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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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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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9667
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Ali
Fakih
May
Ibrahim
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries: Empirical Evidence from Jordan
This paper analyzes time-sensitive data on a humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. It aims to assess the impact of the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2016, 27 (1), 64-86)
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J61, H56, N45
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9666
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Alessandra
Casarico
Giovanni
Facchini
Tommaso
Frattini
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What Drives the Legalization of Immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
We develop a model to understand the trade-offs faced by an elected representative in supporting an amnesty when a restrictive immigration policy is in place. We show that an amnesty is more ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 70, 258-27)
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F22, O51
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9665
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Markus
Hahn
Matthew
Hall
Nicole
Watson
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Australia Farewell: Predictors of Emigration in the 2000s
The factors leading individuals to immigrate to developed nations are widely studied, but comparatively less is known about those who emigrate from them. In this paper, we use data from a nationally ...
(revided version published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35(2), 197-215.)
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J1, J6
|
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9664
|
Osea
Giuntella
Luca
Stella
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The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation
It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (4), 511-518)
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J15, I10
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9663
|
Maarten
van Ham
Tiit
Tammaru
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New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation over Time and Space: A Domains Approach
The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (7), 953-962)
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I32, J15, R23
|
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9662
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Tsunao
Okumura
Emiko
Usui
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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites
This paper investigates, theoretically and empirically, differences between blacks and whites in the U.S. concerning the intergenerational transmission of occupational skills and the effects on sons' ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, Special Issue on Inequality: Causes and Consequences, 2016, 43)
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J62, J24, J15
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9661
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Timothy
M.
Diette
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2)
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I20, I21, J15, J24
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9659
|
Claudia
Olivetti
Barbara
Petrongolo
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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries
Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 405-434.)
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E24, J16, J31
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9658
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Maria
De Paola
Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia
We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to associate and full professor positions that is organized in two stages: first, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 3: 475-503.)
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J71, M51, J45, J16, D72, D78
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9656
|
Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55(3), 789-865)
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J16, J24, J31, J71
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9654
|
Dieter
Verhaest
Elene
Bogaert
Jeroen
Dereymaeker
Laura
Mestdagh
Stijn
Baert
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Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a ...
(revised version published as 'Do Employers Prefer Overqualified Graduates? A Field Experiment' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2018, 57 (3), 351 - 388)
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I21, J24, M51
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9653
|
Uttara
Balakrishnan
Johannes
Haushofer
Pamela
Jakiela
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How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments
Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 294–321)
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C91, D90, O12
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9652
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Jane
Cooley
Fruehwirth
Sriya
Iyer
Anwen
Zhang
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Religion and Depression in Adolescence
The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1178–1209)
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I10, Z12
|
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9651
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
|
Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception
This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.)
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H21, H51, D82
|
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9649
|
Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
|
Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are ...
(revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 819 - 836.)
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C93, D64, J24, J71
|
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9648
|
Pia
Pinger
Isabel
Ruhmer-Krell
Heiner
Schumacher
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The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a Restaurant's Menu
The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 14-34)
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D03, M31
|
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9647
|
Dan
S.
Rickman
Hongbo
Wang
John
V.
Winters
|
Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?
Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2017, 62, 283-290)
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Q4, R1, R2
|
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9646
|
Mirjam
Strupler Leiser
Stefan
C.
Wolter
|
Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (2), 204-222)
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H32, I28, J08
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