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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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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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11174
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Using data from the large scale consumption expenditure surveys collected by Indian National Sample Survey Organization, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development, 2019, 122, 410-432)
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I32
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11173
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Frédéric
Docquier
Aysit
Tansel
Riccardo
Turati
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Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (2), 388-422.)
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F22, O15, J61, Z10
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11172
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Simone
Bertoli
Elie
Murard
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Migration and Co-Residence Choices: Evidence from Mexico
Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, Article 102330)
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F22, J12
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11171
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Julia
Bredtmann
Klaus
Nowotny
Sebastian
Otten
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Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, Article 101863)
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F22, J61, R23
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11170
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Matteo
Bobba
Luca
Flabbi
Santiago
Levy Algazi
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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be formal or informal. Workers optimally choose the level of schooling acquired before ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2022, 63 (1), 211-226.)
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J24, J3, J64, O17
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11169
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Robert
Mahlstedt
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Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes
The appealing idea of geographically relocating unemployed job seekers from depressed to prosperous regions and hence reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 15011)
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J61, J68, D04, C21
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11166
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Jeffrey
A.
Groen
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Snooze or Lose: High School Start Times and Academic Achievement
Many U.S. high schools start classes before 8:00 A.M., yet research on circadian rhythms suggests that students' biological clocks shift to later in the day as they enter adolescence. Some school ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 204–218)
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I12, I20, J22
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11165
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Jacek
Liwiński
Francesco
Pastore
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Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2021, 62 (1), 72-97)
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I26, J24, J31
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11164
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Hakki
Yazici
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Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development: Evidence from Turkey
This paper provides two contributions to the study of intergenerational mobility. First, we render a thorough characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 116, 160-185)
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J6, I2, R0
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11162
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Marco
Bertoni
Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
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School Choice during a Period of Radical School Reform: Evidence from the Academy Programme
Education policy worldwide has sought to incentivize school improvement and facilitate pupil-school matching by introducing reforms that promote autonomy and choice. Understanding the way in which ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 35 (104), 739- 795)
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I21, H75
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11161
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Erich
Battistin
Lorenzo
Neri
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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects ...
(published as 'School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 753–792)
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C26, C31, I2
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11160
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. ...
(published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96)
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C20, I30
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11159
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Paul
De Grauwe
Yuemei
Ji
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality: An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the ...
(published in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, 1-44.)
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E65, O11, O43
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11158
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Thomas
Deckers
Armin
Falk
Fabian
Kosse
Pia
Pinger
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545)
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C90, D64, D90, D81, J13, J24, J62
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11157
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Xavier
Ramos
Dirk
Van de gaer
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Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (1), 18 - 36)
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D3, D63
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11156
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Jacques
Mairesse
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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26)
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C23, D21, J31, J51
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11155
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Guoqian
Xi
Jörn
Block
Frank
Lasch
Frank
Robert
Roy
Thurik
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How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-ups?
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? ...
(published as 'The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (3), 797 - 826)
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L26, M13
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11154
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Uwe
Jirjahn
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Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079)
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F23, F66, J51, J52
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11152
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Anat
Alexandron-Lavon
Gil
S.
Epstein
Renana
Lindner Pomerantz
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The Effect of Ideological Positions on Job Market Interaction
Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ...
(published as 'The effect of ideological positions on job market interaction: A spatial analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 145, 261 - 274)
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J32, J44
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11149
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26, 999 - 1017)
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O12, O15, O16, D82, G38
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11148
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. ...
(published as 'Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisation' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 101743)
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H77, D72, H73
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11147
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Nizamul
Islam
Ugo
Colombino
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The Case for NIT+FT in Europe: An Empirical Optimal Taxation Exercise
We present an exercise in empirical optimal taxation for European countries from three areas: Southern, Central and Northern Europe. For each country, we estimate a microeconometric model of labour ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2018, 75, 38-69.)
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H21, C18
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11146
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Raul
Ramos
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Migration Aspirations among NEETs in Selected MENA Countries
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is also among the highest in ...
(published in: Journal of Geographical Systems, 2019, 21 (4), 487-507)
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F22, J61, J65, R23
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11145
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
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The Changing Family Structure of American Children with Unauthorized Parents
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone, most of them involving fathers and heads of household. We exploit the geographic and ...
(published as 'Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements' in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (1), 11-40 )
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J13, J15, K37
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11144
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Hanna
Mac Innes
Torun
Österberg
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Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'
This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The ...
(published in: Aging and Society, 2019, 39 (6), 1172-1199)
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I32, J14, J15
|
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11143
|
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Albert
Saiz
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Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences: Emerging Ghettos or New Communities?
While the impact of immigrants on labor markets may be small, strong political movements voicing opposition to the growth of resident foreign-born populations are on the upswing. We study whether ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 112, 133-151)
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F22, J61, D33
|
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11141
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Juanna
Schrřter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Spillovers in Education Choice
This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 158-183)
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I21, I24, J24
|
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11140
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Casey
Boyd-Swan
Chris
M.
Herbst
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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers
This paper examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor market for center-based child care teachers. We assemble a novel dataset that combines a resume audit study of child care centers in ...
(published in: Educational Researcher, 2019, 48 (7), 394 - 406)
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J71
|
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11139
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 340-354)
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I21, J45, J71, J78
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11136
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Radim
Bohacek
Michal
Myck
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Economic Consequences of Political Persecution
We analyze the effects of persecution and labor market discrimination during the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia using a representative life history sample from the Survey of Health, ...
(updated version available as DP 18282)
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N34, J70, J31, C21
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