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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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16289
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Quinn
Keefer
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL
We make two main contributions to the literature on work-related injury risk and economic outcomes in the context of American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67(2), 107-136)
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D81, J31, J81, Z21, Z22, C23
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16287
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David
S.
Jacks
Krishna
Pendakur
Hitoshi
Shigeoka
Anthony
Wray
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Later-Life Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105192)
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H73, I18, J18, N32
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16283
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David
B.
Huffman
Collin
Raymond
Julia
Shvets
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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175)
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D82, D83, J33, L25, L81, M52, M54
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16281
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2025, 78 (2), 452 - 473)
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F22, O33, N73
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16280
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Aline
Bütikofer
Rita
Ginja
Krzysztof
Karbownik
Fanny
Landaud
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(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S108-S151)
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I14, I18, J12, J62
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16279
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Pro-environment Attitudes and Worker Commuting Behavior
The private vehicle is, for most developed countries, the prevalent commuting mode of workers, and one of the main source of CO2 emissions. The choice of the mode of transport for commuting trips ...
(published in: Economiy Analysis and Policy, 2025, 86, 1967-1986)
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A13, Q52, R41
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16277
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Mark
Drozd
Robert
A.
Moffitt
Xinyu
Zhao
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323)
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J16, J22, J24, J64
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16274
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Time on the Crossing: Emigrant Voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913
I provide a new series of the average duration of emigrant voyages from Liverpool to New York from 1853 to 1913. Time on the crossing fell by 80 percent, from about 40 days to just eight, most of ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2024, 28 (1), 120–133 )
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F22, O33, N73
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16273
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Catherine
Haeck
Jean-William
Laliberté
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Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility
This paper uses Census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of career choices - occupations and fields of study - to intergenerational income mobility. We document ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (1), 431–458)
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J62, J24
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16271
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Markus
Poschke
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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Poor countries have low wage employment and high self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684)
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O11, E24, J64, L26
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16268
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Antoine
Bertheau
Birthe
Larsen
Zeyu
Zhao
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What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data
We design a survey that asks firms about the obstacles that discourage them from hiring despite having potential needs. Using Danish administrative data and subjective beliefs elicited from our ...
(this version: December 2023)
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J23, M12
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16267
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Jens
Mohrenweiser
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Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78, 1316-1332)
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J33, M52, M50
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16266
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Ines
Helm
Nicolas
Koch
Alexander
Rohlf
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The Effects of Cash for Clunkers on Local Air Quality
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 138, 103576)
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H20, H23, Q53, Q58
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16265
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Jonathan
Phares
Jason
W.
Miller
Stephen
V.
Burks
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State-Level Trucking Employment and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S: Understanding Heterogenous Declines and Rebounds
Some of the U.S. states saw sharper declines in truck transportation payrolls at the onset of the COVID-19 shutdown, and others displayed differing trajectories in the rebound of truck transportation ...
(revised version published as 'Shedding light on truck driver supply and demand: Heterogeneous state-level recovery of trucking employment following the COVID-19 employment shock' in: Transportation Journal, 2025, 65 (1), e12038)
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J21, L92, R41
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16264
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Oded
Stark
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Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment
Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237)
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D01, D63, D91, I10, I14, I31, Z18
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16262
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Anna
Bottasso
Massimiliano
Bratti
Gabriele
Cardullo
Maurizio
Conti
Giovanni
Sulis
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Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand
We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced ...
(revised version published as 'Labor Market Regulations and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105292)
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J42, J63, J65, M53
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16261
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Luisa
Wieser
Martin
Abraham
Claus
Schnabel
Cornelia
Niessen
Mauren
Wolff
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When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment
This paper examines what affects supervisors' considerations about (not) using monitoring technologies to keep track of their subordinates and their work performance. Following a cost-benefit ...
(slightly revised version published as 'Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)' in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 181-202)
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M50, D22, J01
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16260
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Annette
Alstadsæter
Bernt
Bratsberg
Simen
Markussen
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514)
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E24, J2, J4, J6, J11
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16259
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Zhong
Zhao
Liang
Zheng
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The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply ...
(published as 'The effect of the spatial distribution of state-owned enterprises on the location of private-owned enterprise births' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 64 (1), 136-175.)
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L26, L60, L80, R10, R12
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16256
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Erik
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
John
Piggott
Knut
Røed
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The Impact of Pension Reform on Employment, Retirement and Disability Insurance Claims
We evaluate a comprehensive reform of Norwegian early retirement institutions in 2011 through the lens of a parsimonious random utility choice model. The reform radically changed work incentives ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 76)
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H55, J22
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16255
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018
Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 80, 102012)
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I32, P36, R23
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16252
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Gautam
Anand
Aishwarya
Atluri
Lee
Crawfurd
Todd
Pugatch
Ketki
Sheth
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Improving School Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Improving school quality in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is a global priority. One way to improve quality may be to improve the management skills of school leaders. In this systematic ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102464)
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I21, I25, I28
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16251
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Martina
Celidoni
Joan
Costa-Font
Luca
Salmasi
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Mobility Restrictions and Alcohol Use during Lockdown: 'A Still and Dry Pandemic for the Many'?
Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 50,101268)
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I13, I18
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16248
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Nathan
Kettlewell
Yuting
Zhang
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Financial Incentives and Private Health Insurance Demand on the Extensive and Intensive Margins
In countries with dual public and private healthcare systems, individuals are often incentivised to purchase private health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use administrative data from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102863)
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I13, I18, I12
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16247
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Jonathan
Colmer
Jennifer
Doleac
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Access to Guns in the Heat of the Moment: More Restrictive Gun Laws Mitigate the Effect of Temperature on Violence
Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures increase violent behavior. In this paper, we consider whether restricting the ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023)
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K42, Q51, I18
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16245
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Francesco
Campo
Sara
Giunti
Mariapia
Mendola
Giulia
Tura
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Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers
The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe fueled anti-immigration sentiment in receiving areas, with potential unintended consequences for refugee integration. We investigate the heterogeneity of political ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics)
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J15, H53, I38
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16244
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Hélène
Périvier
Gregory
Verdugo
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Where Are the Fathers? The Effects of Earmarking Parental Leave on Fathers in France
Does providing nontransferable months of parental leave earmarked to fathers, as mandated by the European Union to its member countries since 2019, increase their participation? To answer that ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (1), 88-118)
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J16, D13, J18
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16242
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Santiago
Budría
Alejandro
Betancourt-Odio
Eszter
Wirth
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Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness?
This paper examines the role of internal locus of control in shaping transitions into homelessness. The data is taken from a longitudinal Australian dataset drawn from a sample of vulnerable ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2023, 230, 111249)
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D31, I32, C23
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16239
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Rodrigo
Oliveira
Alei
Santos
Edson
Severnini
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Bridging the Gap: Mismatch Effects and Catch-up Dynamics in a Brazilian College Affirmative Action
Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 98, 102501)
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I23, I24, I28, J15
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16238
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
Olga
Malkova
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Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (4), 2309-2345)
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J12, J16, J18, P2, P3
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16237
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Clemente
Pignatti
Zachary
Parolin
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The Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Mental Health in the United States
Mental health conditions have worsened in many countries in recent decades. The provision of unconditional cash transfers may be one effective policy strategy for improving mental health, but causal ...
(published in: Healthl Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2253-2287)
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H51, I18, J18
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16236
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Karen
Clay
Alex
Hollingsworth
Edson
Severnini
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The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes
Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead from on-road gasoline, industrial and aviation emissions continue to pose a ...
(published in: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy; 2024, 18 (2), 301–320)
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I120, Q530, Q580
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16230
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Maria
Zhu
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New Evidence on the Underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Leadership Positions
For decades, Asian Americans have been characterized as a "model minority" due to perceived success in educational attainment and labor market outcomes. However, there are concerns that Asians remain ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106679)
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J01, J15
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16229
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, 103951)
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N52, N72, O13, Q53, Q56
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16227
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Stefania
Albanesi
António
Dias da
Silva
Juan
F.
Jimeno
Ana
Lamo
Alena
Wabitsch
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2025, 40 (121), 71–139)
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J23, O33
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16225
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Luca
Flabbi
Mauricio
Tejada
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Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 231, 111278, October)
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J46, J64, O17
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16223
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance
We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings rank and offspring's educational performance rank by age 15/16. We show that the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, article 102491)
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I24, J62
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16219
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Tony
Fang
Tingting
Zhang
John
Hartley
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Examining the Determinants of Managers' Hiring Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey
Using a representative survey of 801 employers across Atlantic Canada, we empirically test various factors associated with employer hiring attitudes towards international migrants. Our results ...
(published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies, 11 June 2023 )
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J23, J61, J63, J68
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16217
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Vegar
Bjørnshagen
Dan-Olof
Rooth
Elisabeth
Ugreninov
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Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context ...
(published online in: European Societies, 01 January 2025)
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I14, J14, J23, J64, J71
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16216
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Zuzanna
Kowalik
Piotr
Lewandowski
Pawel
Kaczmarczyk
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Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers: Evidence from Poland
The gig economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' ...
(published in: New Technology, Work and Employment, 2025, 40 (3), 468-482.)
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J28, J61, J21
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16215
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Didier
Fouarge
Pascal
Heß
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Preference-Choice Mismatch and University Dropout
Drawing on data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we show that students who select majors that do not match their occupational preferences prior to enrolling in university are ...
(pubished in: Labour Economics, 2023, 83, 102405)
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J24, D83
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16212
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
Katherine
Engel
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Baby Bump? Birth Month, Family Income, and Early Childhood Development
Federal and state tax policies in the U.S. are save families with babies born just before the end of the year thousands of dollars in tax liability. Because this income windfall is realized during ...
(published in: Economics & Human, 2024, 54, 101409)
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J13, D1
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16209
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Viola
Angelini
Joan
Costa-Font
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Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis
Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2023, 212, 422 - 437 )
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I18, J14
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16207
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Xin
Meng
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China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply: The Quantity Myth
In the past forty years the Chinese economy achieved miracle growth and many attributed a significant part of this to China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a ...
(published in: Asian Development Review, 2023, 40 (2), 111-144 )
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J10, J11, J21
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16205
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Alex
Lyford
Mingfang
Zhang
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A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire
Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Sciene Association, 2024, 10, 310–329 )
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C91, D64, D91, H41
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16204
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Gökay
Demir
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Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of ...
(updated version available as DP 17510)
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J31, J38, J42, J62
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16202
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Marc
Bellemare
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Fixed Effects and Causal Inference
Across many disciplines, the fixed effects estimator of linear panel data models is the default method to estimate causal effects with nonexperimental data that are not confounded by time-invariant, ...
(forthcoming as 'On the (Mis)Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2025)
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C23, C51, C52
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16201
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Alina
Sorgner
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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship
This chapter presents the results of a systematic review of literature (SLR) on impacts of Covid-19 on entrepreneurship published in the first three years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
(published in: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham., 2023.)
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L26
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16200
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Ernst
Fehr
Gary
Charness
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Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences
We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important ...
((this version: March 2024) published in: Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514)
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D0, D2, D9, H0, J0, P0
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16199
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Nicoletta
Corrocher
Daniele
Moschella
Jacopo
Staccioli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence and Challenges
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (3), 519–540)
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O33
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