes of politics, with policy proposals outside the mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, 104533)
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D72, H70
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11758
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Maria
Bigoni
Stefania
Bortolotti
Veronica
Rattini
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A Tale of Two Cities: An Experiment on Inequality and Preferences
In an online experiment, we exploit the existing disparities in socio-economic status within an Italian city, to study how these differences correlate with preferences in strategic and non-strategic ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2022, 92, 189 - 222)
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C90, D31, D63, R23
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11757
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Natalia
Zinovyeva
Maryna
Tverdostup
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (4), 258–284)
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D10, J16, J21
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11755
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Joan
Costa-Font
Sarah
Flèche
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Child Sleep and Maternal Labour Market Outcomes
We show that sleep deprivation exerts strong negative effects on mothers' labour market performance. To isolate exogenous variations in maternal sleep, we exploit unique variations in child sleep ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1022589 )
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J13, J22, I18, J28
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11754
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Junhong
Chu
Haoming
Liu
I.
P. L.
Png
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Non-Labor Income and the Age of Marriage: Evidence from China's Heating Policy
We exploit China's heating policy to investigate how non-labor income affects marriage. From the mid-1950s, the policy gave substantial subsidies to urban residents north of the Huai River. Applying ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55, 2345–2370)
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J12
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11753
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Simen
Markussen
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
Ole
J.
Røgeberg
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Trends in Assortative Mating and Offspring Outcomes
Fertility patterns and assortative mating help shape the level and the distribution of offspring outcomes. Increased assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (651), 928 - 950)
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J12, J24, J62, D63
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11752
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Martin
Halla
Julia
Schmieder
Andrea
Weber
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Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply and the effectiveness of intrahousehold insurance in a sample of married couples, where the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020,12 (4), 253-87)
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D19, J22, J65
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11751
|
Torben
Fischer
Markus
Frölich
Andreas
Landmann
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Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan
We present robust evidence on the presence of adverse selection in hospitalization insurance for low-income households. A large randomized control trial from Pakistan allows us to separate adverse ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (3), 313–340)
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I13, D82, O12
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11747
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Mario
Bossler
Michael
Oberfichtner
Claus
Schnabel
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Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment
The effects of large minimum wage increases, like those planned in the UK and in some US states, are still unknown. We conduct a survey experiment that randomly assigns increases or decreases in ...
(published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (3), 323-346)
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J31, J23, D22
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11746
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Marlon
R.
Tracey
Solomon
Polachek
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Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short-Time Compensation Program
The Short-Time Compensation (STC) program enables US firms to reduce work hours via pro-rated Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, rather than relying on layoffs as a cost-cutting tool. Despite the ...
(published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (4), 399-426)
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C21, C38, J63, J65
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