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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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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
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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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11745
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Leo
Kaas
Bihemo
Kimasa
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Firm Dynamics with Frictional Product and Labor Markets
This paper analyzes the joint dynamics of prices, output and employment across firms. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of heterogeneous firms who compete for workers and customers in frictional ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (3), 1281-1317)
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D21, E24, L11
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11744
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Sunha
Myong
JungJae
Park
Junjian
Yi
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Social Norms and Fertility
We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, Published: 31 October 2020)
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J11, J12, J13
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11743
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Ralph
De Haas
Kevin
Tran
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Do Laws Shape Attitudes? Evidence from Same-Sex Relationship Recognition Policies in Europe
Understanding whether laws shape or simply reflect citizens' attitudes is important but empirically difficult. We provide new evidence on this question by studying the relationship between legal ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 124, 103399)
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F5, K36
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11742
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
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Twin Birth and Maternal Condition
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853-864)
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J12, J13, C13, D13, I12
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11741
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Kevin
C.
Desouza
Saud
Alashri
Srinivasa
Srivatsav
Kandala
Mayank
Khullar
Vikash
Bajaj
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What Do Parents Value in a Child Care Provider? Evidence from Yelp Consumer Reviews
This paper exploits novel data and empirical methods to examine parental preferences for child care. Specifically, we analyze consumer reviews of child care businesses posted on the website Yelp.com. ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2020, 51, 288-306)
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J13
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11740
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Tom
Kemeny
Max
Nathan
Dave
O'Brien
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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the US and UK Using Microdata
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2020, 54 (3), 377-387)
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P50, R12, R58, L80
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11737
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Wim
Naudé
Nicola
Dimitri
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The Race for an Artificial General Intelligence: Implications for Public Policy
An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest ...
(published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35, 367–379)
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O33, O38, O14, O15, H57
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11736
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Bernhard
Schmidpeter
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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How Do Automation and Offshorability Influence Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Job Quality?
We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to ...
(published as 'Automation, unemployment, and the role of labor market training' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 137, 103808)
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J64
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11735
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Fengyan
Dai
Fang
Cai
Yu
Zhu
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Returns to Higher Education in China: Evidence from the 1999 Higher Education Expansion Using Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity
China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and 1999, and a six-fold expansion in the decade to 2008. In this paper, we explore a fuzzy discontinuity in the months of ...
(short version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 29 (6), 489 - 494)
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I23, I26
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11734
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Haapanen
Christopher
Jepsen
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Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling
This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master's degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students ...
(published as 'Back to School: Labor-market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101758)
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J24, I26
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11733
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Ahmet
Ozturk
Semih
Tumen
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Student Protests in Late 1970s and the Subsequent Military Coup in Turkey
1970s witnessed violent, widespread, and highly-politicized student protests in Turkey. Small protests turned into bloody street clashes, the death toll exceeded 5,000, and a military coup came in - ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 12:04)
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D74, J21, J31, I26
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11732
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Natalie
Obergruber
Larissa
Zierow
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Students' Behavioural Responses to a Fallback Option: Evidence from Introducing Interim Degrees in German Schools
Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101956)
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I20, I24, I28
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11731
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Richard
J.
Murphy
Felix
Weinhardt
Gill
Wyness
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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-To-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools
It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102091)
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I21, I28, M53
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11730
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226)
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D30, H52, I24, H11, D63, D83, D72, P16
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11728
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Mark
Borgschulte
Heepyung
Cho
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Minimum Wages and Retirement
We study the effect of the minimum wage on the employment outcomes and Social Security claiming of older US workers from 1983 to 2016. The probability of work at or near the minimum wage increases ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (1), 153 - 177)
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H55, J26, J38, J42
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11727
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Claudio
Lucifora
Daria
Vigani
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Healthcare Utilization at Retirement: The Role of the Opportunity Cost of Time
We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We show that the number of doctor's visits and the probability of visiting a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (12), 2030-2050)
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J26, I10, C26
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11725
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Benjamin
Elsner
Andreas
Lichter
Nico
Pestel
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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. ...
(published as 'Forced Migration and Local Public Policies: Evidence from Post-War West Germany' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (2), 915-962)
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J61, H20
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11724
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Marie
C.
Hull
Jonathan
Norris
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The Skill Development of Children of Immigrants
In this paper, we study the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills gaps for children of immigrants between kindergarten and 5th grade. We find some evidence that children of immigrants begin ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102036)
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I21, J13, J15
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11723
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Henning
Finseraas
Marianne
Roed
Pal
Schone
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Labour Immigration and Union Strength
To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour ...
(published in: European Union Politics, 2020, 21 (1), 3-23.)
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J21, J31, J51, J61
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11722
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Arne
De Meyere
Ward
Vanruymbeke
Stijn
Baert
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Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League
This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Sport Finance, 2020, 15 (1), 27 - 38)
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L83, J44, Z00
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11721
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Romain
Gauriot
Stephanie
A.
Heger
Robert
Slonim
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Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?
We challenge a commonly used assumption in the literature on social preferences and show that this assumption leads to significantly biased estimates of the social preference parameter. Using Monte ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 24-48)
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C91, D64
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11720
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Corrado
Giulietti
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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When the Market Drives You Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102245)
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D91, R41, G41
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11719
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Øystein
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Welfare Activation and Youth Crime
We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance clients. The evaluation strategy exploits administrative individual data in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 561-574)
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H55, I29, I38, J18
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11718
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Osea
Giuntella
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Has the Growth in 'Fast Casual' Mexican Restaurants Impacted Weight Gain?
The United States is witnessing a boom in fast casual restaurants owing to the recent growth of ethnic restaurants throughout the country. This study examines the effects of proximity to a Mexican ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 31, 115 - 124)
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I10, J1, R20
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11716
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Atheendar
Venkataramani
Selma
Walther
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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to ...
(published as 'Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1595–1646, )
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J13, I18
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11714
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Andreas
Peichl
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Tax Morale and the Role of Social Norms and Reciprocity: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment
We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv (FA), 2022, 78 (1), 44-86 )
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H20, H32, H50, C93
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11710
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
Barry
Hirsch
Charles
M.
Hokayem
James
P.
Ziliak
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Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (5), 2143-2185)
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J31, C8, D31
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11709
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Aline
Bütikofer
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2087–2125)
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I14, I18, I24
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11708
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Yafei
Si
Zhongliang
Zhou
Min
Su
Xiao
Wang
Dan
Li
Dan
Wang
Shuyi
He
Zihan
Hong
Xi
Chen
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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method
In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop ...
(published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, 15 (7), 1466)
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I12, I14, J14
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11706
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Gabriella
Conti
Rita
Ginja
Renata
Narita
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The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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J64, D10, I13, J46
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11705
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Liqiu
Zhao
Zhong
Zhao
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Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 87-105)
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J41, J64, I31
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11703
|
Laura
M.
Argys
Susan
L.
Averett
Muzhe
Yang
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Light Pollution, Sleep Deprivation, and Infant Health at Birth
This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87 (3), 849-888)
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I10, I12, I18, Q59, R11
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11701
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Xavier
Bartoll
Joan
Gil
Raul
Ramos
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Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic ...
(published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2019, 92 (7), 1047-1059.)
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I10, J41, J28
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