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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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8924
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Joan
Monras
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Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? I address this question using the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis, an exogenous push factor that raised Mexican migration to the US. In the short ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 3017–3089)
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F22, J20, J30
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8923
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Sylvie
Démurger
Shi
Li
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 152-167)
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O18, J61, R23, J31, O53
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8922
|
Oliver
Falck
Alfred
Lameli
Jens
Ruhose
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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (2), 411-438)
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D51, J61, R23
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8921
|
Francesco
Pastore
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The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:11 )
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E12, E62, H52, J13, J24
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8920
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Thomas
Beissinger
Nathalie
Chusseau
Joël
Hellier
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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
A usual interpretation of the high performance of the German economy since 2005 is that the Hartz labour market reforms have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 314-333)
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H55, J31, J65
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8919
|
Claus
Schnabel
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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180)
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J01, J20, J30, J50, P27
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8917
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
Mathieu
Pellerin
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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent National Household Survey over the last three decades. We find that the ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2016, 42 (3), 250-273)
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J11, J31
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8916
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Jiaxiu
He
Haoming
Liu
Alberto
Salvo
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Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output at two manufacturing sites located in different industrial towns in China. Ambient air pollution in both towns, as proxied alternatively by ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 173–201)
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J24, Q51, Q52, Q53, O44, R11
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8915
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Alan
I.
Barreca
Karen
Clay
Olivier
Deschenes
Michael
Greenstone
Joseph
S.
Shapiro
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (1), 105–159)
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I18, J10, Q54
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8914
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Jan-Emmanuel
De Neve
George
W.
Ward
Femke
De Keulenaer
Bert
van Landeghem
Georgios
Kavetsos
Michael
I.
Norton
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 362–375)
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D03, O11, D69, I39
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8912
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Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Santiago
Budría
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The Effects of Over-Indebtedness on Individual Health
This paper uses data from the 2002-2005-2008 waves of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) to investigate whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española, 2018, 227, 103-131.)
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G01, I13, I22
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8911
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Peng
Nie
Steffen
Otterbach
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 33, 212-229)
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I10, I12, J22, J81
|
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8910
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Andrea
Bassanini
Giorgio
Brunello
Eve
Caroli
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Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 429-483)
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J23, J63, M51, R12
|
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8909
|
Wolter
Hassink
Roberto
M.
Fernandez
|
Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?
We investigate a unique setting which enables us to distinguish between two theories of work performance. A standard labor supply framework implies a negative effect of the non-pecuniary cost of work ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839)
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J24, J31, M52
|
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8908
|
Terence
Chai
Cheng
Joan
Costa-Font
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
|
Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4 (1), 26-50)
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H42, I11, D1
|
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8907
|
Kyle
Rozema
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
|
Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that ...
(published as 'Taxing Consumption and the Take-Up of Public Assistance: The Case of Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamps' in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (1), 1-27.)
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L66, H21, H23, H26, H71, I18
|
|
8905
|
Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2018, 22 (3), 951-975)
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I26, G11
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