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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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16386
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Peng
Nie
Qiaoge
Li
Lanlin
Ding
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Academic Achievement in Urban China
Rising housing prices in China have placed significant financial strain on many households, pushing them into the quagmire of housing unaffordability. Such economic pressures may have repercussions ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 21 August 2024)
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I20, I31, R20
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16384
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Pedro
Carneiro
Yyannu
Cruz Aguayo
Francesca
Salvati
Norbert
Schady
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The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador
We study the impact of classroom rank on children's learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-663)
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I20
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16381
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Wolfgang
Keller
Hale
Utar
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International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103810.)
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F14, F16, F66, J23, J24, J62
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16375
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
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School Starting Age and the Impact on School Admission
This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the characteristics of students' initial enrolled schools. Employing minimum age requirements ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 225–251)
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A21, I24, I25, I28
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16373
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Kailing
Shen
Yanran
Zhu
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Labor Force Transition Dynamics: Unemployment Rate or Job Posting Counts?
Job posting counts (JPCs) are increasingly being used as indicators of employment dynamics, but they have not received sufficient research attention to establish their value as a metric of these ...
(published in: B. Elsner and S. W. Polachek (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 52 A), 2024, 1-33)
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J64, J23, J63
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16371
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Ihsaan
Bassier
Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Vacancy Duration and Wages
We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration ...
(fortcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025)
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J42, J63, J64
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16370
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Frederik
H.
Bennhoff
Jorge
Luis
García
Duncan
Ermini
Leaf
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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest ...
(published in: Human Capital, 2024, 18 (1), 44-73.)
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J13, I28, C93, H43
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16369
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Abel
Brodeur
Scott
E.
Carrell
David
N.
Figlio
Lester
Lusher
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Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias
We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial submissions display significant bunching, suggesting the distribution among ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2974-3002)
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A11, C13, C40
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16368
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Frederik
Almar
Bastian
Schulz
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Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 234, 11497)
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C43, D10, J11, J12
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16364
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Hani
Mansour
Pamela
Medina
Andrea
Velasquez
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When Women's Work Disappears: Marriage and Fertility Decisions in Peru
This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import ...
(published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2023, 14 (2), 385-412.)
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J16, J12, J13, J23
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16361
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Mehrzad
B.
Baktash
Uwe
Jirjahn
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Are Managers More Machiavellian than Other Employees?
Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review)
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D23, D90, J24, M12, M51
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16359
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David
Escamilla-Guerrero
Edward
Kosack
Zachary
Ward
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The Impact of Violence during the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States
The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics - magnitude, timing, and persistence - of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 176, 103515.)
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F22, N31, N32, N36
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16357
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Abdulmohsen
Almuhaisen
Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Delia
Furtado
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Immigration Enforcement and the Institutionalization of Elderly Americans
This paper examines the relationship between immigration enforcement and institutionalization rates of the elderly. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the Secure Communities (SC) immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economoics, 2024, 94, 102859)
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J14, J61, J68
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16356
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L. Rachel
Ngai
Orhun
Sevinc
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A Multisector Perspective on Wage Stagnation
Low-skill workers are concentrated in sectors experiencing fast productivity growth, yet their real wages have stagnated and lagged behind aggregate productivity. We provide evidence demonstrating ...
(this version: July 2024)
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E24, J23, J31
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16355
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Using micro-data on six surveys – the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347)
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I31
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16354
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Vincent
Boucher
Michelle
Rendall
Philip
Ushchev
Yves
Zenou
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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2024, 92 (2), 543-565)
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C31, D04, D85, Z13
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16353
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Yumi
Koh
Jing
Li
Yifan
Wu
Junjian
Yi
Hanzhe
Zhang
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Young Women in Cities
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use ...
(published as 'Young women in cities:published as 'Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103378)
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O15, J12
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16351
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Steven
J.
Davis
Pawel
M.
