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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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11034
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Juliana
Mesén Vargas
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints
This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level when jobless people only survive if they have access to a minimum or subsistence ...
(published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1))
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D91, H21, J64, J65
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11033
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Florian
Buhlmann
Benjamin
Elsner
Andreas
Peichl
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Tax Refunds and Income Manipulation Evidence from the EITC
Welfare programs are important for reducing poverty but create incentives for recipients to maximize their income by either reducing labor supply or manipulating taxable income. In this paper, we ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25(6), 1490-1518)
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H20, H24
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11032
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Henri
Fraisse
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Households Debt Restructuring: The Re-default Effect of a Debt Suspension
When facing financial distress, French households can file a case to a "households' over-indebtedness commission" (HDC). The HDC can order an immediate repayment or grant a debt suspension. ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2017, 33 (4), 686 - 717)
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D, G2, K35
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11031
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Sascha
Behnk
Li
Hao
Ernesto
Reuben
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Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors
Using a series of sender-receiver games, we find that two senders acting together are willing to behave more antisocially towards the receiver than single senders. This result is robust in two ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104116)
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D70, D91, C92, D63
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11030
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Daniel
Alonso-Soto
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does It Reveal about Education Quality in Their Home Countries?
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39(6), 855-879. )
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I26, J31, J61
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11029
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Yaqin
Su
Petros
Tesfazion
Zhong
Zhao
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Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 47, 142-155 )
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J62, O15
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11027
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Tommaso
Frattini
Elena
Meschi
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The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 1-22 )
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I20, J15
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11026
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Stefano
Verzillo
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The 'Gravity' of Quality: Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy
This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of ...
(revised version published as 'The 'gravity' of quality: research quality and the attractiveness of universities in Italy' in: Regional Studies, 2019, 53(10), 1385-139)
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I23
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11025
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Joniada
Milla
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The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium
In this paper I present a selective survey of the empirical literature on wage premium to university selectivity focusing mainly on the context of the country under analysis and the identification ...
(published in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, 313 - 349 [open access])
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C21, I23, J30
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11024
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Petra
Thiemann
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The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education
This paper demonstrates that short-term peer exposure can generate achievement effects which persist for several months and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68( 2), 1131-1148)
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I21, I23, J24
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11023
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Brecht
Neyt
Eddy
Omey
Dieter
Verhaest
Stijn
Baert
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Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature
We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (3), 896 - 921)
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I21, J22, J24
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11022
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Ernest
Boffy-Ramirez
Soojae
Moon
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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential
Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, ...
(published in: China Economic Journal, 2018, 11 (2), 108-125)
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J30, J80, O15, R23
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11021
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Gregory
Clark
Andrew
Leigh
Mike
Pottenger
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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870 - 2017
The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870 - 2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls 1903-1980, and records of ...
(published as 'Frontiers of mobility: Was Australia 1870 - 2017 a more socially mobile society than England?' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 76 (C), 101327 )
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J62
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11020
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Chelsea
Murray
Robert
Clark
Silvia
Mendolia
Peter
Siminski
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Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia
We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (307), 445-68)
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J62
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11019
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Laurence
Jacquet
Etienne
Lehmann
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Optimal Income Taxation with Composition Effects
We study the optimal nonlinear income tax problem with multidimensional individual characteristics on which taxes cannot be conditioned. We obtain an optimal tax formula that generalizes the standard ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 1299-1341)
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H21
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11016
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Ana Margarida
Fernandes
Mariana
Viollaz
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Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms
A major concern with the rapid spread of technology is that it replaces some jobs, displacing workers. However, technology may raise firm productivity, generating more jobs. The paper contributes to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (1), 169-185)
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J23, J24, J31, O33
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11014
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Shaimaa
Yassin
François
Langot
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Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. ...
(publisehd in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 326-348)
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E24, E26, J60, J64, O17
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11011
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Andrea
Bassanini
Federico
Cingano
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Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms
We exploit long time series of industry-level data in a group of OECD countries to analyze the short-term labor market effects of reforms lowering barriers to entry and dismissal costs. Our estimates ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 127-157)
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J23, L51, L11
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11009
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Gianni
Betti
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
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Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach
This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of ...
