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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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9245
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Andreas
Lichter
Max
Löffler
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789)
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H11, N34, N44, P26
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9243
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity
This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546)
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J30, M52, M12
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9242
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Christopher
Dawson
David
Emmanuel
de Meza
Andrew
Henley
Reza
Arabsheibani
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The Power of (Non) Positive Thinking: Self-Employed Pessimists Earn More than Optimists
Developing further the accumulating evidence that self-employment attracts optimists, this paper investigates the relationship between earnings and prior optimism. It finds that self-employed ...
(published as 'Curb your enthusiasm: Optimistic entrepreneurs earn less' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 53 - 69)
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D84, M13
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9241
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Robin
Cubitt
Simon
Gächter
Simone
Quercia
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69 )
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H41, C91, C72, D03
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9240
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
David
Saxler
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Social Responsibility in Market Interaction
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of ...
(completely revised and extended version published as 'The Role of Social Information, Market Framing, and Diffusion of Responsibility as Determinants of Socially Responsible Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 80, 141-161)
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C92, D47, D62, M14
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9238
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
Sebastián
Castillo
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Early Impacts of College Aid
We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 63, 154-166)
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I28, J13
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9237
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Asako
Ohinata
Matteo
Picchio
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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268 )
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C21, D14, I18, J14
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9236
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David
Card
Jochen
Kluve
Andrea
Weber
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (3), 894 - 931)
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J00, J68
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9235
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Lídia
Farré
Francesco
Fasani
Hannes
Mueller
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Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2018) 7(1), 1-34)
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I10, J60, C26
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9234
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Lídia
Farré
Francesc
Ortega
Ryuichi
Tanaka
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Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large ...
(published as 'Immigration and the public-private school choice' in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 184 - 201)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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9233
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Ronald
Bachmann
Peggy
Bechara
Anica
Kramer
Sylvi
Rzepka
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Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession: Evidence from Europe
Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses ...
(IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2017, 4:19)
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J6, E24
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9232
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Andrew
Henley
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The Post Crisis Growth in the Self-Employed: Volunteers or Reluctant Recruits?
In the UK by late 2014 there were almost 0.75m more self-employed than at the start of the financial crisis in early 2008. This represents over 75% of jobs growth in the UK over the same period. This ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51, 1312 - 1323)
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J21, M13, R23
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9231
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
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Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia
While the informal sector has received widespread attention in academic and policy arenas in recent decades, knowledge gaps and controversies remain. First, while the evidence is starting to emerge, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4:13)
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I24, J31, J42, J46
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9229
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Martin
Salm
Ansgar
Wübker
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Do Hospitals Respond to Increasing Prices by Supplying Fewer Services?
Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical ...
(revised version published as "Do hospitals react to lower prices by supplying more services?" in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 209-220)
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I11, L10, L21
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9228
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Tom
Krebs
Moritz
Kuhn
Mark
L. J.
Wright
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Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy
We use data from the Survey of Consumer Finance and Survey of Income Program Participation to show that young households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (11), 3223-3272)
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E21, E24, D52, J24
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9227
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (4), 1683–1725.)
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G11, J01, J13, J62
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9226
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Xiaoyan
Lei
Yan
Shen
James
P.
Smith
Guangsu
Zhou
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Do Social Networks Improve Chinese Adults' Subjective Well-being?
This paper studies relationships between social networks, health and subjective well-being (SWB) using nationally representative data of the Chinese Population – the Chinese Family Panel Studies ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2015, 6, 57 - 67)
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O10, O53
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9224
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Sarah
Flèche
Richard
Layard
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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 27 - 41)
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I1, I31, I32
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9223
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Andrew
Pendleton
Alex
Bryson
Howard
Gospel
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (4), 688-715)
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G3, G32, G31
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9222
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David
Atkin
Azam
Chaudhry
Shamyla
Chaudry
Amit
K.
Khandelwal
Eric
Verhoogen
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1101–1164, )
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O1, O3, D2, L2
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9221
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
Hugo
Vilares
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Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models
This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of ...
(revised version published as 'Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in: Journal of Econometrics. 2023, 233 (2), 612-632.)
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J31, J33, J41, J51, J52
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9220
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Pedro
Raposo
Pedro
Portugal
Anabela
Carneiro
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Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles
Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of ...
(published as 'The Sources of the Wage Losses of Displaced workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms, Matches, and Job Titles' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 786 - 820)
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J31, J63, J65, E24
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9219
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Rahul
Anand
Eswar
Prasad
Boyang
Zhang
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What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015, 74, 102-116)
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E31, E52, E61
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9218
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1227-1248.)
