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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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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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9876
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes
Unions make differences to employee satisfaction that correspond to their effects on individual economic advantage. Panel data reveal how changes in economic circumstance and changes in job ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (4), 360-378)
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J28, J51
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9875
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Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
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The Unanimity Rule and Extremely Asymmetric Committees
This paper analyzes how to allocate experts into committees that use the unanimity rule to make decisions. We show that an optimal allocation of experts is extremely asymmetric. To reach the optimal ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics 2016, 64, 107-112)
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D71
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9874
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Matthew
Roskruge
Jacques
Poot
Laura
King
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Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. ...
(published in: H Westlund and JP Larsson (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2016)
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F22, J15, L26, Z13
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9872
|
Ritwik
Banerjee
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On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 491-510)
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C91, C92, D03
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9871
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Luis
Artavia-Mora
Arjun
S.
Bedi
Matthias
Rieger
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Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field
We test whether humans are intuitively inclined to cooperate with or punish strangers using a natural field experiment. We exogenously vary the time available to help a stranger in an everyday ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 133-145)
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D03, D63, D64
|
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9870
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Pamela
Jakiela
Owen
Ozier
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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (3), 547 - 599)
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C91, C93, D01, D74, D81
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9868
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Johannes
F.
Schmieder
Simon
Trenkle
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Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers
A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096)
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J65
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9867
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Stefan
Pichler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 611-659)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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