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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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9163
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Corrado
Giulietti
Juan
David
Robalino
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207)
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C90, D63
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9162
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, 43 (2), 309 - 335.)
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D72, D73, H84, Q54
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9159
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Dripto
Bakshi
Indraneel
Dasgupta
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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, 29 (2), 147-170)
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D72, D74, O10, O20
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9156
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Eric
Bonsang
Arthur
van Soest
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Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis
We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects ...
(published as 'Time devoted to home production and retirement in couples: A panel data analysis' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101810)
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J22, J29, J14
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9155
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Boris
F.
Blumberg
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups
This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2016, 40 (2), 335-357)
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D92, M14, M21
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9154
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Spencer
Bastani
Tomer
Blumkin
Luca
Micheletto
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 41-57)
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D82, H21, J31
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9153
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Marilyn
Spencer
Deniz
Gevrek
Valrie
Chambers
Randall
Bowden
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Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?
This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time ...
(published in: Personnel Review, 2016, 45 (5), 1047-1068)
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J22, J32, J45, M52
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9151
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Charlotte
Bartels
Nico
Pestel
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The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit ...
(revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159)
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H24, H31, J22, J65
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9149
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Arindrajit
Dube
Laura
Giuliano
Jonathan
Leonard
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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (2), 620 - 663)
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J00, J31, J42, J63
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9147
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Vincent
Van Roy
Daniel
Vertesy
Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main ...
(published as 'Technology and Employment: Mass Unemployment or Job Creation? Empirical Evidence from European Patenting Firms' in: Research Policy, 2018, 47 (9), 1762 - 1776)
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O31, O33
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9146
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David
Neumark
Diego
Grijalva
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The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits
State and federal policymakers grappling with the aftermath of the Great Recession sought ways to spur job creation, in many cases adopting hiring credits to encourage employers to create new jobs. ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1111-1145 )
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J23
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9144
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Benjamin
Hansen
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. ...
(published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3 (1), 60-75)
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I18, H71
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9142
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Boris
Kralj
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Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario
We develop a stylized principal-agent model with moral hazard and adverse selection to provide a unified framework for understanding some of the most salient features of the recent physician payment ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (10), 1326-40. )
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I10, I12, I18
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9141
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John
Cawley
Anna
Choi
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Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error
One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e1-e29.)
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I1, I12, I14, I20, I24, I3
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9138
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Anthony
Strittmatter
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 ()
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J64, J68, C21, C31
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9137
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Dieter
Verhaest
Stijn
Baert
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The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the ...
(revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270)
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I21, J24, J64, C21, C41
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9136
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Pablo
Ibarrarán
Jochen
Kluve
Laura
Ripani
David
Rosas Shady
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Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222 )
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J24, J64, O15, O17
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9134
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Alexander
Spermann
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How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
The number of long-term unemployed in Germany has stagnated at around one million for several years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15)
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J31, J38
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9133
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Wen
Fan
Yuanyuan
Ma
Liming
Wang
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Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2015, 14 (3), 88-104)
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J0, J24, O15
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9132
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Leopold
Sarr
Smriti
Sharma
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. ...
(published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708)
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J16, J24, J31, J71, C21, O12
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9130
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Jens
Ruhose
Ludger
Woessmann
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224)
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I25, O47, J24
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9129
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Moussa
Blimpo
Ousman
Gajigo
Todd
Pugatch
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Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33 (1), 185-208)
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O15, I21, C93
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9128
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Noemi
Peter
Petter
Lundborg
Dinand
Webbink
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The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 54, 61-78)
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J00, J24, J16
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9127
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Robert
A.
Moffitt
Brian
J.
Phelan
Anne
E.
Winkler
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Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on the AFDC and TANF programs, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 1 - 42)
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I3, J1
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9126
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Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Children's Media Use and Homework Time
Homework is an important part of the academic production function, but often students are studying while doing another activity. Using the nationally representative Panel Study of Income ...
