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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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10260
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Marta
Favara
Alan
Sanchez
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Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru
We use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6:3)
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I12, K42
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10259
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David
J.
Bjerk
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In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance: An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution
This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 47 (4), 791-824.)
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H2, D3
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10258
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Urs
Fischbacher
Maik
T.
Schneider
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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key ...
(published as 'Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 2468-2496)
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C92, D71, D83
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10257
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties
We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 112, 74-90.)
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J33, J24, D82, D86, L14, C93
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10256
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Subha
Mani
Sophie
Mitra
Usha
Sambamoorthi
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Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using ...
(published in World Development, 2018, 104: 297-309.)
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I12, J32, J24
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10254
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Maya
Rossin-Slater
Miriam
Wüst
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What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention
We study the impact of targeted high quality preschool over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (3), 255-86.)
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I38, I14, J13
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10253
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Chris
Ryan
Anna
Zhu
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Sibling Health, Schooling and Longer-Term Developmental Outcomes
We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled ...
(published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yerokhin (eds.), Critial Perspectives on Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022)
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J13, I21
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10252
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Stan
Vermeulen
Inge
de Wolf
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Teacher Literacy and Numeracy Skills: International Evidence from PIAAC and ALL
Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164 (4), 365-389)
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I2, J2, J45
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10250
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Maria
A.
Davia
Seamus
McGuinness
Philip
J.
O'Connell
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Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe
This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 67-80)
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C29, I21, J24
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10249
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Guido
Schwerdt
Simon
Wiederhold
Ludger
Woessmann
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Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19)
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J31, I20, O15
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10246
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Alain
Jousten
Mathieu
Lefčbvre
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Spousal and Survivor Benefits in Option Value Models of Retirement: An Application to Belgium
We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model ŕ la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological extensions to better reflect the respective incentives faced by singles and ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 2019, 18 (1), 66 - 87)
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H55, J21, J26
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10245
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Barry
Hirsch
John
V.
Winters
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Rotation Group Bias in Measures of Multiple Job Holding
Reported multiple job holding rates in the U.S. are found to be substantially higher among workers in their first month in the CPS sample (the first rotation group), with rates declining in ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147, 160-163.)
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J21
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10243
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Hayley
Fisher
Anna
Zhu
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The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering
This paper examines how a reduction in the financial resources available to lone parents affects repartnering. We exploit an Australian natural experiment that reduced the financial resources ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (623), 2833 - 2866)
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J12, J18, H53
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10242
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Khushboo
Surana
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Marital Matching, Economies of Scale and Intrahousehold Allocations
We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 823 - 837)
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D11, D12, D13, J12
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10240
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Mario
Bossler
Alexander
Mosthaf
Thorsten
Schank
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More Female Manager Hires through More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany
This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of ...
(published as 'Are Female Managers More Likely to Hire More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany' in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (3), 676-704)
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C23, J16, J71, M12
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10237
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants: An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2017, 14 (2), 370-396)
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K40
|
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10236
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Briggs
Depew
Isaac
D.
Swensen
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The Decision to Carry: The Effect of Crime on Concealed-Carry Applications
Despite contentious debate on the role of concealed-carry legislation in the U.S., little is known about individual decisions to legally carry concealed handguns in public. Using data on ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 4 April 2018)
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K42, I18
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10235
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Francesco
Fasani
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Immigrant Crime and Legal Status: Evidence from Repeated Amnesty Programs
Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting both cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 887–914)
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F22, J61, K37
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10234
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesco
Fasani
Tommaso
Frattini
Luigi
Minale
Uta
Schönberg
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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2017, 32 (91), 497–550)
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F22, J15, J61
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