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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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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
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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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10733
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
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Does Delayed Retirement Affect Youth Employment? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
Pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age increase the pool of senior individuals aged 50+ who are not eligible to retire from the labour market. Using data from Italian provinces and regions ...
(published as 'Does A Higher Retirement Age Reduce Youth Employment' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (106), 325 - 372)
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J26, H55, J21, J14, J11
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10732
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Roma
Keister
Wojciech
Hardy
Szymon
Górka
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Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe
This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & ...
(published as 'Ageing of routine jobs in Europe' in: Economic Systems, 2020, 100816.)
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J21, J23, J24
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10731
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Xi
Chen
Karen
Eggleston
Ang
Sun
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The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships: Comparative Evidence from China
China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all counties with over 400 million people enrolled. This implementation of the largest ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, 12, 225 -235)
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H55, I18, J14, R28
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10730
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Arne
Uhlendorff
Joachim
Wolff
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Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance ...
(revised version published as 'The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out" in: Economica, 2022, 89 (535), 1-28)
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J64, J65, C41, C21
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10729
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Cecilia
García-Peńalosa
Linas
Tarasonis
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The Changing Nature of Gender Selection into Employment: Europe over the Great Recession
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role played by selectivity issues induced by nonemployment in explaining gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 104, 637-676. )
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J31
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10727
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance
We use administrative data to examine the effect of a 50% benefit cut for young unemployed workers in Ireland during the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new benefit claims, claimants ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 902-925. )
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J64
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10726
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Laurent
Gobillon
Dominique
Meurs
Sébastien
Roux
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Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 145, 29-74)
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C51, J31, J45
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10725
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Anders
Frederiksen
Lisa
B.
Kahn
Fabian
Lange
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (6), 2123-2187)
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M5
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10724
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Nicholas
Bloom
Erik
Brynjolfsson
Lucia
Foster
Ron
Jarmin
Megha
Patnaik
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
John
Van Reenen
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (5), 1648 - 1683)
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L2, M2, O32, O33
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10723
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Archontis
L.
Pantsios
Solomon
Polachek
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How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes
The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with ...
(published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161)
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J51, J52, C72, C78
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10722
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Marion
Collewet
Jan
Sauermann
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Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 96-106)
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J23, J22, M12, M54
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10721
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Ravi
Kanbur
Andy
Snell
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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (621), 2216 - 2239)
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A10, A13, C01, C12, D63
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10719
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Kostas
Mavromaras
Sue
Richardson
Rong
Zhu
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2017, 93, s105–s121)
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J31, J45
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10718
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Manuel
Fernandez Sierra
Julián
Messina
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Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573)
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E24, J20, J31
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10717
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Ganna
Pogrebna
Andrew
J.
Oswald
David
Haig
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Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17)
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J16, C93, C90, D81
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10715
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Malte
Sandner
Thomas
Cornelissen
Tanja
Jungmann
Peggy
Herrmann
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Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 269 - 283)
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I14
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10714
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Kasey
Buckles
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Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)
A rich literature in economics and the social sciences has shown that improvements in women's socio-economic status (SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018 )
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I14, I24, I3, J1
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10713
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Benedikt
Gerst
Christian
Grund
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Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender
This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878)
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M52, J31, J33, J71
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10710
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Leonardo
Becchetti
Vittorio
Pelligra
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
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Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049)
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C91, D64, H00
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10709
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Erez
Siniver
Yossef
Tobol
Gideon
Yaniv
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Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96)
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A22, C91, C92, K42
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10708
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Michael
Jetter
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Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's ...
(published as 'The inadvertent consequences of al-Qaeda news coverage' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 391-410)
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C26, D74, F52, L82
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10707
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Markus
Gehrsitz
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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2017, 30(3), 497-528)
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I12, K42, R41
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10706
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Philippe
Aghion
Nicholas
Bloom
Brian
Lucking
Raffaella
Sadun
John
Van Reenen
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economicy, 2021, 13 (1), 133 - 169)
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O31, O32, O33, F23
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10705
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Rajeev
K.
Goel
James
W.
Saunoris
Friedrich
Schneider
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Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century
This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (1), 50 - 67)
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E26, O43, O51, K42
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10704
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Balázs
Égert
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 67, 381 - 391)
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L26, J24, J48, O17
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10702
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Casey
Boyd-Swan
Chris
M.
