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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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10892
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Reinhold
Kosfeld
Christian
Dreger
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Towards an East German Wage Curve: NUTS Boundaries, Labour Market Regions and Unemployment Spillovers
The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 76, 115 - 124)
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J30, J60, C33, R15
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10890
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Andreas
Landmann
Helke
Seitz
Susan
Steiner
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Patrilocal Residence and Female Labour Supply
We examine the role of intergenerational co-residence for female labour supply in a patrilocal society. To account for the endogeneity of women's co-residence with parents or in-laws, we exploit a ...
(published as 'Patrilocal Residence and Female Labor Supply: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (6), 2181 - 2203)
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J12, J21
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10888
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Manuel
Bagues
Pamela
Campa
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Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the short- and medium-term effects of gender quotas in candidate lists using evidence from Spain, where quotas were introduced in 2007 in municipalities with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021,194, 104315)
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D72, H72, J16
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10886
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Marie
C.
Hull
Katherine
Duch
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One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes
New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41 (1), 79-97)
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I21, J24, O33
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10885
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Wiljan
Van den Berge
Egbert
L. W.
Jongen
Karen
van der Wiel
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Using Tax Deductions to Promote Lifelong Learning: Real and Shifting Responses
Policymakers are concerned about potential underinvestment in lifelong learning. In this paper we study to what extent a tax deduction helps to stimulate post-initial training. Specifically, we ...
(published as 'The effects of a tax deduction for lifelong learning expenditures' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 30, 729 - 756)
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C21, H20, J24
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10884
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Jorge
M.
Aguero
Carlos
Felipe
Balcázar
Stanislao
Maldonado
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 148, 102581)
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H7, H23, I25, O15, Q32
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10882
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Olivier
Coibion
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Dmitri
Koustas
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Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases
We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the U.S. since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 449 - 482)
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D31, E21, D63
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10881
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
Ranajoy
Guha
Neogi
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Between-Group Contests over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2018, 174 (3-4), 315-334.)
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D72, D74, O10, O20
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10880
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Almas
Heshmati
Nam-Seok
Kim
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The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the ...
(published in: M. Tsionas (ed.), Panel Data Economics: Empirical Analysis, 2019, 885 - 929)
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D24, O43, O47, P16
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10879
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Secular Satiation
Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2021, 26 (3), 291-327. )
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E13, E14, E21, E22, E23
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10877
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Stefania
Bortolotti
Ivan
Soraperra
Matthias
Sutter
Claudia
Zoller
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Too Lucky to Be True: Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating
The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair distribution of income. Public support for the extent of redistribution ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023)
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C91, D63, D81, H26
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10876
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Eva
Van Belle
Ralf
Caers
Marijke
De Couck
Valentina
Di Stasio
Stijn
Baert
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Why Is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?
Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms ...
(revised version published as 'Why Are Employers Put Off by Long Spells of Unemployment?' in: European Sociological Review, 2018, 34 (6), 694 - 710)
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J64, J24, J23, C91
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10875
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Duco
de Vos
Evert
J.
Meijers
Maarten
van Ham
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Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute
It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2018, 61, 375 - 398)
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J32, R11, R41
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10874
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Mariana
Carrera
Heather
Royer
Mark
Stehr
Justin
Syndor
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Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members
We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 202 -214)
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C93, D3, I12
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10873
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Stephen
B.
Billings
Kevin
T.
Schnepel
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The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values
The presence of lead paint significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral development, yet little is known about the value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 69 - 81)
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Q51, Q52, Q58, R21, R23, R31, I18
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10872
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Stephen
B.
Billings
Kevin
T.
Schnepel
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Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead
Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 315 - 344)
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I12, I18, I21, J13, J24, K42, Q53, Q58
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10871
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Juan
Pablo
Atal
Hanming
Fang
Martin
Karlsson
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 697-727)
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G22, I11, I18
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10870
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Adam
Pilny
Ansgar
Wübker
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 330-351)
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D12, H51, I11, I13, I18
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10869
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Andrea
Brandolini
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
John
Micklewright
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Tony Atkinson and His Legacy
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 411 - 444. )
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D3, H00, I3
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10868
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Nicolas
Herault
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Roger
Wilkins
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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2018, 39 (2), 213-240 )
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D31, C81
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10867
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Sara
de la Rica
Lucía
Gorjón
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Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country
In this paper we assess the impact of a Minimum Income Scheme (MIS) which has been operating in the Basque Country, one of Spain's 17 regions, for more than twenty years. In particular, we test ...
(published as 'Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme: the Basque Country case' in: SERIEs, 2019, 10, 251 - 280)
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C14, C21, C52
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10866
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Marlon
R.
Tracey
Solomon
Polachek
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If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment
Data from the first two waves of the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing study indicate that infants who look like their father at birth are healthier one year later. The reason is such father-child ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 179-190.)
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I12, J12, J13
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10864
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Julia
Bredtmann
Christina
Vonnahme
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Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17 (4), 1191-1223)
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J12, J13, J22
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10863
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Terra
McKinnish
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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 337-362.)
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D1, J12
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10862
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Francesca
Barigozzi
Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms
Daughters are the principal caregivers of their dependent parents. In this paper, we study long-term care (LTC) choices by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care can be ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 130, 2020, 103589.)
