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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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10118
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Jacobus
Cilliers
Ibrahim
Kasirye
Clare
Leaver
Pieter
Serneels
Andrew
Zeitlin
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Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools
Public sector organizations often rely on reports by local monitors that are costly to verify and that serve twin objectives: to incentivize agent performance, and to provide information for planning ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90)
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D61, H52, I25, I26
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10116
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Semih
Tumen
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Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy
This paper develops a model of sequential job search to understand the factors determining the effect of tax and enforcement policies on the size (i.e., employment share) of the informal sector. The ...
(published in: Central Bank Review, 2016, 16(3), 109-117)
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E26, J24, J38, J64
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10115
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Resul
Cesur
Erdal
Tekin
Aydogan
Ulker
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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108)
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I10, I15, I18, O10, O13, Q42, Q48, Q53
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10114
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Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
Jan
Stuhler
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Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (1), 435–483)
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J21, J22, J61, R23
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10113
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Jan
David
Bakker
Christopher
Parsons
Ferdinand
Rauch
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Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (2), 509 - 532)
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R12, R23, N97, O18
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10112
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Christopher
Parsons
Pierre-Louis
Vézina
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Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F210 - F234)
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F14, F22
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10111
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Bastien
Chabé-Ferret
Joël
Machado
Jackline
Wahba
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Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behavior in ...
(published as 'Remigration Intentions and Migrants' Behavior' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68, 56-72.)
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F22, F24, D14
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10110
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
Steven
Stillman
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The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115)
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O12, F22, D13, D81, P1
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10109
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Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration and Globalization: What's in it for Developing Countries?
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1209-1226)
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F21, F22, F63, J61, O11, O15
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10108
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Jeffrey
A.
Smith
Arthur
Sweetman
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Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs
Estimation, inference and interpretation of the causal effects of programs and policies have all advanced dramatically over the past 25 years. We highlight three particularly important intellectual ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49 (3), 871–905.)
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C18, C21, C26, C50, C90
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10106
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Silvia
Avram
Mike
Brewer
Andrea
Salvatori
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Can't Work or Won't Work: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Work Search Requirements for Single Parents
Increasing the labour market participation of single parents, whether to boost incomes or reduce welfare spending, is a major policy objectives in a number of countries. This paper presents causal ...
(published: in Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 63 - 85)
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H53, I38, J64
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10105
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Matthias
Sutter
Jürgen
Huber
Michael
Kirchler
Matthias
Stefan
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Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 30-52)
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C92, D03, D62
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10103
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John
H.
Pencavel
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Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their working hours and days each week, and their working hours and days in adjacent weeks. ...
(published in: Economica, 2016, 83 (322), 545-563)
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J24, J22, N34
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10102
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Workplace Disability: Whose Wellbeing Does It Affect?
The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data from WESR2011. The results obtained indicate workplaces with respondents with ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1467–148)
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J14, J82, J7, I31
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10101
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Tine Louise
Mundbjerg
Eriksen
Annie
Hogh
Åse Marie
Hansen
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Long-term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence
Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being exposed to bullying in the workplace increases long-term sickness absence. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 129 - 150)
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J15, J24, J81
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10098
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Karolina
Goraus-Tanska
Piotr
Lewandowski
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Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe
Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2019, 158(2), 297-336)
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J08, J31, J38
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10094
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Julie
Christensen
Darius
Onul
Prakarsh
Singh
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Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor
We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2018, 44, 18-29)
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J1, F2, O1
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10091
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Seth
Gershenson
Michael
S.
Hayes
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Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri
We document externalities of the civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Difference-in-differences and synthetic control method estimates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (3), 663-685.)
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I2, R00
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10090
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Kirill
Borissov
Stefano
Bosi
Thai
Ha-Huy
Leonor
Modesto
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Inequality and Growth: The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's ...
(published as 'Heterogeneous human capital, inequality and growth: The role of patience and skills' in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 (4), 399-419)
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J24, O15, O40
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10089
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Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality
This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish ...
(revised version published as 'Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 131 (636), 1515 -1554)
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D31, J62
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10087
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Happy Hosts? International Tourist Arrivals and Residents' Subjective Well-being in Europe
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of life, little is known about how residents' well-being is affected by actual ...
(published in: Journal of Travel Research, 2017, 56 (5), 599-612)
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L83, Z3
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10086
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Rajshri
Jayaraman
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School Feeding and Learning Achievement: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program
We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 319, 249 - 265)
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I21, I25, O12
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10085
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Prakarsh
Singh
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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 911 - 931)
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D62, D83, I15, I18, I38
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10084
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Prakarsh
Singh
Sandip
Mitra
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Performance Pay and Malnutrition
We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child ...
(published as 'Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 93, 24-46.)
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M52, I12, I38, J38
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10083
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Prakarsh
Singh
William
A.
Masters
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Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231)
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O1, I1, M5
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10082
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Kasey
Buckles
Melanie
Guldi
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Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health
Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017, 36 (4), 748 - 772)
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J13, I18
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10080
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Ayako
Kondo
Keiji
Saito
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Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle
Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over the life cycle. The decrease in total hours worked and the increase in time ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 190 (3), 1435-1454.)
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J22, J24, J44
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10079
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Thomas
Breda
Melina
Hillion
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Teaching Accreditation Exams Reveal Grading Biases Favor Women in Male-Dominated Disciplines in France
Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. We show that this is ...
