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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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9385
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Christian
Grund
Kirsten
Thommes
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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Contract Types for Employees' Public Service Motivation' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2017, 18, 377-398)
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M55, J45, H83
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9384
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Lata
Gangadharan
Nikos
Nikiforakis
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations
Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. ...
(revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156)
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C92, H41, D74
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9383
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Matthias
Sutter
Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than ...
(published as 'Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 106, 21-34.)
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C91, D03, D90
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9382
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Thomas
Buser
Lydia
Geijtenbeek
Erik
Plug
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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged ...
(published as 'Sexual Orientation, Competitiveness and Income' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 191 - 198)
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C90, J15, J16, J24, J31
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9381
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Myeong-Su
Yun
Eric
S.
Lin
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An Alternative Estimator for Industrial Gender Wage Gaps: A Normalized Regression Approach
Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is identified in the sense that it is invariant to the choice of an unobserved ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
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C12, J31, J71
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9380
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Mohsen
Javdani
Andrew
McGee
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Moving Up or Falling Behind? Gender, Promotions, and Wages in Canada
We estimate gender differences in internal promotion experiences for a representative sample of Canadian workers using linked employer-employee data. We find that women in Canada are 3 percentage ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2019, 58 (2), 189-228.)
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J16, J31, J62, J71
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9378
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Matteo
Picchio
Giacomo
Valletta
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Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States
This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). In thirty years since its introduction, several studies have analysed the effects of TRA86. However, preference ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25 (3), 757–807)
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C25, D63, H22, H31, J22
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9377
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Marc
K.
Chan
Kai
Liu
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Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms
We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 659 - 706)
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D91, J13, J22
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9376
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Jay
Stewart
Mary
Dorinda
Allard
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Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?
Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking ...
(published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, New York, 2015, 145-171)
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C83, J13, J22
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9375
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Jennifer
Roberts
Karl
Taylor
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Intra-Household Commuting Choices and Local Labour Markets
While the job search literature has increasingly recognised the importance of the spatial distribution of employment opportunities, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 734-757)
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D19, J24, R40
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9374
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Olof
Aslund
Hans
Grönqvist
Caroline
Hall
Jonas
Vlachos
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Education and Criminal Behavior: Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School
We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs from two to three years and adding more general theoretical ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 178-192)
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K42
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9373
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Oliver
Falck
Robert
Gold
Stephan
Heblich
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Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17 (5), 1111–1148, )
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L26, I21, J24, P30
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9372
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Sari
Pekkala Kerr
Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Matti
Sarvimäki
Roope
Uusitalo
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Post-Secondary Education and Information on Labor Market Prospects: A Randomized Field Experiment
We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101888)
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J24, I23
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9371
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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The Effects of State Merit Aid Programs on Attendance at Elite Colleges
State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 527-549)
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H31, I22, J24
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9370
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Kamilla
Gumede
Michael
Rosholm
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Your Move: The Effect of Chess on Mathematics Test Scores
We analyze the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lessons in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2017, 12 (5), e0177257)
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I21, I28
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9369
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Michael
Grossman
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The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?
Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more ...
(published in: Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 3 (1), 7 -17)
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I10, I20
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9368
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Hannes
Schwandt
Amelie
Wuppermann
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The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a leading diagnosed health condition among children in many developed countries but the causes underlying these high levels of ADHD remain highly ...
(published as 'The youngest get the pill: ADHD misdiagnosis in Germany, its regional correlates and international comparison' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 72-86)
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I1, I2, J1
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9367
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Leo
Kaas
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Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection
We analyze the effects of adverse selection on worker turnover and wage dynamics in a frictional labor market. We consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer promotion wage contracts to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 160, 340 - 386.)
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D82, J63, J64
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9366
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Melvyn
Coles
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Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey
The focus of this chapter is to consider new developments in the search and matching literature where wages, quit turnover and unemployment are endogenously determined in economies with aggregate ...
