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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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11311
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Grace
Weishi
Gu
Eswar
Prasad
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New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.
Employer-provided nonwage benefit expenditures now account for one-third of U.S. firms' labor costs. We show that a broad measure of real labor costs including such benefit expenditures has become ...
(published as 'New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Average Labor Costs in the United States ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 966–979.)
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E24, J32, E32
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11310
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Aaron
Sojourner
José
Pacas
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The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact
This paper develops the first evidence on how individuals' union membership status affects their net fiscal impact, the difference between taxes they pay and cost of public benefits they receive, ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 86-107 )
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J5, H24, J31
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11309
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Boris
Hirsch
Steffen
Müller
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (5), 1119-1146)
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J31, J52, J53
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11308
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Susan
Payne Carter
Abigail
Wozniak
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Making Big Decisions: The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel
We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move ...
(published online in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 13 May 2021)
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J12, J61
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11306
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Joni
Hersch
Jennifer
Bennett
Shinall
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Imputation Match Bias in Immigrant Wage Convergence
Although immigrants to the United States earn less at entry than their native-born counterparts, an extensive literature finds that immigrants have faster earnings growth that results in rapid ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1475-1485 )
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J15, J31
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11305
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Judite
Goncalves
Pedro
S.
Martins
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The Effect of Self-Employment on Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Security Data
The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the potential required changes in public policy. However, answering these questions is ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(3), 1527-1543)
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I18, J24
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11304
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Bhashkar
Mazumder
Ashley
Wong
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Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US
Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by ...
(published as 'Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104307)
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I1, I14
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11302
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Daniele
Biancardi
Massimiliano
Bratti
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The Effect of the First Italian Research Evaluation Exercise on Student Enrolment Choices
This paper studies the impact of the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) on university undergraduate students' enrolment choices. A before-after estimator with differential ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 73-93)
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I21 I23
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11301
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Karine
Torosyan
Norberto
Pignatti
Maksym
Obrizan
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Job Market Outcomes of IDPs: The Case of Georgia
Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 800-820)
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D74, J21, O15, P23, R23
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11299
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Wolfgang
Dauth
Sebastian
Findeisen
Jens
Suedekum
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Adjusting to Globalization in Germany
We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in Germany. To profit from export opportunities, workers adjust through increased ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (1), 263–302)
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F16, J31, R11
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11298
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Seetha
Menon
Andrea
Salvatori
Wouter
Zwysen
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The Effect of Computer Use on Job Quality: Evidence from Europe
This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% ...
(published as 'The Effect of Computer Use on Work Discretion and Work Intensity: Evidence from Europe' in: BJIR British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 1004-1038)
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J21, J23, J24, O33
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11297
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Grace
Lordan
David
Neumark
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People versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs
We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs – jobs in which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people – focusing on low-skilled workers for ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 40-53)
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J23, J38
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11295
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
van der Velde
Irene
van Staveren
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Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (4), 108-130)
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J31, J71
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11293
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Nick
Drydakis
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Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination: A Note
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 631-636)
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B4, B5, B54, J71
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11292
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi
Iyer
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Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 53, 102746)
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I15, J13, O15, P16
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11291
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Crushing Hope: Short Term Responses to Tragedy Vary by Hopefulness
This research note explores the consequences of dispositional optimism and hopefulness when the environment changes. Much literature has documented the importance of a positive outlook in pursuing ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 201, 59-62)
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D91, I12
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11290
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Angelo
Antoci
Laura
Bonelli
Fabio
Paglieri
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Fabio
Sabatini
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Civility and Trust in Social Media
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 160, 83-99 )
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C91, D9, D91, Z1
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11288
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Uschi
Backes-Gellner
Holger
Herz
Michael
Kosfeld
Yvonne
Oswald
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Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions
Evidence suggests that acquiring human capital is related to better life outcomes, yet young peoples' decisions to invest in or stop acquiring human capital are still poorly understood. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709)
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D01, D03, D91, I21, J64
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11287
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Eyal
Baharad
Leif
Danziger
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Voting in Hiring Committees: Which "Almost" Rule Is Optimal?
We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, ...
(published in: Group Decision and Negotiation, 2018, 27, 129-151)
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D71
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11286
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Stephen
D.
O'Connell
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Can Quotas Increase the Supply of Candidates for Higher-Level Positions? Evidence from Local Government in India
A common argument for quota policies is that they can increase the participation of targeted groups in positions that are not directly subjected to quotas or after quotas are no longer in place. I ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (1), 65–78.)
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J15, J45
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11285
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Magnus
Carlsson
Luca
Fumarco
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
Several studies using observational data suggest that ethnic discrimination increases in downturns of the economy. We investigate whether ethnic discrimination depends on labor market tightness using ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50 (24), 2652 - 2663)
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C93, J15, J21, J71
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11284
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Magnus
Carlsson
Abdulaziz
Abrar Reshid
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents has been a subject of great interest for both policy makers and researchers. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 534-549.)
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C93, J15, J21, J71
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11283
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Marc
Piopiunik
Guido
Schwerdt
Lisa
Simon
Ludger
Woessmann
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Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, 103374)
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J24, J21, I26
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11282
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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Women and Migration
While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 731-747)
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F22, O15, R23, J16
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11281
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Francesc
Ortega
Ryan
Edwards
Amy
Hsin
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The Economic Effects of Providing Legal Status to DREAMers
This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration reforms aimed at legalizing undocumented individuals that entered the United States as children and completed high school: Deferred ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9:2.)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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11280
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Luca
De Benedictis
Gianluca
Santoni
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60(2), 249-272)
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F10, F14, F22, R10
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11279
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Giovanni
Facchini
Maggie
Y.
