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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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9275
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts
Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (1), 106-166)
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J31
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9274
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 1046-1086.)
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J18, J31, I21, I28
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9273
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland
This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, 1- 8)
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L53, O12
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9267
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our ...
(publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080)
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D04, G21, G28, H32, H81, J23, L53
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9265
|
Xiaodong
Gong
Jiti
Gao
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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia
This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge ...
(published in: Australia & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2018, 60 (3), 374- 393)
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C13, C14, C29, I13
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9263
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Derya
Findik
Aysit
Tansel
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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ...
(published in: B. Christiansen and M. Erdogdu (eds.), Comparative Economics and Regional Development in Turkey, 2015, 106 - 126. )
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D22, D24, O30, O47
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9262
|
Derya
Findik
Aysit
Tansel
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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the ...
(published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8)
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L21, L22, L23, L25
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9261
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Solomiya
Shpak
Volodymyr
Vakhitov
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large ...
(published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35)
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D24, G34, L33, P31
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9260
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II
Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.)
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H56, J17, N42, D24, J24, L11
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9257
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Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
Hipólito
Simón
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An Analysis of Wage Differentials between Full- and Part-Time Workers in Spain
This research examines wage differences between part-time and full-time workers using microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey. The main contribution of the paper is related to the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (3), 449-469)
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J31, J22, J41, R23
|
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9256
|
Kai
Liu
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Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers
This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 139 - 185)
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D91, J31, J62
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9255
|
Kai
Liu
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Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: Estimates from a Dynamic Model of Job Changes and Hours Changes
I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 411- 447)
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D91, J31, J16, J63
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9254
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Marco
Leonardi
Michele
Pellizzari
Domenico
Tabasso
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Wage Compression within the Firm
We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the Scala Mobile (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. The SM imposed large ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3256-3291.)
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J01, J31, J50
|
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9253
|
Stephane
Mahuteau
Rong
Zhu
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Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia
This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25, 1448–1463)
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C21, I31
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9252
|
Reto
Odermatt
Alois
Stutzer
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(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (1), 245–283)
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D03, D12, D60, I31
|
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9251
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Gabriel
Burdin
Simon
Halliday
Fabio
Landini
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Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity
This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of ...
(revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.)
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C72, C91, D23, M54
|
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9250
|
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Anna
Zhu
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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (3), 893-924)
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J1, J2, I2
|
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9249
|
Gianluigi
Coppola
Niall
O'Higgins
Claudio
Pinto
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Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered ...
(published in: O’Higgins, N. and G. Coppola (eds), Youth unemployment and the crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe, Routledge , Abdingdon, 2016)
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D11, D12, I12, J13
|
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9247
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Gabriella
Conti
James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with ...
(Published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (596), F28-F65.)
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C12, C93, I12, I13, J13, J24
|
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9246
|
Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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Culture and Institutions
A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2015, 53 (4). 898-944)
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P16, Z1
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