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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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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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11229
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Christian
Grund
Axel
Minten
Nevena
Toporova
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The Motivation of Temporary Agency Workers: An Empirical Analysis
We are investigating the relationship between individual and job-related characteristics and the motivation of temporary agency workers. To do so, we are using a unique dataset from one of Germany's ...
(revised version published as 'Motivation assessments of temporary agency workers - an empirical analysis based on appraisals compiled by hiring companies' in: management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 2019, 30, 5-39)
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J5, J81, M5
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11228
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Michiel
Souverijn
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Team Incentives, Task Assignment, and Performance: A Field Experiment
The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, ...
(published in: The Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101241)
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C93, M12, M52
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11227
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Alice
Solda
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 58 (1), 120-149)
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C92, H41, D23
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11226
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Bénédicte
Apouey
Cahit
Guven
Claudia
Senik
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Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks
Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2019, 33, 116-123.)
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I12, I31, J26
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11225
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Kozo
Kiyota
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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters
This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 198-212)
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C23, D24, F14, F16, J50, L13
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11224
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Russell
Weinstein
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Geography and Employer Recruiting
I analyze whether reducing geographic distance to high-wage jobs increases access to those employment opportunities. I collect office locations and campus recruiting strategies for over 70 ...
(updated version published as 'Firm Decisions and Variation Across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 1-46 )
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J23, J61, I26
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11223
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Alex
Bryson
Richard
B.
Freeman
Rafael
Gomez
Paul
Willman
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The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice
We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in ...
(published in: Holland, P., Teicher, J. and Donaghey, J. (eds.) Employee Voice at Work, Springer, 2019)
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J51, J52, J53, M54
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11222
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Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Does Sick Pay Affect Workplace Absence?
Higher replacement rates often imply higher levels of absenteeism, yet even in generous welfare economies, private sick pay is provided in addition to the public sick pay. Why? Using comparative ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2019, (47), 227-252)
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H31, J22, J28, J32
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11221
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Robert
Breunig
Syed
Hasan
Boyd
Hunter
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Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians
We examine the high levels of financial stress among Indigenous populations in Australia. We estimate separate models for the determinants of financial stress for Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (308), 34 - 57)
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I31, I32, J15
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11220
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Michael
Johannes
Böhm
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The Price of Polarization: Estimating Task Prices under Routine-Biased Technical Change
The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11, 761-799.)
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J23, J24, J31
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11216
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Le
Wen
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia
The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among ...
(published in: International Migration, 2018, 56 (2), 177-200)
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J24, J15, J31
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11215
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Michail
Veliziotis
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Beyond Conflict: Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries
The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing ...
(published in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2018, 105, 131-146)
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D74, J64, M53
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11214
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Bin
Xie
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The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development
This paper exploits the exogenous and differential immigrant supply shocks caused by the immigration quota system in the 1920s to identify the causal effects of the immigration restriction on the US ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2025, 53 (1), 25-55)
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J61, K37, N32
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11213
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Peter
A.
Savelyev
Kegon
T.K.
Tan
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Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals
We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 5 (2), 250–280)
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I12, J24
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11212
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Jan
Bietenbeck
Sanna
Ericsson
Fredrick
M.
Wamalwa
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Preschool Attendance, School Progression, and Cognitive Skills in East Africa
We study the effects of preschool attendance on children's school progression and cognitive skills in Kenya and Tanzania. Our analysis uses novel data from large-scale household surveys of children's ...
(revised version published as 'Preschool attendance, schooling, and cognitive skills in East Africa' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101909)
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I21, J24
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11211
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Daniele
Checchi
Maria
De Paola
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The Effect of Multigrade Classes on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: Causal Evidence Exploiting Minimum Class Size Rules in Italy
We analyse how schooling in multigrade classes affect the formation of student cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Our identification strategy is based on some institutional features of the Italian ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 67, 235-253)
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I21, I28, C36
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11209
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Sanghamitra
Kanjilal-Bhaduri
Francesco
Pastore
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Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India
In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 515-536.)
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J16, J21, J82, O12, O15
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11208
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Bethlehem
A.
Argaw
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Does Class Size Matter for School Tracking Outcomes after Elementary School? Quasi-Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Panel Data from Germany
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 65, 48-57)
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I21, I28
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11206
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Anke
C.
Plagnol
Paul
Frijters
Andrew
E.
