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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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10192
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Massimo
Anelli
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The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2824 - 2868)
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I21, I22, I23, I28, J24, J31
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10189
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Vittorio
Pelligra
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Daniel
John
Zizzo
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Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests
We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to ...
(revised version published as 'Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 287-311)
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C91, D01, D03, D63
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10188
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Johannes
Abeler
Daniele
Nosenzo
Collin
Raymond
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Preferences for Truth-Telling
Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material ...
(published in: Econometrics, 2019, 87 (4), 1115–1153)
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D03, D82, H26, I13, J31
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10187
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Julio
Elias
Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and ...
(revised version published as 'Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (8), 2855 - 2888)
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C91, D01, D63, D64, I11
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10186
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Tiziano
Arduini
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Residential Choices of Young Americans
Using detailed data on a cohort of young Americans who were in their late twenties and early thirties in 2008, we investigate the importance of forces different from economic incentives in ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 34, 69 - 81 )
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A14, C21, D85, R21, Z13
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10185
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Susan
L.
Averett
Julie
K.
Smith
Yang
Wang
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (16), 1127 - 1130)
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I10, I18, J15, J16
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10183
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Benjamin
Artz
Amanda
H.
Goodall
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Do Women Ask?
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (4), 611 - 636)
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J31, J71
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10182
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Matthew
D.
Webb
Casey
Warman
Arthur
Sweetman
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Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment
Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18-24. Using a ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 415–430.)
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J23, J65, J68
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10181
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François
Maniquet
Dirk
Neumann
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Well-Being, Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the U.S.
In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microecoomics, 2021, 13 (2), 276 - 310)
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D63, H21, I32
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10180
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Mette
Foged
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Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials
A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 87-100 )
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F22, D19, J16, J61
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10179
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Alexander
Bick
Bettina
Brüggemann
Nicola
Fuchs-Schündeln
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economic, 2019, 121 (4), 1381 - 1516)
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E24, J21, J22
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10178
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Aysit
Tansel
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
Emre
Aksoy
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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Added and Discouraged Workers in Canada' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (7), 929-936. )
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E24, J64, J21
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10177
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193)
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J64, C41, C33
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10176
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Niaz
Asadullah
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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2017, 41(2): 515-544.)
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O12, Z1
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10174
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Jakub
Cerveny
Jan
C.
van Ours
Martin
A.
van Tuijl
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Effects of a Red Card on Goal-Scoring in World Cup Football Matches
We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 55 (2), 883-903.)
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Z29
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10173
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Clara
Welteke
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.)
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C31, J22, D04
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10171
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John
Ifcher
Homa
Zarghamee
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The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75 ,55 - 65)
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A2, D6, C9, C7, A1
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10169
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Nekeisha
Spencer
Solomon
Polachek
Eric
Strobl
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How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective
This study examines whether hurricanes have any impact on performance in standardized examinations. The analysis uses a panel of thirteen Caribbean countries and over 800 schools for the period 1993 ...
(published in: Natural Hazards, 2016, 84(2), 1437-1462.)
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I2, Q54
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10167
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Ernest
Boffy-Ramirez
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The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561)
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I2, I22, J1, J18, J24
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10165
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Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
Seth
Gershenson
Kyungmin
Kang
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Teacher Expectations Matter
We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies both the distribution of biases in teacher expectations and the impact of those ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(2): 234-251.)
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I2, D84, J15
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10164
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David
E.
Bloom
Elizabeth
Mitgang
Benjamin
Osher
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Demography of Global Aging
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the ...
(published in: Jean-Pierre Michel (ed.), Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2017, 3 - 10)
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J10, J11, J14
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10163
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David
E.
Bloom
Dara
Lee
Luca
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The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future
Population ageing is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are causing elder ...
(published in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020 )
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J11, J14, N30
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10160
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R?ta
Ubarevi?ien?
Maarten
van Ham
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Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges ...