(published as 'Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 69 - 91)
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I32, J16, D13
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11007
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Jeroen
Horemans
Ive
Marx
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Poverty and Material Deprivation among the Self-Employed in Europe: An Exploration of a Relatively Uncharted Landscape
In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this ...
(published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy, 2024, 80–98 )
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I32, I38, J21, J22, L26
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11006
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Eirini
Andriopoulou
Alexandros
Karakitsios
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis
The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment ...
(published in: D. Katsikas, D. A. Sotiropoulos, M. Zafiropoulou (eds.), Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion in Greece under the Crisis, 2018 )
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D31, I31, I32
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11005
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Miles
Corak
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'Inequality Is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 367-414)
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D31, I32, J62, J65
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11004
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Robert
M.
Sauer
Christopher
Taber
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Indirect Inference with Importance Sampling: An Application to Women's Wage Growth
This paper has two main parts. In the first, we describe a method that smooths the objective function in a general class of indirect inference models. Our smoothing procedure makes use of importance ...
(published as 'Understanding women's wage growth using indirect inference with importance sampling' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (4), 453 - 473)
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C51, J16
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11003
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Peter
Brummund
Jason
B.
Cook
Miriam
Larson-Koester
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child ...
(published: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 709-750)
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J1, J11, J12, J13, J15, J16
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11002
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Robert
Duval Hernández
Lei
Fang
L. Rachel
Ngai
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Taxes and Market Hours: The Role of Gender and Skill
Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 OECD countries are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill ...
(published as 'Taxes, subsidies and gender gaps in hours and wages' in: Economica, 2023, 90 (358), 373-408. )
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E24, E62, J22
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11000
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Friederike
Mengel
Jan
Sauermann
Ulf
Zölitz
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (2), 535-566)
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J16, J71, I23, J45
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10997
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Peter
Bergman
Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Dayanand
Manoli
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Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students
There is increasing evidence that tax credits for college do not affect college enrollment. This may be because prospective students do not know about tax benefits for credits or because the design ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (3), 706-731)
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I22, I23, H2
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10996
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Shimeng
Liu
Weizeng
Sun
John
V.
Winters
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Up in STEM, Down in Business: Changing College Major Decisions with the Great Recession
We use the American Community Survey (ACS) to investigate the extent to which college major decisions were affected during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37(3), 476-491)
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I20, J24
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10995
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Sarah
Cattan
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
Instructional time is seen as an important determinant of school performance, but little is known about the effects of student absence. Combining historical records and administrative data for ...
(updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903)
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C23, I14, I21, I26
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10994
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Hendrik
Jürges
Luca
Stella
Sameh
Hallaq
Alexandra
Schwarz
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Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement
We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1-43)
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D10, I20, F51, O12
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10993
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Cheti
Nicoletti
Valentina
Tonei
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The Response of Parental Time Investments to the Child's Skills and Health
Recent empirical research in family economics has shown the importance of parental investments on child's human capital development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes ...
(published as 'Do parental time investments react to changes in child’s skills and health?' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 127, 103491)
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J13, D13, C23, C26
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10991
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Øystein
Hernaes
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Activation against Absenteeism: Evidence from a Sickness Insurance Reform in Norway
I evaluate a program aimed at strictly enforcing a requirement that people on long-term sick leave be partly back at work unless explicitly defined as an exception. Employing the synthetic control ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 62, 60-68)
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I18, I38, J48
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10989
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Lucija
Muehlenbachs
Stefan
Staubli
Ziyan
Chu
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The Accident Externality from Trucking
The presence of a heavy truck on the road can impose an externality if accidents occur that would not have otherwise. We find each additional truck on the road increases the risk of a truck accident ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021, 88, 10363)
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G22, H23, I18, Q58, R41
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10988
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Bruce
Hollingsworth
Asako
Ohinata
Matteo
Picchio
Ian
Walker
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Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care
We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we ...
(revised version published as 'The Impacts of Free Universal Elderly Care on the Supply of Informal Care and Labour Supply' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (4), 933 - 960)
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C21, D14, I18, J14
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10985
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David
L.
