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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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16209
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Viola
Angelini
Joan
Costa-Font
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Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis
Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2023, 212, 422 - 437 )
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I18, J14
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16207
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Xin
Meng
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China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply: The Quantity Myth
In the past forty years the Chinese economy achieved miracle growth and many attributed a significant part of this to China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a ...
(published in: Asian Development Review, 2023, 40 (2), 111-144 )
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J10, J11, J21
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16205
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Alex
Lyford
Mingfang
Zhang
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A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire
Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Sciene Association, 2024, 10, 310–329 )
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C91, D64, D91, H41
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16204
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Gökay
Demir
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Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of ...
(updated version available as DP 17510)
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J31, J38, J42, J62
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16202
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Marc
Bellemare
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Fixed Effects and Causal Inference
Across many disciplines, the fixed effects estimator of linear panel data models is the default method to estimate causal effects with nonexperimental data that are not confounded by time-invariant, ...
(forthcoming as 'On the (Mis)Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2025)
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C23, C51, C52
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16201
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Alina
Sorgner
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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship
This chapter presents the results of a systematic review of literature (SLR) on impacts of Covid-19 on entrepreneurship published in the first three years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
(published in: Zimmermann, K.F. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham., 2023.)
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L26
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16200
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Ernst
Fehr
Gary
Charness
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Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences
We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important ...
((this version: March 2024) published in: Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514)
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D0, D2, D9, H0, J0, P0
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16199
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Nicoletta
Corrocher
Daniele
Moschella
Jacopo
Staccioli
Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence and Challenges
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (3), 519–540)
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O33
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16194
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Zachary
Parolin
Rafael
Pintro
Schmitt
Gřsta
Esping-Andersen
Peter
Fallesen
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The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in High-Income Countries
Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational ...
(published as 'Intergenerational persistence of poverty in five high-income countries' in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, 9, 254–267 )
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I32, I38
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16192
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Suzanne
Duryea
Rafael
Perez
Ribas
Breno
Sampaio
Gustavo
R.
Sampaio
Giuseppe
Trevisan
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Who Benefits from Tuition-Free, Top-Quality Universities? Evidence from Brazil
This paper investigates the long-term impact on earnings of attending a tuition-free, top-quality university in Brazil. We identify the causal effect through a sharp discontinuity in an admission ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 96, 102423)
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H52, I23, I26
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16191
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Wim
Naudé
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We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It
The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" – a reduction in GDP in advanced economies – to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in ...
(published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023)
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O40, O33, D01, D64
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16189
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Jan
K.
Brueckner
Matthew
E.
Kahn
Jerry
Nickelsburg
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How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have ...
(published in: Economics of Transportation, 2024, 38, 100358)
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R4, Q54
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16188
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Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
Eva
Sierminska
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Oaxaca-Blinder Meets Kitagawa: What Is the Link?
Recently, papers have started combining the naming of two popular decomposition methods: the Oaxaca-Blinder method and the Kitagawa method, a popular method in demographics and sociology. Although ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2025, 20 (5), e0321874.)
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A10, B41, J0
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16186
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Jan
Gromadzki
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Labor Supply Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer
I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105248)
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I38, J21, J22
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16184
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Jason
W.
Miller
Jonathan
Phares
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Job Creation and Job Destruction Dynamics in the U.S. Truck Transportation Industry, 1995-2019
Every year, approximately 27% of all jobs in the U.S. truck transportation sector (NAICS 484) are reshuffled across motor carriers as existing carriers grow or shrink, new entrants begin operations, ...
(revised version published as 'Job Gain and Job Loss Dynamics in the Truck Transportation Industry' in: Journal of Business Logistics, 2024, 45 (3), e123912024)
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J21, J63, L92
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16181
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Marco
Alberto
De Benedetto
Maria
De Paola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
Janna
Smirnova
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Erasmus Program and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
We study the impact that participation in the Erasmus program produces on a number of labor market outcomes. By implementing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design, we show that participating in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 93, 102675)
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C26, D04, I23, I26, J00
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16180
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Anna
Adamecz
John
Jerrim
Jean-Baptiste
Pingault
Nikki
Shure
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Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment
It is well established that boys perceive themselves to be better in mathematics than girls, even when their ability is the same. We examine the drivers of this male overconfidence in self-assessed ...
