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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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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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9003
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Hans
Fricke
Jeffrey
Grogger
Andreas
Steinmayr
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the ...
(published as 'Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 199-213)
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A20, I20, I23
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9002
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Anyck
Dauphin
Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors ...
(published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766 )
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D1, D7, J12
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9001
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model
The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 187-190)
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D11, D12, D13
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9000
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (1), 326-342)
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B40, C18, C80
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8999
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Frank
Gyimah
Sackey
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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium ...
(published as "Microfinance and credit rationing: does the microfinance type matter?" Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 8(2), 114–131.)
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G21
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8997
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Sourafel
Girma
Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
Sandra
Lancheros
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269)
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F23
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8995
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Alex
Bryson
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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161 )
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J31, J33
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8994
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016)
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D63, I32
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8991
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Mark
Strom
Kristoffersen
Michael
Svarer
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Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 27-39)
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E32, H3, J65
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8990
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training
This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62 )
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I22, I26, J24, M53
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8989
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Benjamin
W.
Chute
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Is There a Link Between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility? Evidence from Recent Micro Data
This study investigates the prevalence and severity of job immobility induced by the provision of employer-sponsored health insurance – a phenomenon known as 'job-lock'. Using data from the ...
(published in: Open Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, 1 (1), 38 - 52)
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I13, J16, J32, J51
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8988
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Andrea
Albanese
Bart
Cockx
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Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?
In several OECD countries age-targeted wage subsidies have been introduced to increase the employment of older workers, but evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. This paper examines the effects ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166)
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J14, C21, J18, J3
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8987
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Charlotte
Cabane
Adrian
Hille
Michael
Lechner
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Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 90-103)
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Z28, Z29, I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
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8986
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Daniele
Checchi
Enrico
Rettore
Silvia
Girardi
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IC Technology and Learning: An Impact Evaluation of Cl@ssi2.0
In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 241 - 264)
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I20, I28
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8985
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Atila
Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua
Angrist
Peter
Hull
Parag A.
Pathak
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (7), 1878–1920)
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I21, I28, J24, C26, C36
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8984
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Dan
S.
Rickman
Hongbo
Wang
John
V.
Winters
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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state ...
(revised portion published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35 (3), 542-550)
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H75, I20, I28, J24, J31, R23
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8983
|
Katja
Görlitz
Christina
Gravert
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The Effects of a High School Curriculum Reform on University Enrollment and the Choice of College Major
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university and to choose Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) as college ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (3), 321-336)
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I21, I23, I28
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8982
|
Evelina
Gavrilova
Nadia
Campaniello
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Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in the Crime Market
There is little research on the gender variation in the crime market. We document a gender gap in criminal activities, based on property crimes, using data from the U.S. National Incident Based ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 289-304)
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J16, K42
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8981
|
Robert
M.
Sauer
Tanya
Wilson
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 73-86)
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J23, L26, M13
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8979
|
Pedro
Carneiro
Rita
Ginja
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F66 -F95)
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D12, D91, I30, J1
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8978
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Barbara
Broadway
Guyonne
Kalb
Daniel
Kühnle
Miriam
Mäder
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of ...
(published as 'Paid Parental Leave and Child Health in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2017, 93 (301), 214-237)
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I1
|
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8975
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Roland
Benabou
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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Religion and Innovation
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 346–351)
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D83, O31, O35, O43, Z1, Z12
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8974
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Stephan
Meier
Matthew
Stephenson
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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal ...
(revised version published as 'Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40 (8), 1171-1193 (with Patryk Perkowski))
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C90, D20, D03
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8973
|
Michael
Kirchler
Jürgen
Huber
Matthias
Stefan
Matthias
Sutter
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Market Design and Moral Behavior
In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62, 2615-2625)
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C91, C92, D47
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8972
|
Marco
Caliendo
Anne
C.
Gielen
Robert
Mahlstedt
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Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes
Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of unemployed, there is no evidence so far on how it affects their future re-employment ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 218-221)
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J64, J61
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8971
|
Philippe
Aghion
Ernst
Fehr
Richard
Holden
Tom
Wilkening
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The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation: An Empirical Investigation
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo's subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling in practice, both in a setting with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (1), 232–274)
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D23, D71, D86, C92
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8970
|
Sarmistha
Pal
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Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh
The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 143, 194 - 203)
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D13, I12, O15
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8969
|
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
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Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (1), 1101 - 1157)
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I15, I18, H41
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8968
|
Roberto
Leombruni
Tiziano
Razzolini
Francesco
Serti
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The Hidden Cost of Labor Market Entry During Recession: Unemployment Rate at Entry and Occupational Injury Risk of Young Workers
A unique dataset from Italy is used to study the effect of unfavorable business cycle conditions at entry on future workplace safety of young workers. We find that higher local unemployment rates at ...
(published as 'Macroeconomic Conditions at Entry and Injury Risk in the Workplace' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (2), 783 - 807)
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J24, J28, J31
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8967
|
Davide
Dragone
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, ...
(published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.)
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D11, D12, I12, I15, L66, O10, O33, Q18, R22
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8966
|
John
V.
Winters
Yu
Li
|
Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties
This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (8), 1956-1973)
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I00, Q00, R00
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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