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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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9018
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Xiuna
Yang
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Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?
This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic minority groups and the Han majority. Results show that the probability to migrate to ...
(published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 44-69)
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J15, J61, J7, P23
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9017
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.)
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F22, O15, P2
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9016
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Claudia
Cigagna
Giovanni
Sulis
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On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 441 - 468)
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J61, J50, F22
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9015
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Boris
Hirsch
Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031)
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I19, J22
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9014
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Ewa
Ga?ecka-Burdziak
Marek
Góra
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Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market
Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour ...
(published as 'The impact of easy and early access to old-age benefits on exits from the labour market: a macro-micro analysis' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2016, 5, 18 (2016))
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J14, J22
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9012
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
Virgilio
Galdo
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Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design
This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4 (11), 1-26)
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I3, J2
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9011
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Marion
Collewet
Andries
de Grip
Jaap
de Koning
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Conspicuous Work: Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers
This paper uncovers 'conspicuous work' as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 79–90)
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J22, I31, D62
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9009
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Nicolao
Bonini
Stefania
Pighin
Enrico
Rettore
Lucia
Savadori
Federico
Schena
Sara
Tonini
Paolo
Tosi
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Overconfident People Are More Exposed to "Black Swan" Events: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk
Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant anecdotal evidence ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (4), 1443 - 1467)
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D83, D84, C2
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9007
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Wen
Ci
Jose
C.
Galdo
Marcel
Voia
Christopher
Worswick
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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada
Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9)
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C14, I20, J24, J31, M53
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9004
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Olivier
Marie
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 393-430)
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J13, I20
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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