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F22, J24, O15
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9217
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Jeanne
Lafortune
José
Tessada
Ethan
Gatewood
Lewis
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People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (1), 30–43.)
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J24, N61, O33
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9216
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Michele
Tuccio
Jackline
Wahba
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Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms
Does international return migration transfer gender norms? Focusing on Jordan, an Arab country where discrimination against women and emigration rates are high, this paper exploits unique data in ...
(published as 'Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms: Evidence from the Middle East' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1006 - 1029)
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F22, J16, O15, O53
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9213
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Rachel
Connelly
Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
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Left Behind, At Risk, and Vulnerable Elders in Rural China: What the RUMIC Data Reveal about the Extent, Causes, and Consequences of Being Left Behind
Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 140 - 153)
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J12, J14, J21, J26, O53
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9211
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Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Marco
Manacorda
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Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 16-33.)
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I12, I15, I39, J13, K42
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9209
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Umut
Oguzoglu
Ashantha
Ranasinghe
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Crime and Establishment Size: Evidence from South America
Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 17 (4))
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O1, O4, D2
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9208
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Christine
Valente
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Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling: Evidence from Tanzania
The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019.)
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I21, I28, O15
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9207
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Tanguy
Bernard
Markus
Frölich
Andreas
Landmann
Pia
Naima
Unte
Angelino
Viceisza
Fleur
Wouterse
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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled ...
(published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484)
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D71, O12, Q13
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9206
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Yao
Pan
Stephen
C.
Smith
Munshi
Sulaiman
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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100 (4), 1012–1031)
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O13, Q12, I30
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9205
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Qingwei
Meng
Mthuli
Ncube
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Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two ...
(published in: World Economics, 2015, 16 (3), 141 - 162)
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E32, F4, F15
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9204
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Haroon
Bhorat
Ravi
Kanbur
Benjamin
Stanwix
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Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer
Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation ...
(published in: World Bank Observer, 2017, 32 (1), 21 - 74)
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J08, J20, J21, J30, J38
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9203
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Seth
Gershenson
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Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title-1 schools that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638)
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J45, J48, J22, I2
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9202
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Seth
Gershenson
Stephen
B.
Holt
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
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Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224)
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I24, D84, J15, J16
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9201
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Brittany
Bass
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Do Anti-Bullying Laws Reduce Youth Violence?
This study is the first to comprehensively examine the effect of state anti-bullying laws (ABLs) on youth violence. Using data from a variety of sources – including the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, ...
(published as 'Do anti-bullying laws work? New evidence on school safety and youth violence' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 473 - 502)
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I28
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9200
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Ulf
Zölitz
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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(7))
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I2, I24, J24
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9199
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Manuel
Bagues
Mauro
Sylos-Labini
Natalia
Zinovyeva
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Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?
An increasing number of countries are introducing gender quotas in scientific committees. We analyze how a larger presence of female evaluators affects committee decision-making using information on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (4), 1207–1238)
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J71, J16
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9196
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Laura
M.
Argys
Susan
L.
Averett
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The Effect of Family Size on Education: New Evidence from China's One Child Policy
Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (1), 21 - 42)
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I21, J18
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9195
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Thomas
Hills
Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective ...
(extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275)
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N3, N4, O1, D6
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9194
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Deborah
Goldschmidt
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring ...
(pubished in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1165 -1217)
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J31, D22
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9193
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Andrea
Salvatori
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The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52, 8 (2018))
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J21, J23, J24, O33
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9192
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Thomas
Horvath
Mario
Schnalzenberger
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by ...
(publshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 19 - 32)
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J14, J26, J31, H55
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9191
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Means Testing versus Basic Income: The (Lack of) Political Support for a Universal Allowance
This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 81-84)
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D3, D7, H2, H5
|
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9190
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Markus
Jäntti
Eva
Sierminska
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327)
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C1, D31, J10
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9189
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
Katsunori
Yamada
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When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons
While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 70, 1-9)
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D31, D63, I3, J31
|
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9188
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Philippe
Askenazy
Christine
Erhel
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The French Productivity Puzzle
Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the ...
(published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.)
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O40, J20, D20, E24
|
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9187
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Andrea
Bassanini
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A Bitter Medicine? Short-term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries
There is evidence that pro-competitive reforms in an industry with large incumbents induce the latter to re-organise and reduce prices in an attempt to deter entry of new competitors. Using data for ...
(Updated and replaced by "Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms", IZA Discussion Paper 11011, joint with F. Cingano)
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J23, L11
|
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9186
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Mary
C.
Daly
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 367-386)
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I10, I13, J14, J18
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