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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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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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9185
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Jonas
Kolsrud
Camille
Landais
Peter
Nilsson
Johannes
Spinnewijn
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The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden
This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (4-5),985- 1033)
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H20, J64
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9184
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Johan Moritz
Kuhn
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Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark
We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943)
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D04, O31, O38
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9183
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Robert
Mahlstedt
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The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151)
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J61, J64, J68, D04, C26
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9182
|
John
H.
Pencavel
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Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24 )
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J22, J23, C13
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9181
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Wolter
Hassink
Pierre
Koning
Wim
Zwinkels
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Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?
This paper analyzes selection and incentive effects of opting out from public to private insurance on employer Disability Insurance (DI) inflow rates. We use administrative information on DI benefit ...
(published as 'Do Firms with Low Disability Risks Opt Out from Public to Private Insurance?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18 (1), 20170022)
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C23, I13
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9180
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Susceptibility to Default Training Options Across the Population
This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 369-379)
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J24, J31, I2
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9179
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Jan
Sauermann
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Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Workers' reciprocal behavior is one argument used to explain why firms invest in employee human capital. We explore the relation between firm-sponsored training and reciprocity by providing evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 543-557)
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J24, M53, D01
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9178
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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On the Origins of Risk-Taking
Risk-taking behavior 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 ...
(published as 'On the Origins of Risk-Taking in Financial Markets' in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (5), 2229 - 2278)
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G11, J01
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9177
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Nidhiya
Menon
Kathleen
McQueeney
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Christianity and Infant Health in India
This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian ...
(published as 'Christianity and girl child health in India' in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105109)
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O12, I15, Z12
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9176
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Alexander
Ahammer
Thomas
Horvath
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2017, 180 (3), 793 - 816)
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J14, J31, I10
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9175
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Birth Weight in the Long-Run
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231)
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I10, I18
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9174
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early ...
(published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144. )
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I10, I18, J65, E32
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9173
|
Susan
L.
Averett
Yang
Wang
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The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills
In 1993, the benefit levels of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household. Employing a difference-in-differences plus mother ...
(published as 'Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills ' in: Public Finance Review, 2018, 46 (4), 519-557 )
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I12, I38, J13
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9172
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 27 - 45)
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I1, J1
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9170
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Stijn
Baert
Olivier
Rotsaert
Dieter
Verhaest
Eddy
Omey
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A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work ...
(revised version published as 'Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances' in: Kyklos, 2016, 69 (3), 401 - 425)
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J24, I21, D83, C93
|
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9169
|
Sandra
E.
Black
Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15 (2), 209-240)
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I21, I23, I24, J15, J18
|
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9167
|
Erica
Blom
Brian
C.
Cadena
Benjamin
J.
Keys
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Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' personal exposure to economic conditions and their investment choices in the context of human capital. Focusing on bachelor's degree ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1043–1082)
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E32, I23, J22, J24
|
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9166
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Pierre
M.
Picard
Yves
Zenou
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some ...
(published as 'Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 77-93.)
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A14, J15, R14, Z13
|
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9165
|
Xin
Meng
Chikako
Yamauchi
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Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes
In the past 15 years around 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities to work. Because of restrictions on migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant ...
(published as 'Children of Migrants: The Cumulative Impact of Parental Migration on Children's Education and Health Outcomes in China' in: Demography, 2017, 54 (5), 1677-1714)
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J38, I28
|
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9164
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Matthias
Parey
Jens
Ruhose
Fabian
Waldinger
Nicolai
Netz
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The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants
We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(5), 776-792)
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F22, J24, J31, J61
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