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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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9458
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Seokjin
Woo
Soohyung
Lee
Kyunghee
Kim
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Carrot and Stick? Impact of a Low-Stakes School Accountability Program on Student Achievement
A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137 195 - 199)
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C5, I2
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9455
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Binnur
Balkan
Semih
Tumen
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Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence
Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266)
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C78, J21, J31, L11
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9453
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Elena
Meschi
Erol
Taymaz
Marco
Vivarelli
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Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand: A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey
This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers in a middle income developing ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2016, 152, 655-680)
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O33
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9452
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Timothy
M.
Diette
David
C.
Ribar
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity
Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56(3), 1602-21.)
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J1, R2
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9451
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Hukou Changes and Subjective Well-Being
The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 47-61)
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D19, H13, I31, J61, R20
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9449
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Jan
Bietenbeck
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The Long-Term Impacts of Low-Achieving Childhood Peers: Evidence from Project STAR
This paper evaluates how sharing a kindergarten classroom with low-achieving repeaters affects the long-term educational performance of regular first-time kindergarten students. Exploiting random ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 392-426)
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I21, J24
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9448
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Jan
Feld
Ulf
Zölitz
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428)
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I21, I24, J24
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9447
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Julia
Debski
Michael
Jetter
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Gender and Corruption: A Reassessment
This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a panel framework. Using annual observations in a pooled setting (no ...
(revised version published as 'Gender and corruption: The neglected role of culture' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 526 - 537 )
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C23, D73, J16
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9446
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Ernesto
Reuben
Paola
Sapienza
Luigi
Zingales
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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap among Young Business Professionals
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2024, 79, 1087-1121)
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J16, D81, D84, I21, C93
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9445
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Zachary
Bleemer
Basit
Zafar
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Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost
Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the US have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 184-211)
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D81, D83, D84, I21, I24, I28
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9444
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Theresa
Kuchler
Basit
Zafar
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Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes
We use novel survey data to estimate how personal experiences affect household expectations about aggregate economic outcomes in housing and labor markets. We exploit variation in locally experienced ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2019, 74 (5), 2491-2542)
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D83, D84
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9443
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Francesco
Drago
Friederike
Mengel
Christian
Traxler
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Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 96 - 133)
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D8, H26, Z13
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9442
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Shaohua
Chen
Andrew
Dabalen
Yuri
Dikhanov
Nada
Hamadeh
Dean
Jolliffe
Ambar
Narayan
Espen
Beer
Prydz
Ana
Revenga
Prem
Sangraula
Umar
Serajuddin
Nobuo
Yoshida
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A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012: Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14 (2), 141-172)
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I3, I32, E31, F01
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9441
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Amparo
Castelló-Climent
Latika
Chaudhary
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
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Tertiary Education and Prosperity: Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic ...
(published as 'Higher Education and Prosperity: From Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 3039-3075)
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I25, N35, O15
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9440
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Manisha
Shah
Bryce
Millett Steinberg
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Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 527-561)
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O12, I2, J1
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9439
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Nekeisha
Spencer
Solomon
Polachek
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Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production
This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015, 120, 234-240. )
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O13, O54, Q1
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9438
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Tony
Fang
Morley
Gunderson
Carl
Lin
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The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China
Job search procedures are a form of human capital investment in that they involve current investments to enhance future returns, analogous to human capital investments in areas such as education, ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37(0), 154-165)
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J31, J61, J64
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9437
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Martyn
J.
Andrews
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence
This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic ...
(published in World Economy, 2017, 40(9), 1750-1774 )
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F16, F22
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9435
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Eric
S.
Lin
Yu-Lung
Lu
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The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan
This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are ...
(published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016, 36 (1), 48-72)
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A2, I2
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9434
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George
J.
Borjas
Ilpo
Kauppinen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Self?Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 143–171)
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F22, J61
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9433
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Marc
Piopiunik
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139, 52-56)
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I21, I24, Z13
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9431
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Antonio
Di Paolo
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Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 90–101)
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J24, J31, I28
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9430
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis
Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing full-time pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 150, 277-294)
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J14, J26
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9429
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Giulia
Canzian
Samuele
Poy
Simone
Schüller
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Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 87–103. )
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O33, J24, L24, L26
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9428
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Hans
Fricke
Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
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Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504)
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C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
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9427
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Nikos
Askitas
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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or ...
