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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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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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10600
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Babatunde
Buraimo
Alex
Bryson
Rob
Simmons
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Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football
That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options seems to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious. But owners may find it ...
(published in: De Economist, 2021, 169, 81 - 105 )
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J23, J24, J63, J64
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10599
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David
L.
Dickinson
David
Masclet
Emmanuel
Peterle
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Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market
In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 108, 220-236)
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C90, C92, J15, J16
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10598
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Russell
Weinstein
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Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments
I study whether human capital investments are based on local rather than national demand, and whether this is explained by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources)
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J24, I20, R12
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10597
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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The Perfect Storm: Graduating in a Recession in a Segmented Labor Market
This paper analyzes the effects of entry labor-market conditions on workers' career in Spain, a country well known for its highly segmented labor market and rigid labor-market institutions. In ...
(published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (2), 492-524)
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E32, J22, J31
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10593
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Anders
Stenberg
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Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education
Two common hypotheses regarding the relative benefits of vocational versus general education are (1) that vocational skills enhance relative short-term earnings and (2) that general skills enhance ...
(published in Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11(2), 167-212)
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J24, J64, J31, I20
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10591
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José-Raimundo
Carvalho
Victor
Hugo
de Oliveira
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Zika Virus Prevalence, Correlates and Preventive Behaviors: New Evidence from Survey Data
Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we ...
(revised version published as 'Zika virus incidence, preventive and reproductive behaviors: Correlates from new survey data' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2018, 30, 14-23.)
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I1, J1
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10590
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D. Mark
Anderson
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Claudio
Las Heras Olivares
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and its Effect on Mortality
The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 143-175)
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H75, I18, N30
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10588
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Julie
Beugnot
Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks
We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 207-224)
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C91, J16, J24, J31, M52
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10587
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Danny
Cohen-Zada
Alex
Krumer
Mosi
Rosenboim
Offer
Moshe
Shapir
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Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis
We exploit a unique setting in which two professionals compete in a real-life tennis contest with high monetary rewards in order to assess how men and women respond to competitive pressure. Comparing ...
(Published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 61, 176-190)
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J16, J24
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10582
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Alberto
Martini
Enrico
Rettore
Gianpaolo
Barbetta
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The Impact of Traineeships on the Employment of the Mentally Ill: The Role of Partial Compliance
Lavoro&Psiche is a RCT aimed at increasing employment among severely mentally ill patients, by offering them a structured job-search experience. The key feature of the treatment was the presence of a ...
(published as 'When Non-Compliance Carries the Day: Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Employment Program for the Severely Mentally Ill' in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 555–577)
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J78, J48, J38
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10581
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Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU
Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D ...
(published as 'Is Innovation Destroying Jobs? Firm-Level Evidence from the EU' in: Sustainability, 2018, 10(4), 1279)
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O33
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10579
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Romina
Giuliano
Stephan
Kampelmann
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
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Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors
This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (2), 421-449)
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D24, J24, J31, M12
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10577
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Deniz
Gevrek
Marilyn
Spencer
David
Hudgins
Valrie
Chambers
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I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover
This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American ...
(published in: Personnel Review, 2017, 46(5), 1019-1043.)
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I23, J22, J28, M52
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10576
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Philip
Mellizo
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
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Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, 3, 62 - 74)
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C92, J33, J53, J54, M50
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10575
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 159, 109-133.)
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J51, J52, J53, J83
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10573
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Charlotte
Bartels
Maria
Metzing
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An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis
Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data ...
(published as 'An integrated approach for a top-corrected income distribution' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 125-143)
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C46, C81, D31, H2
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10572
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Arindrajit
Dube
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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
Using the March Current Population Survey data from 1984 to 2013, I provide a comprehensive evaluation of how minimum wage policies influence the distribution of family incomes. I find robust ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (4), 268–304)
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J38, J88, D31
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10571
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Barry
Hirsch
David
A.
Macpherson
Anne
E.
Preston
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Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence
The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent in the mid-1990s to 7 percent in 2015. This paper surveys the literature and ...
(published in: Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2nd ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 146-179)
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J21, J31, L33
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10570
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution
The relation between rent sharing and wages has generally been evaluated on average wages. This paper uses a unique employer-employee panel database to investigate the extent of rent sharing along ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777)
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C33, J31, J41, L25
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10568
|
Itay
Attar
Danny
Cohen-Zada
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The Effect of School Entrance Age on Educational Outcomes: Evidence Using Multiple Cutoff Dates and Exact Date of Birth
Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes. Unlike much of the recent literature, our identification strategy strictly satisfies the monotonicity ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 153, 38-57)
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I21, J24
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