(published as 'Peers, parents, and self-perceptions: the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 33 (2025))
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I24, J16
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16179
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Eugene
Malthouse
Charlie
Pilgrim
Thomas
Hills
Daniel
Sgroi
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When Fairness Is Not Enough: The Disproportionate Contributions of the Poor in a Collective Action Problem
Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with ...
(published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2023, 152 (11), 3229–3242)
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C92, D91, D63
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16178
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Karina
Doorley
Dora
Tuda
Luke
Duggan
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Will Childcare Subsidies Increase the Labour Supply of Mothers in Ireland?
The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents – particularly mothers – to work. Prior to the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2025, 46 (2), 239-259)
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J13, J22, C25
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16169
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Mattia
Filomena
Matteo
Picchio
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Unsafe Temperatures, Unsafe Jobs: The Impact of Weather Conditions on Work-Related Injuries
We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather conditions matched to administrative daily data on work-related accidents. The ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 851-875)
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J28, J81, Q52, Q54
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16168
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Matteo
Bobba
Veronica
Frisancho
Marco
Pariguana
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Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects
This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. We find that providing students from socio-economically ...
(this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 10360 (2016).)
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D83, I21, I24, J24
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16165
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Martin
B.
Hackmann
Vincent
Pohl
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 178–218)
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H51, H75, I11, I13, I18, J14
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16164
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Simone
Moriconi
Giovanni
Peri
Riccardo
Turati
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Are Immigrants More Left Wing than Natives?
We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to children of citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 ...
(published as 'Analyzing political preferences of second-generation immigrants across the rural–urban divide', in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2025, 146, 103740.)
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D72, J61, P16, Z1
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16163
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Luca
Fumarco
S. Michael
Gaddis
Francesco
Sarracino
I.
Snoddy
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Sendemails: An Automated Email Package with Multiple Applications
Correspondence audits are a popular method to examine discrimination in a causal framework. However, they often require sending hundreds or thousands of emails to subjects. The sendemails package ...
(revised version published in:Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 130-160 )
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C8
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16162
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Benjamin
Harrell
Luca
Fumarco
Patrick
Button
David
J.
Schwegman
Kyla
Denwood
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Healthcare Services
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the rate of mental health disorders, as well as demand for mental health services. It remains unclear, however, the extent to which the pandemic impacted access to ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 420 - 422)
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C93, I14, J16, I11, I18, J15
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16161
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Grace
Lordan
Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
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Stephen versus Stephanie? Does Gender Matter for Peer-to-Peer Career Advice
Occupational segregation is one of the major causes of the gender pay gap. We probe the possibility that individual beliefs regarding gender stereotypes established in childhood contribute to ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital)
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J24
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16159
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Kazuhiro
Kumo
Cristiano
Perugini
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Religion, Ideology and Fertility
In this paper, we investigate how attachment to religion is connected to conservative gender role beliefs and to what extent they, in turn, materialize into fertility decisions. We also test the ...
(published as 'Religion, Gender Norms and Fertility in Muslim Post-Communist Economies' in: Post-Communist Economies, 2024, 36 (8), 1035–1065. )
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J13, J16, Z12, P20
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16158
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Christian
Dustmann
Mikkel
Mertz
Anna
Okatenko
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Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood
Using an identification strategy based on random assignment of refugees to different municipalities in Denmark between 1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (653), 1901–1936)
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J1, K4, I3
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16157
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Junsen
Zhang
Shulan
Fei
Yanbing
Wen
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How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households
Research on the economics of beauty has persistently emphasized beauty premiums in the labor market but ignored its influence within existing marriages. We examine the physical appearance of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 122-137 )
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J10, J13
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16156
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Valentina
Di Iasio
Jackline
Wahba
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Expecting Brexit and UK Migration: Should I Go?