(published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198)
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C81, E65, G21, R31
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9426
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Nick
Drydakis
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Brain Types and Wages
We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2017, 85 (2), 183 - 211)
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J24, J31
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9425
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees
In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework ...
(published as "The commuting behavior of workers in the United States: differences between the employed and the self-employed" in: Journal of Transport Geography, 2018, 66, 19-29)
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R20, R41, J64
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9424
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Michčle
Belot
Jonathan
James
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 213-229)
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J13, I18, I28, H51, H52
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9423
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohčme" (bobos). This takeover ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056)
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H7, R3, R4, R5
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9422
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Claudio
Fassio
Sona
Kalantaryan
Alessandra
Venturini
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Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries ...
(published as 'Foreign Human Capital and Total Factor Productivity: A Sectoral Approach' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 613 - 646)
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F22, F66, O31, O32
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9421
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Daniele
Vignoli
Alessandra
Venturini
Elena
Pirani
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Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer ...
(published in :Journal of Family and Economic, 2017, 38 (5), 118-128)
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F22, F66, J61, J12, O31, O32
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9420
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Sarah
Bohn
Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?
We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (4), 960–979)
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J8, J15, J18, J21, J31, J61
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9418
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Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Hillel
Rapoport
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:23)
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F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, O19
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9417
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Ghazala
Azmat
Rosa
Ferrer
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Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (5), 1306-1355)
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M52, J16, K40, J44
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9416
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John
V.
Winters
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Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data
The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2016, 47 (2), 187-191)
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I20, I26, J24, J31
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9415
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Volker
Grossmann
Aderonke
Osikominu
Marius
Osterfeld
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Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?
This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (2), 374-369)
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I20, C81
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9414
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Tommaso
Colussi
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Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (1), 45-50 )
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A1, I23, J24
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9411
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Cristian
Bartolucci
Francesco
Devicienti
Ignacio
Monzón
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Identifying Sorting in Practice
We propose a novel methodology to uncover the sorting pattern in the labor market. Our methodology exploits the additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from ...
(published in. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 408 - 438)
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J6, J31, L2
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9410
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Francesco
Devicienti
Paolo
Naticchioni
Andrea
Ricci
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Temporary Employment, Demand Volatility and Unions: Firm-Level Evidence
This paper investigates the effect of workplace unionization and product market volatility on firms' propensity to use temporary employment. Using Italian firm level data, we show that unionization ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2018, 71 (1), 174-207 )
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J51, J23, J24
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9409
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Thomas
Hintermaier
Winfried
Koeniger
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Household Debt and Crises of Confidence
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence. The house price feeds back on itself by contributing to a liquidity effect, which ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9, 1489-1542.)
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E21, E32, D91
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9407
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Marc
Fleurbaey
Vito
Peragine
Xavier
Ramos
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Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, 577–603)
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D3, D63, D71
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9406
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Andreas
Kuhn
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The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality
This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining ...
(revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344)
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D31, D63, J31
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9405
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G.
Andrew
Karolyi
David
T.
Ng
Eswar
Prasad
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The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors ...
(published in: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020, 55 (4), 1369 - 1414)
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G11, G15, F21
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9404
|
Ali
Fakih
Pascal
L.
Ghazalian
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What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (8), 1181-1206)
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J20, K20, K31, O53
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9403
|
Pablo
A.
Acosta
Noel
Muller
Miguel
Sarzosa
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Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper ...
(published as 'Adults' Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills and Their Labor Market Outcomes in Colombia' in: Revista de Economia del Rosario, 2020, 23 (1), 109-148.)
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J24, J31, I24
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9402
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Tony
Castleman
James
Foster
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the ...
(published in: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy, edited by Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, Ch. 3, pp 101-127)
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I32, O15, D63
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9401
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Gus
O'Donnell
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015,120, 59 - 70)
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I31, I38, Z18
|
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9399
|
Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (4), 1179-1209)
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N32, N52, I15, I18, Q53, Q56, Q58
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9398
|
Timothy
J.
Halliday
John
Lynham
Aureo
de Paula
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The high correlation of industrial pollutant emissions complicates the estimation of the impact of industrial pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from K?lauea volcano, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620),1782–1816,)
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H51, I12, Q51, Q53
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