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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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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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10965
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Maazullah
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Returns to Islamic Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan
The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to capital, they will be able to generate high returns. The existing evidence on returns ...
(published as 'Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: Evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan' in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2022, 14 (2), 93 - 107)
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O17, O16, C93
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10964
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Petri
Böckerman
Pekka
Ilmakunnas
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Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data
We analyze the potential role of adverse working conditions and management practices in the determination of employees' retirement behavior. Our data contain both comprehensive information regarding ...
(published as 'Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Analyzing Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100192)
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J26, J28, J53
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10963
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Peng
Nie
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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What Chinese Workers Value: An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Job Expectations, and Labor Turnover in China
This study uses data from the 2012 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey and 2010–2012 China Family Panel Studies to investigate job satisfaction and job expectations, as well as the association ...
(published in: Prague Economic Papers, 2020, 29 (1), 85-104)
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J16, J17, J28
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10962
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Younghwan
Song
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The Effect of Job Displacement on Subjective Well-being
Using matched data drawn from the 2010 and 2012 Displaced Workers Supplements of the Current Population Surveys and the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52 (13), 1-13)
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I31, J63, J65
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10961
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Michael
C.
Knaus
Michael
Lechner
Anthony
Strittmatter
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Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach
We systematically investigate the effect heterogeneity of job search programmes for unemployed workers. To investigate possibly heterogeneous employment effects, we combine non-experimental causal ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 597-636)
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J68, H43, C21
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10960
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Jason
Faberman
Andreas
I.
Mueller
Aysegül
Sahin
Giorgio
Topa
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Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed
Using a unique new survey, we study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for employed and non-employed workers. We find that the employed fare better than the non-employed in job ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4),1743-1779)
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E24, J29, J60
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10959
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Aleksandra
Katolik
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Antidepressants for Economists and Business-School Researchers: An Introduction and Review
The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware ...
(published in: Die Unternehmung, 2017, 71 (4), 448 - 463)
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I1, I120, I3, I310
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10957
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Nick
Drydakis
Peter
MacDonald
Vasiliki
Bozani
Vangelis
Chiotis
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Inclusive Recruitment? Hiring Discrimination against Older Workers
Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at ...
(published in: Arenas, A., Di Marco, D., Munduate, L., Euwema, M.C. (Eds.), Shaping Inclusive Workplaces through Social Dialogue, New York: Springer Publishing, 2017, 87-102)
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C93, C9, J14, J1
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10956
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Laura
Katherine
Gee
Michael
J.
Schreck
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Do Beliefs about Peers Matter for Donation Matching? Experiments in the Field and Laboratory
A popular fundraising tool is donation matching, where every dollar is matched by a third party. But field experiments find that matching does not always increase donations. This may occur because ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 107, 282 - 297)
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C93, D64, H41
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10955
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment
We study in an online, real-effort experiment how the bracketing of non-binding goals affects performance in a work-leisure self-control problem. We externally induce the goal bracket – daily goals ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104949)
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D03, D81, D91
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10954
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Trenton
G.
Smith
Steven
Stillman
Stuart
Craig
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'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World: Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic
Obesity rates have risen dramatically in the US since the 1980s, but well-identified studies have struggled to explain the magnitude of the observed changes. In this paper, we estimate the causal ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 90 (3), 634 - 655)
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D10, I12, I18, J60
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10953
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Micha
Kaiser
Mirjam
Reutter
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Kristina
Strohmaier
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Smoking and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Germany
In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results ...
(published as 'Smoking and local unemployment: Evidence from Germany ' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 138 - 147)
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E32, I12, J22
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10952
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Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
Daniel
Ladd
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Did Parental Involvement Laws Grow Teeth? The Effects of State Restrictions on Minors' Access to Abortion
We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 71, 102302)
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I11, I12, J13
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10951
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Charles
Courtemanche
Andrew
I.
Friedson
Andrew
P.
Koller
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Affordable Care Act and Ambulance Response Times
This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102213)
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I11, I13, I18
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10949
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Robert
A.
