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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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16455
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Hamzeh
Arabzadeh
Almut
Balleer
Britta
Gehrke
Ahmet
Ali
Taskin
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Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Financial Constraints in Firms
This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104678)
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J31, J38, J63, J64
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16453
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Stanislav
Avdeev
Nadine
Ketel
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors
We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105193.)
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I23, I24, J10
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16451
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Alfredo
Burlando
Michael
A.
Kuhn
Silvia
Prina
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Too Fast, Too Furious? Digital Credit Delivery Speed and Repayment Rates
Digital loans are a source of fast, short-term credit for millions of people. While digital credit broadens market access and reduces frictions, default rates are high. We study the role of the speed ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 174, 103427)
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D14, D18, G51, O16
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16443
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Marco
Caliendo
Daniel
Rodriguez
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Divergent Thinking and Post-Launch Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Non-Linearities and the Moderating Role of Experience
Divergent thinking is the ability to produce numerous and diverse responses to questions or tasks, and it is used as a predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1523-1553)
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L25, L26, M13, M51
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16439
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Paul
Berbée
Jan
Stuhler
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The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence over 50 Years
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2025, 50 (122), 481 - 549)
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J11, J61, J68
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16438
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
Parag
Mahajan
Bernhard
Schmidpeter
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Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
How do migrant workers impact firm performance? We exploit an unexpected change in firms’ likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the U.S. H-2B visa program to address this question. Using ...
(this version: July 2024)
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J23, F22, J61
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16437
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Teen Social Interactions and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time with friends and others outside their households as they transition into ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2025, 23, 357–404)
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J13, J22
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16436
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José
María
Barrero
Nicholas
Bloom
Steven
J.
Davis
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (4), 23 - 50)
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D13, D23, E24, J22, J31, M54, R3
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16431
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Matteo
Picchio
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Impact of High Temperatures on Performance in Work-Related Activities
High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental health or physical health is worse when it is too warm. Workers may experience ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102509)
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J24, J81, Q51, Q54
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16428
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Jonas
Jessen
Sophia
Schmitz
Felix
Weinhardt
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Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms
We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunication. These migrants ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 1146–1172)
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J16, J21, D1
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16424
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Thomas
Amossé
Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
Héloïse
Petit
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The Micro-Foundations of Employment Systems: An Empirical Case Study of Britain and France
Building on existing studies of national employment systems, we take a multi-dimensional approach to comparative employment relations where the national level remains meaningful but which emphasises ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 63 (1), 3 - 29)
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J21, J31, M51, P52
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16422
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
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Is There a 'New Consensus' on Inequality?
Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality? This paper argues that there is widespread acceptance that multiple, ...
(published in: T. Besley, I. Bucelli, and A. Velasco (eds.), The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century, LSE Press, London, 2025, 313 - 350)
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D31, D63, H20
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16421
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Vladimir
Otrachshenko
Olga
Popova
Nargiza
Alimukhamedova
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Rainfall Variability and Labor Allocation in Uzbekistan: The Role of Women's Empowerment
Employing novel household survey data, this paper examines how rainfall variability and mean temperature affect individual labor supply in Uzbekistan, a highly traditional lower-middle-income country ...
(published in: Post-Soviet Affairs, 2024, 40 (2), 119–138)
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J16, J21, J43, P28, Q54
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16420
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Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
Victoria
Vernon
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Remote Work, Wages, and Hours Worked in the United States
Remote wage employment gradually increased in the United States during the four decades prior to the pandemic, then surged in 2020 due to social distancing policies implemented to stem the spread of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 18)
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J20, J22, J31
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16419
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Ryan
Bacic
Angela
Zheng
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Race and the Income-Achievement Gap
A large literature documents a positive correlation between parental income and child test scores. In this paper, we study whether this relationship, the dependence of the cognitive skills of ...
(pubished in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (1), 5- 23)
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I20, I24, J15
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16418
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Anthony
Lepinteur
Giorgia
Menta
Sofie
R.
Waltl
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Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market
Participants to an online study in Luxembourg are presented with fictitious real-estate advertisements and tasked to make an offer for each of them. A random subset is also shown sellers' names that ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2025, 111, 104089.)
