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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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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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10003
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Kaisa
Kotakorpi
Panu
Poutvaara
Marko
Terviö
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2017, 33 (3), 413–442)
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D72, J45
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10002
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Pieter
Serneels
Kathleen
Beegle
Andrew
Dillon
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Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?
Returns to education remain an important parameter of interest in economic analysis. A large literature estimates returns to education in the labor market, often carefully addressing issues such as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 5-17)
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J24, J31, C83
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10001
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Ludger
Woessmann
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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31)
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I21, H52, L38, J24, D02
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10000
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Rasmus
Landersø
James
J.
Heckman
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The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (1), 178 - 230)
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I32, I28, I24, P51
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9999
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Corrado
Giulietti
Enrico
Rettore
Sara
Tonini
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The Chips Are Down: The Influence of Family on Children's Trust Formation
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 211 - 233)
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J62, P16, Z1
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9998
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Wojtek
Przepiorka
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Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness
People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171)
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C92, H41
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9997
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Michal
Bauer
Christopher
J.
Blattman
Julie
Chytilová
Joseph
Henrich
Edward
Miguel
Tamar
Mitts
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74)
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C80, D74, H56, O10, O12, O40
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9995
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Miriam
Bruhn
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Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico
The rise in unemployment during an economic crisis poses a significant concern to policy makers. This paper measures the effect of a program in Mexico that granted firms in certain industries wage ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (8), 1558 - 1577)
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J23, H32, L60
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9992
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ali
M.
Kutan
Sudipa
Majumdar
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How Successful Are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2018, 24 (12), 1047 - 1062)
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E52, G21, G28, G32, O16
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9991
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Samuele
Poy
Simone
Schüller
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Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy
This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure ...
(revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861 )
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D72, L82, L86
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9990
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Michal
Kolesár
Christoph
Rothe
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Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable
We consider inference in regression discontinuity designs when the running variable only takes a moderate number of distinct values. In particular, we study the common practice of using confidence ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (8), 2277 - 2304)
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C13, C14, C21, C25
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9988
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Nikos
Askitas
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Big Data Is a Big Deal But How Much Data Do We Need?
The more conservative among us believe that "Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out" and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others – especially those who dispassionately note that ...
(published in: AStA Wirtschafts - und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 2016, 10, 113 - 125)
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C55
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9986
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Abel
Brodeur
Kerry
Nield
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Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?
In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber rides in NYC from April to September 2014 and January to June 2015, we show that ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Taxi, Lyft and Uber Rides: Evidence from Weather Shocks in NYC' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 152, 1-16)
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D01, D03, L92, J22
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9984
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks
In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits a remarkable persistence. We examine one particular source of persistence, ...
(revised version published as 'The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship - The Role of Peer Effects' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 356-373)
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L26, M13, J16
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9983
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Giacomo
De Giorgi
Anders
Frederiksen
Luigi
Pistaferri
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Consumption Network Effects
In this paper we study the relevance and mechanics of consumption network effects. We use long panel data on the entire Danish population to construct a measure of consumption based on administrative ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (1), 130-163)
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E21, D12, D85
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9982
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
Kirsten
Thommes
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Group (Re-)formation in Public Good Games: The Tale of the Bad Apple
We analyze how different previous roles as partners or strangers in public good games affect an individual's subsequent cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition ...
(published in: Journal of Ecconomic Behavior & Organization 145 (2018), 306-319.)
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C9, M5
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9981
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Eric
Cardella
Briggs
Depew
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Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task
The "ratchet effect" refers to a phenomenon where workers whose compensation is based on productivity strategically restrict their output, relative to their capability, because they rationally ...
(published as 'Output restriction and the ratchet effect: Evidence from a real-effort work task' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 107, 182 - 202)
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J30, J40, D70, D01, C92
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9980
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Stijn
Baert
Simon
Amez
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa ...
(revised version published in: Plos One, 2018, 13 (3), e0194255)
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L83, J44, Z00
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9979
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Tommaso
Frattini
Francesco
Scervini
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Grandparental Availability for Child Care and Maternal Employment: Pension Reform Evidence from Italy
In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have ...
(revised version published as "Grandparental availability for child care and maternal labor force participation: Pension reform evidence from Italy" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(4), 1239–1277)
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J13, J22
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9978
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Seth
Gershenson
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Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?
Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers' control. Teachers often feel ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2016, ID No. 21629.)
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I2
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9977
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Marco
Francesconi
James
J.
Heckman
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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction
This paper introduces the EJ Symposium on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the papers in the Symposium in the context of a vibrant literature.
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27)
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H43, I21, I24, J13, J24
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9976
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Can
Tang
Liqiu
Zhao
Zhong
Zhao
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Child Labor in China
We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 51, 149-166)
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J43, J81, O15
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9975
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Christopher
Taber
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market
In this paper we develop a model capturing key features of the Roy model, a search model, compensating differentials, and human capital accumulation on-the-job. We establish which features of the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (3), 1031 - 1069)
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J31, J32, J24
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9974
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Shantanu
Khanna
Deepti
Goel
René
Morissette
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Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012
We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18))
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J30, J31, O53
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9973
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Devashish
Mitra
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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also ...
(revised version published as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 209 -224)
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F11, F13, F16, F66, O19, O24
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9972
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Gary
S.
Fields
Ravi
Kanbur
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Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies
This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self-employment, heterogeneity in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 119 - 144)
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O17, I32
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9971
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Robert
Grundke
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous ...
(published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464)
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J47, J43, F16, O13, Q12
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9970
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Faly
Rakotomanana
François
Roubaud
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Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar
Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries. While most of the papers on this topic are ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 1–17)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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9969
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
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Aging, Retirement and Pay-As-You-Go Pensions
In this paper we consider the effects of population aging on a pay-as-you-go financed defined contributions pension scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22, 1173-1183)
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J13, H55
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9968
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Guido
Schwerdt
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157)
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H11, D83, D72, H52, I22, P16
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9967
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Tomer
Blumkin
Leif
Danziger
Eran
Yashiv
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Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution
This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. We consider a simple search ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59)
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J64, J65
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9966
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Werner
Eichhorst
Regina
Konle-Seidl
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Evaluating Labour Market Policy
Labour market institutions are deemed to have a great influence on the level and structure of employment. This holds for regulation on employment protection, minimum wages or tax/benefit systems as ...
(published in: Bent Greve (ed.), Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation, 2017, Chapter 18)
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J08, J65, J68
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9965
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Claire
A.
Boeing-Reicher
Vincenzo
Caponi
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Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas
Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2024, 54, 101232)
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E32, E63, J21
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9963
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John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
Anitha
George
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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (4), 415-433 )
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J51, J53, J83
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9962
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Ronald
Bachmann
Hanna
Frings
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Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (51), 5268-5286 )
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J42, J31, J38
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9961
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content
Using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for 21 countries, I study the impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (3), 569-638)
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J31, J42
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