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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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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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10392
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Dwayne
Benjamin
Loren
Brandt
Brian
McCaig
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Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2017, 15, 25 - 46)
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D31, D63, O53
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10391
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Sarah
Kuypers
Ive
Marx
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Estimation of Joint Income? Wealth Poverty: A Sensitivity Analysis
Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social transfers. However, other financial resources such as savings and assets also ...
(published in Social Indicators Research, 2018, 136, 117 - 137)
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I32
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10390
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Prakarsh
Singh
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Economics of Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency
The Punjab Insurgency in India (1978-1993) took the lives of over 20,000 people. Yet, there has been little research on the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been ...
(published in: Journal of Punjab Studies, 2015, 22 (2), 231 - 248)
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D74
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10388
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Andrew
Seltzer
Jeff
Borland
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The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on Victorian Labour Markets
This paper examines the effects of the Victorian Factory and Shops Act, the first minimum wage law in Australia. The Act differed from modern minimum wage laws in that it established Special Boards, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 785-821)
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J38, N37
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10387
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Luke
Chicoine
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Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility: Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper investigates the causal relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (2), 480-498)
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O55, J13, I25, I26
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10386
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Biology and Gender in the Labor Market
Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering ...
(published in: S. L. Averett, L. M. Argys and S. D. Hoffman (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford, 2018, 513–538 )
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J31, A12, Z0
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10384
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Alison
L.
Booth
Eiji
Yamamura
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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan
In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593)
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J16, L83, M5
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10383
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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The Impact of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems on Families' Child Care Choices and the Supply of Child Care Labor
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 54, 172- 190)
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J13, J21, J22, J24, J3
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10382
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Anthony
Lepinteur
Sarah
Flčche
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households
The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101866)
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I31, J12, J22
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10381
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Martin
Kahanec
Mariola
Pytlikova
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The Economic Impact of East?West Migration on the European Union
This study contributes to the literature on destination-country consequences of international migration with investigations on the effects of immigration from new EU member states and Eastern ...
(published in: Empirica, 2017, 44 (3), 407-434.)
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J15, J61, J68
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10378
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Mercedes
Ayuso
Jorge Miguel
Bravo
Robert
Holzmann
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Addressing Longevity Heterogeneity in Pension Scheme Design and Reform
This paper demonstrates that the link between heterogeneity in longevity and lifetime income across countries is mostly high and often increasing; that it translates into an implicit tax/subsidy, ...
(published in: Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 6 (10), 1-21)
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D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
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10374
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Francesc
Ortega
Süleyman
Taspinar
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Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market
Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, 81 - 100)
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H56, K42, R33
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10373
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Gilles
Duranton
Laurent
Gobillon
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The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (10), 2766–281)
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R14, R31, R32
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10372
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Laura
Katherine
Gee
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The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, ...
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 65 (5), 2077 - 2094)
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C93, D01, D83, J21, J22
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10371
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Holger
Görg
Philipp
Henze
Viroj
Jienwatcharamongkhol
Daniel
Kopasker
Hassan
Molana
Catia
Montagna
Fredrik
Sjöholm
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Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence
This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2017, 71(4), 690-703)
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E20, E23, L20
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10370
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Sandra
Broszeit
Ursula
Fritsch
Holger
Görg
Marie-Christine
Laible
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Management Practices and Productivity in Germany
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688)
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D24, L2, M2
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10369
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Annette
Bergemann
Laura
Pohlan
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201)
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J64, C41, C33
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10367
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Julia
Bredtmann
Fernanda
Martínez Flores
Sebastian
Otten
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Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (7), 1455-1476.)
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F22, F24, O15
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10366
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Ryan
Edwards
Francesc
Ortega
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The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis
This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 67, 119 - 134)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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10365
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Ninke
Mussche
Vincent
Corluy
Ive
Marx
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The Rise of the Free Movements: How Posting Shapes a Hybrid Single European Labour Market
Intra-EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra-EU labour migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2018, 24 (2), 113–127)
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J61
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10364
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Alison
L.
Booth
Elliott
Fan
Xin
Meng
Dandan
Zhang
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions
In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 734 - 764)
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C9, C91, C92, J16, P3, P5, D03
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10363
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Viola
Angelini
Marco
Bertoni
Luca
Stella
Christoph T.
Weiss
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The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Long-term Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Savings of European Households
By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 97-113)
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G11, J12, J22, J32
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10362
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Guillaume
Vandenbroucke
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Family Economics Writ Large
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.)
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D1, E2, J1, O1, O4, Z1
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10361
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Rafael
Lalive
Pierpaolo
Parrotta
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How Does Pension Eligibility Affect Labor Supply in Couples?
Many OECD countries are reforming their pension systems. We investigate how pension eligibility affects labor supply in couples. Inspired by a theoretical framework, we measure how the sharp change ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 177-188)
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J26, J14, C40, D10
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10360
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Matteo
Bobba
Veronica
Frisancho
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Learning about Oneself: The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice
We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high ...
(Updated version available as DP 16168.)
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D83, I21, I24, J24
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10357
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Martin
R.
West
Ludger
Woessmann
Philipp
Lergetporer
Katharina
Werner
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157)
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H52, I22, D72, D83
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10356
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
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What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure
Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 113 (47), 13354-13359)
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J24, D03
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10354
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Laura
Barbieri
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28, 203-218.)
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O31, O33
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10352
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Pierre
Cahuc
Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Helčne
Benghalem
Emeline
Limon
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Taxation of Temporary Jobs: Good Intentions with Bad Outcomes?
This paper analyzes the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs recently introduced in several European countries to induce firms to create more open-ended contracts and to increase the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (626), 422 - 445. )
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J63, J64, J68
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10351
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Michael
Grimm
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Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition
Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21, 593-618.)
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J13, N31, N32, O12, Q12
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