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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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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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9041
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Simon
Gächter
Lingbo
Huang
Martin
Sefton
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Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712)
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C91, C92, J41
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9040
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Simon
Jäger
Florian
Zimmermann
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Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49)
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C93, D04, D83, J64, J68
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9039
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Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
Matthias
Sutter
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Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264)
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C91, C93, D03
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9038
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Paul
Bisschop
Stephen
Kastoryano
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 28-63)
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J16, J47, K14, K23, K42
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9036
|
Tymon
Sloczynski
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Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions
In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041)
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C21, J31, J71
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9035
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Christoph
Wunder
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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (4), 1303-1329)
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I38, J61
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9034
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Arash
Nekoei
Andrea
Weber
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 527-561.)
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H5, J3, J6
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9032
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Alain
Jousten
Mathieu
Lefèbvre
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Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality ...
(published in: D. A. Wise (ed.); Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 5-58)
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J14, J21, J26
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9031
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Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
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Does Commuting Affect Health?
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25(8), 984-1004 )
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I12, R41
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9030
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Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Crosetto
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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164(3), 281-295. )
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B49, C91, D81
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9029
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Paolo
Crosetto
Antonio
Filippin
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 83 (4), 1038–1051)
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C81, C91, D81
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9028
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Cameron
K.
Murray
Paul
Frijters
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 93(C), 99-114)
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D72, D73, R52, R58
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9027
|
Sebastian
Fehrler
Niall
Hughes
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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career concerned committee members receive private information of different ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, 10, 181-209)
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C92, D71, D83
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9025
|
Nils
G.
May
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.)
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Q42, R11, C23
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9024
|
Yiu Por
(Vincent)
Chen
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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2016, 50 (9), 1469-1482 )
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H30, J61, J68, D72
|
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9023
|
S
Anukriti
Abhishek
Chakravarty
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Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders
Despite theoretical advances, measurement issues have impeded empirical research on aspirations. We quantify political aspirations in a developing country by estimating individuals' willingness to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 79-121)
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J13, J16, H75, O11
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9021
|
Oliver
Krebs
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2018, 26, 171-222)
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F10, F11, F12, F16
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9020
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Kurt
Schmidheiny
Jens
Suedekum
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13)
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R11, R12
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9019
|
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Chiara
Rapallini
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Immigrant Student Performance in Math: Does It Matter Where You Come From?
The performance gap in math of immigrant students is investigated using PISA 2012. The gap with respect to non-immigrant schoolmates is first measured. The hypotheses that first (second) generation ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 291-304)
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I25, J15, O15
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