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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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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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11581
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Kathrin
Manthei
Dirk
Sliwka
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Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank
We study the incentive effects of grating supervisors access to objective performance information when agents work on multiple tasks. We first analyze a formal model showing that incentives are lower ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (12), 5449-5956)
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M52, J33, D23
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11580
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Luke
Boosey
Sebastian
J.
Goerg
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The Timing of Discretionary Bonuses: Effort, Signals, and Reciprocity
In a real-effort experiment, we investigate how the timing of discretionary bonuses affects the relationship between workers and managers. Average output is substantially higher if bonuses are paid ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 124, 254-280.)
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M5
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11579
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Vidhya
Soundararajan
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Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device
Fixed-term contract employment has increasingly replaced regular open-ended employment as the predominant form of employment notably in developing countries. Guided by factory-level evidence showing ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102601)
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J31, J41, O43
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11578
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Anne
Hilger
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Leopold
Sarr
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive ...
(published as 'Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh', in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2022, 16 (2), 219-247. )
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J24, J31, J71, O12
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11577
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Eva
Van Belle
Ralf
Caers
Marijke
De Couck
Valentina
Di Stasio
Stijn
Baert
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The Signal of Applying for a Job under a Vacancy Referral Scheme
Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a consequence, rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of these programmes. The ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (2), 251 - 274)
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J68, J23, C91
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11576
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Martin
Eckhoff
Andresen
Tarjei
Havnes
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Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue
We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101762)
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H24, H52, J13, J22
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11575
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Takao
Kato
Yang
Song
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An Advisor like Me: Does Gender Matter?
This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of gender congruence in the student-adviser relationship on three key student outcomes: (i) retention; (ii) grades; and (iii) post-graduation ...
(revised version published as 'Advising, Gender, and Performance: Evidence from a University with Exogenous Adviser-Student Gender Match' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (1), 121-141)
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I21, I23
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11574
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Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Jeff
Frank
Cevat Giray
Aksoy
Matt
L.
Huffman
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Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK
A burgeoning literature has examined earnings inequalities associated with a minority sexual orientation, but far less is known about sexual orientation-based differences in access to workplace ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 167-180)
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J15, J71, M54
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11573
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Haifeng
Nie
Chunbing
Xing
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Education Expansion, Assortative Marriage, and Income Inequality in China
We use census and household survey data to document China's educational assortative marriage and its evolution between 1990 and 2009. Empirical results suggest that men are increasingly likely to ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 55, 37 - 51)
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J12, I24, O15
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11572
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Simon
Weber
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Marital Patterns and Income Inequality
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 29-43)
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C78, D1, D3, I24, J12
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11571
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Emanuela
Galasso
Mario
Negre
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Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples
"Shared prosperity" has become a common phrase in the development policy discourse. This short paper provides its most widely used operational definition – the growth rate in the average income of ...
(published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford. OUP. 2020.)
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D30, D63, I30
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11570
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Ronald
Bachmann
Merve
Cim
Colin
P.
Green
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Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data
The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 350-376)
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J23, J24, J62, E24
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11569
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
William
H.
McGuire
Yaqin
Su
Min Qiang
Zhao
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is ...
(revised version available)
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J24, J31, O30, D33
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11568
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Andrea
Garnero
François
Rycx
Isabelle
Terraz
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Productivity and Wage Effects of Firm-Level Collective Agreements: Evidence from Belgian Linked Panel Data
How do firm-level collective agreements affect firm performance in a multi-level bargaining system? Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 936-972)
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C33, J24, J31
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11566
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Silvia
Mendolia
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Ian
Walker
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The Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Risky Behaviors
We investigate the relationship between religiosity and risky behaviors in adolescence using data from a large and detailed cohort study of 14 year olds who have been followed for seven years. We ...
(published in as 'Intrinsic Religiosity, Personality Traits, and Adolescent Risky Behaviors' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2019, 19 (3), 1-16)
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I10, I12
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11564
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Si
Chen
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Looking at the Bright Side: The Motivation Value of Overconfidence
The motivation value of confidence postulates that individual effort provision is increasing in beliefs on one's own productivity. This relationship also holds for overconfident individuals who have ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 120, 103302)
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C91, D91
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11563
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David
Butler
Stephen
L.
