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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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9730
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Lant
Pritchett
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The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 153-164.)
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F22, J61, O11
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9729
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance
While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low-income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe ...
(published in: Economica ,2018, 85, 124–151)
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F22, H55, J24, J65
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9728
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Adriana
Kugler
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Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?
It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 136-148.)
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J61, J62, I12, I14
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9726
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Alpaslan
Akay
Amelie
F.
Constant
Corrado
Giulietti
Martin
Guzi
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Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being
This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 265-306 )
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C90, D63, J61
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9722
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Farzana
Afridi
Taryn
Dinkelman
Kanika
Mahajan
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Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades
Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades. We use parametric and semi-parametric decomposition techniques to show that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 783-818)
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J21, J22
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9720
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting
In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58, 141-158)
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J21, J22, J31, R12, R41
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9719
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Kory
Kroft
Kavan
Kucko
Etienne
Lehmann
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal, Economic Policy, 2020, 12 (1), 254-292.)
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H21, J22, J23
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9718
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Nicolas
Herault
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Roger
Wilkins
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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 301 - 326)
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D31, C81
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9717
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Felix
Koenig
Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical ...
(forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024)
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E24, J31, J64
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9716
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Christian
Dreger
Reinhold
Kosfeld
Yanqun
Zhang
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Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?
Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese ...
(published in: Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 2019, 31 (1-2), 44 - 59)
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J30, R23, C23
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9715
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Carl
Lin
Myeong-Su
Yun
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China
The minimum wage has been regarded as an important element of public policy for reducing poverty and inequality. Increasing the minimum wage is supposed to raise earnings for millions of low-wage ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212)
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J31, J38, O15, R23
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9714
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Juan
David
Robalino
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Smoking Peer Effects among Adolescents: Are Popular Teens More Influential?
In this paper I analyze adolescent peer effects on cigarette consumption while considering the 'popularity' of peers. The analysis is based on AddHealth data, a four wave panel survey representative ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2018, 13 (7), e0189360.)
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I1
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9713
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Almas
Heshmati
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The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China
Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China's ageing population as a ticking time bomb which paradoxically is both a ...
(published as 'The Social and Economics of Healthy Ageing in China' in: World Health Design, 2016, 64-70)
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H75, I15, I18, I38, P36
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9709
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Philip
Susser
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement ...
(short version published in: Health Services Research, 2016, 51 (6), 2305-2317)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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9708
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Ayako
Kondo
Masahiro
Shoji
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Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima
Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 113, 103195)
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J20, J64
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9707
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Nicholas
Bardsley
Milena
Buechs
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to ...
(revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.)
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C13, D04, D12, H23
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9706
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Hugo
Bodory
Lorenzo
Camponovo
Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
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The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators
This paper investigates the finite sample properties of a range of inference methods for propensity score-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (1), 183-200 )
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C21
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9705
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Dennis
J.
Snower
Steven
J.
Bosworth
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Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424)
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A13, D03, D62, D71, I31, O10
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9704
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Dietmar
Fehr
Matthias
Sutter
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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2019, 113, 448-460.)
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C72, C92
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9703
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Steven
J.
Bosworth
Tania
Singer
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94)
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A13, C72, D01, D03, D62, D64
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9702
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Zhixin
Dai
Fabio
Galeotti
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (3), 1081-1100.)
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B41, C91, C93, K42
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9701
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George
A.
Akerlof
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Bread and Bullets
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71)
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A12, A13, A14, D03, D04, D20, D23, D30, D62, D71, D72, D74, E02, E03
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9700
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Peter
Siminski
Isaac
D.
Swensen
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College Party Culture and Sexual Assault
This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law-enforcement agencies and an identification ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (1), 236–265)
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I23, K42
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9699
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Martin
Biewen
Madalina
Tapalaga
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Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts
We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and institutionalized branches of academic and vocational training but with the possibility to ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 80-94)
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I2, C5
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9698
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Seamus
McGuinness
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. ...
