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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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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
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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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10567
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Daniel
Barth
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
Kevin
Thom
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (4),1474-1522)
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D14, D31, G11, H55, I24, J24
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10566
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Paul
Glewwe
Qiuqiong
Huang
Albert
Park
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 141-164)
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I25, J16, J24, O53
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10563
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Cécile
A. J.
Magnée
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Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?
This paper studies the causal effect of birth spacing (i.e., the age difference between siblings) on personality traits. We use longitudinal data from a large British cohort which has been followed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 92-108 )
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J12, J13, J24
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10562
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference
This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.)
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A12, D03
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10561
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Silke
Anger
Georg
Camehl
Frauke
Peter
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Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits
Economists consider personality traits to be stable, particularly throughout adulthood. However, evidence from psychological studies suggests that the stability assumption may not always be valid, as ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 71-91, )
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I12, I18, K32, C33
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10560
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Sandra
E.
Black
Erik
Grönqvist
Björn
Öckert
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Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities
We study the effect of birth order on personality traits among men using population data on enlistment records and occupations for Sweden. We find that earlier born men are more emotionally stable, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 274 - 286)
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J12, J24
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10558
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Christian
Neumeier
Todd
A.
Sorensen
Douglas
A.
Webber
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The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
The explicit costs of raising a child have grown over the past several decades. Less well understood are the implicit costs of having a child, and how they have changed over time. In this paper we ...
(published as 'The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 716-733 )
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J11, J13, J16, J17
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10557
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Helmuth
Cremer
Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur
Kerstin
Roeder
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Household Bargaining, Spouses' Consumption Patterns and the Design of Commodity Taxes
We study the role and structure of commodity taxes when consumption and labor supplies are determined through a bargaining procedure between spouses, and where an optimal income tax is also ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73, 2021, 225--247.)
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H21, H31, D10
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10556
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S
Anukriti
Shatanjaya
Dasgupta
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Marriage Markets in Developing Countries
This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and ...
(published in: S.L. Averett, L.M. Argys, S.D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2018)
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J1, J12
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10555
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Nidhaleddine
Ben Cheikh
Christophe
Rault
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Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries
In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (12), 2611 - 2638)
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E31, F31, F40
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10553
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Bobae
Noh
Almas
Heshmati
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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea
This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data ...
(published in: SN Business & Economics, 2021, 1, article 141 (2021))
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F14, F21, F35
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10552
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Janneke
Pieters
Robert
Sparrow
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Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66 (4), 763-793)
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F13, F16, J12, J16, J21
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10551
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Nicola
Fontana
Tommaso
Nannicini
Guido
Tabellini
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51, 723-743)
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D72, C21
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10549
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?
Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower ...
(published in: Work, Employment and Society, 2019, 33 (5), 759-776)
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J31, J61, J71
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10548
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Hannah
M.
Postel
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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6:4)
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F22, O15, O22, R23
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10547
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Naureen
Karachiwalla
Albert
Park
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools
We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 109-128)
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J31, J33, J45, M51
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10546
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Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Jonas
Radbruch
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The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs
Agents' decisions to exert effort depends on the provided incentives as well as the potential costs for doing so. So far most of the attention has been on the incentive side. However, our lab ...
(substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.)
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C91, D01, D03, D24, J22, J24, J33, L23, M52
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10545
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Lachlan
Johnstone
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True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported beliefs. Subjects choose how to invest earnings from a skill task when the returns ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.)
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C91, D03, D81, D83
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10544
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes
The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility ...
(published in: the Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, 46 (1), 93-128)
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J15, K14, K40
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10543
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Stefan
Boes
Steven
Stillman
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You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a ...
(published as 'Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk-taking' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2381-2398)
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I18, K42, C25
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