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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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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
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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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10827
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Melvyn
Coles
Marco
Francesconi
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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class ...
(revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search with Multiple Attributes and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (1), 138-162)
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C6, J0, J1, N3
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10826
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Astrid
Kunze
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, (ed.) Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, 2018.)
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J16, J24, J31, J71
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10825
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Leonie
Gerhards
Michael
Kosfeld
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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (627), 716 - 739)
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C90, J16
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10824
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Simon
Gächter
Chris
Starmer
Fabio
Tufano
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Revealing the Economic Consequences of Group Cohesion
We introduce the concept of "group cohesion" to capture the economic consequences of ubiquitous social relationships in group production. We measure group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from ...
(revised version published online as 'Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 06 February 2023 )
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C92, D03
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10823
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Jeremy
Clark
David
L.
Dickinson
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The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence
We implement a one-week partial sleep restriction protocol to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on joint production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of sleep on public good contributions and punishment: Experimental evidence' in: PLoS ONE, 2020, 15 (10), e0240324)
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C92, D03, H40, I12, J24
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10821
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James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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Unordered Monotonicity
This paper presents a new monotonicity condition for unordered discrete choice models with multiple treatments. Unlike a less general version of monotonicity in binary and ordered choice models, ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2018, 86 (1), 1 - 35 [revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23497])
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I21, C93, J15, V16
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10820
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Laszlo
Goerke
Michael
Neugart
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Social Comparisons in Oligopsony
A large body of evidence suggests that social comparisons matter for workers' valuation of the wage they receive. The consequences of social comparisons in imperfectly competitive labor markets are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209)
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D62, J22, J42
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10819
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Francesco
Amodio
Leonardo
Baccini
Michele
Di Maio
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Security, Trade, and Political Violence
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 1-37)
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D22, D24, F51, N45, O12
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10817
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Sarah
J.
Fossett
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs
What makes prescription drugs cost so much? The media and Congress say it is corporate greed, while pharmaceutical firms blame federal regulations and an expensive drug development process. This ...
(published in: International Journal o Health Sciences, 2019, 7 (3), 1 - 18)
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I11, J33, L10
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10816
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Albrecht
Glitz
Erik
Meyersson
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Industrial Espionage and Productivity
In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (4), 1055-1103)
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D24, F52, N34, N44, O30, O47, P26
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10813
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Christina
Gathmann
Björn
Sass
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children
Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709)
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J13, J22, J18
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10812
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Natalia
Danzer
Martin
Halla
Nicole
Schneeweis
Martina
Zweimüller
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Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes
We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6) 1826-1884;)
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J13, H52, J22, J12, I38
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10811
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
Duncan
Ermini
Leaf
Maria
José
Prados
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Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program
This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with ...
(revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23479)
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J13, I28, C93
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10810
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Rob
Alessie
Viola
Angelini
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Jochen
O.
Mierau
Laura
Viluma
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Economic Conditions at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood: Evidence from New Cohorts
Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 224, 77-84)
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I10, I15, J11
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10808
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Chenggang
Wang
Huixia
Wang
Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID
We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8–8.8 percent ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 17 - 30)
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I0, I12, I14
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10807
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
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War during Childhood: The Long Run Effects of Warfare on Health
This paper estimates the causal long-term consequences of an exposure to war in utero and during childhood on the risk of obesity and the probability of having a chronic health condition in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 53, 117–130.)
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I10, I12, J13
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10806
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Jennifer
Hunt
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (4), 818-857)
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J61, O15, R23
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10801
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Laurent
Davezies
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable
Since the late 90s, Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs have been widely used to estimate Local Average Treatment Effects (LATE). When the running variable is observed with continuous measurement ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 260 - 281)
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C21, C14, C51
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10799
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Tomi
Kyyrä
Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
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Estimating the Effects of Potential Benefit Duration without Variation in the Maximum Duration of Unemployment Benefits
This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. ...
(published as 'The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101859)
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J64, J65
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10798
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Tomi
Kyyrä
Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
Jouko
Kullervo
Verho
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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion in the Finnish Labor Market
Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job ...
(published as "The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: The Role of Measurement Error in Benefit Eligibility" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 60, 75-83)
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C41, J64, J65
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10795
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Nicholas
Biddle
Katja
Fels
Mathias
Sinning
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Behavioral Insights and Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
This paper presents the findings of two Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that were conducted in collaboration with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The first trial tests the effect of changes ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2018, 18, 30-49)
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C93, H25, H26
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10794
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Mitchell
Hoffman
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11(1), 315-348)
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J24, D03, M53, J41
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10792
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Antonio
Filippin
Francesca
Gioia
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Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes
This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94)
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C81, C91, D81
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10790
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Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Anne
Brink
Nandrup
Nina
Smith
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Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice
Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500)
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I23, J16, J24
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10788
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Takao
Kato
Naomi
Kodama
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Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018)
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J16, M5, J7, M14
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10787
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Mahdi
Majbouri
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Sir! I'd Rather Go to School, Sir!