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J15, R21, R31
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16415
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Till
O.
Weber
Jonathan
F.
Schulz
Benjamin
Beranek
Fatima
Lambarraa-Lehnhardt
Simon
Gächter
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The Behavioral Mechanisms of Voluntary Cooperation across Culturally Diverse Societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey
We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 215, 134-152; )
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C9, H4, C7, D2
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16414
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Michele
Battisti
Ryan
Michaels
Choonsung
Park
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Labor Supply within the Firm
There is substantial variation in working time even within employer-employee matches, and yet estimates of the Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be near zero. This paper proposes a tractable ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 511 - 548)
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J22, J31
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16412
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Racial Inequality in Business Earnings
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (1), 258 - 288)
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L26, J15
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16411
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Yuting
Qian
Shanquan
Chen
Zhuoer
Lin
Zexuan
Yu
Mengxiao
Wang
Xiaohui
Hou
Xi
Chen
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The Growing Gap of Unmet Need: Assessing the Demand for, and Supply of, Home-Based Support for Older Adults with Disabilities in 31 Countries
Providing support to older people with disabilities will increasingly challenge care systems in all countries. Accurately gauging the unmet need is a first step in response. Disability is commonly ...
(also available as 'Silver Opportunity : Case Studies - The Growing Gap of Unmet Need : Assessing the Demand for, and Supply of, Home-Based Support for Older Adults with Disabilities in Thirty-One Countries', World Bank Report, 2024 )
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J14, J18, I11, I18
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16408
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Maria
Minniti
Wim
Naudé
Erik
Stam
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Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology
We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the ...
(published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44)
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L26, L21, L53, O40
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16406
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Haiou
Mao
Holger
Görg
Guopei
Fang
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Time to Say Goodbye? The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Foreign Divestment
We look at divestments by foreign firms – a topic that has received comparatively little attention in the literature – and investigate how changes in the regulatory environment in the host country ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2024, 57 (2), 502-527)
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F23, Q58
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16402
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Which Mexicans Are White? Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2025, 78 (1), 62- 85)
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J15
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16398
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Suzanne
Bellue
Adrien
Bouguen
Marc
Gurgand
Valerie
Munier
André
Tricot
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When Effective Teacher Training Falls Short in the Classroom: Evidence from an Experiment in Primary Schools
While in-service teacher training programs are designed to enhance the performance of several cohorts of students, there is little evidence on the persistence of their effects. We present the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024,103,102599)
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I20
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16397
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Barbara
M.
Fraumeni
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth ...
(published in: Indian Economic Review, 2024, 59, 69 - 94)
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I21, J16, J21, J24, O53
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16395
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Damian
Clarke
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The Economics of Abortion Policy
This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual ...
(published online in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 18 June 2024)
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A33, I18, J10, K36, O57
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16390
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Christian
Dustmann
Hyejin
Ku
Tetyana
Surovtseva
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Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants
We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 171 - 294)
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J24, J31, J61, O15, O24
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16388
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Luca
Fumarco
Benjamin
Harrell
Patrick
Button
David
J.
Schwegman
E
Dils
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Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity-Based Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Correspondence Field Experiment
Racial, ethnic, and gender minorities face mental health disparities. While mental health care can help, minoritized groups could face discriminatory barriers in accessing it. Discrimination may be ...
(revised version published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 10 (2), 182–214)
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C93, I14, J16, I11, I18, J15
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16387
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Will
Davis
Daniel
Kreisman
Tareena
Musaddiq
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The Effect of Universal Free School Meals on Child BMI
We estimate the effect of universal free school meal access through the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) on child BMI. Through the CEP, schools with high percentages of students qualified for free ...
(published in. Education Finance & Policy, 2024, 19 (3), 461 - 491)
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I10, I28
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16386
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Peng
Nie
Qiaoge
Li
Lanlin
Ding
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Academic Achievement in Urban China
Rising housing prices in China have placed significant financial strain on many households, pushing them into the quagmire of housing unaffordability. Such economic pressures may have repercussions ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024)
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I20, I31, R20
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16384
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Pedro
Carneiro
Yyannu
Cruz Aguayo
Francesca
Salvati
Norbert
Schady
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The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador
We study the impact of classroom rank on children's learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-663)
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I20
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16381
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Wolfgang
Keller
Hale
Utar
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International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103810.)
