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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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9835
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Irene
Mosca
Robert
E.
Wright
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Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence
A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to ...
(published as 'Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1317- 1341)
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J14, J26
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9834
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Gianluca
Mazzarella
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Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 215 - 227)
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H55, I12, J26
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9833
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Zemzem
Shigute
Anagaw Derseh
Mebratie
Robert
Sparrow
Zelalem
Yilma
Getnet
Alemu
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia
Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, to deal with the consequences of ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 176, 133-141)
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J65, J48, I13
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9831
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Thanh Tam
Nguyen
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The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Labor Market Outcomes
A number of recent studies have found that medical marijuana laws (MMLs) are associated with increased marijuana use among adults, in part due to spillover effects into the recreational market. This ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 361–396)
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J31, J38, I18
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9830
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D. Mark
Anderson
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings
Despite intense public interest in keeping guns out of schools, next to nothing is known about the effects of gun control policies on youth gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 489-524)
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K4, I2, H7
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9829
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Kurt
Wang
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Resul
Cesur
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Sleepwalking through School: New Evidence on Sleep and Academic Performance
Policymakers advocating for later school starting times argue that increased sleep duration may generate important schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35 (2), 331 - 344)
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I12
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9828
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David
de la Croix
Matthias
Doepke
Joel
Mokyr
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70)
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E02, J24, N10, N30, O33, O43
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9827
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Robert
A.
Hart
Mirko
Moro
J. Elizabeth
Roberts
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Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?
This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733)
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I21, I24, I28
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9826
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Nick
Drydakis
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The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain
Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 192 - 208)
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I23, I26
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9825
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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The Market for Paid Sick Leave
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 244-261)
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H55, I11, I18
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9823
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance
Job displacement in the U.S. is a serious threat to the earnings of long-tenured workers, through both (i) unemployment spells and (ii) reduced reemployment wages. Although full insurance requires ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380)
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J65, J41, J33, J08
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9822
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Karina
Doorley
Nico
Pestel
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Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations
This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863)
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D31, J22, L26
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9821
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Helmuth
Cremer
Pierre
Pestieau
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Taxing Pensions
There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and John Piggott (eds.), The Taxation of Pensions, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2018.)
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H21, H55
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9820
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Friedrich
Schneider
Andreas
Buehn
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Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions
This paper presents various methods for estimating the size of the shadow economy and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ...
(published as 'Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions' in: Open Economics, 2018, 1, 1-29)
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D78, E26, H2, H11, H26, K42, O5, O17
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9819
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Arjeta
Aliaj
Xavier
Flawinne
Alain
Jousten
Sergio
Perelman
Lin
Shi
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Old?Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends: Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries
For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Studies 2016, 5, 16 (2016))
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J08, J21, J26
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9818
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Steffen
Otterbach
Mark
Wooden
Yin
King
Fok
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Working-Time Mismatch and Mental Health
Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental ...
(revised version published as 'Working-time regulation, long hours working, overemployment and mental health' in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2021, 32 (22), 4659 - 4686 )
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I12, J22
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9816
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Britta
Kohlbrecher
Christian
Merkl
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Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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9815
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Robert
Dixon
Guay
C.
Lim
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Revisiting Okun's Relationship
Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the relationship the effect of labour market institutions as well as age and gender effects. ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (28), 2749-2765)
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J64
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9812
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality
Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration rates as well as community correctional populations have increased greatly since ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 103 - 126)
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D3, D63, I3
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9811
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Karen
Maguire
John
V.
Winters
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Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being
The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. ...
(published in: Growth and Change, 2017, 48 (4), 590-610)
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I10, Q40
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9810
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Mircea
Trandafir
Reyn
van Ewijk
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Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns
We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. ...
(revised version published as 'Low-risk isn't no-risk: Perinatal treatments and the health of low-income newborns' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 64, 55-67. )
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I11, I12, I18, J13
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9809
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Grant
Miller
Christine
Valente
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Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53(4), 979–1009)
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J13, N35
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9808
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Pushkar
Maitra
Sarmistha
Pal
Anurag
Sharma
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Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present paper examines the causal effect of gender in private school choice. We argue that ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 105–125)
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C21, I25, O10
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9806
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Steffen
Müller
Renate
Neubäumer
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Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (5), 658-673)
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D21, L10, L25, L26, L29, M13
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9805
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Jutta
Viinikainen
Guido
Heineck
Petri
Böckerman
Mirka
Hintsanen
Olli
Raitakari
Jaakko
Pehkonen
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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, 9-12)
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L26
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9804
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'
In recent years, in Italy, a larger number of students have chosen to attend vocational hospitality and catering schools. This paper investigates the extent to which this increase may have been ...
(revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53)
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I21, J44, C23
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9803
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabian
Kindermann
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Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (9), 3264 - 3306)
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J13
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9801
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Barbara
Broadway
Guyonne
Kalb
Duncan
McVicar
Bill
Martin
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The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes
The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2020, 26( 3), 30-65.)
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J13, J18, J22
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9800
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Yuxin
Yao
Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Educational Consequences of Language Proficiency for Young Children
This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 1-15)
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J24, I2
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9799
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Ben
Ost
Weixiang
Pan
Douglas
A.
Webber
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The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies
We estimate the returns to college using administrative data on college enrollment matched to administrative data on weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 779-805)
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I21, I23, I26
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9798
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Govert
Bijwaard
Andrew
M.
Jones
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Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?
Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This association between mortality and education may partly be explained by ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175)
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C41, I14, I24
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9797
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Maria Alejandra
Cattaneo
Chantal
Oggenfuss
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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The More, the Better? The Impact of Instructional Time on Student Performance
Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25(5), 433-445)
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C21, I21, I25
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9796
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Maria
Caridad Araujo
Pedro
Carneiro
Yyannu
Cruz Aguayo
Norbert
Schady
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Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten
We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (3), 1415 - 1453)
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I24, I25
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9795
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Silvia
Mendolia
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Ian
Walker
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Heterogeneous Effects of High School Peers on Educational Outcomes
We investigate the relationship between peers' abilities and educational outcomes at the end of high school using data from the rich Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) matched to ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 613 - 634 )
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I20, J24
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9794
|
Michele
Tuccio
Jackline
Wahba
Bachir
Hamdouch
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International Migration: Driver of Political and Social Change?
This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and ...
(published as 'International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1171 - 120)
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D72, F22, O15, O55
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9792
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Pedro
Carneiro
Sokbae
Lee
Hugo
Reis
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Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101778)
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J15, N32
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9791
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Does Bilingualism among the Native Born Pay?
This paper uses the pooled data from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey to analyze the economic benefits of bilingualism to adult men born in the United States. Bilingualism among the native ...
(published as 'Do native-born bilinguals in the US earn more?' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 563 -583)
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J24, J31, F22
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9790
|
Andreas
Steinmayr
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Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria
This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state ...
(published as 'Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far-Right' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (2), 310–327)
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D72, J15, K37, P16
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9789
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Claudio
Montenegro
Lant
Pritchett
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Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (2), 201–213.)
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F22, J61, J71, O15
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9788
|
Dany
Bahar
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations
Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F273-305)
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F14, F22, F62, O33, D83
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9786
|
Jonneke
Bolhaar
Nadine
Ketel
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(1), 92-125)
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C21, C93, I38, J64, J08
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9785
|
Manudeep
Bhuller
Christian
Brinch
Sebastian
Königs
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Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt
Dynamic discrete-choice models are an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. A common assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.)
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I38, J60, J64, C23, C41
|
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9784
|
María
Laura
Alzúa
Guillermo
Cruces
Carolina
Lopez
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Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina
We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (4), 1839 - 1859)
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J08, J24, J68, O15
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9783
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Matija
Vodopivec
Suzana
Laporsek
Milan
Vodopivec
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Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform
We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and fixed-term contracts more restrictive. Using matched employer-employee database ...
(published in: Economic and Business Review, 2019, 21(1).)
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J62, J63, J68
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9782
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Petyo
Bonev
Enno
Mammen
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Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation
We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard rates and conditional survival probabilities, without model structure. We derive ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.)
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C14, C41, J64, J65
|
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9780
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Dhaval
M.
Dave
Hope
Corman
Nancy
E.
Reichman
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (3), 1430-1451)
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H0, I2, J2, J3
|
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9779
|
Ingvild
Almås
Alex
Armand
Orazio
Attanasio
Pedro
Carneiro
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Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F609 - F639)
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D13, O12, J16
|
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9776
|
Henry
R.
Hyatt
James
R.
Spletzer
|
The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution
There has been a shift in the U.S. job tenure distribution toward longer-duration jobs since 2000. This change is apparent both in the tenure supplements to the Current Population Survey and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 363-377)
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J10, J21, J31
|
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9775
|
Daniel
Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne
Lalé
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How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?
We use a set of empirical and analytical tools to conduct parallel analyses of involuntary part-time work and unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (1), 183-205.)
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E21, E32, J21
|
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9774
|
Osea
Giuntella
Wei
Han
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
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Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from an Unsleeping Giant
This paper analyzes the effects of sleep duration on cognitive skills and depression symptoms of older workers in China. Cognitive skills and mental health have been associated with sleep duration ...
(published in: Demography, 2017 54 (5), 1715–1742)
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I12
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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