(published in: Saridakis, G.; Cooper, C. (eds.) Research Handbook on Employee Turnover, Chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016.)
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J62, J63, J64
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9363
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Mirjam
Strupler Leiser
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Ten Facts You Need To Know About Hiring
We provide new empirical evidence regarding the magnitude and the determinants of a firm's costs required to fill a vacancy. The average costs required to fill a vacancy for a skilled worker in ...
(published as "Hiring costs and labor market tightness" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 122-131.)
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J32, J63, M53
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9362
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Catalina
Herrera-Almanza
David
E.
Sahn
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The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills among Young Women in Madagascar
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact ...
(publishes as 'Early Childbearing, School Attainment, and Cognitive Skills: Evidence From Madagascar' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (2), 643-668 )
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I25, J13, O15
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9361
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Winnie
Fung
Saweda
Liverpool-Tasie
Nicole
Mason
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited ...
(published in: Agricultural Economics, 2020, 51(4), 489-638)
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Q12, Q13, Q18, I38, D31, O13
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9359
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Aysit
Tansel
Halil
Ibrahim
Keskin
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations ...
(revised version published as 'Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty ine from Egypt: EvidencQuantile Regression on Panel Data' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58 (6), 2949-2979.)
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J21, J31, J40, O17
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9357
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Clive
Bell
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
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Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments: Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
This paper investigates the effects of an income guarantee on borrowing to smooth consumption and finance cultivation in a risky setting with marked seasonality. A three-season, infinite-horizon ...
(published in: Economica, 2020, 87 (347), 763-812)
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J3, Q12, Q38
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9356
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Alexandra
Avdeenko
Thomas
Siedler
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Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes toward Immigration
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 768-800 )
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C23, D72, J62, P16
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9355
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Joni
Hersch
Jean
Xiao
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Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction among Highly Educated Workers
There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (1), 1 - 24)
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J15, J16, J28, J71
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9354
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
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Discrimination against Migrants in Austria: An Experimental Study
This paper experimentally examines the employment opportunities of Austrians with and without migration background who apply to job openings. Previous experiments have indicated ethnicity via the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (2), 237-265)
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C93, J15, J71
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9353
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Masood
Gheasi
Peter
Nijkamp
Piet
Rietveld
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Wage Gaps between Native and Migrant Graduates of Higher Education Institutions in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands the share of immigrants in the total population has steadily increased in recent decades. The present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are ...
(published in: Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2017, 10, 277–296)
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F22, I2
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9352
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Sholeh
A.
Maani
Mengyu
Dai
Kerr
Inkson
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Occupational Attainment and Earnings among Immigrant Groups: Evidence from New Zealand
This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1), 95-112)
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J30, J31
|
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9351
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Osea
Giuntella
Catia
Nicodemo
Carlos
Vargas-Silva
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The Effects of Immigration on NHS Waiting Times
This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 123 - 143)
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I10, J61
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9350
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Xiang
Ao
Dawei
Jiang
Zhong
Zhao
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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along with an increasing number of rural people migrating to urban area for jobs, there ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 126-139 )
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O15, J14, I15
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9349
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Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Environmental Disasters and Migration
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While ...
(published as 'Natural Disasters and Human Mobility' in: International Review of the Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016, 10 (1), 37-56.)
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J61, O15, Q54, Q56
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9348
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Evren
Ceritoglu
H. Burcu
Gurcihan Yunculer
Huzeyfe
Torun
Semih
Tumen
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2017, 6:5)
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J15, J21, J46, J61, C21
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9347
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Mehtap
Akgüç
Xingfei
Liu
Massimiliano
Tani
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Risk Attitudes and Migration
To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 166 - 176)
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J61, D81
|
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9346
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Dan
A.
Black
Joonhwi
Joo
Robert
J.
LaLonde
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
Evan
J.
