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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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9656
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
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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
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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
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Dan
S.
Rickman
Hongbo
Wang
John
V.
Winters
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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
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Mirjam
Strupler Leiser
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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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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9645
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Øystein
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400)
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J13, J16, J24, L82
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9644
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Øystein
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 144-156.)
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H55, I29, I38, J18
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9643
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Dongshu
Ou
Zhong
Zhao
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Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the ...
(revised version published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (2), 117-141)
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I23, I28, J31, O15
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9642
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Binnur
Balkan
Semih
Tumen
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Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686)
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C21, E31, J46, J61
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9641
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Yu
Qin
Weiwen
Zhang
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Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting
Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the ...
(published as 'Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas' in: Land Economics, 2024, 100 (3), 568-587)
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H11, H77, P35, R52, D23
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9640
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Sylvie
Démurger
Xiaoqian
Wang
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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China
This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 177-190)
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O15, J22, R23, D13, O53
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9639
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Joyce
J
Chen
Katrina
Kosec
Valerie
Mueller
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Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics
The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23 (4), 1477-1519)
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J61, O15
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9638
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Rafael
Dix-Carneiro
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Gabriel
Ulyssea
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Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195)
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F16, J23, J24, K42
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9637
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Niaz
Asadullah
Saizi
Xiao
Emile
Kok-Kheng
Yeoh
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Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location
We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 48, 83–101)
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O12, I30, I31
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9636
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Milena
Nikolova
Boris
Nikolaev
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623)
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I31, I39, P20
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9635
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Oberfichtner
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The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers ...
(substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136)
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R23, J42, J31
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9633
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Lixin
Cai
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
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Low Paid Employment in Britain: Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects
Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (2), 283 - 326)
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J24, J31, I21
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9632
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Petri
Böckerman
Per
Skedinger
Roope
Uusitalo
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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62)
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K31, J63, J32, J08, L51
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9631
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Barry
Hirsch
Muhammad
M.
Husain
John
V.
Winters
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The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets
Multiple job holding rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51)
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J21, R23
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9630
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Barry
Hirsch
Muhammad
M.
Husain
John
V.
Winters
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Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle
About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4)
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J21
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9629
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Christina
Patterson
Aysegül
Sahin
Giorgio
Topa
Giovanni L.
Violante
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Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 42-56)
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E24, E32, J24
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9628
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Martin
Weißenberger
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108)
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C14, L26, H43, J68
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9627
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Bert
van Landeghem
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
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Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Active Labour Market Policies often exclusively target towards the long-term unemployed. Although it might be more efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 158-168 )
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D04, D61, J64, J68
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9626
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Barbara
Hofmann
Arne
Uhlendorff
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during ...
(revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322)
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J64, J65, C41, C21
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9625
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Reinout
Kleinhans
Maarten
van Ham
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The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands
In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to ...
(published in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, 31 (4), 570-589)
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D71, L26, L31, O35, R23
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9624
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Pierre
Koning
Jan-Maarten
van Sonsbeek
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Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers
This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 202-215)
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C52, H53
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9623
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Frederico
S.
Finan
Maurizio
Mazzocco
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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2467–2512)
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H40
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9622
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Wenhua
Di
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households
The empirical effects of place-based tax incentive schemes designed to aid low income communities are unclear. While a growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 52 (3), 1115-1142)
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C21, G02, H25, H31
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9621
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Lingguo
Cheng
Hong
Liu
Ye
Zhang
Zhong
Zhao
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, 53-77 )
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H55, I12, I38, J14
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9620
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Emiko
Usui
Satoshi
Shimizutani
Takashi
Oshio
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Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
We investigate how Japanese men aged 60-74 adjust their workforce attachment after beginning to receive a public pension. Men who were employees at age 54 gradually move to part-time work or retire ...
(published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168)
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J26, I10, H55
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9619
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Andrea
Albanese
Bart
Cockx
Yannick
Thuy
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Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141 )
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J14, C22, J18, J22
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9618
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Mathias
Dolls
Karina
Doorley
Alari
Paulus
Hilmar
Schneider
Sebastian
Siegloch
Eric
Sommer
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Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries
The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (4), 575-615 )
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H68, J11, J21
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9616
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Swee
Hoon
Chuah
Simon
Gächter
Robert
Hoffmann
Jonathan
H. W.
Tan
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Religion, Discrimination and Trust
We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 280-301)
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C72, C91, J16, Z12
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9615
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Simon
Gächter
Leonie
Gerhards
Daniele
Nosenzo
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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 72-86)
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A13, C92, D03
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9613
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Holger
Gerhardt
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
Jana
Willrodt
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Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?
A core prediction of recent "dual-self" models is that a person's risk attitudes depend on her current level of self-control. While these models have received a lot of attention, empirical studies ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 463-487.)
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D03, D81, C91
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9610
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Aaron
Sojourner
Jooyoung
Yang
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Effects of Unionization on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence
We study how union certification affects the enforcement of workplace-safety laws. To generate credible causal estimates, a regression discontinuity design compares outcomes in establishments where ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (2), 373-401.)
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J51, J28, I18
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9609
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia
Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and ...
(published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 635–657)
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I10, J2, J31, J71
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9608
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Susan
L.
Averett
Erin
K.
Fletcher
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The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity
The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal ...
(published in: Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century (pp. 201-219). 2017. Springer International Publishing.)
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I12, J13
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9606
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Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages?
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (2), 393 - 418)
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H2, H7, J3
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9604
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Francois
Gerard
Miikka
Rokkanen
Christoph
Rothe
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Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
A key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that units cannot manipulate the value of their running variable in a way that guarantees or avoids assignment to the treatment. Standard ...
(published as 'Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable' in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 839-870)
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C14, C21, C26, C51
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9603
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Sako
Musterd
Szymon
Marci?czak
Maarten
van Ham
Tiit
Tammaru
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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich
Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083 )
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N94, O18, P25, R21, R23
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9602
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Kadi
Mägi
Kadri
Leetmaa
Tiit
Tammaru
Maarten
van Ham
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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, ...
(published as: 'Types of spatial mobility and change in people's ethnic residential contexts' in: Demographic Research, 2016, 34, 1161-1192)
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J15, J61, R20, R23
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9600
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Juliane
Hennecke
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration
Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Locus of Control and Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 79, 1-19.)
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J61
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9599
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Jinyoung
Kim
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 518 - 563)
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F22, F43, O15, O4
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9598
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?
Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 348-354)
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I21, I23, J15
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9597
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education
This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 174-190.)
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J24, J61, J70
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