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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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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
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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
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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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10917
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Susan
L.
Averett
Sabrina
Terrizzi
Yang
Wang
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Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?
Policymakers and the general public have expressed increasing concern over rising health care costs. The Certificate-of-Need (CON) programs began at the federal level in 1974 to stem the increase in ...
(published as 'Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did hip/knee replacement patients benefit? A retrospective analysis' in: Health Policy and Technology, 2019, 8 (4), 349 - 355)
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I18, I10
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10914
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Per-Anders
Edin
Peter
Fredriksson
Martin
Nybom
Björn
Öckert
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The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill
We examine the changes in the relative rewards to cognitive and non-cognitive skill during the time period 1992–2013. Using unique administrative data for Sweden, we document a secular increase in ...
(published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 78-100)
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J24, J31
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10913
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Jeffrey
T.
Denning
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Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints
Financial aid has been shown to affect student outcomes from enrollment to graduation. However, effects on graduation can be driven either by marginal students induced to enroll by financial aid, or ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (3), 760-784)
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I22, I23
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10912
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Russell
Weinstein
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Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting
This paper analyzes labor market matching in the presence of search and informational frictions, by studying employer recruiting on college campuses. Based on employer and university interviews, I ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 282-299)
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J23, J31, D83, I26, M51
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10910
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Sarah
Brown
Pulak
Ghosh
Bhuvanesh
Pareek
Karl
Taylor
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Financial Hardship and Saving Behaviour: Bayesian Analysis of British Panel Data
We explore whether a protective role for savings against future financial hardship exists using household level panel data. We jointly model the incidence and extent of financial problems, as well as ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, 63, 57-72)
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C11, D12, D14, R20
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10909
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Seyoung
Chae
Almas
Heshmati
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The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea
This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which ...
(published in: Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2023, 26, 521 - 554)
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E20, I30, I38, J10, N35
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10908
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Xavier
Jara
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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 51 - 8)
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C35, C90, D60, D63, D71, H24, H31, J22
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10907
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Xavier
Jara
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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. Interpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific ...
(published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859)
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C90, I31, J22
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10906
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Renate
Strobl
Conny
Wunsch
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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals ...
(published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in: Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185 - 1214)
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D81, C91, O12, D63
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10905
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Robert
Paul
Hartley
Carlos
Lamarche
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Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 135-151)
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J22, I38, C21, C33
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10903
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Admasu
Shiferaw
Arjun
S.
Bedi
Mans
Söderbom
Getnet
Alemu
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Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 for private sector employees in the formal sector. We use firm-level panel data ...
(published as 'Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102214)
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H55, J2, J3
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10902
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Bhaskar
Chakravorty
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar
In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the country's population of 1.21 billion is below the age of 25 and faces a high ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2019, 62 (2), 173–199)
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J60, J68
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10901
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Albrecht
Glitz
Daniel
Wissmann
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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102034)
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J110, J210, J220, J310
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10900
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
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A Note on the Estimation of Job Amenities and Labor Productivity
This note introduces a maximum likelihood estimator of the value of job amenities and labor productivity in a single matching market based on the observation of equilibrium matches and wages. The ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (1), 153-177.)
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C35, C78, J31
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10899
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey
Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of ...
(published in: Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2019, 239 (1), 111-154)
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J51, J52, J53, J83
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10898
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Hector
Sala
Pedro
Trivín
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The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution
The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor (?) is usually considered a "deep parameter". This paper shows, in contrast, that ? is affected by both globalization and technology, and that ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (3), 617-647)
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E25, F62, E22, O33
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10897
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Haeyeon
Yoon
Almas
Heshmati
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Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the ...
(published in: Science and Public Policy, 2021, 48 (1), 122 - 131)
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F23, K32, L51, Q56
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10896
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David
E.
Bloom
Simiao
Chen
Michael
Kuhn
Mark
E.
McGovern
Les
Oxley
Klaus
Prettner
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100163)
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H51, I15, I18, J24, O11
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10894
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Jordy
Meekes
Wolter
Hassink
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The Role of the Housing Market in Workers' Resilience to Job Displacement after Firm Bankruptcy
We examine the role of the housing market in workers' adjustment to job displacement. Dutch administrative data were used and analysed with a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement. The ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 41-65)
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J31, J32, J63, J65, R21, R23
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