Taylor
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Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102237)
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C10, C18, J01, J08
|
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9344
|
Manuel
Arellano
Richard
Blundell
Stephane
Bonhomme
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Earnings and Consumption Dynamics: A Nonlinear Panel Data Framework
We develop a new quantile-based panel data framework to study the nature of income persistence and the transmission of income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (3), 693 - 734)
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C23, D31, D91
|
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9343
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Rachel
Connelly
Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
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Cultural and Ethnic Differences in the Transitions from Work to 'Retirement' of Rural Elders in China’s Minority Regions
This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China ...
(published in: B. Gustafsson, R. Hasmath. S. Ding (eds), Ethnicity and Inequality in China, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2021, 82-109. / published in Chinese, Beijing, 2017, 56-83.)
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J14, J15, J16, J26, D13, O53
|
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9342
|
Hongbin
Li
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children ...
(published as 'Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply: Evidence from China' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 145-156 (with Rufei Guo) )
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J13, J18, J22, O10
|
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9341
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Thierry
Verdier
Yves
Zenou
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The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97, 15-39.)
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D85, J15, Z13
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9340
|
Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
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Remittances and Credit Markets: Evidence from Senegal
This study investigates the impact of remittances on credit markets in Senegal. The findings show that remittances and credit markets are complements; namely, the receipt of remittances increases the ...
(revised version published as 'Remittances and rural credit markets: Evidence from Senegal' in:Review of Development Economic, 2021, 25 (1), 183 - 199)
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F24, O15, O16
|
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9338
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Teresa
García-Muñoz
Shoshana
Neuman
Tzahi
Neuman
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A 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' or a 'Sick Immigrant Effect'? Selection and Policies Matter
An extensive body of research related to immigrants in a variety of countries has documented a "healthy immigrant effect" (HIE). When immigrants arrive in the host country they are healthier than ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 19 (1), 103-121. )
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C22, J11, J12, J14, O12, O15, O52
|
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9336
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Maksymilian
Kwiek
Helia
Marreiros
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26. )
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C78, C92, D72, D74
|
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9335
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Helmuth
Cremer
Catarina
Goulão
Kerstin
Roeder
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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 258-267.)
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I12, I18, D72
|
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9333
|
Thomas
Dohmen
Hartmut
Lehmann
Norberto
Pignatti
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Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 182-200)
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J64, J65, P50
|
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9332
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Augusto
Cerqua
Giorgio
Di Pietro
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Natural Disasters and University Enrolment: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake
This paper uses the synthetic control method to look at how the L'Aquila earthquake affected subsequent enrolment at the local university. Such an issue is closely related to the economic ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (14), 1440-1457)
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A20, H84, C23
|
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9330
|
E.
Glenn
Dutcher
Loukas
Balafoutas
Florian
Lindner
Dmitry
Ryvkin
Matthias
Sutter
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Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives
We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different distributions of prizes which motivate agents to compete to be first, avoid being ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2015, 94, 39-56.)
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M52, J33, J24, D24, C90
|
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9329
|
Resul
Cesur
Pinar
Mine
Gunes
Erdal
Tekin
Aydogan
Ulker
|
The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide ...
(published as 'The value of socialized medicine: The impact of universal primary healthcare provision on mortality rates in 'in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 74 - 93)
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I0, I1, I11, I13, I14, I18, J13, J14
|
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9328
|
Jane
Greve
Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
Erdal
Tekin
|
Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 20 - 35)
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I12, I14, I24, J15
|
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9327
|
Tommy
Bengtsson
Jonas
Helgertz
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The Long Lasting Influenza: The Impact of Fetal Stress during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Socioeconomic Attainment and Health in Sweden 1968-2012
The observation in the 1940s, that children to mothers having rubella in the first part of the pregnancy experienced elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal ...
(published in: Demography, 2019, 56, 1389–1425)
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I14, N14
|
|
9326
|
Jérôme
Adda
|
Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data
Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (2), 891 - 941)
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I12, I15, I18, H51, C23
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