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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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11431
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Silvia
Mendolia
Paul
McNamee
Oleg
Yerokhin
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The Transmission of Mental Health within Households: Does One Partner's Mental Health Influence the Other Partner's Life Satisfaction?
This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life satisfaction, using a sample of married and cohabitating couples from the Household, Income and Labour ...
(published as 'The transmission of partner mental health to individual life satisfaction: Estimates from a longitudinal household survey' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 68 (4), 494-516)
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I10, I12
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11428
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Mi
Dai
Wei
Huang
Yifan
Zhang
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How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions ...
(published as 'How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102628)
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F14, F16, J20, R23
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11426
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Pierre
Nguimkeu
Augustine
Denteh
Rusty
Tchernis
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On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting
Participation in social programs is often misreported in survey data, complicating the estimation of the effects of those programs. In this paper, we propose a model to estimate treatment effects ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2019, 208 (2), 487 - 506)
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C35, C51
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11424
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Chris
Doucouliagos
Martin
Paldam
T.
D.
Stanley
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Skating on Thin Evidence: Implications for Public Policy
Good public policy needs to be evidence based. However, the evidence base is thin for many policy issues. How can policy makers best respond to such thin areas of research that are also quite likely ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 54, 16 - 25)
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C1, H00, H5
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11423
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Muhammad
Asali
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A Tale of Two Academic Tracks
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 323-337.)
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J21, J11, J24, J31, J41, J44, I23
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11422
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Nicholas
Barr
Bruce
Chapman
Lorraine
Dearden
Susan
Dynarski
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Reflections on the US College Loans System: Lessons from Australia and England
There is wide agreement the US student loan system faces significant problems. Seven million borrowers are in default and many more experience non-repayment. The stress of repayments faced by many ...
(published as 'The US college loans system: Lessons from Australia and England' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 71, 32 - 48)
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H28, I22, I28, J24
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11421
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Carmen
Aina
Eliana
Baici
Giorgia
Casalone
Francesco
Pastore
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The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation: A Survey
This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The Determinants of University Dropout: A Review of the Socio-Economic Literature' in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022, 79, 101102)
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H52, I21, I22, I23, J13, J24
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11420
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
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Minimum Age Requirements and the Impact of School Choice
Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple ...
(published as 'Minimum age requirements and the role of the school choice set ' in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2022, 14, 63 - 103)
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A21, I24, I25, I28
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11419
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Pedro
Portugal
Hugo
Reis
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The Returns to Schooling Unveiled
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to ...
(part 1 of this paper published online as 'What Lies Behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024 )
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J31, J24, I26
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11417
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Marie-Anne
Valfort
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Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105022)
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C93, J15, J71, Z12
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11416
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Ana
Petrović
David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
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Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects
Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that different geographies and scales affect individual outcomes. We argue that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the tyranny of ...
(published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2020, 44 (6), 1103 - 1123)
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I30, J60, P46, R23
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11415
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Mauro
Lanati
Alessandra
Venturini
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Cultural Change and the Migration Choice
Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences – such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or ...
(published in: Review of World Economy, 2021, 157, 799 - 852)
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F16, F22, Z10
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11412
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Charles
Courtemanche
Augustine
Denteh
Rusty
Tchernis
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Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228)
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C81, H51, I12, I18
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11411
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task
Using real effort to implement costly activities increases the likelihood that the motivations that drive effort provision in real life carry over to the laboratory. However, unobserved differences ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9)
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C91, C13
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11410
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Silvia
Garcia Mandico
Pilar
Garcia-Gomez
Anne
C.
Gielen
Owen
O'Donnell
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Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts
Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI ...
(published as 'Earnings responses to disability insurance stringency' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101880)
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H53, H55, J14, J22
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11409
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Tomi
Kyyrä
Tuuli
Paukkeri
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Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow
We study whether the experience rating of employers' disability insurance premiums affects the inflow to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit ...
(published as "Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, 178-192)
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J14, J26, H32
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11408
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Benjamin
Elsner
Florian
Wozny
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The Human Capital Cost of Radiation: Long-Run Evidence from Exposure Outside the Womb
This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in ...
(published as 'Long-run exposure to low-dose radiation reduces cognitive performance' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102785)
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J24, Q53
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11406
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Arnaud
Lefranc
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Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French ...
(published in: Economica, 2018, 85 (340), 808 - 845)
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D1, D3, J3
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11405
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Paolo
Brunori
Vito
Peragine
Laura
Serlenga
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Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
Estimates of the level of inequality of opportunity have traditionally been interpreted as lower bounds due to the downward bias resulting from the partial observability of circumstances that affect ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (4), 635 - 661)
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C52, D3, D63
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11404
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Martin
Leites
Xavier
Ramos
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The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion
Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of the relationship between relative income and life satisfaction, and test empirically if the features of the value ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 3485 - 3515)
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D6, I31
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11403
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Christian
Grund
Krystina
Titz
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Further Training and Affective Commitment
We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a ...
(revised version published as 'Affective Commitment through Further Training: The Roles of Firm Provision and Employee Participation' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 1195-1226. )
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M53, M12, J24
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11402
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Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Workers, Firms and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics
Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects ...
(revised version forthcoming as "Earnings Dynamics, Inequality, and Firm Heterogeneity" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics)
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J24, J31
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11400
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Hassan
Arouri
Adel
Ben-Youssef
Francesco
Quatraro
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Determinants of Young Firms Growth in Tunisia
The aim of this paper is to investigate the growth dynamics of young small firms (in contrast with larger and older incumbents) in a developing country context, using a unique and comprehensive ...