(published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127)
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J24, J31, J70, I26
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9697
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Anika
Jansen
Andries
de Grip
Ben
Kriechel
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The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships
Building on Lazear's skill weights approach, we study the effect of having more or less heterogeneity in the training curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 52-65)
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J24, I21
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9696
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Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Sally
Rogan
Peter
Siminski
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The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance: An Encouragement Design Experiment
While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the "gold standard" for impact evaluation, they face numerous practical barriers to implementation. In some circumstances, a randomized-encouragement ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 57-69)
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C93, I21, I23, I24
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9695
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Vikesh
Amin
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Daniel
J.
Parisian
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The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
We examine the effect of educational attainment on criminal behavior using random assignment into Job Corps (JC) – the United States' largest education and vocational training program for ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273)
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I2, K42
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9694
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Cain
Polidano
Domenico
Tabasso
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Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?
The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in the vocational education and training (VET) track, which in many countries ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 117-131.)
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I20, I23, J24
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9693
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Emin
Dinlersoz
Henry
R.
Hyatt
Hubert
P.
Janicki
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Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets
Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019, 34, 244-266)
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L26, J21, J22, J23, J24, J30, E21, E23, E24
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9692
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Stijn
Baert
Bas
van der Klaauw
Gijsbert
van Lomwel
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The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers
We investigate whether interventions by (i) medical doctors and (ii) occupational specialists are effective in reducing sick leave durations among self-employed workers. To this end, we exploit ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e139 - e152)
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C41, I13, J22, R31
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9691
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Roland
Iwan
Luttens
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Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 40, 37-42)
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J30, J41, J51
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9690
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?
Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (3), 749-773 )
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J28, M50, M54
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9689
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Something in the Air? Pollution, Allergens and Children's Cognitive Functioning
Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, Vol. 56, 141-151)
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I1, I2, Q53
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9686
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nicolás
Salamanca
Anna
Zhu
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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1315 - 1352)
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D13, I31, J13
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9684
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Julia
Tanndal
Daniel
Waldenström
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Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang
This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (338), 232-265)
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D31, G18, H24, J30, N20
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9683
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
Max
Löffler
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Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81,102305)
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J22, J31, D03
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9682
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Jeffrey
Grogger
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Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico
To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to as a "soda tax," effective January 2014. Since the tax took effect nationwide, ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99 (2), 481-498)
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H22, I10
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9681
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Luiz
de Mello
Simone
Schotte
Erwin
R.
Tiongson
Hernan
Winkler
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Greying the Budget: Ageing and Preferences over Public Policies
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 70-96)
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H3, H5, J14
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9680
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Mark
Borgschulte
Paco
Martorell
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Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 101-127)
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J30, J60, J65
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9679
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Abhishek
Chakravarty
Selim
Gulesci
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The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102413)
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I14, J16, O12
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9677
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Jan-Emmanuel
De Neve
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World
The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 246-257)
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D63, I3
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9675
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Rik
Dillingh
Peter
Kooreman
Jan
Potters
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Tattoos, Life Style and the Labor Market
Placing a tattoo is a choice with potentially significant and long-lasting social and economic consequences. In this study we look at the factors determining the decision to place a tattoo and ...
(published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (2), 191-214)
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J10, J20
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9674
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Armin
Falk
Anke
Becker
Thomas
Dohmen
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences – risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity – in a reliable, ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195)
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C81, C83, C90
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9673
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David
L.
Dickinson
Todd
McElroy
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Sleep Restriction and Time?of?Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and well-functioning societies. Neuroscience research has shown that high-level ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep restriction and circadian effects on social decisions' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 57 - 71)
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C7, C9
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9672
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the ...
(published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453 )
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A13, C43, F66, J15, J16, J21, J42, N30, Z12
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9671
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Murat
Iyigun
Jeanne
Lafortune
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Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose ...
(published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289)
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J12, J11, N32
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9670
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Eve
Caroli
Lexane
Weber-Baghdiguian
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Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first ...
(published in Social Science & Medicine, 153, 220-229, 2016)
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I12, I19, J16
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9669
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender ...
(published as 'The gender of opponents: Explaining gender differences in performance and risk-taking' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 238 - 256)
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D03, J10, J16
|
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9668
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Peter
Norlander
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population ...
(published as '21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States' in: Migration Letters, 2018, 15 (3), 410 - 422)
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J21, J61
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