Cheung
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Mind, Body, Bubble! Psychological and Biophysical Dimensions of Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets
Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly ...
(published in: Gigi Foster (ed), Biophysical Measurement in Experimental Social Science Research, Academic Press, 2019)
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C92, D91, G12, G41
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11562
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
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Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation
The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197)
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C50, D10, D31, H21, H24, H31, J20
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11561
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Stefa
Hirsch
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Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (1), 29-63)
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I24, J62
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11560
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Otávio
Bartalotti
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Regression Discontinuity and Heteroskedasticity Robust Standard Errors: Evidence from a Fixed-Bandwidth Approximation
In regression discontinuity design (RD), for a given bandwidth, researchers can estimate standard errors based on different variance formulas obtained under different asymptotic frameworks. In the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2019, 8 (1), 20160007.)
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C12, C21
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11559
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Pedro
Portugal
António
Rua
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Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens
To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding ...
(published as 'How the Ins and Outs Shape Differently the U.S. Unemployment Over Time and Across Frequencies' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 121, 103348)
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C10, E24, E32
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11558
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Amy
Finkelstein
Matthew
J.
Notowidigdo
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Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP
This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 123 (3), 1505–1556, )
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C93, H53, I38
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11556
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Daniel
Fackler
Michaela
Fuchs
Lisa
Hölscher
Claus
Schnabel
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Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?
This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It compares the hiring patterns of startups and incumbents in the period 2003 to 2014 ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (5), 1123-1148)
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J31, J63, L26, M51
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11555
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Nicole
Gürtzgen
André
Nolte
Laura
Pohlan
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany
This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657)
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J64, K42, H40, L96, C26
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11554
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Emilio
Depetris-Chauvin
Ömer
Özak
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25 (3), 297-340)
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D74, F10, F14, J24, N10, O10, O11, O12, O40, O43, O44, Z10, Z13
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11548
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Delia
Furtado
Huanan
Xu
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Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?
Academia and the public media have emphasized the link between STEM majors and innovation, as well as the need for STEM graduates in the U.S. economy. Given the proclivity of international students ...
(published as 'OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the U.S.' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101752)
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F22, J61, J68
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11547
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Michael
C.
Knaus
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A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2021, 184(1), 282-300)
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J24, Z11, C21, C31
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11546
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
Jin Ho
Kim
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Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development
This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26 (5), 409-412 )
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J24, D9
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11545
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Rebecca
McDonald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from ...
(published online in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024)
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H8, I18, I31
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11544
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock
This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in determining educational attainment. The central question is whether poor childhood ...
(published in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2019, 73 (1), 139-148)
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J62, J1, J24
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11543
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Elena
Grinza
François
Rycx
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The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian private firms. We deal with endogeneity, which arises from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194)
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D24, M59, I15
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11542
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Soohyung
Lee
Heesun
Yoo
Minhyuk
Nam
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Impact of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from South Korea
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2018, 168, 98-101)
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I18, K32, Q52
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11541
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Karen
Clay
Margarita
Portnykh
Edson
Severnini
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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988 and lead in topsoil in the 2000s, this paper examines the impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications – ...
(published in:Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2021, 8 (5), 975–1012 )
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Q53, J13, N52, N92
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11540
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Gregory
DeAngelo
Laura
Katherine
Gee
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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 123, 210-227)
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C72, C91, C92, D7, H41
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11539
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Ohto
Kanninen
Petri
Böckerman
Ilpo
Suoniemi
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Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility function at the individual level, using European survey data on life satisfaction. ...
(published online as ' Income–Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health' in: Health Economics, 19 November 2025)
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D02, H55, I13
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11538
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Eric
Cardella
Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Michael
Parent
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Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices
This paper presents the results of an experiment that is designed to examine how information presentation and complexity impact retirement-savings behavior. The experiment is performed twice, using ...
(published as 'Less is not more: 401(k) plan information and retirement planning choices' in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (3), 331-351.)
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G11, G41, H31, J32, D83, C90
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11537
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Pia
Pinger
Sebastian
Schäfer
Heiner
Schumacher
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Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices
We document that an internal locus of control can be hindering in financial market situations, where short-term outcomes are determined by chance. The reason is that internally controlled individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 66-75)
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D03, G02, C91
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