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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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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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11535
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Duccio
Gamannossi degl’Innocenti
Matthew
D.
Rablen
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Tax Evasion on a Social Network
We relate tax evasion behavior to a substantial literature on self and social comparison in judgements. Taxpayers engage in tax evasion as a means to boost their expected consumption relative to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91)
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H26, D85, K42
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11534
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Delphine
Boutin
Hugues
Champeaux
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Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379)
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J12, J16, D74, I14
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11533
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Kamila
Cygan-Rehm
Daniel
Kühnle
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 182 - 197)
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J12, J13, J18, I30
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11532
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Quentin
Lippmann
Claudia
Senik
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Math, Girls and Socialism
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.)
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I2, J16, J24, P36, Z13
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11531
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Soohyung
Lee
Chiara
Orsini
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Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes
We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (7), 1044-1063)
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H0, I1, J1
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11528
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this ...
(published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1), 1-17)
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N00, Z10, Z13
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11527
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Gregory
Verdugo
Sorana
Toma
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Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828)
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J15, R31
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11524
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970)
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J15, I20, Z13
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11523
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Takao
Kato
Antti
Kauhanen
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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2018, 1 (1), 61-73 )
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M52, J33, J24, J53, O53
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11522
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Rolf
Aaberge
Anthony
B.
Atkinson
Sebastian
Königs
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From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (2), 295–320.)
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C14, D31, D33
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11521
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Farzana
Afridi
Amrita
Dhillon
Sherry
Xin
Li
Swati
Sharma
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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445)
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C93, D20, D22, D24, J33
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11520
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Elena
Grinza
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity
Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18 (2), 181-211)
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J15, J16, J24, J31, J7
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11519
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Ravi
Kanbur
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Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional ...
(published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021)
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J31, J42, D31, O34
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11518
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Tobias
Brändle
Laszlo
Goerke
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The One Constant: A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?
A large number of articles have analysed 'the one constant' in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economic, 2018, 65 (5), 445 - 478)
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J23 J52, J53, J63
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11516
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Daniel
O.
Gilligan
Naureen
Karachiwalla
Ibrahim
Kasirye
Adrienne
Lucas
Derek
Neal
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Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools
In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 79-111)
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I0, J3, O1
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11514
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nathan
Kettlewell
Stefanie
Schurer
Sven
Silburn
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 2072-2110 )
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D04, I28, I38
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11512
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Mercedes
Ayuso
Jorge Miguel
Bravo
Robert
Holzmann
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Getting Life Expectancy Estimates Right for Pension Policy: Period versus Cohort Approach
In many policy areas it is essential to use the best estimates of life expectancy, but such estimates are vital to most areas of pension policy – from indexed access age and the calculation of ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2021, 20 (2), 212 - 231)
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D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
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11511
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
Francesco
Pascucci
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Pension Policies in a Model with Endogenous Fertility
We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy. We show that an increasing life expectancy may not be detrimental for the economy ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2020, 19 (1), 109-125)
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D15, H55, J13, J18, J26
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11509
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Moral Nimby-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada
The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, prompts discussions on the merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment ...
(published in: Law and Contemporary Problems, 2018, 81, 83 - 105)
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C01, D63, D64, I11
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11508
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Arthur
P.
Hayen
Tobias
J.
Klein
Martin
Salm
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Does the Framing of Patient Cost-Sharing Incentives Matter? The Effects of Deductibles vs. No-Claim Refunds
In light of increasing health care expenditures, patient cost-sharing schemes have emerged as one of the main policy tools to reduce medical spending. We show that the effect of patient cost-sharing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102520)
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I13, D91, H51
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