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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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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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10350
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Armando
N.
Meier
Lukas
D.
Schmid
Alois
Stutzer
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Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo
Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 434-451)
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D03, D72
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10349
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Magnus
Carlsson
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?
A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite ...
(published as 'Backlash in policy attitudes after the election of an extreme political party' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, 104533)
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D72, H70
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10347
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Todd
McElroy
David
L.
Dickinson
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Testing the Advantages of Conscious vs. Unconscious Thought for Complex Decisions in a Distraction Free Paradigm
In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different ...
(revised version published as 'Thinking About Complex Decisions: How Sleep and Time-of-day Influence Complex Choices' in: Conciousness and Cognition, 2019, 76, 102824.)
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C91, D03
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10346
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Rashmi
Barua
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Wheeling into School and Out of Crime: Evidence from Linking Driving Licenses to Minimum Academic Requirements
Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have set minimum academic requirements for high school students to apply for and retain their driving licenses. These laws popularly known as "No Pass No ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Economics, 2024, 217, 334-377)
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K14, J24, J18
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10344
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Johannes
S.
Kunz
Kevin
E.
Staub
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Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education
The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen degree for a number of reasons, such as insufficient academic preparation or ...
(published as 'Early subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 34-55)
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I21, I26, J24
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10343
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Camille
Terrier
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Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers' Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement
I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade. This favoritism, estimated in the form of individual teacher effects, has ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 71, 101981)
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I21, I24, J16
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10342
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Marjan
Petreski
Nikica
Mojsoska-Blazevski
Marcelo
Bergolo
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Labor-Market Scars When Youth Unemployment Is Extremely High: Evidence from Macedonia
The objective of this study is to assess how the duration of the unemployment spell of Macedonia youth affects later employment (the employment 'scarring' effect) and wage outcomes (the wage ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2017, 55 (2), 168 - 196)
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E24, J24, J64
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10339
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
Nina
Schwarz
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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (6), 1138 -1156 )
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I15, I18, H41
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10336
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François
Rycx
Yves
Saks
Ilan
Tojerow
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Misalignment of Productivity and Wages across Regions? Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (12), 1697-1707)
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C33, J24, J31, R30
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10335
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64(2), 115-142)
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D62, I13, I18, J22, J51, J52
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10334
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Mario
Reinhold
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany: A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns
Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 50 (1), 161–174)
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J21, J23, J24
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10333
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Yuxin
Yao
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Wage Penalty of Dialect-Speaking
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard ...
(published as 'Dialect Speech and Wages' in: Economics Letters, 2019, 177, 35 - 38)
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J24, I2
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10332
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Tobias
Haepp
Carl
Lin
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How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Firm Investments in Fixed and Human Capital? Evidence from China
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of Chinese minimum wage regulations on the firm decision to invest in physical and human capital. We exploit the geographical and inter-temporal variations ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21(4), 1057-1080)
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J31, J38
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10331
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Štepán
Jurajda
Dejan
Kova?
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What's in a Name in a War
We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that having been given a first name that is synonymous with the leader(s) of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics 2021, 34 (1), 1-33)
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D64, D74, Z1
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10330
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Richard
Akresh
German
Daniel
Caruso
Harsha
Thirumurthy
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Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts
We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance from conflict sites – a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 155, 105890)
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I12, J13, O12
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10329
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Jacques
Poot
Omoniyi
Alimi
Michael
P.
Cameron
David
C.
Maré
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The Gravity Model of Migration: The Successful Comeback of an Ageing Superstar in Regional Science
For at least half a century, and building on observations first made a century earlier, the gravity model has been the most commonly-used paradigm for understanding gross migration flows between ...
(published in: Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2016, 36, 63-86)
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F22, J61, R23
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10328
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Sari
Pekkala Kerr
William
Kerr
Caglar
Ozden
Christopher
Parsons
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Global Talent Flows
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives; 2016, 30 (4), 83 - 106)
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F15, F22, J15, J31, J44, L14, L26, O31, O32, O33
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10327
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Monica
Bozzano
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Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on ...
(revised version published in: Claude Diebolt, Auke Rijpma, Sarah Carmichael, Selin Dilli, and Charlotte Störmer (eds.), Cliometrics and the Family: Global Patterns and their Impact on Diverging Development, Ch. 6, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2019, 121-147)
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J12, N33, O1, Z1
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10326
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Niaz
Asadullah
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Do Pro-Poor Schools Reach Out to the Poor? Location Choice of BRAC and ROSC Schools in Bangladesh
Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2016, 49(4), 432-452)
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I21, L31
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10325
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Adel
Ben-Youssef
Laurence
Lannes
Christophe
Rault
Agnes
Soucat
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African ...
(published in: Journal of Energy and Development, 2016, 41 (2), 175-200.)
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Q43, Q53, Q56
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10324
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Semih
Tumen
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Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy
I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270)
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E21, E26, L26, O17
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10322
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Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France
Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 14-26)
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J14, C1, C36, D04
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10321
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Bruno
Crépon
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Active Labor Market Policies
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 8 2016, 521-546)
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J08, J64
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10320
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Zhuan
Pei
Yi
Shen
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The Devil is in the Tails: Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable
Identification in a regression discontinuity (RD) design hinges on the discontinuity in the probability of treatment when a covariate (assignment variable) exceeds a known threshold. If the ...
(published in: Regression Discontinuity Designs (Advances in Econometrics, 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2017, 455-502 )
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C10, C18
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10319
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Luca
Paolo
Merlino
Max
F.
Steinhardt
Liam
Wren-Lewis
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More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships
This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37(3), 663-713)
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J12, J15, J16
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10317
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David
A.
Jaeger
Theodore
J.
Joyce
Robert
Kaestner
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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing
We reassess recent and widely reported evidence that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant played a major role in reducing teen birth rates in the U.S. since it began broadcasting in 2009 (Kearney and ...
(substantially revised version published as 'A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (2), 317 - 326)
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J13, L82
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10316
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Cornelia
Chadi
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Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth
Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2022, 21 (3), 7-13)
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D10, J12, J13
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10314
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Francesco
Devicienti
Elena
Grinza
Alessandro
Manello
Davide
Vannoni
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Which Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy
Using three waves of a uniquely rich survey on Italian private firms, we explore the impact of female managers on the use of part-time work. Building on a literature arguing that female leaders are ...
(published as 'What Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy' in: Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2019, 72 (4), 897–926)
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J23, J41, M51
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10313
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Anne
Ardila
Brenře
Shelly
Lundberg
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Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?
We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 42 - 62)
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I20, J1, J2, J3
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10312
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Shoshana
Grossbard
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Marriage and Marriage Markets
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, ...
(published in: S. L. Averett (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2017, 55–74 )
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E2, J11, J12, J16, J22, O15, R2
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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