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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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11645
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Manudeep
Bhuller
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
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Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(4),1269-1324)
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K42, J24
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11644
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Robert
Dur
Ben
Vollaard
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Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 93, 208-220)
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C93, K42
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11643
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Estimating Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on a Broad Set of Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
A growing body of evidence suggests large increases in criminal behavior and mortality coinciding with a young adult's 21st birthday, when alcohol consumption becomes legal. The policy implications ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (3), 427-448)
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I12, I18
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11642
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Thomas
Dohmen
Simone
Quercia
Jana
Willrodt
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Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763 )
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D91, C91, D81, D01
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11641
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Conny
Wunsch
Renate
Strobl
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Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters
Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of ...
(published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185–1214)
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C91, D63, D81, O12
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11639
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
van der Velde
Karolina
Goraus-Tanska
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How (Not) to Make Women Work?
Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap with respect to men was cut in half. This positive trend has often been ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2018, 75, 154-167)
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J2, J7, P7
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11638
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Mahdi
Majbouri
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Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female labor force participation (FLFP) has remained low. Using the instrumental ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2018, 51 (4), 387–397)
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J13, J22, O53
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11637
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Damien
de Walque
Christine
Valente
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Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions
Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 256–285)
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I25, D82, N37
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11636
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Michael
J.
Osei
John
V.
Winters
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Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2019, 33(3), 212-219)
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J23, O18, R12, R23, R31
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11635
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Terhi
Maczulskij
Petri
Böckerman
Tuomas
Kosonen
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Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings
We examine the effect of job displacement on regional mobility using linked employer-employee panel data for the 1995-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and ...
(published as 'Losing a Job and (Dis)incentives to Move: Interregional Migration in Finland' in: European Urban and Regional Studies, 2023, 30 (4), 430-445)
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J61, J63
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11634
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Martin
Biewen
Daniela
Plötze
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The Role of Hours Changes for the Increase in German Earnings Inequality
Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 239, 1-28)
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C14, J22, J31
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11632
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Seamus
McGuinness
Paul
Redmond
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Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland
On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator ...
(revised verion published as 'The impact of a Minimum Wage increase on Temporary Worker Contracts' in: 2019, 40 (2), 149-173)
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E24, J22, J23, J31, J42
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11631
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Michael
Kvasnicka
Thomas
Siedler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (11), 1738-1753)
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D12, H19, I12, I18
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11630
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Miriam
Gensowski
Torben
Heien
Nielsen
Nete
Munk
Nielsen
Maya
Rossin-Slater
Miriam
Wüst
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Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic
A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This paper demonstrates that the adversity of childhood physical disability can be ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 27 - 36)
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I14, J24, I24, I10
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11629
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Elira
Kuka
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Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health
While the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program is one of the largest safety net program in the U.S., research on its benefits is limited. This paper exploits plausibly exogenous changes in state UI ...
(published: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (3), 490–505.)
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H05, I1
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11628
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Anastasia
Driva
Erik
Hornung
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (5), 2561-2607)
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I13, I18, N33, J11
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11627
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
Jeanne
Wendel
Miaomiao
Zou
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Impacts of Shifting Responsibility for High-Cost Individuals on Health Insurance Exchange Plan Premiums and Cost-Sharing Provisions
States with Section 1332 Waivers to operate high-risk pools (HRPs) or reinsurance programs can receive federal pass through funds equal to reductions in federal expenditures generated by the Waiver. ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 180-194.)
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I11, I13, I18
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11624
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Sofoklis
Goulas
Rigissa
Megalokonomou
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Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance
Would you prefer a tighter or a prolonged exam schedule? Would you prefer to take Math before Reading or the other way around? We exploit variation in end-of-course exam schedules across years and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190177. )
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I20, I24
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11621
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Krzysztof
Makarski
Marcin
Bielecki
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Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems
We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features within cohort heterogeneity of endowments and heterogeneity of preferences. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606)
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H55, E17, C60 C68, E21, D63
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11620
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Raymond
Montizaan
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Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses
In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192(3), 104297)
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J26, H55, J14
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11619
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Chiara
Canta
Helmuth
Cremer
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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies
We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 54, 2021, 259-283.)
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H2, H5
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11616
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Sabrina
Genz
Lutz
Bellmann
Britta
Matthes
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Do German Works Councils Counter or Foster the Implementation of Digital Technologies?
As works councils' information, consultation and co-determination rights affect the decision process of the management, works councils play a key role in the implementation of digital technologies in ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2019, 239 (3), 523 - 564)
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J50, J53
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11615
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John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
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State Substitution for the Trade Union Good: The Case of Paid Holiday Entitlements
The literature on the union wage premium is among the most extensive in labour economics but unions' effects on other aspects of the wage-effort bargain have received much less attention. We ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 5 - 23)
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J51, J32, K31
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11614
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Eric
D.
Gould
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Torn Apart? The Impact of Manufacturing Employment Decline on Black and White Americans
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socio-economic outcomes within and between black and white Americans from 1960 to 2010. Exploiting variation across cities ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (4), 770–785.)