Dickinson
Todd
McElroy
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Bayesian versus Heuristic-Based Choice under Sleep Restriction and Suboptimal Times of Day
This paper examines the impact of a commonly experienced adverse cognitive state on decision making under uncertainty. Specifically, we administer an at-home sleep restriction protocol combined with ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2019, 115, 48-59. )
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C91, D81, D91
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10984
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David
L.
Dickinson
Ananish
Chaudhuri
Ryan
Greenaway-McGrevy
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Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased ...
(revised version published as 'Trading while sleepy? Circadian mismatch and mispricing in a global experimental asset market' in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 526 - 533)
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C92, G12, G15, D84
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10983
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
Fabio
Piluso
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Does Reminding of Behavioural Biases Increase Returns from Financial Trading? A Field Experiment
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether nudge policies, consisting in behavioural insight messaging, help to improve performance in financial trading. Our experiment involved students ...
(published in:International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020, 12 (2),1-22)
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D14, E21, E22, O16
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10982
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Sinem
H.
Ayhan
Kseniia
Gatskova
Hartmut
Lehmann
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The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Ukraine
This paper provides evidence on the impacts of non-cognitive skills and attitudes towards risk on the decision to migrate from rural to urban areas. Our analysis is based on a unique four-wave panel ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (1), 144 - 162.)
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J61, D03, D81, R23
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10981
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Nick
Drydakis
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Measuring Labour Differences between Natives, Non-Natives, and Natives with an Ethnic-Minority Background
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 161, 27 - 30)
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J15, J31, J71
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10979
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Anne
Boschini
Kristin
Gunnarsson
Jesper
Roine
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Women in Top Incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974–2013
Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974–2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, ...
(updated version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 181, 104115)
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D13, D31, H20, J16, J31
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10978
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John
Hatgioannides
Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient
This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Issues, 2019, 53 (3), 881-889.)
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H23, H30, E64
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10977
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Nathan
R.
Adams
Glen
R.
Waddell
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Performance and Risk Taking under Threat of Elimination
We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 156, 41 - 54)
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I21, L83
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10976
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Thomas
Buser
Noemi
Peter
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution
Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and ...
(revised version published as 'Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1299 - 1326)
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C91, D03, J01, J16
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10974
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Erling
Barth
Sari
Pekkala Kerr
Claudia
Olivetti
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The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials: Evidence from Establishment Data
We use a unique match between the 2000 Decennial Census of the United States and the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to analyze how much of the increase in the gender earnings ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103713)
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J16, J31
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10973
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Lucas
Ronconi
Rodrigo
Zarazaga
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The Tragedy of Clientelism: Opting Children Out
Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. ...
(published in: Studies in Comparative International Development, 2019, 54 (3), 365 - 380 )
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K40, H53, I38
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10972
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Marta
Favara
Catherine
Porter
Tassew
Woldehanna
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Smarter through Social Protection? Evaluating the Impact of Ethiopia's Safety-Net on Child Cognitive Abilities
We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child cognitive achievement in the medium term. The programme is the second largest in ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2019, 7 (1), 79-96)
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I38, O22
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10971
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Farzana
Afridi
Bidisha
Barooah
Rohini
Somanathan
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Improving Learning Outcomes through Information Provision: Evidence from Indian Villages
We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where parents have incomplete information about their child's cognitive skills and ...
(edited version published as 'Improving Learning Outcomes through Information Provision: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, 102276)
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I20, I25, O15
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10969
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Christoph
Eder
Martin
Halla
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Economic Origins of Cultural Norms: The Case of Animal Husbandry and Bastardy
This paper explores the historical origins of the cultural norm regarding illegitimacy (formerly known as bastardy). We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural production structures ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 125, 103421)
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Z1, A13, J12, J13, J43, N33
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10968
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Achmad
Tohari
Christopher
Parsons
Anu
Rammohan
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Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System
Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140, 127 - 144)
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D04, I32, I38, O12
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10967
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Felipe
A.
Dunsch
David
K.
Evans
Ezinne
Eze-Ajoku
Mario
Macis
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 583-606)
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I15, M10, O15
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