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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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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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10050
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Martin
Biewen
Stefanie
Seifert
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Potential Parenthood and Career Progression of Men and Women: A Simultaneous Hazards Approach
We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of upward, downward and horizontal job changes with individual fertility. In contrast ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18, 1-22)
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J6, J7, M5
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10049
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Ira
N.
Gang
Kseniia
Gatskova
John
Landon-Lane
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951 )
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J60, D63, I32
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10048
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Subha
Mani
Prakarsh
Singh
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Searching for Religious Discrimination among Anganwadi Workers in India: An Experimental Investigation
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. ...
(published as 'Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 362 - 382 )
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C9, D3, I1, O1
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10047
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Intergenerational Mobility in Income and Economic Status in Ethiopia
Using data from two comprehensive national labour force surveys conducted in 2005 and 2013, this paper examines the extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia using monetary and non-monetary ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-economic Status in Ethiopia' in: Journal of International Development, 2018, 30 (8), 1392 - 1413)
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J62, D31
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10045
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Zhao
Chen
Tony
Fang
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Chinese Returnees and High-tech Sector Outward FDI: The Case of Changzhou
The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2016, 15 (3), 195-215)
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F21, M16, F23
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10044
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Yolanda
Fatima
Rebollo-Sanz
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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When the Going Gets Tough... Financial Incentives, Duration of Unemployment and Job-Match Quality
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the replacement rate (RR) from 60% to 50% after 180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 119-163)
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C41, J64
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10043
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Paul
Willman
Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
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UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action
This paper looks at the financial resources of trades unions in the UK, both updating previous work and attempting to understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. ...
(published as 'UK Unions, Collective Action and the Cost Disease' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (2), 447 - 470)
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J51
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10042
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth ...
(published as 'Management Practices and SME Performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558)
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L25, M12, M50, M53
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10041
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the ...
(published as: 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021, 50 (2), 515-534.)
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M12, M52
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10039
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George
Wehby
Dhaval
M.
Dave
Robert
Kaestner
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health
The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, ...
(published in. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (2), 411 - 443)
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I1, I3, J2, J3
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10038
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Christian
Grund
Maike
Rubin
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Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction
We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350)
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M52, J28, J31
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10037
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Xi
Chen
Tianyu
Wang
Susan
Busch
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Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China
We estimate the impact of pension enrollment on mental well-being using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest existing pension program. Since its launch in 2009, more than 400 million ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 411-420.)
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H55, I18, I38, J14
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10036
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David
Hummels
Jakob
R.
Munch
Chong
Xiang
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No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness
Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
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I1, F1, J2, F6
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10035
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Grace
Weishi
Gu
Samreen
Malik
Dario
Pozzoli
Vera
Rocha
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Trade Induced Skill Upgrading: Lessons from the Danish and Portuguese Experiences
We study how the skill distribution for an economy responds to changes in the skill premium induced by trade integration. Using administrative data for Denmark (1993- 2012) and Portugal (1993-2011), ...
(revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 241 - 259)
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F16, J24
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10032
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Kelvin
Seah
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Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement
Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51C, 152-169)
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I21, J15, J61
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10031
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Sekou
Keita
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The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants
The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (11), 1822-1834)
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F22, J31, J38, J61, O15
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10030
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
Almudena
Sevilla
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Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States
Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 158, 63-78.)
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I38, J15, K37
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10029
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesco
Fasani
Biagio
Speciale
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Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households
We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (3), 654 - 691)
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F22, D12, K42
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10028
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Xin
Zhang
Xiaobo
Zhang
Xi
Chen
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Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2017, 137, 29 - 36 )
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Q51, Q53, I31
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10027
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Tom
Chang
Joshua
Graff Zivin
Tal
Gross
Matthew
Neidell
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The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 151-172)
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J22, J24, Q51, Q53
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