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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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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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9904
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Heather
Antecol
Kelly
Bedard
Jenna
Stearns
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Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies?
Many skilled professional occupations are characterized by an early period of intensive skill accumulation and career establishment. Examples include law firm associates, surgical residents, and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (9), 2420 - 2421)
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J13, J16, J24
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9903
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Janet
Currie
Hannes
Schwandt
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Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy at age 40 to 50. However, we show that among infants, children, and young ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 29-52)
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I14, I32, J11, J13
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9902
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Jacob
Lundberg
Daniel
Waldenström
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Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?
This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000–2012, linking wealth register data up to 2007 and individually capitalized wealth based on income and property tax ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541)
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D31, H2, N32
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9901
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Annamaria
Nese
Niall
O'Higgins
Patrizia
Sbriglia
Maurizio
Scudiero
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Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 107, 86–98)
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A13, D63, D23, C92, K42, Z13
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9900
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Lauren
E.
Jones
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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US Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?
This paper assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws. These laws progressively increased the mandatory age up to which children must be restrained in safety seats in cars. We use US ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017, 36 (3), 584–607)
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I18, K32, R41
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9898
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
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Recent Developments in the Experimental Elicitation of Time Preference
This methodological survey reviews recent developments in the design of experiments to elicit individuals' time preferences, with a focus on the measurement or control for potentially non-linear ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2016, 11, 1-8)
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C91, D03, D90
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9897
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Christian
Catalini
Christian
Fons-Rosen
Patrick
Gaule
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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?
We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest ...
(published as 'How Do Travel Costs Shape Collaboration?' in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (2), 3340-3360)
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O3, R4, L93
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9895
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Benedikt
Fecher
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Research Parasites Are Beneficial for the Organism as a Whole: Competition between Researchers Creates a Symbiotic Relationship
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which ...
(published as 'A research symbiont' in: Science, 2016, 351(6280), 1405–1406)
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B40, C80, Z11
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9893
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Peng
Nie
Anu
Rammohan
Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five: A Decompositional Analysis
This study uses two waves (2004–2005 and 2011–2012) of the nationally representative Indian Human Development Survey to conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and ...
(published as 'Changes in Child Nutrition in India: A Decomposition Approach' in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (10), 1815)
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I15, I31, C21
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9892
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Mehtabul
Azam
Vipul
Bhatt
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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (2), 505 - 522)
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I30, I32
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9891
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Miguel
Delgado Helleseter
Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
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Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that ...
(published as 'The Age Twist in Employers' Gender Requests: Evidence from Four Job Boards' in :Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 428-469)
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J16, J63, J71
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9889
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Rachel
B.
Rosen
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School Entry, Compulsory Schooling, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Michigan
Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16(4), 1-29)
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I20, I21, I28
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9888
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Charles
T.
Clotfelter
Steven
W.
Hemelt
Helen
F.
Ladd
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Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid and later added a suite of non-financial supports. We find little to no evidence ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 56(1), 278-303.)
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I21, I23, I24, J08
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9887
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Yu-Wei
Luke
Chu
Seth
Gershenson
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High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws. Previous research shows that these laws increase marijuana use among adults. In this paper, we estimate the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 142-153.)
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I18, K32, K42
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9886
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Katarina
Katz
Torun
Österberg
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Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure
In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 61 (6), 701 - 720)
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D64, I24, R23
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9884
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 698 - 711)
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N32, N52, N72, N92, Q40, Q48, Q53, Q56, I15, J24, J30, R11
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9883
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Anders
Frederiksen
Maja
Due
Kadenic
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Mining in Arctic and Non-Arctic Regions: A Socioeconomic Assessment
In this paper, we study how mines change local societies in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the Arctic region. Our study is based on register data at the municipality level from ...
(published as: 'Mining the North: Local Impacts' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101790)
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J2, J15, O12
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9882
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing
There is a small literature on the economic costs of terrorism. We consider the effects of the Boston marathon bombing on Americans' well-being and time allocation. We exploit data from the American ...
(heavily revised version, with Orla Doyle, published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 2065–2104)
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I31, J21, J22, F52
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9881
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Tommy
Bengtsson
Anton
Nilsson
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Smoking Behaviour and Early Retirement Due to Chronic Disability
This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry data from Sweden, we contribute to the literature by accounting for a much broader ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 31 - 41)
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I12, J26
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9880
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Sophie
Cetre
Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 445-473)
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D1, J13
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9879
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Melisa
Bubonya
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mark
Wooden
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Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 150-165)
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I12, J22, J24
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