Clark
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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 471-494)
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I14, I30, I31
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11204
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Michael
Jetter
Ingebjørg
Kristoffersen
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Financial Shocks and the Erosion of Interpersonal Trust: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
This paper evaluates the effect of financial shocks on interpersonal trust levels, exploiting longitudinal survey data from 22,112 Australians. Using within-individual level variation, we find that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 67, 162 - 176)
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D90, E32, G40, Z1
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11203
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Lea
Cassar
Stephan
Meier
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Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives
Prosocial incentives and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives are seen by many firms as an effective way to motivate workers. Recent empirical results seem to support the expectation ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131(637), 1988-2017)
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D03, C93, M52
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11201
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking among Children, Teenagers, and College Students: Evidence from Jeopardy!
Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190179. )
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D81, D91, G41, J16
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11200
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates: The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes
We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with ...
(published as 'Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (7), 893 - 916)
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I21, J16, J24
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11199
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Martin
Halla
Bernhard
Schmidpeter
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Grandmothers' Labor Supply
The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 1645 - 1689)
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J13, J14, J22
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11198
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Erich
Battistin
Marco
Ovidi
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Rising Stars
We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 356, 830-848)
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H52 , H83 , I23 , I28
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11195
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Wim
Naudé
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Cities and Entrepreneurs over Time: Like a Horse and Carriage?
Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like a 'horse and carriage', it is not a straightforward one, more akin to 'love and ...
(revised version published as 'Urbanisation and Entrepreneurship in Development: Like a Horse and Carriage? 'in: Dastbaz,M., Naudé, W. and Manoochehri, J. (eds.), Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability, Springer, 2018, 29 - 47 )
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L26, L53, M13, O18, R10
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11193
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Robert
Holzmann
Jennifer
Alonso-García
Heloise
Labit-Hardy
Andres
M.
Villegas
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NDC Schemes and Heterogeneity in Longevity: Proposals for Redesign
Strong and rising empirical evidence across countries finds that longevity is highly heterogeneous in key socioeconomic characteristics, including income. A positive relationship between lifetime ...
(published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer, R. Palacios. S. Sacchi (eds). Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension (NDC) Schemes, Volume 1: Addressing Marginalization, Polarization, and the Labor Market, Chapter 14. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. )
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D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
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11192
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James
Browne
Herwig
Immervoll
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Mechanics of Replacing Benefit Systems with a Basic Income: Comparative Results from a Microsimulation Approach
Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2017, 15, 325 - 344 (also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper))
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C81, D31, H22, H55
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11190
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexandra
Fedorets
Malte
Preuß
Carsten
Schröder
Linda
Wittbrodt
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The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 46-62)
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J23, J31, J38
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11188
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Ghassan
Baliki
Tilman
Brück
Neil
T.N.
Ferguson
Sindu
W.
Kebede
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Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application
We explore the micro-foundations of fragility by discussing how to measure the exposure to fragility at the individual level. We focus on two notions that are not covered by existing aggregate, ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26, 639 - 660 )
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O12, O17
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11187
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Victoria
Baranov
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Pietro
Biroli
Joanna
Maselko
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Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women's financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (3), 824-859)
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I15, I30, O15
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11186
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Duncan
McVicar
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The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain
This paper exploits rarely-used longitudinal data to examine the impacts of disability onset on benefit receipt in Britain over the period 2004–2012. Differences in the timing of onset are ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,)
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H51, H53, I38, J14
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11185
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Felix
FitzRoy
Michael
A.
Nolan
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Education, Income and Happiness: Panel Evidence for the UK
Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age – to our knowledge ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 2573 - 2592)
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I31, O47
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11184
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All?
In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and offer additional ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2019, 57 (2), 385 - 402)
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I3, I31
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11181
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Julie
Moschion
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 146, 206-221)
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D03, I12, I18, I30
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11180
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Joan
Costa-Font
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the ...
(published as 'Does Devolution Influence the Choice and Quality of Public (vs Private) Health Care?' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, 2022, 202, 632-653)
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H7, I18
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11179
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Nick
Drydakis
Katerina
Sidiropoulou
Swetketu
Patnaik
Sandra
Selmanovic
Vasiliki
Bozani
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Masculine vs Feminine Personality Traits and Women's Employment Outcomes in Britain: A Field Experiment
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 621-630)
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J16, J31
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11178
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Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
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Sorting out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data
Previous research has reported evidence of intergenerational transmission of both neighbourhood status and social and economic outcomes later in life; parents influence where their children live as ...
(published as 'Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work' in: PLoS One, 2019, 14 (5), e0217635)
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I30, J60, R23
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11177
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Clémentine
Van Effenterre
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Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion
This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 188-201)
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D72, D83, J16
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11175
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Nico
Pestel
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Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition
This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German Microcensus data and aggregate information on the student sex ratio by field of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19(4), 1175-1207)
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D10, I23, I24, J12
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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