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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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8908
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Terence
Chai
Cheng
Joan
Costa-Font
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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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
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Kyle
Rozema
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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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
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8905
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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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8904
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Nina
Drange
Tarjei
Havnes
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Child Care Before Age Two and the Development of Language and Numeracy: Evidence from a Lottery
Young children are thought to be vulnerable to separation from the primary caregiver/s. This raises concern about whether early child care enrollment may harm children's development. We use child ...
(published as 'Early child care and cognitive development: Evidence from an assignment lottery' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (2), 581 - 620)
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I21, J13
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8903
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Jens
Ruhose
Guido
Schwerdt
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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 134-154)
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I21, J15, I28
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8901
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Michael
Zibrowius
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (1), 33 - 57)
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J40, J24, I29
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8900
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Olivier
Marie
Ulf
Zölitz
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (3), 1210 - 1237)
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I18, I20, K42
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8899
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences
This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 2 - 12. )
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J00, C80, C81, C83
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8896
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Vincent
Boucher
Bernard
Fortin
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Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
We study some recent developments and challenges in the empirics of the effects of social networks. We focus in particular on researchers' ability to make policy recommendations based on a standard ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302)
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A14, C33, C36, D85, Z13
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8895
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Marta
Lachowska
Michal
Myck
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The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure
In order to study whether public pension systems displace private saving, we use the quasi-experimental variation in pension wealth created by Poland's 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997–2003 Polish ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (3), 284-308)
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E21, H55, I38, P35
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8894
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Juan
Carluccio
Denis
Fougère
Erwan
Gautier
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Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France
We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 803-837)
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F16, J51, E24
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8893
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Andreas
Ravndal
Kostøl
Magne
Mogstad
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Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 137–141)
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I38, J62, H53
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8892
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Muhammad
Asali
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Compulsory Military Service and Future Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Using Israeli census data, this study provides new evidence on the long-term effects of military service on the earnings of veterans. Among Druze men aged 25-34, we find an economically and ...
(revised version published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2019, 30 (4), 402-420.)
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J24, J31, J45
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8891
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Laura
Hospido
Eva
Moreno-Galbis
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The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession
While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the ...
(published in: P. Askenazy, L. Bellmann, A. Bryson, and E. Moreno Galbis (eds.), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford University Press, 2016)
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J24, J21, J52
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8890
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Almut
Balleer
Britta
Gehrke
Christian
Merkl
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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. This paper analyzes whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany. Using a ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 940-953)
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E20, E24, J20, J30
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8889
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Bart
Cockx
Corinna
Ghirelli
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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 162-176 )
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C12, C41, E32, I21, J22, J23, J31, J6
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8888
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Austan
D.
Goolsbee
Alan
B.
Krueger
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015, 29 (2), 3–24)
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H0, L50, L62, G01, G33
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8887
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Anirban
Mukherjee
Sarani
Saha
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Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4, 7 (2015))
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K12, L26, O17
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8886
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Manuela
Deidda
Adriana
Di Liberto
Marta
Foddi
Giovanni
Sulis
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Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:7)
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C14, C83, J64, J16
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8885
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Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Guillaume
Vermeylen
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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163 (2), 233-262)
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J21, J24
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8884
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Benedikt
Herz
Thijs
van Rens
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Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment
We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1619 - 1654)
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E24, J61, J62
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8883
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Isabelle
Sin
Steven
Stillman
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from M?ori in New Zealand
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of M?ori compares to that of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5, 4 (2016) )
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J61, J15, R23
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8880
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Beatrice
d'Hombres
Luca
Nunziata
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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in ...
(revised version publishd in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 201 - 224)
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I20, J61, J15
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8879
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Ulrich
Matter
Alois
Stutzer
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (2), 357-384)
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D72, K13
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8878
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Alessandro
Cigno
Giorgia
Giovannetti
Laura
Sabani
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2018, 27, 267 - 292.)
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D13, D33, F16, J13, J24
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8877
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Lanse
Minkler
Nishith
Prakash
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The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 563-581)
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I24, I32, I38, O1, O38
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8876
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Francesca
Marchetta
David
E.
