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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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10460
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Xin
Meng
Guochang
Zhao
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The Long Shadow of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 birth cohorts was interrupted by between 1 and 8 years. In this paper we examine ...
(published as 'The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102008)
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I24, I25, N3
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10459
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Christopher
Birdsall
Seth
Gershenson
Raymond
Zuniga
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Stereotype Threat, Role Models, and Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting
Ten years of administrative data from a diverse, private, top-100 law school are used to examine the ways in which female and nonwhite students benefit from exposure to demographically similar ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15(3): 457-486.)
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I23, J15, J44
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10458
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Adriana
Di Liberto
Laura
Casula
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Teacher Assessments versus Standardized Tests: Is Acting
We study if Italian teachers do apply gender discrimination when judging students. To this aim, we use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the availability of both teachers (non-blind) ...
(published as 'Grading practices, gender bias and educational outcomes: evidence from Italy' in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (5), 481 - 508)
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L2, I2, M1, O32
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10457
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Simone
Sasso
Jo
Ritzen
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Sectoral Cognitive Skills, R&D, and Productivity: A Cross-Country Cross-Sector Analysis
We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (1), 35 - 51)
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I21, J24, O47
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10455
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Gender Disparities in Employment and Earnings in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Swaziland
In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that ...
(updated and substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 14350)
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J16, J21, L26, O12
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10450
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Martin
Biewen
Martin
Ungerer
Max
Löffler
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Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably ...
(revised version published as “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20, 471 - 504)
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C14, D31, I30
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10449
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
Yifei
Sun
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Estimating Matching Affinity Matrix under Low-Rank Constraints
In this paper, we address the problem of estimating transport surplus (a.k.a. matching affinity) in high dimensional optimal transport problems. Classical optimal transport theory species the ...
(published in: Information and Inference: A Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2019, 8(4), 677–689..)
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C5, D3
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10447
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Nikolas
Mittag
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A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching
Models with high dimensional sets of fixed effects are frequently used to examine, among others, linked employer-employee data, student outcomes and migration. Estimating these models is ...
(published as 'A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101766)
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J31, J63, C23, C63
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10446
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José-Ignacio
Antón
René
Böheim
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Effects of International Migration on Native Workers' Unionisation in Austria
We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionisation rates of native workers in Austrian firms over the period 2002–2012. Our results suggest that lower union ...
(published as 'The effect of migration on unionization in Austria' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2693–2720)
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J51, J61, J63
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10444
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Garance
Genicot
Anna Maria
Mayda
Mariapia
Mendola
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The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. ...
(published in: Markets, Governance and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development, Oxford: OUP, 2017.)
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F22, J61, O12
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10443
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Martin
Kahanec
Martin
Guzi
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How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor ...
(published in:International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 996-1015 )
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J24, J61, J68
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10439
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Christopher
Boone
Arindrajit
Dube
Lucas
Goodman
Ethan
Kaplan
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Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment
This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross-state variation in the maximum benefit duration during the Great Recession. Comparing ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 58–99)
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J65, E62, E32
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10438
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Men, Women and Unions
The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk-averse constituents, into British workplaces. It argues that given unions' role in ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (3), 201 - 217)
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J51, J16, J82
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10437
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Gabriel
Burdin
Virginie
Pérotin
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Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time
This paper provides evidence on the effect of employee representation on working time flexibility in private-sector European establishments. A 2002 European Union directive granted information, ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101755)
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D23, J22, J50
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10436
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Alexander
Muravyev
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Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014: Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects
This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41(1), 5-25)
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G34, L22
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10435
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Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
Kristine
Nergaard
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Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study
Trade unions have transformed from male-dominated organisations rooted in manufacturing to majority-female organisations serving predominantly white-collar workers, often in the public sector. ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 26 (2), 173 - 190 )
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J28, J51, J81, L23, O31
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10434
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John
de New
Syed
Hasan
Nikhil
Jha
Mathias
Sinning
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Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices
The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality of schools to the Australian public. This paper combines data from this website ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464)
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D82, D84, I24, R31
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10430
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Martin
Fischer
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
Nina
Schwarz
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The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden
This paper evaluates the impact on earnings, pensions, and other labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms ...
(published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Long Terms – Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2776 - 2823)
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J24, J31, I28
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10429
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Atila
Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua
Angrist
Yusuke
Narita
Parag A.
Pathak
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Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation
A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of these assignment ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1373-1432)
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C14, C21, C36, C90, D47, I21, I28
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10428
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Roy
E.
Bailey
Timothy
J.
Hatton
Kris
Inwood
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Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain
Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78(4), 1210-1247)
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I15, N13, Q53
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10427
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Michael
Grimm
Luciane
Lenz
Jörg
Peters
Maximiliane
Sievert
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Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 417-454.)
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D12, O12, O13, Q28, Q41
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10426
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Gautam
Hazarika
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The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption
Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2018, 19 (2), 141 -163 )
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J16, D73
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10425
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Wei
Huang
Chuanchuan
Zhang
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The Power of Social Pensions
This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among ...