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D13, H23, H31, I19
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10861
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Julia
Rohrer
Martin
Bruemmer
Jürgen
Schupp
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Worries across Time and Age in Germany: Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions
We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text ...
(published as 'Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 181, 323-343)
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C81, C83, I31, Z13
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10860
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Xi
Chen
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Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, ...
(paper 1 (results on smoking) published as 'Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? Longitudinal evidence from rural China' in: Journal of Substance Abuse, 2018, 23 (4), 366-370; paper 2 (results on alcohol abuse) published as 'Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China' in: Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2018, 2:47)
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J13, D12, I19
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10858
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Francesco
Drago
Roberto
Galbiati
Francesco
Sobbrio
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The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3305 - 3336)
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D72, K42
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10856
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Farzana
Afridi
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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes ...
(also available as: International Growth Centre Synthesis Paper S-35407 - INC-1, 2017)
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H11, H41, H53, O43
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10854
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Esther
Hauk
Mónica
Oviedo
Xavier
Ramos
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Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America
This paper studies the relationship between people's beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured by corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 74, 102174)
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D31, D63, H1, H2, P16
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10853
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Joyce
J
Chen
Katrina
Kosec
Valerie
Mueller
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Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan
Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase income, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of psychic costs by ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 113, 186 - 203)
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J61, O15, I31
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10852
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Durba
Chakrabarty
Michael
J.
Osei
John
V.
Winters
Danyang
Zhao
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Are Immigrant and Minority Homeownership Rates Gaining Ground in the US?
This paper investigates post-2000 trends in homeownership rates in the US by immigrant status, race, and ethnicity. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the ...
(published as 'Which immigrant and minority homeownership rates are gaining ground in the US?' in: Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019, 43 (2), 273-297)
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R21, J15
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10851
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Agnieszka
Postepska
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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous ...
(published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 606-611)
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J15, J62, D1, Z1
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10850
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
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Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for approximately 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, ...
(published as 'Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 368-372)
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J13, J15, K37
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10848
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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English Proficiency and Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US
Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children. This paper explores how much of such differences in achievement can be accounted ...
(published as 'English Proficiency and Mathematics Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 102-113)
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J13, J15, I20
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10847
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John
Jerrim
Luis
Alejandro
Lopez-Agudo
Oscar
Marcenaro Gutierrez
Nikki
Shure
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What Happens When Econometrics and Psychometrics Collide? An Example Using the PISA Data
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 51-58)
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I20, C18, C10, C55
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10846
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Herbert
Dawid
Gabriele
Pellegrino
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Role of Demand in Fostering Product vs Process Innovation: A Model and an Empirical Test
While the extant innovation literature has provided extensive evidence of the so-called "demand-pull" effect, the possible diverse impact of demand evolution on product vs process innovation ...
(published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2021, 31, 1553-1572)
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O31
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10845
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Angus
J.
Holford
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Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after ...
(published in: Labour, 2021, 35 (3), 348 - 377)
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J24, J28, J31
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10844
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Daniele
Checchi
Silvia
De Poli
Enrico
Rettore
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Does Random Selection of Commissioners Improve the Quality of Selected Candidates? An Investigation in the Italian Academia
We study a reform occurred in Italy in 2008 in the formation of selection committees for qualifying as university professor. Prior to the reform members of the selection committees were elected by ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (2), 211-247 )
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M51, I23, D82, J45
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10842
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Pierre
Cahuc
Stéphane
Carcillo
Andreea
Minea
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The Difficult School-To-Work Transition of High School Dropouts: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper investigates the effects of the labor market experience of high school dropouts four years after leaving school by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in France. Compared to ...
(pubished in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (1), 159-183)
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J08, J60
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10839
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Tomi
Kyyrä
Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
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Long-Term Effects of Extended Unemployment Benefits for Older Workers
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101777)
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J26, J63, J64, J65
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10838
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe: Preference versus Salience
There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on ...
(published as 'Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 66, 101969)
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D72, F22, J61
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10837
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Alexander
Patt
Jens
Ruhose
Simon
Wiederhold
Miguel
Flores
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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19(2), 1249-1298)
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F22, O15, J61, J24
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10834
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Nina
Boberg-Fazlic
Maryna
Ivets
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
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Disease and Fertility: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden
This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101020)
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I12, J11, J13
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10833
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
Jessica
Polos
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Nonmarital and Teen Fertility
This chapter explores trends, causes and consequences of nonmarital and teen fertility in the United States and in selected European countries. First, we describe some key factors, including changes ...
(published in: S. L. Averett, L. M. Argys and S. D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, Oxford University Press, 2017, 195–218 )
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J12, J13
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10832
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Gigi
Foster
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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What Women Want (Their Men to Do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households
The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (3), 23-47.)
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D13, I31, Z13
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10831
|
Gigi
Foster
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households
We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (2), 483-519)
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D13, J10
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10830
|
Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Melanie
Khamis
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Women Make Houses, Women Make Homes
This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long-term labor market outcomes. We quantify these enduring effects by exploring ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 145-161)
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J16, J24, N34
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10829
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Nicole
M.
Fortin
Brian
Bell
Michael
Johannes
Böhm
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Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom
This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 107 - 123)
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J15, J16, J70
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10828
|
Patrick
Gaule
Mario
Piacentini
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An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science
We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based on an ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2018, 47(4), 805-813)
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J24, J16, I23, O31
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