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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Resul
Cesur
Pinar
Mine
Gunes
Erdal
Tekin
Aydogan
Ulker
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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
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Jane
Greve
Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
Erdal
Tekin
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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
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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
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9326
|
Jérôme
Adda
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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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9325
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Werner
Eichhorst
Anke
Hassel
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Are There Austerity?Related Policy Changes in Germany?
This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity-oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008-9 recession. In contrast to the intensive phase of labour market and welfare ...
(published in: Sotiria Theodoropoulou (ed.), Labour market reforms in the era of pervasive austerity: a European perspective, Bristol: Policy Press, 2018.)
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J21, J26, J68
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9324
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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The Affordable Care Act and the Growth of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
This study tests whether the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased involuntary part-time (IPT) employment. Using data from the Current Population Survey between 1994 and ...
(revised version published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (4), 955-980)
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J22, J23, J32, J33, H25
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9323
|
John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Katalin
Evers
Lutz
Bellmann
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Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance
Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that ...
(revised version published as 'Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Competitiveness' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 500-526.)
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D22, J3, J41, J50, J53
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9322
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Maria
Ferreira Sequeda
Andries
de Grip
Rolf
Van der Velden
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Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries
Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with permanent contracts. There is, however, no empirical literature on the difference ...
(published in: Labour Economics,, 2018, 55, 18-40)
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E24, J24, J41
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9320
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Sriya
Iyer
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The New Economics of Religion
The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological origins of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2016, 54 (2), 395 - 441)
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Z12
|
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9319
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Simon
Chang
Thomas
S.
Dee
Chun-Wing
Tse
Li
Yu
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Be a Good Samaritan to a Good Samaritan: Field Evidence of Interdependent Other-Regarding Preferences in China
We conducted large-scale lost letter experiments in Beijing, a megacity with more than 21 million residents, to test if the observed altruistic attribute of the letter recipient would induce more ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 41, 23-33)
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C93, D03
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9317
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Christian
Pfeifer
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Unfair Wage Perceptions and Sleep: Evidence from German Survey Data
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Science, 134(4), 413-428)
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I12, J22, J31
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9316
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Guido
Friebel
Matthias
Heinz
Miriam
Krüger
Nick
Zubanov
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Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203)
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J3, L2, M5
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9315
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Maria
De Paola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players
Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We ...
(published in: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2017, 26 (3), 444-456)
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J16, D03, L83
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9314
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Matthias
Sutter
Levent
Yilmaz
Manuela
Oberauer
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Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children
The ability to delay gratification has been shown to be related to higher education and income and better health status. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 137, 21-24)
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C91, D03
|
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9313
|
Volha
Lazuka
Luciana
Quaranta
Tommy
Bengtsson
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Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940
Fighting infectious disease in the past, much like today, focused on isolating the disease and thereby stopping its spread. New insights into the modes of transmission and the causal agents in the ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2016, 42 (1), 27-52 )
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I14, I18, H51, J18
|
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9312
|
Xin
Zhang
Xiaobo
Zhang
Xi
Chen
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Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via ...
(pubished as 'Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 85, 81 - 94 )
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I31, Q51, Q53
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9311
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
Agne
Suziedelyte
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Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime
The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a judge, tribunal or jury to determine; leading to the potential for considerable subjectivity and variation. Using unique panel data, this ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1545-69.)
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I31, K30
|
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9309
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Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
Andrew
T.
Young
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Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45, 71-84)
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O43, F22, P51
|
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9307
|
Marie
C.
Hull
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The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants
Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 91-110)
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J24, I24, J15
|
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9305
|
Michael
S.
Hayes
Seth
Gershenson
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What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains
Recent research exploits a variety of natural experiments that create exogenous variation in annual school days to estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 48-51)
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I2
|
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9304
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Andrey
Fradkin
Frédéric
Panier
Ilan
Tojerow
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Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults
Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance mechanisms. Instead, they rely on family insurance in the form of parental ...
(published as 'Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults'in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 35-100)
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J13, J22, J64, J65
|
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9303
|
Martin
Halla
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
Thomas
Schober
|
The Cost-Effectiveness of Developmental Screenings: Evidence from a Nationwide Programme
Early intervention is considered the optimal response to developmental disorders in children. We evaluate a nationwide developmental screening programme for preschoolers in Austria and the resulting ...
(revised version published as 'The Cost-Effectiveness of Developmental Screenings: Evidence from a Nationwide Programme' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 49, 120 - 135)
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I12, J13, I18, H51, H75
|
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9302
|
Robert
W.
Fairlie
|
Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16 (1), 59 - 96)
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C93, I24, J16
|
|
9301
|
Wei
Huang
Xiaoyan
Lei
Ang
Sun
|
The Great Expectations: Impact of One-Child Policy on Education of Girls
The rise in education of women relative to men is an emerging worldwide phenomenon in recent decades. This paper investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls' education ...
(published as 'Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One-Child Policy in China' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (4), 695 - 710)
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D84, I20, J13, J16, J18
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