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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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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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10932
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Tor
Eriksson
Nina
Smith
Valdemar
Smith
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Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes: A Large Field Study of Managers
The dearth of women in top managerial positions is characterized by a high persistence and insensitivity to changes and differences in institutions and policies. This suggests it could be caused by ...
(published as 'Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping among Danish managers' in: Gender in Management: An International Journal, 2021, 36 (5), 622-639)
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J16, D83, D84, M51
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10931
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Paola
Giuliano
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Gender: An Historical Perspective
Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and ...
(published in:Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 645–672 )
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N0, Z1, J16
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10930
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
When does culture persist and when does it change? We examine a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology literature: the variability of the environment from one generation to the next. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (4), 1541 - 1581)
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N10, Q54
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10929
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Marianna
Battaglia
Bastien
Chabé-Ferret
Lara
Lebedinski
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Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia
We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic minority. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether ...
(published as 'Segregation, fertility, and son preference: the case of the Roma in Serbia' in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (2), 233-260)
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J13, J15, R23, Z10
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10928
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 124, 103355)
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D74, F22, K42, O15, R23
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10926
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Ying
Deng
Xiangjun
Ma
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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Model
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower ...
(published in: Empirical Economics 2018, 55 (1), 265-296)
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O15, R12, J41
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10925
|
Manuel
Sanchez
Felix
Wellschmied
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Modeling Life-Cycle Earnings Risk with Positive and Negative Shocks
We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and negative earnings shocks both contain a highly persistent component. The ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2020, 37, 103-126)
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E21, E24, J31
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10923
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Duha
T.
Altindag
S.
Elif
Filiz
Erdal
Tekin
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Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians Are Paid?
An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the ...
(published in: Economica, 2020, 87 (348), 1105 - 1132)
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J22, J26, J33, J45
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10922
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Tirthatanmoy
Das
Solomon
Polachek
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Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences
This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which ...
(published in: Palgrave Handbook of Economic Performance Analysis, 2019, 9-76)
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I3, J3, J7
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10920
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Stefanie
Fischer
Heather
Royer
Corey
White
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The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services: Evidence from Texas
Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together ...
(published as 'The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 43 - 68)
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J13, I18, J08, J18, I38
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10918
|
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Social Insurance and Health
This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health ...
(short version published as 'Social Insurance and Health' in: Baltagi, B. H. and Moscone, F. (eds.), Health Econometrics, Emerald Publishing, 1st ed., 2018. )
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H1, H5, I1, J2
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