Hart
Mirko
Moro
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Date of Birth and Selective Schooling
We examine the effects of date of birth on state selective education using the 1944 Education Act in England and Wales as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective ...
(published as 'Date of birth and selective schooling: Some lessons from the 1944 education reforms in England and Wales' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (5), 523 - 538)
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I21, I24, I28
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10948
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany
To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the ...
(published in: M.R. West, L. Woessmann (eds.), Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, 205-243)
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I28, D72, H52
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10947
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Adriana
Kugler
Catherine
H.
Tinsley
Olga
Ukhaneva
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Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?
Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102079)
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I23, I24, I26, J16
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10946
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Andre
Jungmittag
Paul
J. J.
Welfens
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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation
The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced ...
(published as 'EU-US trade post-trump perspectives: TTIP aspects related to foreign direct investment and innovation' in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2020,17, 259 - 294)
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F14, F43, O30, O47, O52
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10945
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Ngoc Thi
Minh Tran
Michael
P.
Cameron
Jacques
Poot
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International Migration and Institutional Quality in the Home Country: It Matters Where You Go and How Long You Stay!
International migrants are widely recognised as agents of institutional change in their home countries. However, the huge growth in temporary migration in recent years demands a fresh investigation ...
(published as "How robust is the evidence on the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries?" in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1), 126-152)
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F22, O15
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10944
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Tom
Kleinepier
Maarten
van Ham
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Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage during Childhood
This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure ...
(published as 'Ethnic differences in timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood disadvantage during childhood' in: Advances in Life Course Research, 2018, 36, 92 - 104)
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I30, J60, P46, R23
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10943
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Bruce
D.
Meyer
Nikolas
Mittag
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Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net
We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 176-204)
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I32, I38, C81
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10942
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Robert
Paul
Hartley
Carlos
Lamarche
James
P.
Ziliak
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Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence
We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related economic outcomes using a long panel of mother-daughter pairs over the survey ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 523 - 565)
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I38, J62, H53
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10940
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Daniel
Gerszon
Mahler
Xavier
Ramos
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Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (S1), S228-S255)
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D3, D63, I31
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10939
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Zemzem
Shigute
Christoph
Strupat
Francesco
Burchi
Getnet
Alemu
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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The Joint Effects of a Health Insurance and a Public Works Scheme in Rural Ethiopia
Rural households in Ethiopia are exposed to a variety of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, the Ethiopian government introduced the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and in 2011 launched ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (2), 431 - 448)
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J22, I15
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10938
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Richard
Akresh
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Marinella
Leone
Una
O.
Osili
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First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War
We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (2), 488 - 531)
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I12, I25, J13, O12
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10937
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Vidya
Diwakar
Michael
Malcolm
George
S
Naufal
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Violent Conflict and Breastfeeding: The Case of Iraq
This study explores the relationship between armed conflict and breastfeeding practices of Iraqi mothers. Using a unique pairing of the Iraq Body Count database, in conjunction with the 2006 and 2011 ...
(published in: Conflict and Health, 2019, 13, 61(2019))
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D74, I1, J13, J18
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10936
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Michael
Malcolm
Vidya
Diwakar
George
S
Naufal
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Child Discipline in Times of Conflict
Using a unique pairing of household survey data and geolocational conflict data, we investigate the relationship between local conflict intensity and the disciplinary methods employed by Iraqi ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2020, 64 (6), 1070–1094)
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D10, F51, J13, N45
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10935
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Francesco
C.
Billari
Osea
Giuntella
Luca
Stella
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Does Broadband Internet Affect Fertility?
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2019, 37 (3), 297 - 316)
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J11, J22
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10934
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Anirban
Mukherjee
Swapnika
Reddy
Rachapalli
Sarani
Saha
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Stigma of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work
Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 103, 226 - 238)
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E24, J16, J18
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10933
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Paul
Redmond
Seamus
McGuinness
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The Gender Wage Gap in Europe: Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects
The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 564 - 587)
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J16, J24, J31, J71
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