(published as 'The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 179 - 205)
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E21, H55, I38, O22
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10424
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Zhaopeng (Frank)
Qu
Zhong
Zhao
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Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144 )
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J30, J45, J61
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10423
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Hanna
Mac Innes
Torun
Österberg
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Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example
This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each ...
(published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 7:1)
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C41, J15, J61
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10422
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Michael
M. H.
Tse
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports ...
(published as 'Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration' in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020, 221-246)
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J61, J62, J31, J3, J24
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10421
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Mariacristina
Piva
Massimiliano
Tani
Marco
Vivarelli
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Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 1321-1338)
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O33
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10420
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Giovanni
Facchini
Yotam
Margalit
Hiroyuki
Nakata
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Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns
Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 141, 103959 )
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F12, F16, L11
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10419
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Alexis
Grigorieff
Christopher
Roth
Diego
Ubfal
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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments
We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the ...
(published in: Demography, 2020, 57, 1111-1143)
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C9, J15, Z1, Z13
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10417
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Tommaso
Colussi
Ingo
E.
Isphording
Nico
Pestel
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Minority Salience and Political Extremism
This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271)
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D72, D74, J15
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10415
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Mike
Brewer
Sarah
Cattan
Claire
Crawford
Birgitta
Rabe
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Free Childcare and Parents' Labour Supply: Is More Better?
Despite the introduction of childcare subsidies in many countries, the cost of childcare is still thought to hinder parental employment. Many governments are considering increasing the generosity of ...
(published as 'Does more free childcare help parents work more?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 74,102100)
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I21, J22
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10413
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Rania
Gihleb
Kevin
Lang
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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos (eds.), Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job (Research in Labor Economics 48), Emerald Publisheing, 2020, 1 - 26)
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J12
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10412
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Emily
McDool
Philip
Powell
Jennifer
Roberts
Karl
Taylor
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Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
Childhood circumstances and behaviours have been shown to have important persistent effects in later life. One aspect of childhood that has changed dramatically in the past decade, and is causing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1-20)
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D60, I31, J13
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10411
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Milena
Nikolova
Sinem
H.
Ayhan
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Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at the couple level. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 32, 799- 844)
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I31, J01, J65
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10410
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Guido
Friebel
Michael
Kosfeld
Gerd
Thielmann
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into this type of public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78)
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C9, D64, D73, J45
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10408
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Sarah
Brown
Daniel
Gray
Mark
N.
Harris
Christopher
Spencer
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Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk
Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background ...
(published as 'Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk' in: Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, 63, 96 - 117)
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C33, C35, D14, G11
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10407
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Nicolás
Salamanca
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568)
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G11, D14, D19
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10406
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Helke
Seitz
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Locus of Control and Investment in Training
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349)
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J24, C23, D84
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10405
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
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The Twin Instrument
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Twin Birth and Maternal Condition' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853 - 864 / published as 'The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090 - 3139)
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J12, J13, C13, D13, I12
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10404
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Garry
F.
Barrett
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data
We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 255 - 265)
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J22, C21
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10403
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
Examining the most heavily-cited publications in labor economics from the early 1990s, I show that few of over 3000 articles citing them directly replicates them. They are replicated more frequently ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, 107 (5), 37–40)
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B21, J01, B41
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10402
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Ian
K.
McDonough
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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Missing Data, Imputation, and Endogeneity
Basmann (Basmann, R.L., 1957, A generalized classical method of linear estimation of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 25, 77-83; Basmann, R.L., 1959, The computation of generalized ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199 (2), 141-155)
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C36, C51, J13
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10401
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Semih
Tumen
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Career Choice and the Strength of Weak Ties
This paper argues that the structure (i.e., size and composition) of the informal search network is a crucial determinant of the career decisions of young workers. Building on the search-theoretic ...
(published in: Central Bank Review, 2017, 17(3), 91-97)
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J21, J24, J62
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10399
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Stephan
Kampelmann
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Guillaume
Vermeylen
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Who Is Your Perfect Match? Educational Norms, Educational Mismatch and Firm Profitability
We provide first evidence regarding the direct effect of educational norms and educational mismatch on the bottom line of firms across work environments. To do so, we use rich Belgian linked ...
(published as 'Over-, Required and Under-education: Consequences on the Bottom Line of Firms' in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2020, 34 (1), 80-112)
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J21, J24
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10398
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Ariel
Kalil
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The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment
Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 10 - 19)
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I20
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10397
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John
Eric
Humphries
Fabian
Kosse
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On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters
Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017,136,174 - 185)
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J24, I20, D03, D90
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10396
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Farzana
Afridi
Amrita
Dhillon
Eilon
Solan
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Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral ...
(published as 'Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 227, 1056640)
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D72, D82, H75, O43, C72
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10395
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Ellen
Garbarino
Robert
Slonim
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior: Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence
We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report ...
(revised version published as 'Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 158, 379-393)
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C91, C81, D03
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10394
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Ritwik
Banerjee
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 567-604)
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C70, C91, J16, J24, J31, M52
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10393
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Thomas
Gall
Xiaocheng
Hu
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence
Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.)
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C78, C91, M54
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