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F14, F16, F66, J23, J24, J62
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16375
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
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School Starting Age and the Impact on School Admission
This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the characteristics of students' initial enrolled schools. Employing minimum age requirements ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 225–251)
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A21, I24, I25, I28
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16373
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Kailing
Shen
Yanran
Zhu
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Labor Force Transition Dynamics: Unemployment Rate or Job Posting Counts?
Job posting counts (JPCs) are increasingly being used as indicators of employment dynamics, but they have not received sufficient research attention to establish their value as a metric of these ...
(published in: B. Elsner and S. W. Polachek (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 52 A), 2024, 1-33)
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J64, J23, J63
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16371
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Ihsaan
Bassier
Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Vacancy Duration and Wages
We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration ...
(fortcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025)
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J42, J63, J64
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16370
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Frederik
H.
Bennhoff
Jorge
Luis
García
Duncan
Ermini
Leaf
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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest ...
(published in: Human Capital, 2024, 18 (1), 44-73.)
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J13, I28, C93, H43
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16369
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Abel
Brodeur
Scott
E.
Carrell
David
N.
Figlio
Lester
Lusher
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Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias
We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial submissions display significant bunching, suggesting the distribution among ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2974-3002)
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A11, C13, C40
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16368
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Frederik
Almar
Bastian
Schulz
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Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 234, 11497)
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C43, D10, J11, J12
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16364
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Hani
Mansour
Pamela
Medina
Andrea
Velasquez
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When Women's Work Disappears: Marriage and Fertility Decisions in Peru
This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import ...
(published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2023, 14 (2), 385-412.)
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J16, J12, J13, J23
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16361
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Mehrzad
B.
Baktash
Uwe
Jirjahn
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Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review)
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D23, D90, J24, M12, M51
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16359
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David
Escamilla-Guerrero
Edward
Kosack
Zachary
Ward
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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States
The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics - magnitude, timing, and persistence - of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 176, 103515.)
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F22, N31, N32, N36
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16357
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Abdulmohsen
Almuhaisen
Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Delia
Furtado
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Immigration Enforcement and the Institutionalization of Elderly Americans
This paper examines the relationship between immigration enforcement and institutionalization rates of the elderly. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the Secure Communities (SC) immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economoics, 2024, 94, 102859)
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J14, J61, J68
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16356
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L. Rachel
Ngai
Orhun
Sevinc
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A Multisector Perspective on Wage Stagnation
Low-skill workers are concentrated in sectors experiencing fast productivity growth, yet their real wages have stagnated and lagged behind aggregate productivity. We provide evidence demonstrating ...
(this version: July 2024)
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E24, J23, J31
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16355
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Using micro-data on six surveys – the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347)
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I31
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16354
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Vincent
Boucher
Michelle
Rendall
Philip
Ushchev
Yves
Zenou
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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (2), 543-565)
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C31, D04, D85, Z13
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16353
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Yumi
Koh
Jing
Li
Yifan
Wu
Junjian
Yi
Hanzhe
Zhang
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Young Women in Cities
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use ...
(published as 'Young women in cities:published as 'Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103378)
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O15, J12
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16351
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Steven
J.
Davis
Pawel
M.
Krolikowski
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Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin
We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage stickiness on the layoff margin. Most UI recipients express a willingness to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (2), 491 - 524)
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E24, J63, J65
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16349
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Maria
Balgova
Hannah
Illing
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Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to ...
(updated version available as DP 17496)
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J62, J63, J64
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16348
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Andrew
Foster
Merve
Betül
Gökçe
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees
The experience of war and refugee status can alter intra-family dynamics and therefore have implications for family formation, including marriage. This study investigates marriage patterns among ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454)
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J12, J15
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16339
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Stefan
Leopold
Jens
Ruhose
Simon
Wiederhold
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas Model Unable to Predict International Migrant Selection on Education? Evidence from Urban and Rural Mexico
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed ...
(published in: World Economy, 2025, 48 (2), 300 - 322)
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F22, O15, J61, J24
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