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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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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
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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
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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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10757
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Frederik
Wiynck
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Fertility Effects of Child Benefits
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1135 - 1184)
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J13, I38, C54
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10756
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Lawrence
Katz
Christina
Patterson
John
Van Reenen
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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020, 135 (2), 645-709)
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E24, J31, L11
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10755
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Michael
Babington
Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Carl
Kitchens
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Do Tournaments with Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21 (1), 44-63.)
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C2, J3, M52, D03
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10754
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Simon
Gächter
Lingbo
Huang
Martin
Sefton
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Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the ...
(revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56 (3), 1512-1525)
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C91, D12, D81, D84
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10753
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Nikos
Askitas
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Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely ...
(Published in: PLoS ONE, 2017, 12(8), e0183277)
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C92, E03, G02
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10752
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
Jack
L.
Knetsch
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Impact of Lower Rated Journals on Economists' Judgments of Publication Lists: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Publications in leading journals are widely known to have a positive impact on economists' judgments of the value of authors' contributions to the literature and on their professional reputations. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, 66, 33-44)
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A14
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10750
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Christian
Grund
Johannes
Martin
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The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments
Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32, 871-892.)
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J53, J63, J65
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10749
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
William
H.
McGuire
Xiaojun
Wang
Min Qiang
Zhao
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Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu ...
(revised version)
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O30, D22, D24, D33
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10748
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Rafael
de
Balanzó
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Crisis and Reorganization in Urban Dynamics: The Barcelona Case Study
We use the adaptive cycle theory to improve our understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona from 1953 to present. Most specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of ...
(published in: Ecology & Society, 2017, 23 (4), Article 6)
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Q01, Q57, R0
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10747
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Andrew
Houtenville
Le
Wang
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The Distribution of Returns to Education for People with Disabilities
This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 261-282)
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C14, I12, I26, I31
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10745
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J. Catherine
Maclean
Brendan
Saloner
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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (2), 366 - 393)
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I1, I13, I18
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10744
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Fadima
Bocoum
Michael
Grimm
Renate
Hartwig
Nathalie
Zongo
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Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso
In this paper we analyze the impact of a randomized information package on the understanding and uptake of community based health insurance. The information package consists of a detailed brochure ...
(published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.)
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D83, G22, I13, M31, O33
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10742
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Pietro
Biroli
Daniela
Del Boca
James
J.
Heckman
Lynne
Pettler
Heckman
Yu
Kyung
Koh
Sylvi
Kuperman
Sidharth
Moktan
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
Anna
Ziff
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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2018, 72 (1), 1-32)
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I21, I26, I28, J13
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10741
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
David
Reimer
Anders
Holm
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Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type
This study provides evidence of the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills to enrollment in and completion of three types of vocational training (VET): education and health, technical, and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2018, 18(4), 1-17. )
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I21
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10740
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Cristina
Borra
Martin
J.
Browning
Almudena
Sevilla
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Marriage and Housework
This paper provides insights into the welfare gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (2), 479 - 508)
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D13, J12, J22
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10739
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Charles
Courtemanche
Rusty
Tchernis
Xilin
Zhou
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Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. ...
(published as 'Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2019, 13 (4), 553 - 584 )
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I12, J22
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10738
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Stijn
Baert
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Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005
This chapter aims to provide an exhaustive list of all (i.e. 90) correspondence studies on hiring discrimination that were conducted between 2005 and 2016 (and could be found through a systematic ...
(revised version published in: S.M. Gaddis (ed.), Audit Studies Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, Springer, 2018.)
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C93, J71
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10737
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Alex
Bryson
Michael
White
|
HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation: Before and after the Recession
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM) practices which have been linked to high performance in larger firms. We ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72, 3: 749-773)
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L23, M50, M54
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10736
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more ...
(published in: the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 139, 26 - 31)
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C93, D03, D64, H41, L30, M30
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10734
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Thomas
de Graaff
Daniel
Arribas-Bel
Ceren
Ozgen
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Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity
Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even ...
(published in: Stough, R. et al. (eds.): Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labour Markets, Springer, 2018, 211 - 231 )
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J21, J61, J01
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