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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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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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10678
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Seamus
McGuinness
Adele
Bergin
Adele
Whelan
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Overeducation in Europe: Trends, Convergence and Drivers
This paper examines patterns in overeducation between countries using a specifically designed panel dataset constructed from the quarterly Labour Force Surveys of 28 EU countries over a twelve to ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (4), 994 - 1015)
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I2, C23
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10677
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Luna
Bellani
Michela
Bia
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The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, 2019, 182 (1), 37-68)
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D31, I32, I24, J62
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10674
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Youjin
Hahn
Asadul
Islam
Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?
We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 740-764.)
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I25, J16, O12
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10672
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Patricia
Cortes
Jessica
Pan
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Occupation and Gender
Occupational differences by gender remain a common feature of labor markets. We begin by documenting recent trends in occupational segregation and its implications. We then review recent empirical ...
(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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J16, J24
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10671
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Michael
Gibbs
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Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives
At the 2016 Academy of Management Conference, a group of distinguished compensation researchers held a panel discussion on the future of compensation research. Their remarks were compiled into an ...
(published in: Compensation & Benefits Review, 2017, 48 (1-2), 3-16)
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J3, M5
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10670
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Inga
Laß
Mark
Wooden
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The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data
This study uses panel data for Australia from the HILDA Survey to estimate the wage differential between workers in temporary jobs and workers in permanent jobs. Specifically, unconditional quantile ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 453-478.)
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J31, J41, C21, C23
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10669
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Sonia
A.
Agudelo
Hector
Sala
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Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
This paper evaluates the extent of wage rigidities in Colombia over a period, 2002-2014, in which the fall in unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, 39 (3), 547-567)
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E24, J3, J48, J58
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10668
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Axel
Gottfries
Coen
Teulings
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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 102292)
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J31, J63, J64
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10666
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Enrico
Rubolino
Daniel
Waldenström
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18, 261 - 289)
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D31, H21, H24, H26, H31, H76
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10665
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Sarah
Marchal
Ive
Marx
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Income Support Policies for the Working Poor
This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place ...
(published in: Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds), Handbook on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar, 2019 )
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I38, J88, H75
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10664
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Rřed
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Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy?
Based on complete population data, with the exact same definitions of family class background and economic outcomes for a large number of birth cohorts, we examine post-war trends in ...
(revised version published as 'Economic Mobility under Pressure' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1844–1885,)
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J62, D63, J24
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10663
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
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A Teenager in Love: Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2018, 54 (3), 557 - 573)
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I21, J24
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10661
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Daniel
Kühnle
Michael
Oberfichtner
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Does Early Child Care Attendance Influence Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skill Development?
While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio-economic and non-native backgrounds in the short-run, it remains unclear whether such ...
(published as 'Does Starting Universal Childcare Earlier Influence Children's Skill Development?' in: Demography, 2020, 57 (1), 61-98.)
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J13, I21, I38
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10660
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Andrey
Launov
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Working Time Accounts and Turnover
Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms smoothing their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit ...
(substantially revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021, 123 (3), 1025 - 1056)
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J23, J63
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10659
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Alex
Bryson
Christine
Erhel
Zinaďda
Salibekyan
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The Effects of Firm Size on Job Quality: A Comparative Study for Britain and France
Using linked employer-employee data from two comparable surveys this article examines the links between non-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 27 (2), 113-129 )
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I31, J30, J81
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10658
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Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 155, 80–83)
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F2, L2, M2
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10657
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Luca
Gambetti
Julián
Messina
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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, (323), 709-726.)
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E24
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10656
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Sergio
Firpo
Julián
Messina
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Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 37-67)
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D31, J31
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10655
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David
McKenzie
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How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Jobs are the number one policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and concerns over automation all make it ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54)
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O15, J08, J68
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10653
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Melisa
Bubonya
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
David
C.
Ribar
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The Bilateral Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Employment Status
This paper analyzes the bilateral relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. We find that severe depressive symptoms are partially a consequence of economic inactivity. The ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 35, 96-106 )
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J01, J64, I14
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10652
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Kamila
Cygan-Rehm
Daniel
Kühnle
Michael
Oberfichtner
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Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health: Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries
An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts mental health. The recent literature yields varying findings, which are likely due ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 26(12), 1844-1861)
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I12, J64
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10651
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Silvia
Mendolia
Thi
Nguyen
Oleg
Yerokhin
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The Impact of Parental Health on Children's Schooling and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Vietnam
This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and labour market, using a panel data survey of Vietnamese families, interviewed between ...
(published as 'The impact of parental illness on children’s schooling and labour force participation: evidence from Vietnam' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17, 469 - 492)
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I10, I14, I24
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10650
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Hyuncheol Bryant
Kim
Suejin
Lee
Wilfredo
Lim
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Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea
Health screening provides information on disease risk and diagnosis, but whether this promotes health is unclear. We estimate the impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea for ...
(published in:: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 65, 1 - 14)
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I12, I18
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10649
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Charles
Courtemanche
James
Marton
Benjamin
Ukert
Aaron
Yelowitz
Daniela
Zapata
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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 660 - 691)
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I12, I13, I18
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10648
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Martin
Huber
Andreas
Steinmayr
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A Framework for Separating Individual Treatment Effects from Spillover, Interaction, and General Equilibrium Effects
This paper suggests a causal framework for disentangling individual level treatment effects and interference effects, i.e., general equilibrium, spillover, or interaction effects related to treatment ...
(pusblished in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2021, 39 (2), 422 - 436)
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C21, C31
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10647
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Zhuan
Pei
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
Hannes
Schwandt
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Poorly Measured Confounders Are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right
Researchers frequently test identifying assumptions in regression based research designs (which include instrumental variables or difference-in-differences models) by adding additional control ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019, 37 (2), 205 - 216)
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C31, C52
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10645
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Arnaud
Lefranc
Alain
Trannoy
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Equality of Opportunity, Moral Hazard and the Timing of Luck
Equality of opportunity is usually defined as a situation where the effect of circumstances on outcome is nullified (compensation principle) and effort is rewarded (reward principle). We propose a ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49 (3/4), 469 - 497)
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D63, J62, C14
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10644
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Hyuncheol Bryant
Kim
Seonghoon
Kim
Thomas
T.
Kim
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The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi
Incentives are essential to promote labor productivity. We implemented a two-stage field experiment to measure effects of career and wage incentives on productivity through self-selection and causal ...
(published as ' The Role of Career and Wage Incentives in Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Field Experiment in Malawi ' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 839-851)
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J30, O15, M52
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10643
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Jens
Mohrenweiser
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Performance Pay and Applicant Screening
Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between intensity of performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57(3), 540-575)
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J33, J60, M51, M52
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10642
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Christian
Grund
Tanja
Hofmann
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The Dispersion of Bonus Payments within and between Firms
We explore the dispersion of bonus payments of managers within and between five large firms from the German chemical sector. We use data from a yearly salary survey in these firms during the ...
(published in: Journal of Business Economics, 2019, 89 (4), 417-445)
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J31, J33, M52
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