(published in: Science Magazine, 2016, 353 (6298), 474 - 478)
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I23, J16
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10078
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Ben
Ost
Weixiang
Pan
Douglas
A.
Webber
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The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students
Analyzing how working students weather personal economic shocks is increasingly important as the fraction of college students working substantial hours has increased dramatically over the past few ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 1-12)
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I21, I23, J63
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10077
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Pierre-Guillaume
Meon
Ilan
Tojerow
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In God We Learn? Religions' Universal Messages, Context-Specific Effects, and Minority Status
We study the relationship between major religious denominations and individuals' levels of education, using the World Values Survey. In a first step, running country-by-country regressions, we report ...
(published as "The minority ethic: Rethinking religious denominations, minority status, and educational achievement across the globe" in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 47(1), 196-214 )
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I2, O5, Z1
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10076
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Léopold
Simar
Le
Wang
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The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency
We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using nonparametric kernel methods, we find that most traditional schooling inputs are irrelevant ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(12), 1164-1184)
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C14, C44, I21
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10075
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Dajun
Lin
Randall
Lutter
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 121 - 135)
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J23, J24, J31, J38
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10074
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D. Mark
Anderson
Ryan
Brown
Kerwin
Kofi
Charles
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality
Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details ...
(published as ' Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 4337-4383.)
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J08, I18
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10073
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Sai
Ding
Xiao-Yuan
Dong
Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
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How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?
In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We ...
(published online in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (2), 77 - 99)
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J14, J15, J16, J26, D13, O53
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10072
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Damian
Clarke
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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The Demand for Season of Birth
We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, 707-72)
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I10, J01, J13
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10071
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D. Mark
Anderson
Sina
Sandholt
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Booster Seats and Traffic Fatalities among Children
In an effort to increase booster seat use among children, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is encouraging state legislators to promote stricter booster seat laws, yet there is a ...
(published as 'Are Booster Seats More Effective than Child Safety Seats or Seat Belts at Reducing Traffic Fatalities among Children?' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 5 (1), 42-64 )
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I12, I18
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10070
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Effrosyni
Adamopoulou
Ezgi
Kaya
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Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the ...
(published in: The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 689-713)
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D10, J12, J60, Z13
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10069
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Jordan
Glatt
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Help Not Wanted: The Dismal Science of Youth Unemployment's Scarring Effect
The scarring effect is defined as an increase in the probability of future unemployment spells and the reduction of subsequent wages as the result of joblessness early in one's working years. Many ...
(published in: iBusiness, 2018, 10, 51-84 )
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J24, J31, J64, I21
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10068
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Michèle
Belot
Philipp
Kircher
Paul
Muller
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Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice
We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that redesigns the job search process by providing tailored advice at low cost. We invited job seekers to our computer facilities for 12 ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (4), 1411-1447)
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D83, J62, C93
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10066
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Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector
Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (339), 407 - 427)
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E24, J20, J44
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10065
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Kelvin
Seah
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The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled
This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116)
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I21, J15
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10063
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Asadul
Islam
Steven
Stillman
Christopher
Worswick
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Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?
The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine ...
(published in. Applied Economics, 2018, 50, 5302 - 5315)
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J65, I31, J15
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10062
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Francisca
M.
Antman
Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans
Numerous studies find that U.S.-born Hispanics differ significantly from non-Hispanic whites on important measures of human capital, including health. Nevertheless, almost all studies rely on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 467-471)
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J15, J12, I14
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10061
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Etienne
Lalé
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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers
This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 735-784.)
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E24, J21, J64
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10060
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Mercedes
Ayuso
Jorge Miguel
Bravo
Robert
Holzmann
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On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes
Heterogeneity in longevity between socioeconomic groups is increasingly documented for developed economies and is reviewed in the paper. Heterogeneity in life expectancy disaggregated by main ...
(published in: Global Journal of Human Social Sciences-Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 33-58)
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D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
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10059
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David
M.
Blau
Ryan
Goodstein
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Commitment in the Household: Evidence from the Effect of Inheritances on the Labor Supply of Older Married Couples
We study the effect of receiving an inheritance on the labor force participation (LFP) of both the recipient and the recipient's spouse in a population of older married couples. An inheritance is not ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 123 - 137)
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J22, J26
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10057
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Xavier
de Luna
Philip
Fowler
Per
Johansson
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Proxy Variables and Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects
Proxy variables are often used in linear regression models with the aim of removing potential confounding bias. In this paper we formalise proxy variables within the potential outcome framework, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 150, 152–154)
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C14
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10056
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Christian
Dustmann
Anna
Raute
Uta
Schönberg
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From Late to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions
This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 47-60.)
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C26, I26
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10053
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Maria
Laura
Di Tommaso
Silvia
Mendolia
Dalit
Contini
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data
Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 32-42.)
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J16, I24, C31
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10051
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Giuseppe Lucio
Gaeta
Giuseppe
Lubrano Lavadera
Francesco
Pastore
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Much Ado About Nothing? The Wage Effect of Holding a Ph.D. Degree But Not a Ph.D. Job Position
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph.D. holders. We analyze data collected in 2009 by the Italian National Institute of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 243-277)
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C26, I23, I26, J13, J24, J28
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