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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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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
Lefèbvre
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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 à 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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10233
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Kusum
Mundra
Fernando
Rios-Avila
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Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession
Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration ...
(published in: Empirical Economics 61, 2021, 389 – 415)
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J61, J64, D10
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10232
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Isabel
Palomares-Linares
Maarten
van Ham
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Understanding the Effects of Homeownership and Regional Unemployment Levels on Migration during the Economic Crisis in Spain
The Spanish labour market is characterised by high levels of unemployment, which have increased during the global economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2020, 54, 515 - 526)
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J21, J61, J64
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10231
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Leo
Feler
Mine
Zeynep
Senses
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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 101 - 143)
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F14, F16, H41, H70, R12, R23
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10230
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Xiuna
Yang
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Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities
This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, ...
(published in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, 2017, 22 (3), 525-546 )
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J15, J31, J71, P23
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10229
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
Van der Velde
Jan
Svejnar
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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality: Insights from Studies on Transition
From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (3), 712-732)
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D21, D24, D92, G21
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10228
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Luke
Chicoine
Juan
Carlos
Guzman
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Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda
This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to ...
(published in: World Development, 2017, 99, 419-430.)
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I15, J13, O22
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10227
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Xavier
Gine
Monica
Martinez-Bravo
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Are Labor Supply Decisions Consistent with Neoclassical Preferences? Evidence from Indian Boat Owners
This paper studies the labor supply of South Indian boat owners using daily labor participation decisions of 249 boat owners during seven years. We test the standard neoclassical model of labor ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2017, 142, 331-347)
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J22, J31
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10226
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Elena
Nikolova
Milena
Nikolova
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Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia
We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 49, 108 - 122 )
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D02, N31, N41, P16
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10223
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Katharine
G.
Abraham
John
C.
Haltiwanger
L. Kristin
Sandusky
James
R.
Spletzer
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The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (2), 266 - 299)
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J64
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10221
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Bart
Cockx
Eva
Van Belle
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Waiting Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth: No Point?
In Belgium school-leavers are entitled to unemployment benefits after a waiting period and eligible to intensified counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 658-687 )
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J64, J65, J68
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10218
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Paul
Anand
Laurence
Roope
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The Development and Happiness of Very Young Children
The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 47, 825 - 851)
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D60, I31, J13
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10217
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that ...
(pubished in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (3), 600-627)
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C93, J15, J71
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