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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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8941
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Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Ngo Van
Long
Markus
Poschke
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Recent work has documented declines in the labor income share in the United States and beyond. This paper documents that these trends differ between manufacturing and services in the U.S. and in a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 87, 206-231)
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O40, O41, O30
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8940
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Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Ngo Van
Long
Markus
Poschke
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of ...
(published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (3), 1229-1266)
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O40, O41, O30
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8939
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Oliver
Falck
Constantin
Mang
Ludger
Woessmann
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (1), 1-38)
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I21, I28
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8938
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Georg
Graetz
Guy
Michaels
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Robots at Work
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (5), 753–768.)
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E23, J23, O30
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8937
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Sinem
H.
Ayhan
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Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis
This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It ...
(revised version published as 'Married women's added worker effect during the 2008 economic crisis - The case of Turkey' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 767 - 790 )
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C26, D10, J16, J22
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8935
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Mark
Wooden
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Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia
Using newly collected data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this study presents new estimates of the earnings effects of sexual orientation in Australia and ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (4), 903-931.)
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J31, J71
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8934
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 119, 96-108)
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J24, L83, D84
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8933
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Juan
Carlos
Campaña
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use ...
(published as 'Gender norms and the gendered distribution of total work in Latin American households' in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (1), 35-62)
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D13, J22, J13, J16
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8932
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Tiit
Tammaru
Magnus
Strömgren
Maarten
van Ham
Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants
Contemporary cities are becoming more and more diverse in population as a result of immigration. Research also shows that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, ...
(published as 'Relations between residential and workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrant men and women' in: Cities, 2016, 59, 131-138)
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J15, J61, R23
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8931
|
Chunbing
Xing
Jianwei
Xu
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Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China
This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:8)
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J3, E2
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8930
|
John
T.
Giles
Albert
Park
Meiyan
Wang
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 68(1), 131-164 )
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I20, J24, J30, O15, O53
|
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8929
|
Paola
Andrea
Barrientos Quiroga
Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up ...
(published in: Indian Economic Journal, 2018, 66 (1-2), 1-24)
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O12, O47, O53
|
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8927
|
Lucia
Ferrone
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
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Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have ...
(published as 'Internal migration, children’s schooling and gender gaps in education' in. Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (16), 1807-1829 )
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I25, J13, J61, O15
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8926
|
Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Caterina
Ruggeri Laderchi
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The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia
Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2015, 3(3), 417-437)
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J24, J31, O15
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