Krolikowski
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Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin
We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage stickiness on the layoff margin. Most UI recipients express a willingness to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2025, 115 (2), 491 - 524)
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E24, J63, J65
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16349
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Maria
Balgova
Hannah
Illing
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Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to ...
(updated version available as DP 17496)
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J62, J63, J64
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16348
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Andrew
Foster
Merve
Betül
Gökçe
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees
The experience of war and refugee status can alter intra-family dynamics and therefore have implications for family formation, including marriage. This study investigates marriage patterns among ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454)
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J12, J15
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16339
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Stefan
Leopold
Jens
Ruhose
Simon
Wiederhold
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas Model Unable to Predict International Migrant Selection on Education? Evidence from Urban and Rural Mexico
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed ...
(published in: World Economy, 2025, 48 (2), 300 - 322)
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F22, O15, J61, J24
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16338
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David
L.
Dickinson
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Dark versus Light Personality Types and Moral Choice
Dark personality traits have been linked to behaviors commonly understood as unethical, such as fraud, bribe-taking, and marital infidelity. Presumably, more "light" personality traits may be ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 178, 105092)
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C91, D91, D63
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16332
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Chi
Shen
Sha
Lai
Qiwei
Deng
Dan
Cao
Dantong
Zhao
Yaxin
Zhao
Zhongliang
Zhou
Wanyue
Dong
Xi
Chen
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on ...
(published in: Health & Social Care in the Community, 2023, 6131486 )
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I11, I14, I18, R53
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16331
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Yen-Chien
Chen
Elliott
Fan
Yu-Hsin
Ho
Matthew Yi-Hsiu
Lee
Jin-Tan
Liu
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How Does Gender Quota Shape Gender Attitudes?
Starting in 2002, each electoral district in Taiwan is required to reserve one seat for women out of every four seats at the local councils, creating a 'zigzag' function of female councilors ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103451.)
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J16, J13, I23, D10
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16330
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Brian
Callaci
Matthew
Gibson
Sergio
Pinto
Marshall
Steinbaum
Matt
Walsh
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The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 through early 2020. ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 25 November 2024)
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J42, K21, L40, J31
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16327
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Ignacio
Belloc
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Effects of Lottery Wins on Household Labor Supply
This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual ...
(forthcoming in: Manchester School, 2025)
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D13, D31, J22
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16322
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Zhiming
Cheng
Liwen
Guo
Massimiliano
Tani
Sarah
Cook
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Air Pollution and Education Investment
Our study focuses on exploring the impact of air pollution on household investment in children's education in China. Air pollution poses a significant risk to some cities in northern China. We have ...
(published in: Energy Economics 2024, 132, 107496, )
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Q53, I20, D10
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16319
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Liwen
Guo
Zhiming
Cheng
Massimiliano
Tani
Sarah
Cook
Jiaqi
Zhao
Xi
Chen
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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship
We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2025, 89, 102327)
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J24, L26, Q53
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16318
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Dmitriy
Sergeyev
Chen
Lian
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
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The Economics of Financial Stress
We study the psychological costs of financial constraints and their economic consequences. Using a representative survey of U.S. households, we document the prevalence of financial stress in U.S. ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 15 November 2024)
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E7, G5
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16313
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Jacob
Nielsen
Arendt
Christian
Dustmann
Hyejin
Ku
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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-318)
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J22, J24, J61
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16311
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Stijn
Baert
Jolien
Herregods
Philippe
Sterkens
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What Does Job Applicants' Body Art Signal to Employers?
In this study, we present a state-of-the-art scenario experiment which, for the first time in the literature, directly measures the stigma surrounding job candidates with tattoos and piercings using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 217, 742 - 755)
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C91, J24, J71
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16306
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David
L.
