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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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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
Helène
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
Brenøe
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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10311
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Giulio
Fella
Serafin
Frache
Winfried
Koeniger
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Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks
We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a ...
(revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61, 1359-1382.)
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D91, E21
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10310
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Marcelo
Bergolo
Estefania
Galvan
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Intra-Household Behavioral Responses to Cash Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper investigates the behavioral responses of coupled men and women to a cash transfer program in Uruguay – Asignaciones Familiares-Plan de Equidad (AFAM-PE) –, by analyzing its effect on labor ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 103, 100 - 118)
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H31, O15, D13, J22
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10309
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Diana
Contreras Suarez
Lisa
A.
Cameron
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Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Change Time Preferences and Educational Aspirations?
Conditional Cash Transfer programs are designed to increase human capital in poorer families. They do this directly through incentives and conditions. A further way these programs may influence ...
(published as 'Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (3), 729 - 761)
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O15, I25, I38, D91
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10308
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that ...
(revised version published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (4), 1902 - 1943)
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O15, D31, I32
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10306
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Stefano
Comino
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
Antonio
Nicolò
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Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization
We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (4), 1214 - 1245)
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J15, K37, K42, R23
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10305
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Elie
Murard
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Consumption and Leisure: The Welfare Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind
This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies ...
(published as 'On the Joint Consumption and Labour Supply Effects of Migration on those Left Behind' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (1), 129 - 150)
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O15, J22, F22
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10304
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Osea
Giuntella
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
Catia
Nicodemo
Carlos
Vargas-Silva
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Immigration and the Reallocation of Work Health Risks
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on ...
(published in: Journal of Population of Economics, 2019, 32, 1009 - 1042)
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J61, I10
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10303
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Javier
Ortega
Gregory
Verdugo
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Moving Up or Down? Immigration and the Selection of Natives across Occupations and Locations
Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market outcomes of blue-collar natives initially in jobs where immigrants became ...
(revised version published as 'Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations' in Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 221 - 260)
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J15, J31
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10302
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Maria
Ferreira Sequeda
Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
Andries
de Grip
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Work-Related Learning and Skill Development in Europe: Does Initial Skill Mismatch Matter?
This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse ...
(published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Pouliakas. Giovanni Russo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017, 345 - 407)
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J24, M53
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10301
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Kari
P
Hadjivassiliou
Arianna
Tassinari
Werner
Eichhorst
Florian
Wozny
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Assessing the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes in the EU
The Great Recession that has engulfed Europe since 2008 has had a profound impact on the process of young people's school-to-work (STW) transition. Countries' institutional configurations ...
(revised version published as 'How Does the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes Vary in the European Union?' in: Jacqueline O'Reilly et al. (eds.) Youth Labor in Transition: Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe, Oxford, 2018, Chapter 3 )
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I2, J23, J24
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