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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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John
V.
Winters
Yu
Li
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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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8965
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Benjamin
Crost
Claire
Duquennois
Joseph
Felter
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines
Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, 379-395)
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H56, O13
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8964
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Andreas
Lichter
Nico
Pestel
Eric
Sommer
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Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer
In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ambient air pollution on individuals' productivity by using panel data on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 54-66)
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J24, Q51, Q53
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8962
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Marc
Piopiunik
Jens
Ruhose
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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 258-282)
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F22, J15, K42, R10
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8961
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Mette
Foged
Giovanni
Peri
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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (2), 1-34)
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F22, J24, J61
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8960
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Pedro
Carneiro
Oswald
Koussihouèdé
Nathalie
Lahire
Costas
Meghir
Corina
Mommaerts
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to ...
(published as ' School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (345), 28-51)
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H52, I20, I22, I25, O15
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8959
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Joshua
Angrist
Erich
Battistin
Daniela
Vuri
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 216-249)
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C26, C31, I21, I28, J24
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8958
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Seth
Gershenson
Erdal
Tekin
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2018, 13(4), 513-544.)
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I12, I21, K42
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8957
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Bente
Jensen
Peter
Jensen
Astrid
Würtz
Rasmussen
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
From 2011 to 2013 a randomized controlled trial has been run in Danish preschools to obtain evidence on improvements of early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The ...
(published in : Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 26-39.)
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I21, J13, J24
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8955
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Joseph
Deutsch
Gil
S.
Epstein
Alon
Nir
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Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money
We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model ...
(published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2017, 38 (1), 53 - 75)
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H4, H42, H8, D8
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8954
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Benjamin
Beranek
Robin
Cubitt
Simon
Gächter
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Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools
This paper reports data from three subject pools (n=717 subjects) using techniques based on those of Loewenstein, et al. (1989) and Blanco, et al. (2011) to obtain parameters, respectively, of stated ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1 (1), 43-58)
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C90
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8953
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Tjaša
Bjedov
Thierry
Madies
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (3), 1519–1540.)
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C91, D74, L15, H71
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8950
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Colin
P.
Green
Fernando
A.
Lozano
Rob
Simmons
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Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. ...
(published in: NIESR Review: Special Issue of Sports Economics , 2015, 232 (1), R30 - R40)
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M5
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8949
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Klara
Kaliskova
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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU
This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 749 -775)
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C25, H24, H31, J22
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8948
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Christian
Bredemeier
Falko
Juessen
Roland
Winkler
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Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 158, 73-76)
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E24, E32, J10, J21
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8947
|
Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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Parenthood and Risk Preferences
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women ...
(extended version published as 'Parenthood, risk attitudes and risky behavior' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 79, 102189)
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D1, D81, J13, J16
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8946
|
Noritaka
Kudoh
Hiroaki
Miyamoto
Masaru
Sasaki
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Employment and Hours over the Business Cycle in a Model with Search Frictions
This paper studies a labor market search-matching model with multi-worker firms to investigate how firms utilize the extensive and intensive margins over the business cycle. The earnings function ...
(publication in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019. 31, 436-461)
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E32, J20, J64
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8945
|
Sonia
A.
Agudelo
Hector
Sala
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Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24 (1), 99-134)
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J30, F16, J31
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8943
|
John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
Hugo
Vilares
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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw ...
(revised version published as 'Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 551-576.)
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J31, J52, J53
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8942
|
Pablo
Agnese
Jana
Hromcová
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Bubble Economics and Structural Change: The Cases of Spain and France Compared
This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2018, 21 (1), 59 - 79)
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J64, O57
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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