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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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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
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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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11700
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Commuting Time and Sick-Day Absence of US Workers
This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 2011, 2013, and 2015, we find that a ...
(published in: Empirica, 2022, 49, 691 - 719)
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I10, J22, R2, R40
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11699
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Nick
Drydakis
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School-Age Bullying, Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction: Experiences of LGB People in Britain
Using a data set that contains information on retrospective school-age bullying, as well as on workplace bullying in the respondents' present job, the outcomes of this study suggest that bullying, ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2019, 87 (4), 455-488)
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J16, J28, J70
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11698
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Tony
Fang
Carl
Lin
Xueli
Tang
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How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?
This paper examines the effects of working time reduction policy on labour supply (hours of work and whether an individual takes a second job) and household production, by exploiting the Chinese ...
(published as 'Where did the time go? The effects of China's two-day weekend policy on labor supply, household work, and wage' in: China Economic Review, 2024, 83, 102107. )
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J22, J28
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11696
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Annika
Campaner
John
S.
Heywood
Uwe
Jirjahn
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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (1), 3-29)
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J24, L00, M53
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11694
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia
Terskaya
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Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the causal effect of gender-identity norms on female teenagers' engagement in risky behaviors relative to boys in the ...
( substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456 )
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I10, I12, J15, J16, J22, Z13
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11693
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Ariel
J.
Binder
David
Lam
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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6), 1885-1914)
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D10, J12, J16
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11692
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Anne
Ardila
Brenøe
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Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using ...
(published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896)
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I2, J1, J3
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11690
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Apsara
Karki
Nepal
Martin
Halla
Steven
Stillman
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Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff
We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. ...
(published online in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 18 December 2023)
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D74, H56, J13, O10, O12
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11689
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Isabella
Giorgetti
Matteo
Picchio
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One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy
In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of ...
(published in: Metroeconomica, 2021, 72 (3), 469-492)
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C23, H52, H70, J13, R10
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11688
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Christian
Dustmann
Anna
Raute
Uta
Schönberg
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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance
In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2356–2409)
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J13, J15, I28
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11687
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Malte
Sandner
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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The Effects of Universal Public Childcare Provision on Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse
We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child abuse and neglect in Germany between 2002 and 2014. For identification, we exploit a governmental reform introducing mandatory early ...
(revised version published online as 'Preventing Child Maltreatment: Beneficial Side Effects of Public Childcare' (joint with Libertad Gonzalez) in: Economic Journal, 19 July 2024)
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J13, J12, I38
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11686
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Pinar
Mine
Gunes
Beyza
Ural Marchand
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Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey
This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic shocks on child schooling in Turkey using household labor force surveys from 2005-2013. We use variation in local labor demand as an instrumental ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101809.)
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J13, J24, O15
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11685
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Kelvin
Seah
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Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement
A large body of research has found that, by being better able to serve as cultural translators and role models, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88(1), 245-273)
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I21, J15
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11684
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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The Golden Middle Class Neighborhood: Trends in Residential Segregation and Consequences for Offspring Outcomes
Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A ...
(revised version published as 'Are Richer Neighborhoods Always Better for the Kids?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (3), 629–651)
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C21, I24, R23, Z13
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11683
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Annika
B.
Bergbauer
Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Testing
School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 349-388)
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I28, H52, L15, D82, P51
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11682
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Rocco
d'Este
Elias
Einiö
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Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement: Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City
This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021,83, 102129.)
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I20, I29, J15
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11680
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Francesc
Ortega
Amy
Hsin
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Occupational Barriers and the Labor Market Penalty from Lack of Legal Status
Wage gaps between documented (including natives) and undocumented workers may reflect employer exploitation, endogenous occupational sorting and productivity losses associated with lack of legal ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102181)
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J15, J24, J31
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11679
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Alpaslan
Akay
Alexandra
Brausmann
Slobodan
Djajic
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103682.)
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F22, J61
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11675
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Anders
Frederiksen
Takao
Kato
Nina
Smith
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Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
By combining Danish registry data covering the population of Danish workers with the Danish Labor Force Survey (DLFS) which provides detailed data on working hours, we provide fresh evidence and ...
(revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024)
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M5
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11674
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Daniel
Jones
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507)
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C91, M52, J45
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11672
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Orley
Ashenfelter
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Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector
In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S324-S348)
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J42, J41, J63
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11669
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Hans
Fricke
Susanna
Loeb
David
S.
Song
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Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
Text-message based parenting programs have proven successful in improving parental engagement and preschoolers' literacy development. The tested programs have provided a combination of (a) general ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (2), 209-232)
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I21, I24, J18
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11668
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Francesco
Amodio
Jieun
Choi
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Aminur
Rahman
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Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2022, 50 (2), 435-453)
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D22, D40, H26, H71, O12
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11667
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Philippe
Ruh
Stefan
Staubli
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Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design
Most countries reduce Disability Insurance (DI) benefits for beneficiaries earning above a specified threshold. Such an earnings threshold generates a discontinuous increase in tax liability – a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300)
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H53, H55, J14, J21
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11666
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Jonneke
Bolhaar
Nadine
Ketel
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 183, 104080)
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C93, I38, J64, J08
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11663
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Anne
Nolan
Alan
Barrett
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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100201)
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D14, H55, J14, J26
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