(published in: Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, 2015, New York, 91-107)
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J24
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9125
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Rodolfo
Lauterbach
Jacques
Mairesse
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Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France
Institutions, social norms and the nature of industrial relations vary greatly between Latin American and Western European countries. Such institutional and organizational differences might shape ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (2), 229 - 252)
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C23, D21, J51, L13
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9123
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Sebastian
Findeisen
Dominik
Sachs
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 58-78)
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H21, H23
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9122
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Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79)
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I20, J24, J31
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9121
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Benjamin
Elsner
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(3), 787-828 )
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I21, I23, J24
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9120
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Jürg
Schweri
Joop
Hartog
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Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis ...
(published as 'Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? Evidence from healthcare' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 141, 135 - 150 )
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I11, I21, J24, J31, D84
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9119
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Massimo
Anelli
Giovanni
Peri
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Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602)
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I21, J16, J24, J31, Z13
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9118
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Monique
de Haan
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Bas
van der Klaauw
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The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice
Theory points to a potential trade-off between two main school assignment mechanisms; Boston and Deferred Acceptance (DA). While DA is strategy-proof and gives a stable matching, Boston might ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 388 - 455)
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C83, D47, I20
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9117
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Caroline
Schwientek
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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (53), 5748-5775)
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I21, J16
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9116
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Lingguo
Cheng
Hong
Liu
Ye
Zhang
Zhong
Zhao
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(1), 155-192 )
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J12, H55, I38
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9115
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Muriel
Dejemeppe
Catherine
Smith
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation
In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4 (17))
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J21, J26, H53, E32
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9113
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Andreas
Bernecker
Pierre
C.
Boyer
Christina
Gathmann
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 26-57)
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I38, H11, H77, D78, D83
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9110
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Tor
Eriksson
Lei
Mao
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Saving Face and Group Identity
Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647)
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C92, D03, M52, Z13
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9109
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Mirko
Draca
Theodore
Koutmeridis
Stephen
Machin
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The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?
In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57 )
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K42
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9108
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Martin
Guzi
Martin
Kahanec
Lucia
Mýtna
Kureková
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How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71 (2), 213-243 )
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J15, J24, J61, J68
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9107
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Eric
D.
Gould
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Explaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration
This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and the influx of low-skilled immigrants. There is a vast literature arguing that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (619), 1281–1326)
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J31
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9106
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Dominique
Meurs
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Friederike
von Haaren
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Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (4), 1137–1158)
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J13, J15, J24
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9105
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Graziella
Bertocchi
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The Legacies of Slavery in and out of Africa
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence ...
(Julian Simon Lecture at the 12th IZA Annual Migration Meeting in Dakar, revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5,1-19)
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F22, J15, O15
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9104
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Rainald
Borck
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59:4, 743-766)
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F18, Q50, R11, R12
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9103
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Ian
K.
McDonough
Thomas
B.
Fomby
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Financial Literacy and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households
Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100, 1224-1249)
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I12, I18
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9102
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa: The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior
We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140, 90-105)
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I15, J12, N37, O10
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9101
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Rudi
Rocha
Claudio
Ferraz
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Human Capital Persistence and Development
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 105-136)
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O15, O18, N36
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9100
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Daniel
Treisman
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Misperceiving Inequality
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2018, 30 (1), 27 - 54)
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D31, D63, D83, H24, H54, I30
|
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9099
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Dorothée
Boccanfuso
Alexandre
Larouche
Mircea
Trandafir
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Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 74, 412-424)
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I21, O15, O55
|
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9097
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
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The UK's Productivity Puzzle
The 2008 Great Recession was notable in the UK for three things: the enormity of the output shock; the muted unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which ...
(published in: Askenazy, P., Bellmann, L., Bryson, A. and Moreno-Galbis, E. (eds.) The Productivity Puzzle across Europe: Oxford University Press, 2016)
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D22, E22, E23, E24, J23, J24, J3
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9096
|
Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
Lucy
Stokes
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Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?
This paper uses linked employer-employee data to investigate the relationship between employees' subjective well-being and workplace performance in Britain. The analyses show a clear, positive and ...
(published in: Human Relations, 2017, 70 (8), 1017-1037)
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J28
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