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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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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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9960
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Pedro
Carneiro
Jishnu
Das
Hugo
Reis
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The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan
Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1301 - 1318)
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I20, I21
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9959
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Anica
Kramer
Marcus
Tamm
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Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90)
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I21, I24, I26, J24
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9958
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Rania
Gihleb
Osnat
Lifshitz
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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022, 46, 302-327)
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J22, J12, J24, J31
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9957
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James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
Gregory
Veramendi
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Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, (S1), S197–S246)
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C32, C38, I12, I14, I21
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9956
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Jimmy
R.
Ellis
Seth
Gershenson
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LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success
Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to ...
(published as 'Gender, peer advising, and college success' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101775)
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I21, I23, I28
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9955
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Stephen
Machin
Sandra
McNally
Martina
Viarengo
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"Teaching to Teach" Literacy
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10, 217-41 )
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I21, I28
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9954
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Rodrigo
Fernandez
Herwig
Immervoll
Daniele
Pacifico
Céline
Thévenot
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Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to ...
(also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Paper)
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C38, J08, H31, J21, J22, J68, J82
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9953
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Etienne
Lalé
Nawid
Siassi
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From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State
This paper analyses the optimal design of a single open-ended contract (SOEC) and studies the political economy of moving towards such a SOEC in a labour market where employment protection is highly ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 547-585.)
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H29, J33, J65
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9952
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Atanu
Ghoshray
Javier
Ordóñez
Hector
Sala
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Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events experienced by the European economies at an institutional level: the creation of the ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 58, 442-453.)
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J64, O52, J08, F66
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9951
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Daniel
Haanwinckel
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
We develop a search model of informal labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, intra-firm bargaining with imperfect substitutability across types of workers, and a comprehensive set of labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (6), 2970-3010)
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J24, J31, J46, J64, O17
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9950
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Xiaoming
Cai
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473)
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C78, D44, D83
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9949
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Guoqian
Xi
Jörn
Block
Frank
Lasch
Frank
Robert
Roy
Thurik
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Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up
Our paper investigates how the type of work experience gained from prior paid employment influences the path to entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: ...
(published as 'Work experience from paid employment and entry mode to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up' in: Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2018, 17 (2), 91-112)
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L26
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9947
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S. Nageeb
Ali
Roland
Benabou
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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to ...
(published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164)
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D62, D64, D82, H41, K42, Z13
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9945
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Guillaume
Daudin
Raphaël
Franck
Hillel
Rapoport
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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information ...
(published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692)
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J13, N33, O15
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9944
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Vibeke
Jakobsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before ...
(published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262)
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F22, H55, I32, J14
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9942
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Deepti
Goel
Kevin
Lang
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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 72 (2), 355-381)
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J3
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9941
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Froilan
T.
Malit Jr.
George
S
Naufal
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Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries
This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed under the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ...
(published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90)
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D82, F22, G14, N35, N45
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9938
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Miguel
Lafuente
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Resampling and Bootstrap to Assess the Relevance of Variables: A New Algorithmic Approach with Applications to Entrepreneurship Data
In this paper, we propose an algorithmic approach based on resampling and bootstrap techniques to measuring the importance of a variable, or a set of variables, in econometric models. This ...
(published as 'Resampling and bootstrap algorithms to asses the relevance of variables: applications to cross-section entrepreneurship data' in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 233-267)
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C21, C52
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9937
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Davide
Castellani
Mariacristina
Piva
Torben
Schubert
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to ...
(published as 'R&D and Productivity in the US and the EU: Sectoral Specificities and Differences in the Crisis', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, 138, 279-291.)
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O33, O51, O52
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9936
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Peter
Dolton
Chiara
Rosazza Bondibene
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Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms
Radical changes have been implemented to pension schemes across the UK public sector from April 2015. This paper simulates how these changes will affect the lifetime pension and how the negotiated ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2016, 237, 38-46)
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J32, H55, J45
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9935
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Kusum
Mundra
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Single and Investing: Homeownership Trends among the Never Married
In recent years, singles have begun to take on a more prominent role in reshaping America. As a group, singles are increasingly becoming influential in politics and in the determination of many macro ...
(published in: Housing Studies, 2019, 34 (1), 162-187)
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J10, J11, D10
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9931
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Daniela
Piazzalunga
Maria
Laura
Di Tommaso
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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 171–193)
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J31, J71, J16, J45
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9930
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Abhishek
Chakravarty
Dilip
Mookherjee
Francisco
J.