Sahn
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The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple-equation framework ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403)
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O12, I25, J12, J13
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8875
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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The Effect of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM
There is growing concern in the U.S. that the nation is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and there is a desire to understand how ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:15)
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I23, J24
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8873
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Stefanie
Schurer
Sonja
C.
de New
Felix
Leung
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Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?
We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human capital investment model. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian ...
(published as 'University education and non-cognitive skill development' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70(2), 538–562 )
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I12, J24
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8871
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Risk-Sharing and Student Loan Policy: Consequences for Students and Institutions
This paper examines the potential costs and benefits associated with a risk-sharing policy imposed on all higher education institutions. Under such a program, institutions would be required to pay ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 1-9)
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I22
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8870
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Yoichi
Arai
Hidehiko
Ichimura
Daiji
Kawaguchi
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The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 37, 100-126)
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I23, J21
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8869
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Xiaoxuan
Jia
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Subject Specific League Tables and Students' Application Decisions
Do applicants to higher education rely on expert judgement about the quality of the course when applying? Using application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2016, 84, 600-620)
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I23
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8868
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Anis
Omri
Saida
Daly
Christophe
Rault
Anissa
Chaibi
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Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries
This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252)
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E44, E58, F36, P26
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8867
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake
This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local university. Following this traumatic event, not only are students likely to have ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (1), 62-77)
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Q54, I23
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8866
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Karine
Nyborg
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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators
International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 92, 707-725)
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F53, H87, Q54
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8863
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John
G.
Sessions
John
D.
Skåtun
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Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection
By relaxing the common efficiency wage assumption of exogenous shirking detection probabilities, we demonstrate how standards and efficiency wages are related. In a more general setting where the ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2018, 70 (2), 103-118)
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J33, J41, J54
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8862
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Raymond
Montizaan
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
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Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age
This paper investigates whether employers can induce employees to postpone retirement by offering access to training courses that maintain job proficiency. We use unique, matched ...
(published as 'Train to retain: Training opportunities, positive reciprocity, and expected retirement age' in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2020, 117, 103332 (with Bert Schreurs))
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J24, J31, I2
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8861
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch ...
(published as 'The Effect of Incentive-Induced Retirement on Spousal Retirement Rates: Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (2), 910 - 930 )
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C26, J26, J12, J14
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8859
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Maria
De Paola
Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data ...
(published as 'Gender differences in the propensity to apply for promotion: evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (5), 986 - 1009.)
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J71, M51, J45, J16, D72, D78
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8858
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Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information
We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 186 - 2020)
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D03, C83, D84
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8857
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Thomas
Dohmen
Jan
Sauermann
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Referee Bias
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, 30 (4), 679-695)
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D8, L83
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8856
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Orazio
Attanasio
Sarah
Cattan
Emla
Fitzsimons
Costas
Meghir
Marta
Rubio-Codina
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (1), 48–85)
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J13, J24, I24, I25, I32, O15
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8855
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Corrado
Andini
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The Wage Return to Education: What Hides Behind the Least Squares Bias?
This paper combines the approach by Guimarães and Portugal (2010) with the methodology of Gelbach (2015) to investigate the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45 (7), 1409-1425)
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I21, J31
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8854
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Isabelle
Lebon
Therese
Rebiere
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How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets – ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2018, 17 (1), 1 - 44 )
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H21, H52, J21, J64
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8852
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
Peter
Siminski
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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.)
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H56, I10, I13
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8851
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Jan
Michael
Bauer
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145)
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E26, J14, J46
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8850
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Stefan
Pichler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into ...
(revised version published as 'The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior' in:Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156, 14-33)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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8849
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Marco
Francesconi
Jonathan
James
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a ...
(revised version published as "Liquid Assets? The Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129(621), 2090-2136)
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I12, I18, K42
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8848
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Sónia
Félix
Pedro
Portugal
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Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of ...
(published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129 )
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C21, D04
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8847
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Martin
Guzi
Martin
Kahanec
Lucia
Mýtna
Kureková
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What Explains Immigrant-Native Gaps in European Labor Markets: The Role of Institutions
The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2021, 9 (4), 1823 - 1856 )
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J15, J18, J61
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