Liu
Anna Maria
Mayda
Minghai
Zhou
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China's "Great Migration": The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2019, 120, 126-144)
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F22, F63, J61, O15
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11278
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Manudeep
Bhuller
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 234-240.)
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K42, J24, J62
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11277
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Yanyan
Liu
Vidhya
Soundararajan
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Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program
Are political activists preferentially targeted by politicians engaging in clientelistic transfers to bolster political support? We provide the first model to highlight two possible rationales for ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103631)
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D7, H5
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11274
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Uma
Kambhampati
Samantha
Rawlings
Zahra
Siddique
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Intimate Partner Violence and the Business Cycle
We examine the impact of business cycle variation on intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. We distinguish male from female ...
(published as 'Intimate Partner Violence: The influence of job opportunities for men and women' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (2), 461–479 )
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D19, J11, J12
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11272
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Barbara
Dietz
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The Economic and Social Determinants of Migrants' Well-Being during the Global Financial Crisis
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover ...
(published as 'Migrants’ well-being during the global financial crisis: economic and social predictors' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 770-787)
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J15, J46, I31
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11271
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Telework, the Timing of Work, and Instantaneous Well-Being: Evidence from Time Use Data
In this paper, we analyze the time allocation decisions of teleworkers, and compare them with their commuter counterparts. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003 to 2015, we ...
(published as 'Work time and well-being for workers at home: evidence from th American Time Use Survey' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (2), 184-206)
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D13, J22
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11270
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Matteo
Picchio
Claudia
Pigini
Stefano
Staffolani
Alina
Verashchagina
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If Not Now, When? The Timing of Childbirth and Labour Market Outcomes
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (6), 663-685)
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C33, C35, J13, J22
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11269
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Anna
Busse
Christina
Gathmann
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Free Daycare and its Effects on Children and their Families
Many governments invest substantial public funds to foster early childhood education. And yet, there are still many open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 240-260)
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J13, J22, J18
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11268
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Michael
C.
Knaus
Michael
Lechner
Anne
K.
Reimers
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For Better or Worse? The Effects of Physical Education on Child Development
This study analyses the effects of regular physical education at school on cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, motor skills, physical activity, and health. It is based on a very informative data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 1010904)
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I26, Z28, I12
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11267
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Magdalena
Bennett
Peter
Bergman
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Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (1), 1-36)
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I21, D85
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11266
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Why Are Professors "Poorly Paid"?
Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 137-41)
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J44, J33, J31
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11265
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Olympia
Bover
Laura
Hospido
Ernesto
Villanueva
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The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain
We conducted a randomized controlled trial where 3,000 9th grade students coming from 78 high schools received a financial education course at different points of the year. Right after the treatment, ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024)
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D14, D91, I22, J24
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11264
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Gerard
A.
Pfann
Harald
Pfeifer
Hans
Dietrich
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The Effects of Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships: Evidence from a German High School Reform
This paper studies the effects of the G8 high school reform in Germany. The reform reduced minimum duration to obtain a high school degree (Abitur) from 9 to 8 years. First, we present a simple model ...
(published as 'Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 86, 102197)
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I21, J20
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11263
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Ryan
Brown
Hani
Mansour
Stephen
D.
O'Connell
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Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?
Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced ...
(published as 'Does local female political representation empower women to run for higher office? Evidence from state and national legislatures in India' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 198-218)
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J16, J71, P16
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11262
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Matthias
Doepke
Michèle
Tertilt
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Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
We document evidence on preferences for childbearing in developing countries. Across countries, men usually desire larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 358–362)
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J12, J13, J16, O10
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11261
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Wifag
Adnan
Sami
H.
Miaari
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Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap
Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 222-247)
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J21, J31, J61, J45, C14, C24
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11260
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Z. Eylem
Gevrek
Christian
Neumeier
Deniz
Gevrek
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Explaining the Gender Test Score Gap in Mathematics: The Role of Gender Inequality
Using data from the 2012 PISA across 56 countries, this study examines the link between societal gender inequalities and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76 (3), 1-31 )
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C14, I24, I25, J16
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11259
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Mireia
Borrell-Porta
Joan
Costa-Font
Julia
Philipp
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The 'Mighty Girl' Effect: Does Parenting Daughters Alter Attitudes towards Gender Roles?
Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 24 - 46)
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J7, Z1
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11258
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Frank
M.
Fossen
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Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 48, 253-289.)
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J22, J23, L26
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11257
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David
Cornille
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs' Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great ...
(published as 'Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SME's Employment: Evidence from the European Sovereign Debt Crisis' in : Journal of Financial Stability, 2019, 41, 1-13)
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C35, C36, D22, G01, G21, J21, J23
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11256
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Norberto
Pignatti
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Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?
One of the most important factors that determine individuals' quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2018, 46 (3), 838-857)
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J31, J40, P23
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11255
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Stephan
Heblich
Daniel
M.
Sturm
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The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, article 103291)
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F15, J45, N44, R12
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11254
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José
Azar
Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Marshall
Steinbaum
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Labor Market Concentration
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S 2022), S167-S199 )
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J30, J42, L40
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11253
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Eugénie
Joltreau
Katrin
Sommerfeld
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Why Does Emissions Trading under the EU ETS Not Affect Firms' Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms ...
(published in: Climate Policy, 2019, 19 (4), 453-471)
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Q52, Q58, D22
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