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J10
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11612
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia
Bansak
Susan
Pozo
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Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2021, 55 (1), 135-165.)
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F22, J61, J68
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11610
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Michal
Burzynski
Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66(3), 564-601)
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C68, F22, J24
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11609
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Jake
Anders
Simon
Burgess
Jonathan
Portes
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The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees: Tracking the Progress of the East African Asians
Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of ...
(published in: Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021, 34 (2), 1967-1998 )
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J15
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11608
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Carsten
Feuerbaum
Marc
Piopiunik
Ludger
Woessmann
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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1297 - 1344)
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J15, I20, R23, J61
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11607
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Jessica
Leight
Elaine
M.
Liu
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 69 (1), 213–251)
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I24, O15, D13
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11606
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Elena Claudia
Meroni
Daniela
Piazzalunga
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Use of Extra-School Time and Child Behaviours: Evidence from the UK
In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. ...
(published as 'Allocation of time and child socio-emotional skills' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1155–1192)
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J13, D1
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11605
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Gianmaria
Niccodemi
Govert
Bijwaard
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Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age
Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 25, 333-361)
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I14, I24, C35, C38
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11603
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Giorgio
Brunello
Angela
Crema
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Testing at Length If It Is Cognitive or Non-Cognitive
Using Italian data on standardized test scores, we show that the substantial heterogeneity in how performance changes with the position of questions can alter the rank of individuals and classes as ...
(published as 'Some Unpleasant Consequences of Testing at Length' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1002 - 1023)
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I21
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11601
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Paul
Hufe
Ravi
Kanbur
Andreas
Peichl
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Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (6), 3345 - 3380)
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D31, D63, I32
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11600
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Sanjay
K.
Chugh
Wolfgang
Lechthaler
Christian
Merkl
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Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection
This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 94, 142-189)
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E24, E32, E50, E62, E63, J20
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11599
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Christian
Gillitzer
Mathias
Sinning
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Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?
This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence on the implications of the timing of reminders by studying the effect of varying the timing of reminder letters to taxpayers on their payment ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 169, 284-300)
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C93, H25, H26
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11598
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Jonathan
Deslauriers
Benoit
Dostie
Robert
Gagné
Jonathan
Paré
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Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data
In this paper, we use linked employer-employee administrative tax data from Canada to estimate the impact of payroll taxes on a variety of firms and workers outcomes. At the firm level, we use ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021, 54 (4), 1609-1637.)
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E62, J21, L25
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11597
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Ahmed
Elsayed
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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change ...
(published as 'Global terror, well-being and political attitudes' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, Article 103394)
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C99, D60, D72, D74, I31
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11596
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Thushyanthan
Baskaran
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Brian
Min
Yogesh
Uppal
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Women Legislators and Economic Performance
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2024, 29, 151–214)
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D72, D78, H44, H73
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11595
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Maksymilian
Kwiek
Helia
Marreiros
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Voting as a War of Attrition
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.)
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C78, C92, D72, D74
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11594
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Timothy
Hinks
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Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries
We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1411-1422)
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D73, P37
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11593
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John
Bennett
Matthew
D.
Rablen
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Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure
We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts some weight on domestic welfare. The investor may pay a bribe in return for a ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 53, 880-903)
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D73, H11
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11592
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David
L.
Dickinson
David
Masclet
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Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study
Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 195-215.)
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C90, C91, Z10
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11590
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
Joseph
Gomes
Atheendar
Venkataramani
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Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation
Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2172–2208)
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I14, I15, O15
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11589
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Charles
Courtemanche
Art
Carden
Xilin
Zhou
Murugi
Ndirangu
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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from ...
(published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2019, 41 (2), 177-198)
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I12, I14, Q18
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11588
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
Kevin
Reynolds
Hector
Gutierrez
Rufrancos
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Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?
This paper re-examines energy and nutritional available to British working-class households in the 1930s using the individual household expenditure and consumption data derived from the 1937/8 ...
(published as 'How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?' in: Economic History Review, 2022, 75 (1), 80 - 110)
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I30, N34
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11587
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Bernard
Fingleton
Alain
Pirotte
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A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors
This paper focuses on the estimation and predictive performance of several estimators for the time-space dynamic panel data model with Spatial Moving Average Random Effects (SMA-RE) structure of the ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 76, 13-31)
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C23
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11586
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Esther Mirjam
Girsberger
Miriam
Rinawi
Matthias
Krapf
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Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers ...
(published as 'Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102235)
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E24, J23, J24, J64
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11585
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Duncan
McVicar
Andrew
Park
Seamus
McGuinness
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Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
This paper examines employment and hours impacts of the 1999 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the 2016 introduction of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in Northern Ireland ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8(2))
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E24, J31, J38
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11584
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Gustavo
J.
Canavire Bacarreza
Luis
C.
Carvajal-Osorio
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Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America: Different Policies, Different Outcomes
This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia, which have had different political and economic strategies in recent years. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, 41, 128–168,)
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J31, J38, C14
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11582
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Céline
Piton
François
Rycx
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9 (2), 1-32)
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E24, E60, J48, J64, L51
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