(published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2017, 4 (1), 57 - 79)
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R23, O15, J11, P20
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10159
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Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (15), 1-24)
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J15, J16, J24, J31, J7
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10158
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Bernard
Fortin
Safa
Ragued
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Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada
Data from the Youth in Transition Survey reveal that almost 40% of Canadian youth who left post-secondary education in 1999 had returned two years later. This paper investigates the extent to which ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 108 - 122)
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C21, C26, C31, I21, I23, I26
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10156
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Daniel
Lederman
Raymond
Robertson
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Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico
Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (1), 47 - 73)
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F66, J31
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10153
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Katharina
Dyballa
Kornelius
Kraft
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How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (1), 60 - 90)
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J52, L20, G32, M12, C33
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10152
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Bo
Hu
Makoto
Watanabe
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Marketmaking Middlemen
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2023, 54 (1), 83 - 103)
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D4, G2, L1, L8, R1
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10151
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Anchoring in Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field
This paper analyzes 12,596 wagering decisions of 6,064 contestants in the US game show Jeopardy!, focusing on the anchoring phenomenon in financial decision-making. We find that contestants anchor ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141: 164-176)
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D03, D81, D83, G11
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10150
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Jane
Arnold
Lincove
Kalena
E.
Cortes
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Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41(1), 98-123)
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I21, I23, J15
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10149
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Alena
Bicakova
Klara
Kaliskova
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Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a ...
(revised version published as '(Un)intended effects of parental leave policies: Evidence from the Czech Republic' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101747 )
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J13, J18, J22
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10148
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Esra
Kose
Elira
Kuka
Na'ama
Shenhav
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Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's ...
(published as 'Women's Suffrage and Children's Education' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (3), 374 - 405)
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I21, N32
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10147
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David
N.
Figlio
Paola
Giuliano
Umut
Özek
Paola
Sapienza
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309)
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I20, I24, J15, Z1
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10146
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Kristiina
Kamenik
Tiit
Tammaru
Maarten
van Ham
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EthniCity of Leisure: A Domains Approach to Ethnic Integration During Free Time Activities
This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the residential neighbourhood, workplaces, leisure, ...
(published in: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2019, 110 (3), 289 - 302)
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J15, R23
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10145
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Francisca
M.
Antman
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Can Authorization Reduce Poverty among Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program
We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The identification strategy makes use of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147:1-4)
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J15, I32
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10144
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Francisca
M.
Antman
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Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Temporary Authorization: Evidence from DACA
This paper explores the labor market and schooling effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which provides work authorization to eligible immigrants along with a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1): 339-73)
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J15, J61, J2, J3
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10142
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Eric
Fesselmeyer
Haoming
Liu
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How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore
We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 71, 45 - 61)
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H4, R21, R42, H23
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10138
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Seamus
McGuinness
Adele
Whelan
Adele
Bergin
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Is There a Role for Higher Education Institutions in Improving the Quality of First Employment?
This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16(4), 12-23)
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J24, J31
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10137
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Govert
Bijwaard
Mikko
Myrskylä
Per
Tynelius
Finn
Rasmussen
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Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach
Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2019, 73, 217-232)
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C41, C32, I14, I24
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10135
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Reilee
L.
Berger
John
V.
Winters
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Does Private Schooling Increase Adult Earnings? Cohort-Level Evidence for U.S. States
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census ...
(published in: Review of Regional Studies, 2016, 46 (3), 281-294)
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I20, J24, R50
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10134
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality
This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132)
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I10, I12, J15, J16, Z13
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10133
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Alex
Armand
Orazio
Attanasio
Pedro
Carneiro
Valerie
Lechene
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1875 - 1897)
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D12, D13, E21, O12
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10132
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Seeun
Jung
Chung
Choe
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis
In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 112-121)
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J16, J24, J31, C91, D81
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10131
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Abdou
Musonera
Almas
Heshmati
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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017)
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D63, D91, I15, I25, J12
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10130
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
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The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 229–242.)
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J12, J16, N34, P23
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10129
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Grace
Lordan
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 110 - 130)
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J16, J4
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10128
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132, 218 - 257)
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D72, D70, J16, H50, M50
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10127
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Xiuna
Yang
Gang
Shuge
Dai
Jianzhong
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Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises
The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41 (3), 456 - 469)
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D64, H84, L26
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10126
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Adrian
Adermon
Mikael
Lindahl
Daniel
Waldenström
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations
This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F482-F513)
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D31, J62
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10125
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Guillermina
Jasso
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(In)Equality and (In)Justice
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a ...
(published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217)
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C02, C65, D31, D6, I3
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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