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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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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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10026
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Raymond
Robertson
Drusilla
Brown
Rajeev
Dehejia
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Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia
A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants ...
(published in: Reivew of Development Economics, 2021, 15 (1), 228 - 254)
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J8, J5, J3
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10022
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Is Childcare Bad for the Mental Health of Grandparents? Evidence from SHARE
We estimate the causal effects of regular and occasional grandchild care on the depression of grandmothers and grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and ...
(published as 'Grandparents in the blues. The effect of childcare on grandparents' depression' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2017,190, 67-74)
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J13, I12
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10021
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Janneke
Pieters
Samantha
Rawlings
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Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 18(1), 207-237)
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I12, J13, J69, O15
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10020
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Aysit
Tansel
Deniz
Karao?lan
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Turkey
This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Education on Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey: Instrumental Varable Estimates from a Developing Country' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2019, 31 (5),1416-1448. )
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I10, I12, I19
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10019
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Yonas
Alem
Hannah
Behrendt
Michèle
Belot
Aniko
Biro
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Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment
Behavioural attitudes towards risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (11), e0258172)
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C81, C91, D81, I10, I12
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10018
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Does Social Health Insurance Reduce Financial Burden? Panel Data Evidence from India
Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. We evaluate the ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 1-17)
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I1, I18, I38
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10016
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Xi
Chen
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Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?
This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659)
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H55, I38, J14, J22
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10015
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Michael
Jetter
Sabine
Laudage
David
Stadelmann
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The Intimate Link between Income Levels and Life Expectancy: Global Evidence from 213 Years
Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2019, 100 (4), 1387 - 1403)
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I15, I31, J11, H51
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10014
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Umut
Oguzoglu
Cain
Polidano
Ha
Vu
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Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Governments are responding to fiscal pressures associated with aging populations by increasing the eligibility age for publicly-funded retirement benefits. However, recent studies show large ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (312), 65–86)
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H53, J26, J01
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10013
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Kadir
Atalay
Garry
F.
Barrett
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Pension Incentives and the Retirement Decisions of Couples
Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 735 - 767)
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D91, I38, J26
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10012
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Lester
Lusher
Vasil
Yasenov
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Gender Performance Gaps: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender Differences in Sleep Cycles
Sleep studies suggest that girls go to sleep earlier, are more active in the morning, and cope with sleep deprivation better than boys. We provide the first causal evidence on how gender differences ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry; 2018, 56 (1), 252 - 262)
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H52, I20, I21
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10009
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Angus
J.
Holford
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Youth Employment and Academic Performance: Production Functions and Policy Effects
We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our ...
(published in: Labout Economics, 2020, 63, 101806)
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C35, I21, J22, J24
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10008
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José Alberto
Molina
Alberto
Alcolea
Alfredo
Ferrer
David
Iñiguez
Alejandro
Rivero
Gonzalo
Ruiz
Alfonso
Tarancón
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Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among ...
(published as 'Network analysis to measure academic performance in Economics' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 995 - 1018)
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A11, C45, C63, D85, I23, Y91
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10007
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Christopher
Jepsen
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kyung-Seong
Jeon
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The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to Proprietary Schooling
This paper provides novel evidence on the labor-market returns to proprietary (also called for-profit) postsecondary school attendance. Specifically, we link administrative records on proprietary ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources)
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J24, I26
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10006
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Elias
Dinopoulos
Bulent
Unel
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Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality
The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions ...
(revised version published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2018, 100 (4), 345-362)
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D43, E24, G21, J31, J64, L11
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10005
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James
J.
Heckman
Chase
O.
Corbin
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Capabilities and Skills
This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development ...
(published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016, 17 (3), 342 - 359)
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D63, D04, D31, I31
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10004
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Huzeyfe
Torun
Semih
Tumen
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The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 16-35)
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C21, I21, I26, J21, J31
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