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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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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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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
Nicolň
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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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10298
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Franziska
Hampf
Ludger
Woessmann
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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC
It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, 63 (3), 255-269)
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J24, J64, I20
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10297
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Saul
Estrin
Adeline
Pelletier
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Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102, )
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L1, L51, O10
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10296
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Jane
Leer
Florencia
López Bóo
Ana
Perez Expósito
Christine
Powell
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to ...
(published as 'Assessing the quality of home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean' in: Early Child Development and Care, 2019, 189 (13), 2183 - 2196)
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J13, H53, H75, I38
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10295
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Liqiu
Zhao
Fei
Wang
Zhong
Zhao
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether ...
(revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 65, 101575)
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F14, F16
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10293
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Francesco
Devicienti
Bernardo
Fanfani
Agata
Maida
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Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy
In this paper we study the evolution of the Italian wage inequality, and of its determinants, using two decades of matched employer-employee data covering the entire population of private-sector ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (2), 377-407)
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J00, J5, J31, J40
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10292
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Francesco
Devicienti
Alessandro
Manello
Davide
Vannoni
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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing ...
(published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 260 (3), 1129 - 1141)
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J51, D22, D24, C24, C44
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10291
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Nicolás
Salamanca
Jan
Feld
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A Short Note on Discrimination and Favoritism in the Labor Market
We extend Becker's model of discrimination by allowing firms to have discriminatory and favoring preferences simultaneously. We draw the two-preference parallel for the marginal firm, illustrate the ...
(published in: BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 20160133.)
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J70, J31
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10289
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance
Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, G. van Houten (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices', (Research in Labour Economics 49), 2021)
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M51, M52, J31
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10288
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John
S.
Heywood
Uwe
Jirjahn
Cornelia
Chadi
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Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal
This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 205-225)
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D03, J33, M52
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10287
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Daniela
Del Boca
Daniela
Piazzalunga
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Early Childcare, Child Cognitive Outcomes and Inequalities in the UK
The objective of this research is to explore the impact of early childcare on child cognitive outcomes. We utilize the Millennium Cohort Survey (MCS) for the United Kingdom, which provides very ...
(published in: H. Blossfeld et al (eds) Child Care and inequalities in an international perspective, Elgar 2017)
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J13, H75
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10286
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Julia
Bredtmann
Nina
Smith
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Inequalities in Educational Outcomes: How Important Is the Family?
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1117-1144)
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I21, I24, J13
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10283
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Damon
Clark
David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
Mark
Rush
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Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence from Field Experiments
Will college students who set goals for themselves work harder and perform better? In theory, setting goals can help time-inconsistent students to mitigate their self-control problem. In practice, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 648-663)
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I23, C93
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10280
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Katharina
Grabrucker
Michael
Grimm
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Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?
An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (2), 413-435.)
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D22, J24, J46, K40, L26, O12
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10279
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swaziland
This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No.12198)
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L53, O12, C61
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10275
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Michal
Burzynski
Benjamin
Elsner
Joël
Machado
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The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased Migration and Global Welfare
High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration – often called brain drain – has been at the center of a heated debate about the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102317 )
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F22, O15, J61
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10274
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Fabio
Mariani
Marion
Mercier
Thierry
Verdier
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Diasporas and Conflict
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18(4), 761 -793)
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F22, D74, O1
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10273
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Takatoshi
Tabuchi
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Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity
The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 1-13)
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F12, F22, R11, R12, R13
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10272
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Thu Hien
Dao
Frédéric
Docquier
Christopher
Parsons
Giovanni
Peri
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Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition
Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 23(2), 223-258)
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F22, O15
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10271
|
S
Anukriti
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Hiu
Tam
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, ...
(published as 'On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (651), 1 - 36)
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I15, J13, J16
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10270
|
Marta
Favara
Pablo
Lavado
Alan
Sanchez
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Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru
In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (4), 1217-1236 )
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J13, J14, J24
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10269
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Bastien
Chabé-Ferret
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Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions
I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing decisions of second generation migrant women to France and the US. Only the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 162, 24 - 48)
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J13, J15, Z10, Z12
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10268
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Jan
Kabátek
David
C.
Ribar
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Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks
Characteristics of couples on or about their wedding day and characteristics of weddings have been shown to predict marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 31 (4), 1067 - 1095)
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J1
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10267
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Christian
Bredemeier
Jan
Gravert
Falko
Juessen
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Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples
Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (4), 1215-1265)
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E24, J16, J22, E21
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10266
|
Nikolas
Mittag
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Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits
Recent validation studies show that survey misreporting is pervasive and biases common analyses. Addressing this problem is further complicated, because validation data are usually convenience ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 142-164)
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C15, C81, I32, I38
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10265
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Guillaume
Vuillemey
Etienne
Wasmer
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Frictional Unemployment with Stochastic Bubbles
Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic bubbles in the standard search-and matching model of the labor market. The ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020,122, 103352)
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E32, J60
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10264
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Andreas
Lichter
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Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an indication of reduced job search effort and moral hazard behavior. However, to date, ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104326 (joint with Amelie Schiprowski))
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D83, I38, J64, J68
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10263
|
Jochen
Kluve
Olga
Susana
Puerto
David
A.
Robalino
Jose
M.
Romero
Friederike
Rother
Jonathan
Stöterau
Felix
Weidenkaff
Marc
J.
Witte
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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
This study reviews the evidence on the impact of youth employment programs on labor market outcomes. The analysis looks at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence ...
(published as 'Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review' in: World Development, 2019, 114, 237 - 253)
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J21, J48, E24
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10262
|
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration
In most countries, the unemployed are entitled to unemployment benefits only if they have previously worked a minimum period of time. This institutional feature creates a sharp change at eligibility ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2021, 43 (5), 1016-1030)
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J65, J63, C55
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10261
|
Klaus
Wälde
Agnes
Moors
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Current Emotion Research in Economics
Positive and negative feelings were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While neoclassical utility theory ignored feelings, behavioral ...
(published in: Emotion Review, 2017, 9, 271-278 )
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A12, B0, D03
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