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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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10664
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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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
Zinaïda
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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10641
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Ram
Fishman
Stephen
C.
Smith
Vida
Bobic
Munshi
Sulaiman
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How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ...
(This analysis of midline experimental results was expanded using endline data in IZA DP No. 12476,)
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O13, O33, I32, Q12
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10640
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Shuang
Ma
Ren
Mu
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Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 132, 104980.)
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O12, O15, J61, Q15, R28
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10639
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Laura
B.
Nolan
David
E.
Bloom
Ramnath
Subbaraman
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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
In India, 52–98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the ...
(publisehd in: Economic & Political Weekly, 2018, 53)
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I14, I15, I18, I19
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10638
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Lane
Kenworthy
Ive
Marx
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In-Work Poverty in the United States
In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an ...
(published in: Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds), Handbook on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar, 2019)
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I3
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10636
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Ravi
Kanbur
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Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond
This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of ...
(published in: C.Monga, J. Yifu Lin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Structural Tansformation, Oxford University Press, 2019, 96 - 108)
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O41, O14, D31
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10635
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Ravi
Kanbur
Yue
Wang
Xiaobo
Zhang
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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround
This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 467 - 482)
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D31, D63, O15, O53
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10634
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Christian
Dreger
Irina
Dubova
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On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks
The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the ...
(published in: World Economy, 2019, 45 (1), 122-142)
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F44, E32, C32
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10630
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Seth
Gershenson
Cassandra
M. D.
Hart
Constance
A.
Lindsay
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
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The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions, yet little is known about the long-run, sustained ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (4), 300-342)
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I2
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10629
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Yeon
Jeong
Son
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Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States: Differences by Race and Ethnicity
The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined.
We use data from the ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 37, 229 - 250)
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J12
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10628
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Xi
Chen
Xiaobo
Zhang
Xin
Zhang
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Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper ...
(published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.)
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I24, Q53, Q51, J16
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10627
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Subha
Mani
Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Smriti
Sharma
Saurabh
Singhal
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Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 70, 1-11)
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C91, D03, D63, J16
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10626
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Rachel
Frank
Emiliano
Huet-Vaughn
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Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior
Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 77, 170 - 176)
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C92, J16, M52
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10625
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Natalia
Nollenberger
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Let the Girls Learn! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm
Using PISA test scores from 11,527 second-generation immigrants coming from 35 different countries of ancestry and living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 230-253)
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I21, I24, J16, Z13
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10624
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Sor
Tho
Ng
Nai
Peng
Tey
Niaz
Asadullah
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What Matters for Life Satisfaction among the Oldest-Old? Evidence from China
This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over) in China. We use the 2011/2012 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey data ...
(published in: PLOS One, 2017, 12(2): e0171799)
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O12, I30, I31
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10620
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Olaf
Hübler
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Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship
Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper ...
(revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111 )
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D03, I12, J16, J24, J81
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10619
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Manisha
Shah
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Scaling Up Sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 1-16)
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O12, I15
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10618
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Alberto
Diaz-Cayeros
Grant
Miller
Alfonso
Miranda
Atheendar
Venkataramani
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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (4), 490-520.)
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I18, H41, J11
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10617
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Soohyung
Lee
Chiara
Orsini
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Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?
This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference – Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 154, 48 - 50)
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J1, I1
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10615
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David
McKenzie
Olga
Susana
Puerto
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Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 13 (2), 297-332)
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O12, O17, J16, L26
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10614
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Guy
Johnson
David
C.
Ribar
Anna
Zhu
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Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies
This paper reviews international evidence regarding women's homelessness. It discusses different definitions of homelessness and how women are frequently part of the "hidden homeless" population and ...
(published in: in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women and the Economy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.)
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I30, R31
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10613
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
Xingfei
Liu
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8 (3), 895-927 )
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I2, J1, J3
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10611
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Jan
Feld
Jan
Sauermann
Andries
de Grip
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Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
The Dunning–Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance. Researchers usually interpret this empirical ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 18-24)
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D03, I23
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10610
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Sungjin
Cho
Jihye
Kam
Soohyung
Lee
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Efficient Supply of Human Capital: Role of College Major
This study examines the extent to which changing the composition of college majors among working-age population may affect the supply of human capital or effective labor supply. We use the South ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2018, 63 (5), 1319-1343 )
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I2, J2, J4
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10609
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Ronen
Bar-El
Yossef
Tobol
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Honesty toward the Holy Day
We study the effect of religiosity, gender, and "day of the week", on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup experiment among religious and secular, female and male Jewish students. We show ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 13-17)
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C91, D63, Z12
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10608
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Ritwik
Banerjee
Arnab
Mitra
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On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption
The paper studies the relative effectiveness of extrinsic monetary disincentives and intrinsic non-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the ...
(published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 332 - 355)
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C91, C92, D03, K42
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10607
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Lydia
Mechtenberg
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Andreas
Roider
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Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 126, 103447)
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C91, D83, D73, K42, M59
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10606
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Armin
Falk
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Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of ...
(revised version available from the briq website)
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D64, C91
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10605
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Giovanni
Peri
Vasil
Yasenov
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The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift
We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into Miami in 1980, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on ...
(published online n: Jorunal of Human Resources, 30 Janurary 2018)
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J3, J61
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10604
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Emanuele
Bracco
Maria
De Paola
Colin
P.
Green
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 166, 12-26.)
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J15, J61, D72
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10603
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesco
Fasani
Xin
Meng
Luigi
Minale
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Risk Attitudes and Household Migration Decisions
This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk attitudes of other household members when migration is a household decision. We develop a simple model that implies that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023 58 (1), 112-145)
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J61, O15, R23, D81
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