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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Henry
R.
Hyatt
James
R.
Spletzer
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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
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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
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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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9773
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Osea
Giuntella
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
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If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight
Most economic models consider sleeping as a pre-determined and homogeneous constraint on individuals' time allocation neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics,2019, 65: 210-226)
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I12, J22, C31
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9772
|
Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.)
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I10, I13, I11, I18, C26
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9770
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Alex
Bryson
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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces: Where are They and Who Controls Them?
This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (5-6), 547-566)
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J81
|
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9766
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Nicolas
Houy
Jean-Philippe
Nicolaï
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence
Achieving an ambitious goal frequently requires succeeding in a sequence of intermediary tasks, some being critical for the final outcome, and others not. Individuals are not always able to provide a ...
(revised version published as 'Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 249-286)
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C72, C92, D81
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9765
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Subha
Mani
Smriti
Sharma
Saurabh
Singhal
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Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field
Field constraints often necessitate choosing an elicitation task that is intuitive, easy to explain, and simple to implement. Given that subject behavior often differs dramatically across tasks when ...
(published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46)
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C91, C81, D81
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9764
|
Guilherme
Hirata
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination
According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, Article 102519)
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J31, J71, J78, F66
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9763
|
Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
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Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 146, 95 - 98)
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J15, J71, D64
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9762
|
Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora
In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153)
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D85, D74, J61, L14
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9756
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Margherita
Fort
Andrea
Ichino
Giulio
Zanella
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girls
Exploiting admission thresholds in a Regression Discontinuity Design, we study the causal effects of daycare at age 0–2 on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at age 8–14. One additional month in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(1), 158-205)
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J13, I20, I28, H75
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9755
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Zoë
Kuehn
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Education Policies and Migration across European Countries
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (6), 2181-2200)
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J61, I20, F22
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9754
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Julien
Champagne
Andre
Kurmann
Jay
Stewart
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Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series
According to data from the Labor Productivity and Costs (LPC) program, average hourly real compensation in the United States has grown consistently over time and become markedly more volatile since ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 27-41)
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E01, E24, E30, J30
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9753
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Andrea
Garnero
Alexander
Hijzen
Sébastien
Martin
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More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries
This paper provides comprehensive cross-country evidence on the relationship between earnings inequality and intra-generational mobility by simulating individual earnings and employment trajectories ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 26-35)
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E24, J30, J62, O57
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9752
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Matti
Sarvimäki
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The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway over the 20th Century
This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(1): 5–33)
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I24, J08
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9749
|
Niaz
Asadullah
Jinnat
Ara
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Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program: Evidence Using Household Panel Data
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 58 (2), 107-120)
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O12, I30, D50
|
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9748
|
David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 205-240)
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F16, H55, J23, J31, J63
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9747
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Xin
Meng
Dandan
Zhang
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China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
This paper uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 790–820,)
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O12, J12
|
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9746
|
Fei
Wang
Liqiu
Zhao
Zhong
Zhao
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China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences
China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 31-68 )
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J13, J11, J21, J61
|
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9745
|
Shihe
Fu
Yu
Liao
Junfu
Zhang
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The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China
This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69)
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J21, J22, R20, R30
|
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9744
|
Thomas
Gries
Stefan
Jungblut
Wim
Naudé
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The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve
We propose that the rate of creation and failure of start-up firms can be modelled as a search and matching process, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model ...
(published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12 (2), 151-165)
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L26, M13, O10, O14
|
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9743
|
Nora
Stel
Wim
Naudé
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Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a ...
(published in: Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions, Oxford University Press, 2016, 591–612 )
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D74, O19, L26, N40, M14
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