This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104484)
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F22, J61, J48
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16154
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Bineet
Mishra
Eswar
Prasad
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A Simple Model of a Central Bank Digital Currency
We develop a general equilibrium model that highlights the trade-offs between physical and digital forms of retail central bank money. The key differences between cash and central bank digital ...
(published in: Journal of Financial Stability, 2024, 73, 101282)
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E4, E5, E61
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16153
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Andrea
Albanese
Bart
Cockx
Muriel
Dejemeppe
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105137)
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C21, J08, J23, J24, J64, J68, J61
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16152
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Gunnar
Brandén
Martin
Nybom
Kelly
Vosters
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Like Mother, like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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J62, J12, J16, J24
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16149
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Chunbing
Xing
Yan
Sun
Chuliang
Luo
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Higher Education Opportunity and the Choice of Vocational vs. Academic High School
This research uses CHIP data of 2018 to examine the impact of higher education opportunities on the middle school graduates' choice between academic and vocational high schools. The findings indicate ...
(published in: China Economic Quarterly International, 2023, 3, 119–131)
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I24, I25, I26, H75
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16148
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Mengbing
Zhu
Yi
Li
Chunbing
Xing
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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102609.)
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D13, D31, J16, J21
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16146
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Holger
Görg
Anna
Jacobs
Saskia
Meuchelböck
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Who Is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106767)
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F1, F14, F51, L25
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16145
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Nicolas
Gendron-Carrier
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Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs
I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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J24, J31, J62, L26
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16143
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Gabriella
Conti
Pamela
Giustinelli
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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34, 992 - 1012)
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C25, C83, D84, I12, I18
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16141
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Matthias
Rodemeier
Andreas
Löschel
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Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency ...
(published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae058, 21 January 2025)
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D61, D83, H21, Q41, Q48
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16139
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Wim
Naudé
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Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse
The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's ...
(published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023)
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O40, O33, D01, D64
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16137
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Dan
Monster
Julia
Nafziger
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Nudging in Complex Environments
To study the effects of reminder nudges in complex environments, we apply a novel experimental approach based on a computer game in which decision makers have to pay attention to and perform multiple ...
(published as 'Spillover effects of reminder nudges in complex environments' in: PNAS, 2024; 121 (17), e23225491)
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C9, D91
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16135
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Gaurav
Chiplunkar
Jeffrey
Weaver
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Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India
Dowry payments are common in many marriage markets. This paper uses data on over 74,000 marriages in rural India over the last century to explain why the institution of dowry emerges and how it ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, 103115)
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J12, N35, O15
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16130
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Oded
Stark
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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232)
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D01, D63, D91, I31, Z18
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16129
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Margaret
E.
Brehm
Olga
Malkova
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The Child Tax Credit over Time by Family Type: Benefit Eligibility and Poverty
We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 707 - 741)
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H24, H71, J22
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16128
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Liuchun
Deng
Steffen
Müller
Verena
Plümpe
Jens
Stegmaier
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Robots, Occupations, and Worker Age: A Production-Unit Analysis of Employment
We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104881)
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J23
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16124
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Thorben
Korfhage
Björn
Fischer
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Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884)
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I18, I38, J14, J22, J26
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16122
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Bart
Cockx
Sam
Desiere
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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104859)
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D22, H25, J08, J23, L26, M13
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16119
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Catarina
Goulăo
Juan
A.
Lacomba
Francisco
Miguel
Lagos
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain
Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 218, 132-145)
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J64, J71
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16117
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Babs
Jacobs
Guido
Schwerdt
Rolf
Van der Velden
Stan
Vermeulen
Simon
Wiederhold
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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well ...
(this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 14854 (2021).)
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I24, I26, J12, J24, J62
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16116
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Mathias
Dolls
Carla
Krolage
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'Earned, Not Given'? The Effect of Lowering the Full Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions
This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a 2014 reform in the German public pension system that lowered the full retirement age (FRA) of individuals with a long contribution history by up to two ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics; 2023, 223, 104909)
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H55, J14, J18, J26
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