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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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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
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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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9095
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Michael
C.
Burda
Katie
R.
Genadek
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. ...
(part of this paper published as 'Unemployment and Effort at Work' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (347), 662 - 681)
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J22, E24
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9094
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Kai
Liu
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Insuring against Health Shocks: Health Insurance and Household Choices
This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 16 - 32)
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D1, O1, I1
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9093
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Seonghoon
Kim
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Jessica
Ya
Sun
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The Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine
We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (10), 1264 - 1277 )
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I10, I12, J14
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9090
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
Ragnhild
Camilla
Schreiner
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Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?
We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303)
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C21, H51, H55, I38, J22
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9089
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Nitika
Bagaria
Barbara
Petrongolo
John
Van Reenen
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Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform
Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624), 3189-3218)
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H51, I13, J18
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9088
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Lawrence
Jin
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?
This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep, Health, and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020,170, 174-192)
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H41, I18, I31
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9087
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Bernard
Fortin
Myra
Yazbeck
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138)
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C31, I10, I12
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9086
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Sanni
Breining
N. Meltem
Daysal
Marianne
Simonsen
Mircea
Trandafir
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Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (1), 1-16.)
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I11, I12, I18, I21, J13
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9085
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 129, 14-25)
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C72, C91, D82, H26
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9084
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation
We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are tempted to surf the internet. Further, we investigate how an active policy of ...
(revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426 )
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C91, D03, J33, M52
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9083
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Eric
S.
Lin
Shih-Yung
Chiu
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Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?
Postdoc is a special transitional position for those with a doctoral degree and is usually regarded as an investment to accumulate the additional human and social capital needed to facilitate future ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2016, 57 (3), 335-362)
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I2, J24
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9080
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Eleanor
Dillon
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges
We consider the effects of student ability, college quality, and the interaction between the two on academic outcomes and future earnings. Both ability and college quality strongly improve outcomes ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55(3), 768-808.)
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I21, J31
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9079
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Haapanen
Christopher
Jepsen
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Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education
Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's ...
(published as "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 485-508)
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J24, I26
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9078
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
Si
Wang
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The Occupational Feminization of Wages
This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of occupations on female (and male) earnings. Using large representative national samples of ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (1), 208-241)
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J31, J71
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9077
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Lydia
Geijtenbeek
Erik
Plug
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Is There a Penalty for Becoming a Woman? Is There a Premium for Becoming a Man? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than ...
(published as 'Is There a Penalty for Registered Women? Is There a Premium for Registered Men? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 334 -347)
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J16, J24, J71
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9076
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Melanie
Guldi
Chris
M.
Herbst
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Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility Decisions
Broadband (high-speed) internet access expanded rapidly from 1999 to 2007. This expansion is associated with higher economic growth and labor market activity. In this paper, we examine whether the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 69-91)
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J13, J18
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9074
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Erik
Plug
Bas
van der Klaauw
Lennart
Ziegler
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Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents' Friends
This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2108, 120 (1), 268-295)
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A14, J24, J46, J62
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9073
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Annette
Bergemann
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental Leave
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 139 - 178)
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J13, J21
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9072
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the cost of child care in the U.S. has increased substantially over the past few decades. This paper marshals data from a variety of sources to rigorously assess the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 13-30)
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I28, J01, J08, J20
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9071
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Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words
How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (2), 535–568)
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J31, J63, J64
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