(published as 'Drivers of Growth in Tunisia: Young Firms vs Incumbents' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 54, 323–340 )
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O12, L26
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11399
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John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm ...
(published as 'Management practices and SME performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558)
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L25, L26, M12, M52, M53
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11397
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Tom
Kleinepier
Maarten
van Ham
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The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence
Research on neighborhood effects has increasingly focused on how long children have lived in a deprived neighborhood during childhood (duration), but has typically ignored when in childhood the ...
(published in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2018, 47 (8), 1611–1628. )
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I30, J60, P46, R23
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11396
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Elizabeth E.
Davis
Won Fy
Lee
Aaron
Sojourner
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Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care and Education
This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2019, 47, 472 - 486 )
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J13, R12, R53, H4, L84
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11395
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Chiara
Rapallini
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Parental Occupation and Children's School Outcomes in Math
We find a positive relationship between math attitude and students' math scores using data obtained from PISA 2012 and a 2SLS model. Math attitude is approximated by three subjective measures: ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2019, 73 (4), 293-303)
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I21, J13, J24
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11394
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Alexander
Ahammer
Martin
Halla
Nicole
Schneeweis
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The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102250)
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J13, I18, J28, I13, J83, J88
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11392
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Diego
Zambiasi
Steven
Stillman
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The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?
This paper examines the amenity value of legalized marijuana by analyzing the impact of marijuana legalization on migration to Colorado. Colorado is the pioneering state in this area having legalized ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (2), 667-679)
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I18, R23, K42, C22
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11391
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Mark
Borgschulte
Adriana
Corredor-Waldron
Guillermo
Marshall
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A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide
In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 149, 169 - 184)
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I12, I18, D11, D12
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11390
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Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
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Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549)
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J46, J48, K42
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11388
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Yusi
Ouyang
Abebe
Shimeles
Erik
Thorbecke
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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 117 (C), 13 - 28)
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O10, O55
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11387
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Bohdan
Kukharskyy
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732)
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D23, L14, L22, L23, O10
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11386
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Eliav
Danziger
Leif
Danziger
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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 46), Emerald Publishing, 2018, 55-72.)
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D60, H21, J30
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11385
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Ragui
Assaad
Rana
Hendy
Moundir
Lassassi
Shaimaa
Yassin
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Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17))
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J16, J21, J22, J82
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11382
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Marianne
Bertrand
Patricia
Cortes
Claudia
Olivetti
Jessica
Pan
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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (4), 1936 - 1978)
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J12, J16
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11381
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Sarah
Bana
Kelly
Bedard
Maya
Rossin-Slater
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The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
Although the United States provides unpaid maternity and family leave to qualifying workers, it is the only OECD country without a national paid leave policy, making wage replacement a pivotal issue ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2020, 39 (4), 888-929)
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I18, J13, J16, J18
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11379
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José
Azar
Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Marshall
Steinbaum
Bledi
Taska
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Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101886)
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J21, J23, J42, K21, L11
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11378
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Philipp
Grunau
Lutz
Bellmann
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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 24-46.)
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J21, J23, J41, J48, J51, J63, K31
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11374
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Samuel
Lüthi
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut ...
(published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 156, Article number: 3 (2020))
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E24, E32, I21, J18, J44
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11373
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Alex
Bryson
Francis
Green
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Do Private Schools Manage Better?
There is a perception among some commentators and policy analysts that leadership and managerial practices in private schools are superior to those in state schools. Analysing a survey of workplaces ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R17-R26)
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I21
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11372
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David
Wilkinson
Alex
Bryson
Lucy
Stokes
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Assessing the Variance in Pupil Attainment: How Important Is the School Attended?
We explore the variation in pupil attainment at the end of secondary schooling in England. The paper links data on all schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R4-R16)
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I21
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11371
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we ...
(published as 'Minorities and Political Success' in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (1), 657-671)
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J15, D72
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11370
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Licensing and the Skills Mismatch of Highly Educated Migrants' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (3), 730 - 756 )
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J8, J24, J61
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11369
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Martin
Guzi
Stepan
Mikula
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Reforms That Keep You at Home: The Effects of Economic Transition on Migration
Theory asserts that individuals' migration decisions depend more on their expectations about future income levels than on their current income levels. We find that the implementation of ...
(published in: published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (2), 289-310)
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F22, J61, O15
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11367
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Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Nadav
Klein
Andrew
Chamberlain
Morgan
Smart
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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews
Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias ...
(published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2021, 27 (2), 393–407. )
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J2, J28, L14, L86
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11366
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Alessandra
Casarico
Mirco
Tonin
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Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information: A Field Experiment on Motivation
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field ...
(substantially revised version published as 'A field experiment on fundraising to support independent information' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 227-250)
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C93, D64, H41
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11365
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Lukas
Kiessling
Jonas
Radbruch
Sebastian
Schaube
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The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We ...
(substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514)
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C93, D01, I20, J24, L23
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11364
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Tjaša
Bjedov
Simon
Lapointe
Thierry
Madies
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?
Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716)
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C91, D72, H77
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11362
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Niaz
Asadullah
Maliki
Maliki
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Madrasah for Girls and Private School for Boys? The Determinants of School Type Choice in Rural and Urban Indonesia
Using a nationally representative data set of Indonesian households and villages, we study the determinants of enrolment in Islamic schools (i.e., madrasahs) and private non-religious vis-Ã -vis ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2018, 62, 96–111 )
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D04, I21, O15
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