Dickinson
Parker
Reid
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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment
Little is known about how gamblers estimate probabilities from multiple information sources. This paper reports on a preregistered study that administered an incentivized Bayesian choice task to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2025, 98, 95- 152 )
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C91, D91, D83
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16304
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Veronica
Frisancho
Alejandro
Herrera
Silvia
Prina
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Can a Mobile-App-Based Behavioral Intervention Teach Financial Skills to Youth? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Diaries Study
We study the impact of a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention on youth's financial literacy and financial behavior. To maximize the chances to reach out-of-school youth, we provided access to a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 595- 614)
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C93, D90, G41, G53, O12, O16
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16303
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Margherita
Comola
Silvia
Prina
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The Interplay among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper studies how formal financial access affects network-based financial arrangements. We use a field experiment that granted access to a savings account to a random subset of households in 19 ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649), 516 - 535)
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C93, D14, G21, O16, O17
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16302
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Catalina
Herrera-Almanza
Fernanda
Marquez-Padilla
Silvia
Prina
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C-Sections, Obesity, and Health-Care Specialization: Evidence from Mexico
This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (1), 139 - 160)
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I11, I18, J13, D22
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16301
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Niklas
Elert
Magnus
Henrekson
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The Profit Motive in the Classroom - Friend or Foe?
Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity ...
(published in: Journal of School Choice, 2024, 19 (1), 163–186)
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H42, H44, H75, I22, I28, L88, O31
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16300
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Mette
Gřrtz
Miriam
Gensowski
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The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 97, 102911)
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I14, I12, I24, I31
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16299
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Mindy
Marks
Silvia
Prina
Redina
Tahaj
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Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Timing of Transfer Payments: Evidence from the SNAP Program
We study the effect of the timing of SNAP payments on weekly labor supply using data from the CPS. We rely on exogenous variation in the fielding of CPS interviews relative to benefit receipt to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646)
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J22, I38
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16298
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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The Political Economy of Assisted Immigration: Australia 1860-1913
From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a variety of assisted passages. The colonies/states shared a common culture and sought ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 92, 101565)
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F22, N37, N47
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16296
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Tijan
L.
Bah
Catia
Batista
Flore
Gubert
David
McKenzie
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Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?
Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 165, 103153.)
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O15, F22, J61
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16293
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Margarita
Leib
Nils
Köbis
Rainer
Michael
Rilke
Marloes
Hagens
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty
Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (658), 766 - 784)
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C91, D90, D91
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16291
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Matthias
Blum
Erik
Hornung
Christoph
Koenig
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The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893–1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2025, 96, 101648.)
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D72, I18, N34, H51
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16289
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Quinn
Keefer
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL
We make two main contributions to the literature on work-related injury risk and economic outcomes in the context of American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67(2), 107-136)
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D81, J31, J81, Z21, Z22, C23
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16287
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David
S.
Jacks
Krishna
Pendakur
Hitoshi
Shigeoka
Anthony
Wray
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Later-Life Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105192)
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H73, I18, J18, N32
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16283
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David
B.
Huffman
Collin
Raymond
Julia
Shvets
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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175)
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D82, D83, J33, L25, L81, M52, M54
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16281
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2025, 78 (2), 452 - 473)
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F22, O33, N73
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16280
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Aline
Bütikofer
Rita
Ginja
Krzysztof
Karbownik
Fanny
Landaud
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(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S108-S151)
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I14, I18, J12, J62
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16279
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Pro-environment Attitudes and Worker Commuting Behavior
The private vehicle is, for most developed countries, the prevalent commuting mode of workers, and one of the main source of CO2 emissions. The choice of the mode of transport for commuting trips ...
(published in: Economiy Analysis and Policy, 2025, 86, 1967-1986)
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A13, Q52, R41
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16277
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Mark
Drozd
Robert
A.
Moffitt
Xinyu
Zhao
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323)
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J16, J22, J24, J64
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16274
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Time on the Crossing: Emigrant Voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913
I provide a new series of the average duration of emigrant voyages from Liverpool to New York from 1853 to 1913. Time on the crossing fell by 80 percent, from about 40 days to just eight, most of ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2024, 28 (1), 120–133 )
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F22, O33, N73
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