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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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9338
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Teresa
García-Muńoz
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
Goulăo
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Martin
Halla
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
Thomas
Schober
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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
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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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
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9301
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Wei
Huang
Xiaoyan
Lei
Ang
Sun
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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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9299
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Janet
Currie
Hannes
Schwandt
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Short and Long-Term Effects of Unemployment on Fertility
Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not ...
(published in: PNAS, 2014, 111(41), 14734-14739.)
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J6, J11, J12, J13
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9298
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Henk-Wim
de Boer
Egbert
L. W.
Jongen
Jan
Kabátek
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The Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimuli for Working Parents
To promote the labor participation of parents with young children, governments employ a number of fiscal instruments. Prominent examples are childcare subsidies and in-work benefits. However, which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102152)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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9297
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Elizabeth
U.
Cascio
Steven
J.
Haider
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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The Effectiveness of Policies that Promote Labor Force Participation of Women with Children: A Collection of National Studies
Numerous countries have enacted policies to promote the labor force participation of women around the years of childbearing, and unsurprisingly, many research articles have been devoted to evaluating ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 64-71)
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J13, J22
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9296
|
Anders
Frederiksen
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Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover: A Firm-Level Perspective
In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the ...
(published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017, 31 (2), 132-161)
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M5
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9293
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Björn
Brügemann
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Guido
Menzio
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Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values
The paper revisits the problem of wage bargaining between a firm and multiple workers. We show that the Subgame Perfect Equilibrium of the extensive-form game proposed by Stole and Zwiebel (1996a) ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (2), 564 - 592)
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D21, J30
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9292
|
James
Bailey
Douglas
A.
Webber
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Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution
By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2018, 85 (2), 577-595)
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L51, I13, I18, J32
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9291
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Sanjay
K.
Chugh
Christian
Merkl
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Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection
This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (4), 1371–1404.)
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E24, E32, J20
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9290
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Corrado
Giulietti
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public ...
(published as 'Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the United States' in: Journal of the European Economic Association. 2019, 17 (1), 165 - 204)
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D73, H41, J15
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9289
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Stijn
Baert
Jennifer
Norga
Yannick
Thuy
Marieke
Van Hecke
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Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination
This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 57, 86 - 101)
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C90, C93, J14, J71
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9288
|
Manuela
Angelucci
Silvia
Prina
Heather
Royer
Anya
Samek
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When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 66 - 95)
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C93, I1, J13
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9287
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Simon
Chang
Rachel
Connelly
Ping
Ma
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What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples
This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the 1960s to test the hypothesis that higher sex ratios lead to husbands (wives) ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35 (4), 471-500)
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J12, J16
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9286
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David
Gill
Zdenka
Kissová
Jaesun
Lee
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision
Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion and symbolic awards depend on the rank of workers in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever firms use rank-order ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507)
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C23, C91, J22, M12
|
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9285
|
Patrick
Kampkötter
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations
Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389)
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D22, J33, M12, M52
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9284
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Wim
Naudé
Melissa
Siegel
Katrin
Marchand
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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review
We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through ...
(published as 'Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6, Article 5 (2017))
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J60, L26, O15, F22
|
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9281
|
Naci
Mocan
Luiza
Pogorelova
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019. 47, 618-639.)
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J22, Z1
|
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9280
|
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
|
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street?
Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 206 - 220)
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I10, 126
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9279
|
Rasmus
Landersř
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile
This paper uses register-based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime-age profiles. We exploit that Danish ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1096-1118)
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I21, K42
|
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9278
|
Seamus
McGuinness
Luis
Ortiz
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Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts
Optimal training decisions require employers to have accurate information about their workers' training needs. However, little is known with regard to the key factors determining the accurate ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278)
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J20, J24, J50
|
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9277
|
Michael
R.
Strain
Douglas
A.
Webber
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High School Experiences, the Gender Wage Gap, and the Selection of Occupation
Using within-high-school variation and controlling for a measure of cognitive ability, this paper finds that high-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (49), 5040-5049)
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J16, J31
|
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9276
|
Andrew
Eyles
Stephen
Machin
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The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education
We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17, 1107-46 )
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I20, I21, I28
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