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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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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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9070
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Annalisa
Loviglio
Lavinia
Piemontese
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Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes
We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not ...
(published as 'Misperceptions of unemployment and individual labor market outcomes' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5 (13))
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J31, J42, J64
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9068
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Daron
Acemoglu
David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
Brendan
Price
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (S1), S141-S198)
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F16, J23
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9067
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Jason
M.
Lindo
María
Padilla-Romo
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Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of the criminal organization, on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 253-268)
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I18, K42, O12
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9063
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Dongdong
Luo
Chunbing
Xing
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Who Is More Mobile in Response to Local Demand Shifts in China?
In this paper, we use two nationally representative datasets to examine the population adjustment of demographic groups in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS ...
(published as 'Population adjustments in response to local demand shifts in China' in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 101 - 114)
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J23, R23
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9062
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Claudio
Fassio
Fabio
Montobbio
Alessandra
Venturini
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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK
This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between ...
(published as 'Skilled migration and innovation in European industries' in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (3), 706 - 718)
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O31, O33, F22, J61
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9061
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Santiago
M.
Pinto
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Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition
Reflecting recent enforcement policy activism of US states, this paper examines federal-state overlap of illegal immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we ...
(revised version published as 'Unauthorized Immigration and Fiscal Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 283-305)
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F2, H4, H7
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9059
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Francesco
Mariotti
Karen
A.
Mumford
Yolanda
Pena-Boquete
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Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited
We analyse the migration movements of power couples (couples where both members have at least a college degree), half power and no-power couples within Australia. We explicitly allow for potential ...
(published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 6 (1), 1-18)
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J3, J7
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9055
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Christian
Pfeifer
Inna
Petrunyk
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Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 217-239)
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D63, I31, P36, P46
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9054
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Guyonne
Kalb
Daniel
Kühnle
Anthony
Scott
Terence
Chai
Cheng
Sung-Hee
Jeon
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What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions: Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying ...
(published as 'What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches' in: Health Economics, 2017, 27 (2), e101 - e119)
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I11, J22, J44, J21
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9053
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Brian
Duncan
Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Prenatal Stress and Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Super Bowl
Studies have estimated the relationship between psychological stress and birth weight by exploiting natural disasters and terrorist attacks, both of which could affect fetal health through other ...
(published as 'It's Just a Game: The Super Bowl and Low Birth Weight' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4) 946-978)
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I12, J13
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9052
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Susan
L.
Averett
Erin
K.
Fletcher
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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the ...
(published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.)
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I12, J13
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9051
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Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Lucia
A.
Reisch
Karin
Bammann
Gabriele
Eiben
Yiannis
Kourides
Eva
Kovács
Fabio
Lauria
Kenn
Konstabel
Alba
M.
Santaliestra-Pasias
Krishna
Vyncke
Iris
Pigeot
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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152)
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I12, J13, J22
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9050
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Giovanni
S. F.
Bruno
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Orietta
Dessy
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Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
In this paper we explore recent ISFOL-PLUS 2006-2008-2010 data available for Italy about height and weight of young workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity ...
(published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8)
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J28, J81, I14
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9049
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Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the ...
(published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56)
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C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
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9048
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Esther
Hauk
Javier
Ortega
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Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach
We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166)
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D02, I2, N00, O14
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9047
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Anders
Stenberg
Olle
Westerlund
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Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86)
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H30, H52, I20, J24, O30
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9046
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Joniada
Milla
Thanasis
Stengos
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Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery
It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children in many, if not most, populations. This relationship may form an ...
(published as 'Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 593-616)
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I0
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9045
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marianne
Simonsen
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Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care
This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use ...
(published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 217-229 )
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J13
|
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9044
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Enric
Meix-Llop
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Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment
The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.)
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H41, I20, K36
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9043
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François
Rycx
Yves
Saks
Ilan
Tojerow
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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either ...
(published as 'Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ? The Moderating Role of Age and Gender' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7 (1), 1-37)
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C33, I21, J24, J31
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9042
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Timo
Hener
Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement
Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children's civic engagement, since they undermine, and in some cases prevent, the processes ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2016, 179 (3), 633–656)
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J12, C23
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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