Military service is a popular method of army recruitment for governments of developing countries that are particularly prone to conflict. This study contributes to the largely under-researched issues ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change)
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I23, J47, I26, N35
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10786
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Seamus
McGuinness
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Paul
Redmond
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How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?
The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill ...
(revised version published as 'Skills mismatch: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Approaches' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32 (4), 985-1085)
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J24, I20, I28
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10785
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Xiaodong
Gong
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The Dynamics of Study-Work Choice and Its Effect on Intended and Actual University Attainment
We study the dynamics of study-work choices of Australian high school students and how these choices affect intended and actual enrolment in universities when they finish their school education. A ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 619 - 639)
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I21, C33
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10784
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Nicholas
Wilson
Todd
Pugatch
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Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 151 - 161)
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D83, I23
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10783
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Erik
O.
Kimbrough
Andrew
McGee
Hitoshi
Shigeoka
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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely depends on classroom composition in terms of peers' ability. Unfortunately, little ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.)
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I24, C91, I28
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10782
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Philipp
Vom Berge
Hanna
Frings
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High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 701-729.)
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J31, J38
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10781
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Florian
Engl
Arno
Riedl
Roberto
A.
Weber
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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 261 - 299)
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C92, D02, D72, H41
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10780
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Santosh
Kumar Gautam
Nishith
Prakash
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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India
In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 185, 171-178)
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H41, I15, J16, O12
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10779
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Mark
Borgschulte
Jacob
Vogler
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Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians
We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural lifespan. In contrast to previous findings of shortened lifespan among US presidents ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 167, 18 - 32)
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I10, M12, J14
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10778
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Dozie
Okoye
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using ...
(revised version published as 'Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany' in Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 184-208 )
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D72, D74, O12, P16, N40
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10777
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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The Hedonic Approach to Vineyard Site Selection: Adaptation to Climate Change and Grape Growing in Emerging Markets
This paper shows how the hedonic approach to vineyard site selection can be used in the adaptation of vineyard land to climate change, natural disasters or other exogenous events. The basic idea is ...
(published in: Journal of Wine Economics, 2017, 12 (1), 3 - 15)
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O21, Q16, Q18
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10776
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
Edward
C.
Norton
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Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors
With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101038)
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I12, J21, J65
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10775
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Shoshana
Grossbard
Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple ...
(published as 'Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6(1), 9.)
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J22, I12, J12
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10774
|
Milena
Nikolova
Olga
Popova
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Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21(1), 83-114)
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D60, I31, O15, P52
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10773
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Terhi
Maczulskij
Petri
Böckerman
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Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?
This paper examines the effects of past stressful life events on subsequent labor market success using data on twins matched to comprehensive register-based, individual-level information on income ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 20 (3), 357-373)
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I31, J24, J31
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10771
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Khulan
Altangerel
Jan
C.
van Ours
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U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration
The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border ...
(published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (4), 463-485.)
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J61, J68
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10770
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Tomi
Kyyrä
José María
Arranz
Carlos
García-Serrano
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Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain
This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time ...
(published as "Does Subsidized Part-Time Employment Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Employment?" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 68-83)
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J64, J65
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10768
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Duncan
McVicar
Mark
Wooden
Yin
King
Fok
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Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways: Bridge or Trap?
The debate over whether contingent (and typically more precarious) employment acts as a bridge to permanent employment, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 98 - 115.)
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J41, C38
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10767
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Francesco
Pastore
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Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 44 (8), 1358-1371)
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H52, I2, I24, J13, J24
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10766
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Andrea
Albanese
Lorenzo
Cappellari
Marco
Leonardi
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The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at introducing the "dual system" in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (1), 98 - 121)
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J24, J41, C21
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10763
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Martin
Biewen
Matthias
Seckler
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Changes in the German Wage Structure: Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the quantitative importance of the factors associated with the rise in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995-2010. In contrast to most ...
(revised version published as 'Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics: A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of Rising Wage Inequality in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17, 461-498)
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C14, J31, J51, F16
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10761
|
Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission
Correlations between parent and child earnings reflect intergenerational mobility and, more broadly, correlations between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 370 - 383)
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D31, J62
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10758
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
Anna
Ziff
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Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by ...
(revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23412)
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J13, I28, C93
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