Pino
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Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237)
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I14, I24, J71, O15
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9929
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Miles
Corak
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Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison
To understand the degree of intergenerational mobility in the United States, and the differences between Americans and others, it is important to appreciate the workings and interaction of three ...
(published in: Robert Rycroft (editor). The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 )
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J62, J68
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9928
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Martin
Halla
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105201)
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J12, D13, J13, J24
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9927
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Cheti
Nicoletti
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply
The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first ...
(published in: American Economics Journal: Applied Economics; 2018, 10 (3), 206 - 234)
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D85, C21, C26
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9926
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Edgar
Silva Quintero
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How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia
In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent ...
(published as 'On the relationship between violent conflict and wages in Colombia' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (4), 473-489)
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J15, J31, R23
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9925
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Salvatore
Di Falco
Brice
Magdalou
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
Marc
Willinger
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Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and ...
(revised version published as 'Embezzlement: Does transparency of information matter?' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2020, 7 (2), 103-143)
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C91, D83
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9924
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Farzana
Afridi
Bidisha
Barooah
Rohini
Somanathan
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The Mixture as Before? Student Responses to the Changing Content of School Meals in India
We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India's school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from ...
(published as 'Designing Effective Transfers: Lessons from India's School Meal Program' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (1), 45-61)
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D1, E31, F01
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9920
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Tyler
Ransom
John
V.
Winters
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Do Foreigners Crowd Natives out of STEM Degrees and Occupations? Evidence from the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990
This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (2), 321–351)
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J24, J61
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9918
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Silke
Anger
Daniel D.
Schnitzlein
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Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 591-620)
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J24, J62
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9917
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Silvia
Mendolia
Peter
Siminski
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Does Family Background Affect Earnings through Education? A Generalised Approach to Mediation Analysis
We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end, we propose a generalisation of statistical 'mediation analysis'. In our ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 59, 1-12)
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I24, C49, J62
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9916
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Luke
Chicoine
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Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia
Increasing enrollment in primary education has been at the center of international education policy for well over a decade. In developing parts of the world, significant increases in primary ...
(published as 'Schooling with Learning: The Effect of Free Primary Education and Mother Tongue Instruction Reforms in Ethiopia' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 94-107)
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I25, I28, O55
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9915
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Monique
de Haan
Edwin
Leuven
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Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2020, 38 (3), 727–765)
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H52, I21, J13, J24, J31
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9914
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
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Minimum Wages and Firm Value
How does the value of a firm change in response to a minimum wage hike? The evidence we have to date is not well-suited to answer this question, principally because events that have been studied are ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36, 159-95)
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J23, L25
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9913
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Daniel
Baumgarten
Michael
Kvasnicka
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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession
We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 29-44)
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E32, J23, L23, J68
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9911
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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Information, Financial Aid and Training Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 138-148)
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I22, D83, H52
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9910
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Barbara
Broadway
Guyonne
Kalb
Jinhu
Li
Anthony
Scott
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Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After-Hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model
This paper analyses doctors' supply of after-hours care, and how it is affected by personal and family circumstances as well as the earnings structure. We use detailed survey data from a large sample ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e52-e66 )
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I11, J22, J44, J21
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9909
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Stephen
Bazen
Xavier
Joutard
Brice
Magdalou
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An Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Models
The widely used Oaxaca decomposition applies to linear models. Extending it to commonly used nonlinear models such as duration models is not straightforward. This paper shows that the original ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Social Measurement, 2017, 42 (2), 101-121)
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C10, C18, C21
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9908
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Pedro
Carneiro
Sokbae
Lee
Daniel
Wilhelm
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Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials
In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator can be improved either by collecting data on additional individuals, or by collecting additional covariates that ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2020, 23 (1), 1 - 31)
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C55, C81
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9907
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Petri
Böckerman
John
Cawley
Jutta
Viinikainen
Terho
Lehtimäki
Suvi
Rovio
Ilkka
Seppälä
Jaakko
Pehkonen
Olli
Raitakari
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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2019, 28 (1), 65-77)
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I10, J23, J31
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9906
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Vincenzo
Galasso
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Persuasion and Gender: Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral ...
(published online in: Public Choice, 5 August 2024)
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D72, J16, M37
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9905
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Martin
Halla
Harald
Mayr
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
Pilar
Garcia-Gomez
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Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply
The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102325)
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I12, J13, J11, J22, J21
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