Herbst
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The Demand for Teacher Characteristics in the Market for Child Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend center-based child care programs that are of low quality. This paper examines the extent to which teacher qualifications – widely considered important ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 183-202)
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I20, J23, J24, J71
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10701
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Subha
Mani
Smriti
Sharma
Saurabh
Singhal
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Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality
We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective ...
(published as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 587 - 601)
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I23, C9, C14, J24, O15
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10700
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
William
Nilsson
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The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations
Eliciting expectation and introducing probabilistic questions into surveys have gained important interest. In this study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what ...
(published in: Labor Economics, 2022, 76, 202182)
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C46, C83, I26
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10698
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Adele
Whelan
Seamus
McGuinness
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Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?
We investigate the effect of satisfaction at higher education on job satisfaction using propensity score matching, the special regressor method and a unique European dataset for graduates. ...
(heavily revised version published as 'The determinants of degree programme satisfaction' in: Studies in Higher Education, 2021, 46 (1), 2262 - 2278)
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J20, J28, I23, I31
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10697
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Merle
Zwiers
Maarten
van Ham
Reinout
Kleinhans
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The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading
In the last few decades, urban restructuring programs have been implemented in many Western European cities with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2019, 56 (8), 1647 - 1663)
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O18, P25, R23
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10696
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Tom
Kleinepier
Maarten
van Ham
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The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15
Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 36, 1813 - 1826)
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J13, J62, O18, R23
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10695
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Tal
Modai-Snir
Maarten
van Ham
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Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach
Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is a complex phenomenon which is driven by multiple macro- and micro-level processes. Most theoretical and empirical work has focused on the role of urban-level ...
(published in: Applied spatial analysis and policy, 2019, 12 (2), 423 - 443)
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O18, P25, R23
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10694
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Maarten
van Ham
Sanne
Boschman
Matt
Vogel
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Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income
Studies of neighbourhood effects often attempt to identify causal effects of neighbourhood characteristics on individual outcomes, such as income, education, employment, and health. However, ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55, 1069 - 1090)
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I30, J60, R23
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10690
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Omoniyi
Alimi
David
C.
Maré
Jacques
Poot
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More Pensioners, Less Income Inequality? The Impact of Changing Age Composition on Inequality in Big Cities and Elsewhere
As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income ...
(published in: U. Blien, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp & R. Stough (eds.), Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018 )
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J11, D31, R23
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10689
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Joel
Blit
Mikal
Skuterud
Jue
Zhang
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Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Canadian Cities
We examine the effect of changes in skilled-immigrant population shares in 98 Canadian cities between 1981 and 2006 on per capita patents. The Canadian case is of interest because its 'points system' ...
(published as 'Can skilled immigration raise innovation? Evidence from Canadian Cities' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20 (4), 879 - 901)
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J61, J18, O31
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10688
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Zhengyu
Cai
John
V.
Winters
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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers
This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2017, 32 (4), 371-384)
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F22, J15, J31, L26
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10686
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Abel
Brodeur
Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
Yanos
Zylberberg
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War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry
This paper analyzes the determinants behind the spatial distribution of the sex industry in Thailand. We relate the development of the sex industry to an early temporary demand shock, i.e., U.S. ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1540-1576)
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O17, O18, N15, J46, J47, I28
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10685
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Fernando
A.
Lozano
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Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona
A growing literature has documented the displacement effects of tougher interior immigration enforcement measures; yet, we still lack an understanding of where the displaced populations are choosing ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2019, 2, 109 - 120)
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J61, K37
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10682
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Abu
Siddique
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
In many countries, ethnic minorities have a persistent disadvantageous socioeconomic position. We investigate whether aversion to competing against members of the ethnically dominant group could be a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(627), 793-821)
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C9, C91, C93, J15
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10679
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Fabian
Slonimczyk
Marco
Francesconi
Anna
Yurko
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Moving On Up for High School Graduates in Russia: The Consequences of the Unified State Exam Reform
In 2009, Russia introduced a reform that changed the admissions process in all universities. Before 2009, admission decisions were based on institution-specific entry exams; the reform required ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 117, 56-82)
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J61, O15
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