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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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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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11252
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Timo
Baas
Ansgar
H.
Belke
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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union
For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government ...
(published as 'Oil Price Shocks and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union' in: Energy Journal, 2023, 44( 4), 223-240. )
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E32, F32, F45, Q43
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11251
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
Agne
Suziedelyte
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World Commodity Prices, Job Security and Health: Evidence from the Mining Industry
A lack of job security is an increasingly prevalent characteristic of modern labour markets, and there is evidence that recent financial crises have exacerbated this issue. In this paper, we assess ...
(published as 'Macroeconomic Shocks, Job Security, and Health from the Mining Industry' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 348-371)
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J11, J21, I31
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11250
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Magdalena
Smyk
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Wage Inequality and Structural Change
Income inequality in the context of large structural change has received a lot of attention in the literature, but most studies relied on household post-transfer inequality measures. This study ...
(published in Social Indicators Research, 2019, 141(2), 503-538)
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E24, D31, N34, O57, P36, P51
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11249
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
Van der Velde
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Labor Reallocation and Demographics
We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 381-412)
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P2, P5, D2, J6
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11248
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Pierre
Cahuc
Stéphane
Carcillo
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (2), 593-626.)
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C31, C93, J6
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11246
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexandra
Fedorets
Malte
Preuß
Carsten
Schröder
Linda
Wittbrodt
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The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The short- and medium-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1149 - 1175)
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J31, J38, J22
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11245
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Jackline
Wahba
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Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring
This paper examines informality during the political and economic turmoil that accompanied the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it ...
(published as 'Political Change and Informality' in: Economics of Transition, 2019, 27 (1), 31 - 66)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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11244
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
Massimiliano
Gaetano
Onorato
Francesco
Sobbrio
Guido
Tabellini
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War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II
Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (4), 1–38)
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D74, L82, N44
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11243
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Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid
Electrification among American farm households increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 100 percent over a three decade span, 1930{1960. We exploit the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102412)
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N72, N92, N32, O13, O18, Q48
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11242
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Chiara
Kofol
Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
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Child Labor and the Arrival of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania
The impact of hosting refugees on child labor in host countries is unclear. This paper estimates both the short and the long term consequences of hosting refugees fleeing from the genocides of Rwanda ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (5), 467–486)
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J13, O15, R23
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11241
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (1), 35-57)
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J15, J24
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11240
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Rania
Roushdy
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Empowering Women under Social Constraints: Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt
Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with discriminatory social norms drive them to limit their investment in human capital. We ...
(published as 'Empowering women in conservative settings: evidence from an intervention in rural Egypt' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1287–1322 )
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I25, J24, O12
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11239
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Rachel
Brulé
Sanchari
Roy
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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275)
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O12, K11, I21
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11238
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Ayse
Abbasoglu Ozgoren
Banu
Ergöçmen
Aysit
Tansel
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Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: Conflicting or Compatible Roles?
The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration, especially for developing countries where the micro and macro evidence fails to ...
(published as "Birth and Employment Transitions of Women in Turkey: The Emergence of Role Incompatibility' in: Demographic Research, 2018, 39(46), 1241-1290)
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C41, J13, J16
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11237
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Richard
Blundell
Luigi
Pistaferri
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (S1), S73 - S115)
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J22
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11235
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Peter
Rupert
Giulio
Zanella
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Grandchildren and Their Grandparents' Labor Supply
Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 89 - 103)
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D19, J13, J14, J22
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11234
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Jesper
Alex-Petersen
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 876-908)
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I12, I38, J24
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11233
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Kashi
Kafle
Dean
Jolliffe
Alex
Winter-Nelson
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Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania
This analysis is motivated by recognition that anti-poverty interventions often affect both the level and composition of assets held by beneficiaries. To assess the conventional view that assets ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 109, 14 - 28)
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I25, J22, D13, O12
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11231
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Jared
Ashworth
V. Joseph
Hotz
Arnaud
Maurel
Tyler
Ransom
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Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences
This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 931 - 964)
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C33, J22, J24, I21, I26
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11230
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Dan
Zeltzer
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Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap
In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 169-197)
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I11, J16, L14
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